The shaft is smooth and rises up out of the hole. The
other end is attached to a head. The head is that of a small white animal
that looks like a horse.
Another cloud of dust. The animal leaps up out from the hole. It's a
unicorn, and on its back is a saddle, and in the saddle is a knight in pure
white armor, and in the knight's grip is a lance pointing straight at where
our friends are standing.
The front of the knight's helmet is open. In the middle of his face is a
pudgy nose, above the nose are fierce eyes, and under the nose a long,
bristly, handlebar mustache that ends with three twirling loops on each
side.
'Who are you?' he roars. 'What do you want here?'
Stobey steps forward until she is right under the unicorn's head.
Looking up, she shakes her finger at the knight.
'Before we go any further,' she says, 'you point that lance somewhere
else.'
The knight in white armor stares at Stobey for a five seconds.
'Umm.. ah...,' he says as he lowers the lance until it points at the ground.
'OK. Is that better?'
'Yes, that's better,' Stobey says. 'Now, I'm Stobey and.
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