RUKH: I don't care how many damn spells you've got on her. Get rid of that
harpy! I thinks about it all the time - what she's going to do to us! Get rid
of her, Mommy!
MOMMY FORTUNA: Fool, be still! No other witch in the world holds a harpy
captive, and none ever will. I choose to keep her! I can turn her into wind
if she escapes, or snow! Or into seven notes of music!
(The harpy screams and begins beating her wings. The cage shakes.)
RUKH: (moans): She's breaking through! (runs away)
MOMMY FORTUNA (moves her fingers around; the same sort of essence
flows out of them.): No. Not yet. Not yet. You're mine. If you kill me,
you're still mine.
(The harpy calms down and the cage stops shaking.)
MOMMY FORTUNA: (cackles and talks to the unicorn): The harpy's as real as
you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to capture, if you
want to know.
UNICORN: Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage and she
hears you.
MOMMY FORTUNA: Oh, she'll kill me one day or another, but she will
remember forever that I caught her, that I held her prisoner. So there's my
immortality, eh? (laughs) Now, you were out on the road hunting for your
own death, and I know where it awaits you. I know him, that one.
UNICORN: Do you speak of the Red Bull? Tell me if you do, and where he is,
if you know!
MOMMY FORTUNA: The Red Bull of King Haggard. So you know of the Bull.
Well, he'll not have you. You belong to me.
UNICORN: You know better. Keep your poor shadows if you will, but let me
go. And - let her go. I cannot see her caged. She is real, like me. We are
two sides of the same magic. Let her go.
MOMMY FORTUNA: I'd quit show business first! Do you think I don't know
what the true witchery is, just because I do what I do? There's not a
witch in the world hasn't laughed at Mommy Fortuna and her homemade
horrors - but there's not one of them who would have dared!
UNICORN: The harpy and me - we are not for you.
MOMMY FORTUNA: Who are you for then? Do you think those fools knew you
without any help from me? (laughs) No! I had to give you a horn they could
see! These days it takes a cheap carnival trick to make folks recognize a
real unicorn. But the Red Bull will know you when he sees you; so you are
safer here. You should thank me for protecting you.