Thank you so much, Rose! This is the greatest praise I think I can ever get for a Discworld fanfiction, so I'm so very glad you think I "captured the feel" of both characters and books. Thanks very much. I mean it.

You're right, too, "opposite" sounds better than "contrary"; the choice of words might have something to do with the fact that both "contrary" and "opposite" are the same word in French ("contraire") but that's why I never really think of myself as bilingual - I still think French more often than not :o)