Pearl

I couldn’t bring myself to do it. When I’d created the unicorn, just a few minutes prior, I figured I would simply turn her back into whatever she’d been before--energy, magic forest dust. But when she looked at me with her wide, dark eyes, I knew she had to stay. Granted, I might need to magic away her horn depending upon what Nuthatch found out from the council, but as I walked back toward the house, the unicorn came with me.

“You need a name,” I said to her as she walked alongside me. “What’s a good name for a unicorn?” I didn’t want it to sound like something a little girl would name a pretend unicorn--Moonbeam or Starlight or anything like that. She’s not a My Little Pony, after all, but she needed a magical name.

Nuthatch was already in the house when I arrived. The back door opened. I hoped it w