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Nobby pointed at the trolls.
'What about them?'
The man spat on the floor.
'Oh, I thought you said people.'
Carrot stuck out his hand automatically and it slammed against Detritus' breastplate.
'OK,' said Nobby, 'let's see what we've got here . . .' He walked fast along the racks, so that everyone else had to run to keep up. with the gravity feed?' he snapped.
'Eh? What you see is what we got, mister.'
Nobby pulled a hunting crossbow from its rack. His skinny arms twanged as he hauled on the cocking lever.
'Sold the bolts for this thing?''What's this?''Er—''Don't know, eh?''Sure . . . it's . . . it's . . .''A triple-stringed 2,000lb carriage-mounted siege crossbow with the double-action windlass?''Right.''Isn't this a Klatchian reinforced crossbow with the goat-leg cocking mechanism and the underhaft bayonet?''Er . . . yeah?'Nobby gave it a cursory examination, and then tossed it aside.The rest of the Night Watch looked on in astonishment. Nobby had never been known to wield any weapon beyond a knife.'Have you got one of those Hershebian twelve-shot bows