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Tiffany Aching is the nine year old daughter of a shepherding family living on
the Chalk country. She meets Miss Tick, a traveling witch who confirms that
she could become a witch herself. Soon later she makes the acquaintance of the
Nac Mac Feegle, a folk of tiny people who like swearing, fighting, drinking
and whose kelda is dying. The kelda names Tiffany as her temporary successor.
Tiffany has witnessed the ingress of fairy tale creatures into the real world,
and the kelda explains she has been pushing them back. After her death, it
will be Tiffany's responsibility to fight the Queen of the fairy tales who
tries to invade reality. Soon after, Tiffany's little brother is kidnapped,
and Tiffany request the Nac Mac Feegles' help to enter the Queen's land and
rescue her brother. Finding the entrance is a kind of test that gets Tiffany
accepted as the new kelda. In the fairy tale land, she meets Roland, the local
baron's son who had disappeared a year ago. She also eventually finds her
brother. But finding the exit of the fairy tale land is difficult, especially
since the Queen has imported creatures who use dreams the way a spider uses
its web. To escape the horde of nightmares chasing her, she enters such a
trap while controlling the dream to force it to be a dream she has had
frequently and that always ends the same way with her waking up. She indeed
wakes up in the real word, only to have to face the Queen who has followed
her. Thanks to the spirit of her grand mother (who was a witch in all but
name) she manages to capture the Queen and force her back into fairy land.
Soon after, Miss Tick arrives with Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax, who
confirm that Tiffany has the making of a witch and will be able to enter
apprenticeship when she is a bit older.
