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While at first Tarathiel found the constant "wheeee!" of Pike! Bouldershoulder annoying, he found that by the time he set Sunset down in the asus’s back, he had grown quite fond of the green-bearded fellow

"Hee hee hee," Pikel said, glancing back

They had been up and flying forto wane

"You are pleased by Sunset?" Tarathiel asked

"Hee hee hee," Pikel answered

"Well, I have soht please you equally," the elf explained

Pikel looked at hireat ranger, now deceased," Tarathiel explained "An enchanted and hallowed place that has come to be known as Mooshie’s Grove"

Pikel’s eyes widened so greatly that they seemed as if they would fall out of his head

"You have heard of it?" "Uh huh"

Tarathiel saround therove of trees and piled stone walls soon after, the place still looking as if the ranger Montolio was still alive and tending it There was strong rove

Tarathiel only hoped that the last inhabitant of the area he had knoas still around He had taken Drizzt Do’Urden there a few years before, as a measure of the unusual dark elf, and he and Innovindil had decided that a siht suit Pikel Bouldershoulder well

The tent into the grove and walked around, adn of the huts

"So, you and your brother were heading to the coronation of King Bruenor Battleha that Innovindil was si the other brother back in the Moon-wood

"Yup yup," Pikel said, but he was obviously distracted, hopping about, scratching his head and nodding happily

"You know King Bruenor well, then?"

"Yup yup," Pikel answered

He stopped suddenly, looked at the elf, and blinked a few ti

"You do not know Bruenor well?"

"Nope"

"But well enough to representas his name? Cadderly?"

"Yup yup"

"I see And tell me, Pikel," Tarathiel asked, "how is it that you have come by such druidic?"

His voice trailed off, for he noticed that Pikel was suddenly distracted, looking away, his eyes widening Following the dwarf’s gaze, Tarathiel soon enough understood that his question had fallen on deaf ears, for there, just outside the grove, stood the e and strong, with legs that could shatter a giant’s skull, and a single, straight horn that could skeo round anxiously, watching Pikel every bit as intently as the das regarding it

Pikel put his ar up, like his own unicorn horn, and began hopping all about

"Be easy, dwarf," Tarathiel warned, unsure of how the erous, creature would respond

Pikel, though, hardly seeht, the dent hopping across the way, turove, and rushed out toward the beast

The unicorn pawed the ground and gave a great whinny, but Pikel hardly seeri the dwarf to the grove He took up the chase, calling for Pikel to stop

But it was Tarathiel who stopped, just as he was going over the stone wall Across the s its muscled neck, his face a mask of awe The unicorn seeround, but it did not ward Pikel away, nor did it make any move to rush off

Tarathiel sat down on the wall, slad of that

Pikel stayed with the nificent unicorn for soalloped away The enchanted dwarf floated back across the field, skipping so lightly that his feet didn’t even seeround

"Are you pleased?"

"Yup yup!"

"I think it liked you"

"Yup yup!"