The Lion Answers

Surprisingly, the lion raised his head, and started to sing. Not well, but the party appreciated that he could sing at all.

In a deep, leonine voice, he replied:

It is tough to keep the metre
And entertain the reader
With peril this is fraught
But the pages they'd be turning
And their midnight oil burning
If we only had a plot.

What you need is a device
To keep action runnin' nice
It's something that I've got
It's called a MacGuffin
After Fred I've finished stuffin'
I'll help along the plot.

The "MacGuffin" turns out to be

1. a magic corset for Astra.
2. a thorn that has been lodged in the lion's paw.
3. something that is about the size of a breadbox.

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