Well, then again.....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 13128

Chex, the first Xanthian character looks into Scott's face, and sees it waver, then resolve. She's only been with this weird human for about an hour, but she can tell what he's about to say.

"Ah Scott?" she calls to him. "With the way things are right now, telling Bink what his talent might be VERY useful! I seem to remember in my history that Bink was one of the Kings in that last violent Wave with that....Horsman?"

Before Scott can say anything, Jenny cuts in! Sammy Cat is rubbing against Binks leg. Bink strokes Sammy absent mindedly.

"Yeah, I always found that funny!" Jenny inputs. "Chex.....er....well, one of the Chex told me how Arnold told her about a....rumor that a plan backfired.......something a miscalculation on his part got him sucked into the Hynoground by.....a short.....circuit? Something about that was....before it happened.....thought shouldn't have been able to happen?"

Bink's eyebrows rise to his hairline. Scott sighs. Bink knows....what his talent is!

"I can't.....be harmed by magic?" Bink whispers. "A Magician caliber....talent? That can't be!"

Scott shrugs. Once or twice, Bink got away with telling a person what his talent was. If he remembered the last novel he'd read....Zombie Lover?....that was one of them? Maybe his talent would allow Binks ignorance to be lifted.....because of the strange circumstances right at the momment. God knows the cat is out of the bag, now, anyway. Might as well......

"Bink, I knoww what your talent is, and you're hardly going to be disappointed." Scott smiles. "I'm not the Good Magician, but.....I think it's fair to ask for you to settle up with Humfrey what this answer is going to cost you. Promise me you'll ask Humfrey about that after I tell you. I know you'll do it, because of your strength of character."

Intrigued, Bink agrees. He seems to have convinced himself that he was wrong.

"Your talent is...." Scott looks around, waiting. "To be unable to be harmed by magic! A magician caliber magic."

There is dead air. Bink just stares at Scott, hardly believing what he's just heard. Scott can see what he's thinking.

"Bink, you've never been harmed by magic. Embarassed, yes. Harmed? Never!" Scott assured Bink. "Why do you think that Spring couldn't take back your finger? I'm sure if you look back on your life, at all those close calls you've had with magic, you can see it's true!"

"But my..." Bink protests.

"Bink." Scott says in a patient voice. "That sickle you were playing with that cut off your finger wasn't magical!"

After a long arguement, Scott finally convinces a stuborn Bink that he can not be harmed by magic. The demonstration with the Gorgon and an unwilling housefly convinces him!

"Okay now, finally." breathes Scott. "Go through that door into the library, ask the gnomelike man about what you owe him. He might be cranky.....most likely cranky.....but he'll take care of you, I'm sure! Your a main character!"

"Okay, fine." Bink says. "But you still haven't told me who you all ARE? How do you know so much about me?!"

Scott and gang share a glance and a half.

Scott then explains what is happening. Bink is stunned, and frightened. Scott suggests that if anyone can help, it's Humfrey!

Bink nods numbly, and stumbles towards Humfrey's library.

"Beware of the Horseman?!" shouts Humfrey from the next room. "That message is years out of date, Imbri!"

Scott jumps and runs to the library! The others hurry after him.

A black mare is swishing her tail in annoyance in the library, waiting patiently. Bink is standing and listening to Humfrey as he barks out orders to go to such an such a place and wait for Chameleon. The task is very detailed, and a few eyebrows are raised as Trent's name is mentioned being out in the wilderness.

Humfrey tells Imbri to listen in, because this concerns her....concerns all of Xanth.....what he says next!

  1. It concerns....Mundania!

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