47 Lying and Scrying (1/2)

”Wheee!”

Being woken by a BugleHead cannonball is not the world's most peaceful way to end a sleepover.The satyr crashing down between them bringing with him a flurry of dried leaves and the smell of slightly rotten fruit.

BugleHead sat up cross-legged and started to emit a stream of happy words.”Hey, gryphon. Hey, Nelda. HoneyBeard gave me the unicorn horn. Would you like to see it? Look, you're wearing a unicorn again.Are you sure that's not a priestess thing? Because it's starting to look like a pattern isn't it? Literally, ha! Because it's a pattern on your clothing again.”

Looking down Nelda remembered the sweatshirt Jen had given her.She gestured at the picture on the front.”Is that really how they actually look, like here.”

”I don't know. They've been gone like a forever long time.I think there was only one, maybe, and it had hooves and horns so maybe.Are we going to bring it back?”

Unscrumching the prophecy-copy Nelda replied.”Maybe, would you like to do that?”

”Oh, that would be a super quest.Don't you think so gryphon?”

SmithGuild watched them through blurry eyes. ”I… what would that achieve?” he asked groggily.

”It would bring back the unicorn,” BugleHead said chirpily.”Haven't you been listening?”

”Well, brother. There is a larger plan.” Nelda indicated the prophecy picture.

BugleHead flopped back into the cushions. ”Ugh.It's much better to just do one that at a time, for one reason.”

Nelda Looked at the picture. ”If more people thought like that the world might actually be a better place.”She turned the illustration towards SmithGuild. ”But anyway. My plan--such as it is--is to make as many things as possible in this picture… not true.And if you look at the picture of me, I'm holding something.A long object with a spiral around it. The unicorn horn.”

BugleHead was rolling around in the pillows like a happy dog.”Treasure!” he mumbled.

”So, if there really is only one and we plant that back on the head of the real unicorn.The picture becomes a lie. Right?”

[And so long as I have an asexual boyfriend, it won't hurt any to get a little less 'horny'. ha.]

SmithGuild frowned. ”I am not sure that it works like that.”