Quote:From Fortune's Fool by Mercedes Lackey, just out in hardcover.
The unicorns stopped dancing angrily, and looked from Sasha to the Rusalka and back again. And back to Sasha. And back to the Rusalka.
"Um," said one, hesitantly. "A problem..."
"No problem," said the first immediately, tossing her head. "This is a creature of darkness!"
"But..." the hesitant one said, as she dropped her head to sniff at the water. "A virgin creature of darkness..."
It was the Rusalka's turn to flush as bright a red as a ghost could manage.
"No problem," insisted the first, who was evidently the leader of this group. "That is a female. So are we, and we do not protect females. And she is a creature of darkness. We destroy creatures of darkness. Virginity doesn't enter into it."
"But..."
"I'm quite sure there are virgin creatures of darkness all the time," the leader retorted, stamping her forehoof....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.