![]() Rob tells her that the Nac Mac Feegles believe that they're currently dead though, and that when they "die," they actually become alive.Though Team Tiffany ultimately prevails, she finds out that they lost some of the Wee Free Men in the fight.They feel a susurration and suddenly these big black dogs with orange eyebrows race out to attack them-they are called grimhounds and sent by the Queen-so Tiffany rushes away from the newly formed (magical) snow toward the green grass. The term Wee Free was an epithet commonly used to distinguish two Scottish Presbyterian Churches after the union of 1900: The Free Kirk and The United Free Kirk.They tell Tiffany that the Queen's world is where dreams come true… but not the nice kinds of dreams. The Nac Mac Feegle (also sometimes known as Pictsies, Wee Free Men, the Little Men and 'Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed') are a fictional type of fairy folk that appear in Terry Pratchett 's Discworld novels Carpe Jugulum, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, Snuff, and The Shepherd's Crown.He says that he did see a woman on a black horse riding off with a small boy, and that he saw her take the kid into the "other side," which is kind of ominous sounding. ![]() Then she sees a buzzard coming down from the sky, and a pictsie falling down toward them-it's Hamish, who's there to tell them what they need to do next.Tiffany looks around, and to her surprise finds a packet of Jolly Sailor chewing tobacco. The Feegles suddenly stop and look to the sky.Nowadays people still leave chewing tobacco out for Granny's spirit-just in case. As they travel she thinks of the day that Granny Aching died, and how they buried her in the chalk.Tiffany flies off, with the toad hanging onto her hair, quickly leaving behind all the land that she's familiar with and all the landmarks of the chalk. ![]()
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