True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.

No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.