Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for December 01, 2021

Hope it’s not the spell’s rare side effect of blood loss.

uh oh

9 seconds and….KABOOM!!!

A blissful week of silence

I wonder how loud Marigold’s thoughts are.

Hang in there, Marigold.

Time to start keeping a diary. She can read it to herself to pass the time.

Ever see a unicorn explode? Just watch…..

and how will this back fire?

Nine seconds and my san really is turning green!

Silence is golden? Not to her!

She’s going FULL 80s!!!

Dear Diary, I am now well into my first day of silence.

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

She’s never gonna make it.

She could make real speech balloon balloons, but they would keep popping on her horn.

Time for the Magic Megaphone that speaks all your innermost thoughts. Wait … why is it silent?

What Next? The sound of sanity and reality unraveling.

Time to learn semaphore!

That reminds me of when one of my uncles had to get his vocal cords removed because of cancer, so because of that, he had to get one of those synthesized voice boxes in order to be able to still speak. I wonder if Marigold would end up resorting to doing that in order to get around the silencing spell?

Ach, die Schadenfreude.

What’s so magical about laryngitis?

Hang on! This could be a wild ride! Now just let us put that bucking strap on and Boom! Coming outta chute #1. This little filly has lost her mind!

Sounds like an old Twilight Zone scenario……

I guess that Phoebe will be speaking for Marigold this week, with the appropriate ambiguity of context.

She may learn to produce speech from another orifice.

Everything will be OK until she starts scratching REDRUM on Phoebe’s bedroom door with her horn.

Reminds me of an original TZ about a no talk bet for at least a weel.

Did she tell Phoebe about it first? That could be awkward unless her sister fills her in.

Can Mari still text with her horn? That way she can sort of get around not be able to speak. Also Phoebe’s phone will be blowing up with text messages in a few more seconds!

Of course, Marigold being Marigold, I’m sure she’ll find some way around it. Can you do an “undo” spell via text or even scratching it in the ground with her horn? Or just magically writing it down for Phoebe to read aloud.

Any takers that she doesn’t come close to lasting the week?