One of my biggest questions was whether or not we might see a unicorn race in Horizons. Would the author more connected to unicorns than perhaps any other writer in history (sometimes to his chagrin- he compares how he's "stuck" with unicorns to how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was stuck with Sherlock Holmes) like to see humans becoming unicorns for a little while? Rose petal-pretenses aside, Beagle would prefer to keep unicorns where they are. Iit's not purely out of professional jealousy: "You use what works." Beagle then related a story about a reporter's interview with French folk-singer George Bressons, who was asked if he was particularly fond of flowers. He responded that he was not particularly fond of flowers, and the reported produced a list of flower references in his songs and proceded to begin reading from it. Brassons interrupted the reporter to say that it's foolish to talk about flowers; they worked, so he used them. If they didn't work, he would've taken them out. By that token, it doesn't seem like the mythological ideal, the unicorn, could "work" as a player class in Horizons from Beagle's perspective.
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