How It All Goes Down
- At another elsewhere, but still the same moment, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork receives a letter by albatross.
- We return to Rincewind and Twoflower in the middle of Twoflower's story.
- One day, Twoflower decided to add some romance to his dull life of adding figures at a desk.
- He saved for eight years, hopped on a ship and, voila, now he's in Ankh-Morpork, city famed in songs and stories featuring the likes of "Heric Whiteblade, Hrun the Barbarian, and Bravd the Hublander and the Weasel" (1.6.3).
- Rincewind questions his lack of guards, but Twoflower laughs—he only has two thousand rhinu. What's there to steal?
- Twoflower makes Rincewind an offer: If the wizard will be his guide, he'll pay him a rhinu and a half for each day, plus expenses.
- Rincewind fumbles his response but manages to recover long enough to accept; he gets four days' payment upfront.
- Twoflower goes to take a nap, leaving Rincewind with a dilemma. The sensible thing to do would be to buy a horse and use the other five rhinu to set up shop somewhere far away. But what would happen to Twoflower then? Rincewind "would have to be a real heel to leave him" (1.6.32).