Six figures took shape, blinked and opened their eyes. Three of the figures were male, three were female. They were dressed in human-sized equivalents of the Auditors' robes.

The remaining Auditors drew back, but one said, They will observe the end of this world with you. They will not eat or breathe.

Hah! thought one of the little voices that ( Read more... )

Other Auditors also appeared and, as they did so, it seemed that they had never really not been there. The dead greyness of the light merely took on shapes; they emerged like ships from a fog. You stared at the fog, and suddenly part of the fog was hull that had been there all along, and now there was nothing for it but to race for the lifeboats ( Read more... )

There was really only so much time even someone like William could spend with his nose buried in a book. Eventually, he found himself at JGoB (slightly blasphemous name aside, they did manage rather excellent pastry) with a mug of tea, an apple tart...

And a book.

Shut up.