Talk:Alicorn/@comment-5136084-20111027044228

1993: DEMONS DON'T DREAM pp 60-61 They returned to the river and moved on south. Suddenly a huge bird took off ahead of them, perhaps startled by their approach. “That must be a roc!” Kim exclaimed. But then she saw that it had four legs with hooves, and the head of a horse. “No—it’s a winged horse!”

“An alicorn,” Jenny said. “I never saw one of those before!”

“A what?”

“An alicorn. A winged unicorn. There aren’t many, but sometimes a griffin and a unicorn will meet at a love spring—well, I don’t know what happens, but men we have alicorns.”

"What do you mean, you don’t know what happens?"’ Kim said sharply. “I read about how you were inducted into the Adult Conspiracy at age fourteen, and you must be fifteen now. Only a year younger than me—and / know what happens.”

“You’re Mundane,” Jenny said. “Mundanes have funny ideas about things. But for the purpose of this game, I’m still a child, with the limits of a child. Professor Grossclout decreed it. So I can’t know anything mat’s in the Adult Conspiracy, even if I might know out in real Xanth.”

“Why should you be defined as a child?” Kim asked, surprised.

“So I will have the innocence of a child. That’s an advantage, in some situations. I may be able to help you get somewhere, or do something, that an adult couldn’t”

“That would be interesting,” Kim said. “Very well: we won’t discuss how alicorns come to be. They get delivered by the stork, or whatever.”

“Yes." They moved on.