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to keep an eye on things at Goblin Mountain, until the new chief took office.  With luck and management, that chief would be Gwenny.
    Che and Jenny Elf arrived back from the field.  Gwenny explained about her need to go to see the Good Magician, and how it was all right for Che to come along.
    “But what about Jenny?” he asked.
    Gwenny hadn't thought of that.  Of course she didn't want to leave Jenny Elf behind!  Jenny had been Che's friend before he came to Goblin Mountain, and she had been Gwenny's friend too.  “Jenny, too, if she wants to come,” she agreed.
    “Of course I want to come!” Jenny said.  “I'd like to see the Good Magician's castle when I'm not distracted.”
    “Maybe he can tell you how to get back to the World of Two Moons,” Gwenny said.
    “Yes, maybe he could,” Jenny agreed.  But she did not seem completely excited by the prospect.
    In the morning they bid farewell to Che's sire and dam, and to Gwenny's mother.  Then Godiva took one path, heading east toward Goblin Mountain, and the three of them took another, heading south toward the Gap Chasm and the Good Magician's castle.  The copy of Chem's map showed that they could use the invisible bridge to cross the Gap and then go right on down to the castle.  Then they would have three challenges to surmount before they could get into the castle, and after that “oops,” Gwenny said.  “I will have to give a year's service to the Good Magician, for his Answer to my Question, but I have only a month before I must be chief.”
    “Then I will ask on your behalf,” Che said.
    “No, I will,” Jenny Elf said.  Her cat, Sammy, was riding in her backpack.  “You two must stay together.”
    “But-” Gwenny started to protest.  Then she realized that this was help she needed, and that perhaps Jenny had looked ahead and realized that their juvenile friendship could not endure beyond the settlement of the chiefship.
    Gwenny would then either be chief, with its pressing responsibilities, or dead.  In either case, she could not truly be with Jenny.  So their separation was coming, regardless.  It was not as if service to the Good Magician was onerous; the word was that often it was as beneficial for the person as for the Magician.  “Thank you, Jenny.”
    There was more to be said, but she couldn't figure out how to phrase it.
    They walked down the path, not hurrying.  They had a fair way to go, and there was no point in wearing themselves out.  Also, perhaps, they were not eager to separate, and that separation could occur at any time after they reached the castle.  This was the last of their carefree association.
    The abode of the winged centaurs was not far from the Gap Chasm.  They reached it in the afternoon.  The path led right up to it, and stopped.
    There was nothing but the great deep awesome expanse of the Gap ahead.
    Che looked at the map.  “The invisible bridge is supposed to be right here.”
    “I don't see it,” Jenny said, smiling.
    He flicked her hair with the tip of his tail, making it float about her head.  “We must verify its location, and cross, making sure no creature is below it.”
    “What does it matter whether there is anyone below?” Jenny asked.  “I mean, we aren't going to drop rocks on him.”
    “Gwenny is wearing a dress.”
    Jenny laughed.  Gwenny felt her dark face doing its best to blush.  She was indeed in a dress, because she had deemed it to be more ladylike than jeans.  Now she wished she had followed Jenny's example and settled for the jeans, because it would be a horrible disaster if anyone below looked up and saw the color of her panties.  No one was supposed to know that they were goblin black.  No male, anyway.  Jenny knew, but not Che.
    She hoped.
    “Well, first we have to find it,” Jenny said.  “I'm not stepping out there until I'm sure there's something to step on.“ It seemed that there were not such things as invisible bridges on the World of Two Moons