Status Updates From The Last Unicorn by Beagle,...

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"Supple as fire, he turned where there was no room to turn and met them again, his muzzle almost touching the ground, his neck swelling like a wave.
They fled and he followed: not as swiftly as he had charged, but quickly enough to keep each one alone, friendless in the wild dark. The ground tore under their feet, and they cried out, but they could not even hear themselves."

"Molly saw the horns first. The light made her cover her face, but the pale horns struck bitterly through hands and eyelids to the back of her mind. She saw Prince Lír and Lady Amalthea standing before the horns, while the fire flourished on the walls of the cavern and soared up into the roofless dark. Lír had drawn his sword, but it blazed up in his hand, and he let it fall, and it broke like ice."

"'That's right. Nothing but magic matters to me. I would round up unicorns for Haggard myself if it would heighten my power by half a hair. It's true. I have no preferences and no loyalties. I have only magic.' His voice was hard and sad.
'Really?' she asked, rocking dreamily in her terror, watching the brightness flowing by. 'Are you really like that?'
'No,' he said, then or later. 'No, it's not true.'"

"The light and the smell had become a sticky sea in which she floundered like the unicorns, hopeless and eternal. The path was beginning to tilt downward, into the deepening light; and far ahead Prince Lír and the Lady Amalthea went marching along to disaster as calmly as candles burning down."

"'But you made him do it. You know that all he wants in the world is to have her give up her quests and stay with him. And he would have done it, but you reminded him that he is a hero, and now he has to do what heroes do. He loves her, and you tricked him.'
'I never,' Schmendrick said. 'Be quiet, he'll hear you.' Molly felt herself growing light-headed, silly with the nearness of the bull."

"Pale as lime, the brightness was rising in the cavern. They could see one another clearly now, each gone tallowy and strange with fear. Even the beauty of the Lady Amalthea drained away under that dull, hungry light. She looked more mortal than any of the other three.
Molly Grue stayed close to the magician, taking his hand as she had been used to touch the unicorn when she was lonely."

"I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you. Also to find some way of starting a conversation.' But the Lady Amalthea spoke no word to him."

"...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."

"I am a hero. It is a trade, no more like weaving or brewing, and like them it has its own tricks and knacks and small arts... But the true secret of being a hero lies in knowing the order of things..."

"At the same moment, Prince Lír said, 'No.'
The word escaped him as suddenly as a sneeze, emerging in a questioning squeak--the voice of a silly young man mortally embarrassed by a rich and terrible gift. 'No,' he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice: not Haggard, but a king whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give."

"Nikos himself never could turn a human being into a unicorn--and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact. Let it end here then, let the quest end. Is the world any worse for losing the unicorns, and would it be any better if they were running free again? One good woman more in the world is worth every single unicorn gone. Let it end. Live happily."

"Schmendrick began to speak, but the sound of his voice made her cower like a candle flame. 'I will not have it. I will not have it so.' She was looking back and forth from the prince to the magician, holding her voice together like the edges of a wound. 'If there is left a single moment of love when he changes me, you will know it, for I will let the Red Bull drive me into the sea with the others.'"

"No, we are not strong enough. He will change me, and whatever happens after that, you and I will lose each other. I will not love you when I am a unicorn, and you will love me only because you cannot help it. I will be more beautiful than anything in the world, and live forever."

"'Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.'
She turned to look at the magician at last, and even through the darkness he could feel the terror in her eyes. 'No,' she said."

"'But if we do, there will never be another chance. All the unicorns of the world will remain his prisoners forever, except one, and she will die. She will grow old and die.'
'Everything dies,' she said, still to Prince Lír. 'It is good that everything dies. I want to die when you die.
Do not let him enchant me, do not let him make me immortal. I am no unicorn, no magical creature. I am human, and I love you.'"

"In the darkness she gleamed and trembled like running water.
The Lady Amalthea would not look straight at him. 'He must not change me,' she said to Prince Lír. 'Do not let him work his magic on me. The Bull has no care for human beings--we may walk out past him and get away. It is a unicorn the Bull wants. Tell him not to change me into a unicorn.'"

"'I did not know what she was until now,' he said. 'But I knew the first time I saw her that she was soemthing more than I could see. Unicorn, mermaid, lamia, sorceress, Gorgon--no name you give her would surprise me, or frighten me. I love whom I love.'"

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"I think there are no unicorns anymore, and I know that King Haggard has never seen one. How could any man who had looked upon a unicorn even once--let alone thousands with every tide--possibly be as sad as King Haggard is? Why, if I had only seen her once, and never again--"

"Here he halted, for beyond lay the night of the Red Bull: a night that ended, for good or ill, with magic--and with a naked girl who struggled in her body like a cow in quicksand."

"Where they truly were, they never knew. The cold wind seemed real, as did the cold reek that rode it, and the darkness let them pass far more grudgingly than had the clock. The path itself was enough of a fact to bruise feet, and be party choked in places by real stones and real earth that had crumbled down the sides of the cave. But its course was the impossible way of a dream: pitched and skewed."

"The Lady Amalthea walked in front, by her own choosing. Prince Lír, Schmendrick, and Molly Grue, following, had only her hair for lantern, but she herself had no light before her at all. Yet she went on as easily as though she had been this way before."

"'How did you pass through the clock so easily? The skull said you didn't know the way.'
The price looked puzzled. 'What way?' he asked. 'What was there to know? I saw where she had gone, and I followed.'"

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