You were being persecuted,' said Teppic. 'That's why you fled into the desert.'

'Oh, yes. You're right. Damn right. I was being persecuted for my beliefs.'

'That's terrible,' said Teppic.

Khuft spat. 'Damn right. I believed people wouldn't notice I'd sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town.'

It took a little while for this to sink in, but it managed it with all the aplomb of a concrete block in a quicksand.

'You're a criminal?' said Teppic.

'Well, criminal's a dirty word, know what I mean?' said the little ancestor. 'I'd prefer entrepreneur. I was ahead of my time, that's my trouble.'

'And you were running away?' said Teppic weakly.

'It wouldn't,' said Khuft, 'have been a good idea to hang about.'

— Pyramids by Terry Pratchett, Alfred Enoch (Narrator) (Discworld, #7)