iChina.com

　And now Granny was left alone. She felt embarrassed, as Nike heels one always does when left alone in someone else's room, and fought the urge to get up and inspect the books on the shelf over the sideboard or examine the mantelpiece for dust. She turned the crown round and round in her hands. Again, it gave the impression of being bigger and heavier than it actually was.
　She caught sight of the mirror over the mantelpiece and looked down at the crown. It was UGG boots clearance tempting. It was practically begging her to try it for size. Well, and why not? She made sure that the others weren't around and then, in one movement, whipped off her hat and placed the crown on her head.
　It seemed to fit. Granny drew herself up proudly, and waved a hand imperiously in the general direction of the hearth.
　'Jolly well do this,' she said. She beckoned arrogantly at the grandfather clock. 'Chop his UGG boots clearance head off, what ho,' she commanded. She smiled grimly.
　And froze as she heard the screams, and the thunder of horses, and the deadly whisper of arrows and the damp, solid sound of spears in flesh. Charge after charge echoed across her skull. Sword met shield, or sword, or bone -relentlessly. Years streamed across her mind in the space of a second. There were times when she lay among the dead, or hanging from UGG boots clearance the branch of a tree; but always there were hands that would pick her up again, and place her on a velvet cushion . . .
　Granny very carefully lifted the crown off her head - it was an effort, it didn't like it much - and laid it on the table.
　'So that's being a king for you, is it?' she said softly. 'I wonder why they all want the job?'
　'Do you take sugar?' UGG Boots Clearance said Magrat, behind her.
　'You'd have to be a born fool to be a king,' said Granny.
　Granny turned. 'Didn't see you come in,' she said. 'What was it you said?'
　'Sugar in your tea?'
　'Three spoons,' said Granny promptly. It was one of the few sorrows of Granny Weatherwax's life that, despite all her efforts, she'd arrived at the peak of her career with a complexion like a rosy apple and all her teeth. No amount UGG Boots Clearance of charms could persuade a wart to take root on her handsome if slightly equine features, and vast intakes of sugar only served to give her boundless energy. A wizard she'd consulted had explained it was on account of her having a metabolism, which at least allowed her to feel vaguely superior to Nanny Ogg, who she suspected had never even seen one.