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* There is a story where a princess (or maybe duchess) hears someone in her land has a talking cat. She wants it for herself, so she throws the owner in her dungeon. One scene has her riding in her carriage, carrying the cat in her hand muff, and the cat escapes by biting her hand.
* All of the unicorns, in ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'', collected by King Haggard.
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* In Robert Asprin's fantasy novel ''[[Myth Adventures|Myth Directions]]'', Tanda the Trollop assassin ropes protagonist Skeeve into her attempt to find a truly one-of-a-kind item to give to Aahz (a scaly green Pervect) as a birthday present. She ultimately settles on a ghastly frog-scuplture trophy that has no value except as the prize for a heated sports competition between rival cities. Their [[A Simple Plan|robbery attempt]] goes horribly wrong, and things only spiral further out of control from there.
** To add to it, Skeeve tries to keep Aahz from finding out about any of this because he knows the lecture he'll get for having done something like this. When Aahz ''does'' find out and asks incredulously "This ugly statue is what's behind all this?", a frustrated Skeeve responds "Yeah, because we wanted to give it to you. Happy birthday." After a stunned minute, Aahz decides [[It Must Be Mine]] and the group alters their escape plan to include the theft of the trophy.
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