Whispers From My Muse: The Archmage and the Unicorn

It had to be a joke, but damned if I could figure out how they were doing it.

It had been six months since the "Unicorn" had deflected the crossbow bolt that would probably have killed me.  Whoever was behind the prank, I owed them my thanks, but the joke was getting a little old.  It had put in two appearences since that day, though I'd sensed something going on in the grove a couple of other times as well.

Its first appearence had been while a couple of Velan musicians had been playing a lunch concert near the World Gate in the center of the park.  Nobody remembered seeing it get there from the corner grove, but about half way through one of their pieces, the Unicorn has stepped out from behind a nearby tree and started singing along with their music.  It stayed there about ten minutes before it appearently had gotten the attention it had been after, then it spun around and ran at a full gallop back to the grove.

Suffice to say that we had Unicorn groupies from all over the world stomping around the park for months afterwards.  Kalindra and I had to enhance the spells protecting the park environment just to keep them from wearing permanent paths in the grass as they searched the grove and surrounding area for the thing.  I'd gotten irritable enough after one particularly bad weekend that I'd started "altering" any clothing that entered the park that had a Unicorn on it.  People got the idea quickly and I stopped seeing hundreds of variations on the 70's cute unicorn motif everyplace I looked.

It's second appearence had been at the annual fall BBQ.  A fiesty little silver haired grandmother had taken her grandkids to the park for the BBQ, and brought along some stuff of their own that they'd spread out on a blanket near the grove.  While the kids were off playing, the Unicorn had stepped out of the grove, walked over to her and knelt down on the grass next the blanket.  I'd talked to her afterwards and all she'd say was that it had loved the chocolate cake.  When I asked her about anything else it had said, she'd blushed and told me it was none of my business.

My joke Unicorn was appearently a pervert as well.