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important that she go there and do it promptly, and that
the enemy not discover whatever it was she had to do.

Imbri concentrated. There was something-ah, yes! That
was it! The rainbow! She had come to see the rainbow.
That must be her mission-though where the rainbow was
at the moment, and what she was supposed to say to it, and
why this was important to the welfare of the Land of
Xanth-these things remained opaque.

Well, she would just have to look for it. Eventually she
Would find the rainbow, and perhaps then the meaning in
this mission would become apparent.

Chapter 2. The Day Horse

fflare Imbri was hungry. There had always
been plenty of grazing in the gourd, but she had been too
busy and too immaterial to graze while on dream duty and
evidently had not consumed enough during the past night
to sustain the elevated material pace of the real world.
Now she had to graze-and didn't know where to find a
decent pasture, here in dayside Xanth.

She looked about. She was in the deep jungle forest. Dry
leaves coated the forest floor; there were few blades of
grass, and those that she found were wiregrass, metallic
and inedible. No doubt this was where the brassies bar-
vested some of the wire for their constructions. She was
roughly familiar with this region, of course, since she had
been all over Xanth on dream duty-but by day it looked




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different, and now that she was fixed solid, it felt differ-
ent. She had never paid much attention to the potential
grazing here. Where would there be a decent pasture?

Well, this was not far west of Castle Roogna, the human-
folk capital. She recalled that there was a large clearing
north of here, and that should have plenty of excellent