Give your unicorn time. And when time will not do, give it grass.
[ Why grass, you ask? Surely, you must ask. ]
The unicorn is a fickle thing, a master of confused disguises: Plinius the Uncle saw him fierce, with the body of a horse and the head of a stag, the feet of an elephant and the tail of a boar — and horned, sir. Horned, as ever the Christian Bible would have him after. And mighty. And strange.
[ A light pause, dilating. ]
But weak to the call of a maiden, for Isidorus Hispalensis, who spoke of an unicorn quick to rest his tired head atop the virgin's untouched breast. As a lamb might. A young thing of the farmland.
There is not one of these creatures of story who will not take grass, as its choice or final recourse. So, your unicorn must take grass also.
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Give your unicorn time. And when time will not do, give it grass.
[ Why grass, you ask? Surely, you must ask. ]
The unicorn is a fickle thing, a master of confused disguises: Plinius the Uncle saw him fierce, with the body of a horse and the head of a stag, the feet of an elephant and the tail of a boar — and horned, sir. Horned, as ever the Christian Bible would have him after. And mighty. And strange.
[ A light pause, dilating. ]
But weak to the call of a maiden, for Isidorus Hispalensis, who spoke of an unicorn quick to rest his tired head atop the virgin's untouched breast. As a lamb might. A young thing of the farmland.
There is not one of these creatures of story who will not take grass, as its choice or final recourse. So, your unicorn must take grass also.