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The Enrico Basilica on stage turned his mask this way and that. Stage right, Bucket was whispering to a group of stage-hands. Stage left, Andr?he secret pianist was waiting. A large troll loomed next to him.

The fat red singer walked to centre-stage as the prelude to the duet began. The audience settled down again. Fun and games among the chorus was all very well-it might even be in the plot-but this was what they'd paid for. This was what it was all about.

Agnes stared at him as Christine walked towards him. Now she could see he wasn't right. Oh, he was fat, in a pillow-up-your-shirt sort of way, but he didn't move like Basilica. Basilica moved lightly on his feet, as fat men often do, giving the effect of a barely tethered balloon.

She glanced at Nanny, who was also watching him carefully. She couldn't see Granny Weatherwax anywhere. That probably meant she was really close.

The expectancy of the audience dragged at them all. Ears opened like petals. The fourth wall of the stage, the big black sucking darkness outside, was a well of silence begging to be filled up.

Christine was walking towards him quite unconcerned. Christine would walk into a dragon's mouth if it had a sign on it saying 'Totally harmless, I promise you'… at least, if it was printed in large, easy-to-understand letters.

No one seemed to want to do anything.

It was a famous duet. And a beautiful one. Agnes ought to know. She'd been singing it all last night.

Christine took the false Basilica's hand and, as the opening bars of the duet began, opened her mouth

'Stop right there!'

Agnes put everything she could into it. The chandelier tinkled.

The orchestra went silent in a skid of wheezes and twangs.

In a fading of chords and a dying of echoes, the show stopped.

(Terry Pratchett, Discworld - Maskerade)

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