Magpies and youngest daughters adore shiny things, but a quarter of my girl's baubles could finance the refurbishment of those antiquated castles and the construction of a dozen new warships! The golden apple turned out to be a ball of pork encased in some sort of egg-based coating.Magpies and youngest daughters adore shiny things, but a quarter of my girl's baubles could finance the refurbishment of those antiquated castles and the construction of a dozen new warships! The golden apple turned out to be a ball of pork encased in some sort of egg-based coating. After several slave girls had set the main course of cockatrice on the table, to appropriate noises of approval, they returned to their places behind the diners' chairs. Two of the beasts were set out, and closer tasting revealed that they made of suckling pig and rooster, highly spiced and endored with a red-brown coating before having the feathers added. "A most clever subtlety, Great Lord," commented King Fionn. |