William venting to Otto after having to handle dealing with Moist on account of Sacharissa being too sick to do a scheduled interview. Alternatively Moist venting to Adora Belle after the interview with William.
Always here for friendship and/or animosity between these dorks
"He was intractable!" says Moist to Adora, rolling his eyes. "I swear, I've never met someone with such early development of tweed.""You're just upset because you can't charm him," says Adora, taking a puff."I can't charm her, either. But at least she's more interesting."
"He's the slipperiest person I know," says William to Otto, sighing in frustration. "Do you know how hard it is to pin him down to anything at all? He just talks! He doesn't even say anything!""Sacharissa doesn't seem to have any problems," Otto says. "Perhaps you vill learn."William looks at him with utter censure. "No," he says.
And because the universe has certain unfixable rules, they find themselves at a committee meeting together three weeks later.
"Ah! Gentlemen. I see you know each other already." Vetinari smiles. "Perhaps you will not mind working together more closely in the future..."
