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A long, long time ago…
He didn"t care what they had told him any longer. This gem was going to be his masterpiece, and there was no one who could argue with that.
He had been studying the properties of the unicorn"s horn for an age, and it"s magic still captivated him. Its mineral was dense and complex, stronger than any other which he had identified. This made modifying it more complicated, if not impossible. Still, he had staked his reputation on discovery, and he would be damned if he allowed anything to get in his way.
Since killing a unicorn simply to recover its horn was still considered a condemnable offense, even if the purpose was for science, he had needed to conduct his research in secret, revealing his progress to very few colleagues. Even amongst those few, two of them h
