The Last Unicorn

Celaeno: [to the Unicorn] Set me free. We are sisters, you and I. Mabruk: [after realizing that the Lady Amalthea is a unicorn] Haggard, I would not be you for all the world. You have let your doom in by the front door, but it will not depart that way! Farewell, poor Haggard! Rukh: This here is the manticore. A man's head, a lion's body, tail of a scorpion. Creatures of night, brought to light. Here is a dragon. Breathes fire now and then. Mostly people who poke it, little boy. Its inside an inferno, but its skin so cold, it burns! Speaks 17 languages badly and is subject to gout. Creatures of night, brought to light! The Satyr. Ladies, keep back! The Cat: No cat out of its first fur was ever deceived by appearances, unlike human beings, who seem to enjoy it. The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course. The Skull: To get to the Red Bul

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Older Hunter: I mislike the feel of these woods. Creatures that live in a Unicorn's forest learn a little magic of their own in time, mainly concerned with disappearing. Younger Hunter: Unicorns? I thought they only existed in fairy tales. This is a forest, like any other... isn't it? Older Hunter: Then why do the leaves never fall here? Or the snow? Why is it always spring here? I tell you there is one unicorn left in the world, and as long as it lives in this forest we'll find no game to hunt here. Younger Hunter: Let's turn around, hunt somewhere else. Older Hunter: Stay where you are, poor beast. This is no world for you! Stay in your forest and keep your trees green, and your friends protected. And good luck to you, for you are the last! Unicorn: I am the only unicorn there is? The Last...?

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Unicorn: Say my name then. If you know my name, tell it to me. Butterfly: [quoting Romeo and Juliet] Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name...! Unicorn: Say it, if you know. Butterfly: Rumpelstiltskin! Gotcha! Unicorn: I should know better to expect a silly butterfly to know my name! All butterflies know are songs, and poetry, and anything else they hear. I guess you mean well. Fly away, Butterfly! Butterfly: One, two, three, O'Leary.. Butterfly: Listen. Don't listen to ME, listen. You can find the others if you are brave. They passed down all the roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footprints. Listen! Listen, listen QUICKLY! Unicorn: I AM listening! Where did they go and what is the Red Bull? Butterfly: Listen! LISTEN! [laughs] The king is in his counting house, counting out, counting out, counting...

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Schmendrick: Tell me what you see. Don't be afraid. Look at your fellow legends and tell me what you see. Unicorn: What he calls a manticore looks to be no more than a shabby, toothless lion. And he has them believing that poor old ape with the twisted foot is a satyr! Illusions, deceptions, mirages! Your Mommy Fortuna cannot truly change things! Schmendrick: That's true. She can only disguise, and only for those eager to believe whatever comes easiest. … No, She cannot turn cream into butter, but she can make a lion look like a manticore to eyes that want to see a manticore. Just like she put a false horn, on a real unicorn, so they could see the unicorn. I know you. If I were blind, I would know what you are. Unicorn: Who are you? Schmendrick: I am called Schmendrick, the Magician. Uh... you won't have heard of me. I entertain the sight-seers as they gather for the show. It's not much of a job for a real magician, but I've had worse. Schmendrick: Yes, the old woman caught her by chan

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Mommy Fortuna: The harpy's as real as you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to capture, if you want to know. Unicorn: Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you. Mommy Fortuna: Oh, she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that I caught her; I held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, eh? Ha! Ha! Now, you were out on the road, hunting for your own death, and I know where it awaits you. I know HIM, that one.. Unicorn: Do you speak of the Red Bull? Tell me, if you do, and where he is, if you know! Mommy Fortuna: The Red Bull of King Haggard...so you know of the Bull! Well, he'll not have you! You belong to me. Unicorn: You know better... Keep your poor shadows, if you will, but let me go, and, let her go. I cannot see her caged. She is real, like me. We are two sides of the same magic… The harpy and me, we are not for you. Mommy Fortuna: Who are you for then? Do you think those fools knew you, without any help fro

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Schmendrick: Take me with you, for luck, for laughs, for the unknown... Unicorn: You may come with me, if you like, though I wish you'd asked for some other reward for having freed me. Schmendrick: I thought about it. But you couldn't granted my true wish. Unicorn: No. I cannot turn you into something you are not. I cannot turn you into a true magician. Schmendrick: Ah, it's ok. Don't worry about it. Unicorn: I'm not.

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