At one point, the unicorn finds a demon by the name of Azazel who is accompanied by a smaller demon, Webster. They don’t recognize her as a unicorn and call her a mare. She comes across other humans but they are nothing of what humans used to be. During this time the unicorn encounters a child that can see and speak with her but can’t help her in her journey. Throughout her journey she finds a butterfly who may possibly give her information about the unicorns whereabouts. They’re bigger than I am, some of them, and they run faster than you ever dreamed of running.” “The road to your forest is made of black iron, and on it, all day and all night, the coaches run and roar, and flash yellow lights till they drive you mad, and yell like sea-demons. There are no more princes that protect cities and with this knowledge she sets off in a journey to find what happened to the unicorns.
That world that she once knew has changed. There’s no more dirt roads, only iron ones, there are coaches with lights that humans ride, there is electricity, telephones and technology beyond her imagination. When she encounters the weeping dragon, he delivers news of the new world created outside of her forest by modern humans. Beagle’s latest book The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey, the unicorn we love and know has come to the realization that there might not be anymore unicorns in this world. In fact, he thought there were no more unicorns alive. The unicorn is the first unicorn the dragon has seen in a long time. This dragon is in pain and has news for the unicorn that she didn’t expect. “Nothing in her long life prepared her to deal with a weeping dragon.”īut the dragon she encounters is not scary and ferocious as she remembers them to be. Then a dragon appears in the unicorn’s forest, she is ready to fight the dragon and defend her home. After all, unicorns are rarely in each others company. She doesn’t mind being the only unicorn in miles in the forest. Her only companions are the animals who are born within the forest, breed there, die, are born again, breed, and die again. The unicorn has spent too long in her forest without seeing other unicorns come and go. Somewhere in-between the modern and mythological, lies the first path of the Last Unicorn on a road less traveled by…until now. Discover a might-have-been journey, appealingly familiar yet wonderfully strange, lyrical and whimsical by turns.
Within this eighty-five page genesis of The Last Unicorn, the equine heroine encounters a cranky dragon, a chatty butterfly, and an exiled demon with a split personality. Now, alongside Beagle’s wry musings upon his early writing career, is the rediscovered origin story of fantasy’s most famous unicorn. Beagle first imagined his beloved unicorn at the age of twenty-three, five years before she would spring fully-realized into the world.
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