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“It’ll be comparatively painless.”
“Comparatively? Compared to what?”

“It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground,” he said, and paused while he considered the sense of this.

“I should have realized that you weren’t a real wizard when I saw you didn’t have a staff.”
“Lost it in a fire,” lied Rincewind automatically.
“No hat with magic sigils embroidered on it.”
“It blew off.”
“No familiar.”
“It died.”

“It could be worse,” he said by way of farewell. “It could be me.”