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* In ''[[Star Of The Morning]]'', Morgan is conveniently transported back home on dragon-back, a journey which takes about a day, in contrast with the several months it took to get there.
* [[Kushiel's Legacy]] averts this: it takes ages for her characters to get places, and almost as long (in some respects) for them to return. And while the return journey isn't as exciting, stuff still happens.
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* [[Alan Dean Foster]] has this in his ''Journeys of the Catechist'' series. The main character accepts the dying wish of a man and goes to save that man's fiance from being held by the evil overlord of a distant kingdom. The trilogy is three books of the most creative [[Wacky Wayside Tribe|weird obstacles]] you could ask for, with only about a quarter of the third book being spent in the overlord's kingdom. Then the main character takes the girl back to her kingdom from halfway through the second book, then back to the overlord because she'd fallen for him, then he goes all the way back to his own village. [[Up to Eleven|All without a description of the events.]]
* This is parodied in multiple versions of [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] with the great poetic saga of Golgafrincham, which involves the adventures of five sage princes on four white horses, journeying forth to adventure, saving beautiful monsters from ravening princesses, etc. etc. At least, that's the first part of the saga. The second, much longer, part is about the princes arguing over who is going to have to walk home.
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