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[ridertothemoon]

[Astolfo stands proudly in front of a car. A really old, beat-down car. It might have been an average car at some time, but not recently.]

You'll never believe how cheaply I bought this car for! With a bit of fixing it's perfectly serviceable, if not very attractive, and so much more efficient than just walking around.

My sons, would you spend a minute and help me fix it up? I'll take you for a ride anywhere you like after we get it in a better condition.

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[ridertothemoon]

I far predate the horse and buggy.

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[sandma]

Oh my. What did you use? Simply horses?

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[ridertothemoon]

Just horses - well, I had a giant I caught carry my belongings. They can carry quite a bit.

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[sandma]

A giant. [She sighs] I will never get used to the stories you people tell.

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[ridertothemoon]

We have such good ones! That's not nearly my best.

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[sandma]

More strange than anything, if you ask me. But, pray tell, what is your best?

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[ridertothemoon]

I've been to the moon on a flaming chariot. Elijah's, if that rings a bell.

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[sandma]

The Elijah? How did that happen?

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[ridertothemoon]

Have you heard that all lost things can be found on the moon?

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[sandma]

No, I haven't. Is it true?

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[ridertothemoon]

Of course. If I had not succeeded in my mission of finding my friend's lost wits, then it would be not much of a story to tell.

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[sandma]

Lost wits? Really?

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[ridertothemoon]

Really!

I found my own wits there as well, but lost them again for some reason.

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[sandma]

How does one lose their wits? Wits aren't a tangible object.

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[ridertothemoon]

Yet they're there.

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[sandma]

I won't agree. But continue your story.

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[ridertothemoon]

I should begin at the beginning. Do you know of Orlando, my more famous cousin and knight of Charlemagne?

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[sandma]

I've heard a little,

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[ridertothemoon]

He once lost his wits over a woman who left him. Completely stark raving mad, destroying everything in his path in Europe and Africa. Nothing could stop him but the return of his sanity.

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[sandma]

Sounds like he needed a new woman.

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[ridertothemoon]

It is remarkably hard to fall for someone who is rampaging endlessly.

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[sandma]

In your opinion, maybe. I've met some odd people.

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[ridertothemoon]

A-ny-way, as his dutiful cousin, I searched the world on my hippogriff for a way to cure him. In Ethiopia I rescued the king who sent me along to the summit of the Terrestiral Paradise.

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[sandma]

And where is that?

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[ridertothemoon]

Hard to get to if you can't fly and haven't been told the exact way.