Temporal disturbance

A few weeks ago, Pellinor's bedside clock inexplicably dropped four hours during the night, and was still saying it was 4, when it was really 8, and well past time to get up. There had been no power cut. Last night, my bedside clock gained four hours, so I woke up, saw that it was 9.45, and leapt out of bed in horror, before realising that if it really was 9.45, then the end of the world had come, and Fenris Wolf had devoured the sun.

It seems strange that two separate clocks should do this. I'm trying to work out what is more likely: alien visitations, the proximity of fairy realms, or a wormhole into a galaxy far, far away.

I think I'll take the fairy option. Fairy men are pretty, and I bet they are tolerant of morris dancing.

Typo, or truth?

Fortunately, I discovered this one before it was too late:

"The Library Service can help people improve their kills"

You know, I always have been intrigued about how people find hit men. When you read about normal housewives who hire hitmen to take out their errant husbands... How on earth do they find them? When I tried to hire one to kill Pellinor, I didn't know where to start.

Maybe this a gap that the Library Service can indeed fill.