During their visit, one raider steals Schmendrick’s hat. They pay off the mayor to keep themselves outside of the law. In one town, a group of raiders rides through. No one pays any mind to the “mare” traveling with Schmendrick. Along their travels, they stop in many towns where Schmendrick entertains the villagers in exchange for food and lodging. Schmendrick tells her what he knows about the Red Bull and his master King Haggard. The unicorn is horrified by this story, but she allows Schmendrick to join her. Schmendrick tells the story of his mentor, who once turned a unicorn into a human man to save him from hunters. The unicorn offers Schmendrick a boon for freeing her, and Schmendrick asks to join her on her quest. The unicorn and Schmendrick escape by walking, which does not draw the harpy’s attention. When Fortuna emerges to see the chaos, the harpy strikes the witch and kills her. The harpy attempts to kill the unicorn, but the unicorn evades the harpy. While Schmendrick wrestles with the other carnival worker, the unicorn frees every animal from captivity, including the harpy. Finally, he reveals he’s pickpocketed the keys to the cage and sets the unicorn free. One night, Schmendrick attempts to free the unicorn using magic, but his multiple attempts only end in failure. Each day the harpy grows more restless, threatening to kill every creature of the carnival once it breaks free. Schmendrick can tell what the unicorn is and vows to help free her. The unicorn meets Schmendrick, an incompetent magician who works for the carnival. However, there is a harpy in the carnival who, like the unicorn, is a real immortal creature. Fortuna’s creatures are mostly ordinary animals with spells cast on them to appear as mythical beasts. One night, while the unicorn sleeps, a witch named Mommy Fortuna captures her and puts her on display in her carnival of midnight creatures.
He tells her of the Red Bull, who chased all the other unicorns to the ends of the earth. The butterfly is difficult to communicate with, but he eventually confesses to knowing her to be a unicorn. A butterfly joins her, and the unicorn asks if the butterfly recognizes her. He, and all the other men she encounters, cannot tell what she really is. She ventures out of her forest on a quest to find her people.Īlong the road, a farmer tries to capture her, revealing that he believes she’s a mare.
The unicorn refuses to believe this at first, but then she becomes afraid that they are right. The unicorn listens to their conversation as they speculate that the unicorn in this forest is the last on earth. One day, two hunters ride through and realize they are in a unicorn’s forest because the season never changes. The unicorn is very old, and it has been a long time since she has seen a fellow unicorn, which is fine because they are solitary creatures. The unicorn is an immortal creature who lives alone in her forest in a never-ending springtime.
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