"That really is one way to do it."
Clop lifted a hoof and stamped excitedly twice, then turned to rub necks with his wife. They exchanged a few hurried words in low voices.
"I think it's a good idea too," Mrs. Clop said. "You go and look. I'll take care of Jinky."
"Then that's what we'll do."
Clop turned to Silan. "Before that, may I go in and have a look?"
Unicorns had exacting requirements for their habitat. If they took Jinky in only to discover that Mr. Prewett's suitcase didn't suit her, they would have a problem. Clop wanted to check for himself.
"Of course." Silan opened the suitcase.
"I'll go and check on Jinky with Mrs. Clop." Hermione was still worried about the little one, so she followed Mrs. Clop back into the cave.
Silan accompanied Clop into the suitcase.
It was Clop's first time entering a wizard's suitcase. A little nervous, he couldn't help closing his eyes.
When he opened them again, the sight before him left him stunned.
A remarkably human look of shock spread across Clop's long horse face. His eyes bulged, and his mouth fell wide open.
"We're inside the suitcase?" Clop asked in disbelief. "There's this much space in here?!"
Before coming in, he had assumed that Silan's idea of a large space was large only by human wizard standards—enough to house a hundred people or so.
But what lay before him overturned everything he had imagined.
A vast, level grassland stretched out before him. Beyond it stood a dense forest, beside which lay a huge lake. A stream flowed from the lake into the trees.
Farther back rose several low hills.
With this much space, forget housing three Unicorns—they could fit the entire Unicorn herd from the Forbidden Forest in here with