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out a way. Onward!"

"Onward," he agreed, determined not to oblige her by
asking again.

They set off down the riverbed, bound by bound, using
their little wings to steer the bounds and keep them within
bounds. It was the gargoyle way.

Before long the dry riverbanks changed color, turn-
ing yellow. Gary paused. "What's the matter with the
ground?"

Mentia looked. "Nothing. It's just doing its thing."

"But it's all sickly yellow!"

"No it isn't." She raked a claw across the dirt. Golden
coins rolled down into the channel. "This bank is pay dirt.
And there's a mint." She pointed to a plant with odd ob-
long greenbacked leaves and round golden flowers with
serrated edges. "This is the bank where the money comes
from, is all."

"Money? What good is it?"

"No good that I know of. But I understand they love it
in Mundania."

"They do?"

"They say that the love of money is the root of all evil."




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PIERS ANTHONY

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She looked at the mint's roots, which did look bad, if not

actually evil.

"But doesn't that mean that they think it's bad?"
"No, Mundania is such an awful place that they must

love evil."