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"How true! But now he's gone and married a brassie girl from the gourd
named Bria, and they have a son named Brusque."

"Everybody's getting married!" Mela said petulantly.

"But the son of an ogre and a brassie-does he have a talent? "

"Yes. He can make himself or other things hard and heavy, or light and
soft. That should be handy, when he is grown."

Mela nodded knowingly. "Surely so. But it doesn't solve MY problem. I
need a prince."

"Why not a regular man?" the demoness asked. "There are more of them."

"Well, after almost nabbing a prince, I fear it would feel like
backsliding to settle for an ordinary man."

"I suppose so. My friend Dana Demoness married a king. Now she won't
settle for anything less."

"Oh? What king?"

"King Humfrey."

"I didn't know there was a King Humfrey! Is he any relation to the Good
Magician Humfrey?"

"The same."

"But Humfrey's no king! He's the Magician of Information."

"He's no king now. But he was then. She got bored and left him, but
after a century or so she got bored being single, so she returned to
him, and is married to him today. I I "But I thought he was married to
the Gorgon."

"He is. It gets complicated to explain."

"It must! " But Mela was too tired at the moment for complexity. "Is
it all right if I sleep on the other pillows? "

"Be my guest," Metria said grandly, fading away.

In the morning Mela left the cozy den and searched out some fruits and
nuts. She needed to do something else, but wasn't sure how to manage it
cleanly while wearing the clumsy legs; she wished she could return to
the sea for a while or even an (ugh!) freshwater pond, and not just for
that. The land was just such an awkward place!