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// Leafy Greens: Coda 
// Story: Princess Luna Picks Up Hitchhikers 
// by horizon 
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Two minutes later, Polar Star returns, muzzle again dripping green slime.  He sighs, and hands me a second scroll.

I open it.  It reads simply:

P.S.: Is Fireball okay?

I look up in growing horror.  "Polar Star?" 

He stands a bit straighter.  "Yes, mistress?"

"I did instruct thee to return to the cart after dropping me off at the library," I say slowly, "yes?"

He stares at me blankly.

I repeat the colorful epithet I learned from Fireball.