Federico Andreotti Discretion, The Better Part Of Valour

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Pratchett
Then it occurred to him that this wasn’t a proper activity for a martial artist, and he turned it into No. 19, the Flying Chrysanthemum Double Drop Kick.
After a while was iron all over the place, and Mum had been very definite about the iron.
Nevertheless...
He was methodical about it. He raised the drawbridge and dropped the portcullis and peered over the wall for good measure, but there was just the dusk and the night breeze.
He could feel the sound now. It seemed to be coming out of the stone, and had a saw-toothed edge to it that grated on his nerves.he realized that he had been hearing some-thing. It was vaguely rhythmical, and put him in mind of a grasshopper chirruping. It was coming from inside the castle.He turned carefully, keeping alert in case the massed armies of Foreign Parts tried to invade while his back was turned.This needed working out. He wasn’t on guard from things inside the castle, was he? “On guard” meant things outside. That was the point of castles. That’s why you had all the walls and things. He’d got the big poster they gave away free with Jane’s All the World’s Siege Weapons. He knew what he was talking about.Shawn was not the quickest of thinkers, but his thoughts turned inexorably to the elf in the dungeon. But that was locked up. He’d locked the door himself. And there