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But the ogress was working so hard that she didn't hear.

Well, maybe they could make it across before the storm hit. Mela hoped
so. She did not relish the thought of getting doused with fresh
rainwater.

It was a perfect day for a picnic. They would smell flowers and eat
red, yellow, and blueberries and sun in the sun. With luck they would
encounter a winged dragon or a griffin. From the time of her
association with Che Centaur, she had had no fear of winged monsters,
for all of them were his friends.

Gwendolyn Goblin could not remember when she had been as happy as during
these last two years as the guc,,st of the winged centaur family. She
had been well treated at home in Goblin Mountain, but confined to her
apartment, because, well, because. Then little Che Centaur had come to
be her companion, and his friend Jenny Elf who was the same age as
Gwenny, and they had gone to be with Che's family. For the first time
Gwenny had experienced the freedom of the great outside, and she reveled
in it.

Of course there were bad things too. Che's parents, Cheiron and Chex,
insisted that every creature in their household be properly educated.
Thus the teenage goblin girl and elf girl shared seven-year-old Che's
fate, and had to spend weary hours learninghow to count and figure and
read and write, and all about the geography and history of Xanth. They
even had to learn the various types of magic, and the rules of human and
nonhuman cultures.

What a bore! Sometimes Gwenny and Jenny pretended to lose their
spectacles so that they couldn't study, but the adults were hideously
astute at finding them. It was the one awful thing about centaurs: they
were intellectual.

They represented the very most extreme case of the dreadful Adult
Conspiracy, which dictated that anyone young enough to be a
non-Conspirator must Know and Not Know a rigorous schedule of things.
Naturally most of the interesting things were in the Not-Know category.

But overall, the positives outweighed the negatives.

Gwenny was well fed and well cared for and safe, and she had close
companions who didn't like studying any better than she did. The
alternative was to be locked in her suite at home with only her mother,
Godiva, for company-and the truth was, Godiva also had distressingly
adult notions about education and behavior. The rest of Goblin Mountain
was a total loss; it was dark and gloomy and full of goblins. Who
wanted to be in a mountain full of goblins?