91 Near Disasters

[cal_sitter]

"[The unicorn] did not attain his beauty all at once. As soon as we begin to inquire how he looked to the imagination of the Ages of Faith we are reminded that his ancestry is mixed, that he descends from the horse and the ass on the side of the Greeks and from the goat on that of Physiologus. The results of this miscegenation were a series of

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[fowlprodigy]

Just about anything has purer intentions than him...

But, I've read that one. I enjoyed it a great deal actually.

[cal_sitter]

Your experience must be short on Auphe, trolls, boggles, revenants, and pucks gone mad.

It's an expansive study, if necessarily incomplete.

[fowlprodigy]

It is actually. At least on Auphe, boggles, revenants, and pucks. We do have trolls in my world though they may not be like the ones in yours.

I have to agree. You have read it all then?

[cal_sitter]

You're an acquaintance of Captain Short's, correct? We've spoken. Abbagor was certainly not like the trolls you know.

I've read the entirety of all the books on my shelves.

[tehpuck]

Unicorns? You do know why those ugly bastards were so overfond of maidens, pray tell?

[cal_sitter]

Which one would you be refering to? The one that represented Jesus Christ or the one with the feet of an elephant? Perhaps the unicorn boy of India? Or was that you in yet another role?

[movedbymiller]

One-horned. So was that one horn really big? You know, to compensate?

[cal_sitter]

Goodfellow's or the unicorn's?

[movedbymiller]

Hmm...who's Goodfellow?

[cal_sitter]

Robin Goodfellow, of long and loquacious fame. He'll gladly share a story or twenty with you, whether or not you want to hear them.