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effect to wear off.

Gwenny walked-carefully-to her mother and hugged her. "My dear, you
have lost weight! Have you been eating enough?" Godiva exclaimed. Of
course it was humor, because she understood the centaur magic and could
see that Gwenny, far from being underfleshed, was now a rather pretty
figure of a gobliness. She was, after all, fourteen years old, which
was just about old enough for a goblin girl. Naturally no adult would
tell her what she was old enough for. Adults could be real pains at
times.

"Why are you here, Mother?" Gwenny asked.

Godiva became extremely serious. "Your father is dead.

You know what that means. " She did not pretend any gnef; Gouty Goblin
had been a typical male, which meant that he had few if any endearing
traits, and had done his best to eradicate those.

Gwenny felt a sudden chill. Indeed she knew what this meant: that her
idyllic time with the centaur family was over, and perhaps her life
itself. For she was the next in line to be the chief of the goblins of
Goblin Mountainthe first female ever to aspire to that role.

"Mother, I'm not ready!" she said.

"I know that, dear. I had hoped that your father would hang on a few
years longer, to give you time. But he was unobliging even in this. It
is now or never."

"But the spectacles-I can't wear them at home, and I can't see well
enough without them to do anything. That would disqualify me
immediately."

"I know that too, dear. But there are other ways. We must find you
some magic contact lenses."

At this point Chex cut in. "We have been searching for a suitable lens
bush for two years, but there seems to have been a blight on them."

Godiva sighed. "I was afraid of that. Then there is only one thing to
do: we must take her to the Good Magician to find out how she can
nullify this liability."

"Wait, Mother," Gwenny said. "You mustn't do this for me."

"But, dear, time is short. There is only one month before the ascension
of the new chief. Only the Good Magician can possibly know where
contact lenses may be obtained immediately."