Lír! Don't let him change me! The Red Bull has no care for human beings. We may walk out past him and get away!

If we do that, then all the unicorns of the world will remain prisoners forever, except one, and she will grow old and die.

Everything dies! I want to die when you die. [looks at Lír] I'm no unicorn, no magical creature. I'm a woman, and I love you! Don't let him! Lír, I will not love you when I'm a unicorn.

Amalthea, don't...

Then let the quest end here! I don't think I could change you back, even if you wished it. Marry the prince, and live happily ever after.

Yes, that is my wish.

No. My lady, I am a hero, and heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

But what if there isn't a happy ending?

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Schmendrick, let her stay the way she is. Let her be...

That's not in the story. Lír knows that, and so does she.

You don't care! You don't care what happens to her or to the others, just so you become a real magician, at last. You don't care —

Well I wish I didn't care! I wish to God I didn't care about anything but my magic! But I do! I do.