"Oh, I'm sorry," she reacts to Tara's tone of voice rather than the news. "I met someone earlier who was dead. I didn't really think about it, though, because he sort of dropped it on me at the end of the conversation, along with the news that I'm not the only person from Ankh Morpork here.

"So... are you really dead, or undead? Because we've got quite a few zombies back home, and they seem to get on OK."