"S'right, sir. From what me and Nobby heard, she met up with her family" Colon stated.
"Damn, you know what that means, don't you Fred?"
"More toy dogs sir?"
"No Fred! It means that since Angua came back, they might come looking for her, and we got enough trouble here as it is!" Vimes looked out across the city.
"'Ere, why did Angua come back sir?" Asked Nobby
"She won't say, but then, her reason for going is pretty shady as well," Vimes said without looking at Nobby. His eyes made a note to thank him for that later.
"OK, so, what next?" He asked, turning back to the map?
"Next sir, we have a pair of foreigners turn up and claim to be related to young Mr Stibbons." Said Sargent Colon
"Only one of them is, the other is her escort" Nobby added
"Names?" Vimes asked
"A Ms Kylah and a Mr Jhasi sir, they are staying over at the Drum."
"So, these two show up in town and head straight for the University and, what?" Vimes demanded
"They get the wizards to summon Death, sir" Nobby said
"Well, these two sound like a right clever pair! And so, we have Death in the picture" Exhibit D, a small leg bone from a chicken.
"So, tell me again Fred, the most recent development. I cant quite believe it yet, I cant believe she would be so stupid." Vimes growled. He hoped that asking the question again would make it not true.
"Um...well, Angua, you see, she...uh...went. With. Death. To see. carrot?" Sgt Colon looked at Vimes. Vimes looked at Colon and shook his head. Stupid, stupid Girl!!
"Right, so we need to ask ourselves this, Nobby make a note please." Nobby pulled out a small mouth organ but before he could play, Vimes had snatched it from him and had said
"Give me that! It's not funny anymore! Just do your job Nobby"
Reluctantly, Nobby pulled a small pad and a small quill. The "make a note" joke had really got a laugh the first time.
"We need to know why Angua ran away, why Carrot tried to kill Ponder Stibbons, who Angua's family really are, who are these two claiming to be Ponder Stibbons's relatives are and what is Angua doing now. And where. Got all that Nobby?" Vimes asked. Nobby simply nodded and stopped writing.
"We also got to know who the mysterious cloaked one is." Said Sgt Colon.
"What are you talking about Sargent?" Vimes asked. He had just about had enough of this Nightwatch style of investigation.
"Well, there is always a mysterious cloaked one, sir" Nobby clarified.
Vimes shook his head. Why oh why? Well enough is enough.
"Bugger this. Let's go to that Klatchian Curry place."

*****

Meanwhile, standing at the bottom of the cori celesti, the wonderful tower of ice at the hub of the disc the gods had got their lawnmower back from the ice giants and decided to start paying attention to the disc again, and that meant trouble.

*****

Angua knocked on Commander Vimes' office door and went in, the Commander looked up and smiled vaguely.
"Ah, there you are Angua. I have a small task for you. This Kylah Stibbons turned up unexpectadly and at a perfect time....almost too perfect for my liking. I want to know if she is who she says she is.....umm, you can do that in werewolf form can't you?"
"Of course I can. If they are related I will spot similarities."
In Carrot's room Angua morphed into wolf form, it was strange looking at people while she was in wolf form, things that the human eye couldn't see became strange shapes. She looked at Kylah, then at Ponder. After morphing back into human form she went back to the Commander's office.
"Well Angua?" said the Commander.
"She is his sister, sir." Vimes frowned,
"Are you absolutely sure about that?"
"Without any doubt sir, she is definatley who she says she is." Vimes thought for a moment.
"What brought her here then? What made her decide to come to Ankh-Morpork at this particular time? I have to know why......Angua, get her over here. I wantto ask her a few questions."

*****

Death's Domain came gradually into view. Angua and Kylah looked around at the monochrome surroundings.
"What a grim place!" commented Kylah.
“I AM THE GRIM REAPER. PEOPLE CREATED ME AND MY IMAGE.”
They approached a small and colourful cottage that looked completely out of place in its surroundings, almost like a picture cut from a magazine. Two figures sat at a table outside, arguing.
"This is all your fault you idiot! You got us into this mess! Do you have any idea of what a shock this has been for me? And after thinking I was calm, I had an additional shock from Death causing me to bump my head on the edge of the table. It's quite sore now." Ponder ran out of things to say, Carrot looked at him with a sorrowful, guilty expression.
“YOU CAN'T FEEL PAIN WHEN DISSEMBODIED. YOU'RE JUST THINKING IT.”
Angua and Kylah approached the cottage. "Hello Carrot." said Angua.
"What are you doing here Angua? Are you dead?" exclaimed Carrot.
"No. This is the only way I can see you.....I....missed you."
"Who is that girl with you Sergeant?" asked Ponder reproachfully, glaring at Carrot.
"You didn't know my name then, I dont expect you to remember it now." snapped Kylah.