Vale of the Vole - Land of Xanth Traditional Cache
Vale of the Vole - Land of Xanth
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Vale of the Vole is the tenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. It begins a trilogy including Heaven Cent and Man from Mundania. Xanth is a magical land where everyone has a magical talent. Co-ords should take you to an end.
Esk is a young ogre-nymph-human, whose talent is to protest; when Esk says "No!" he really means it. Those he directs this talent at literally stop what they have intended to do. When he began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. On his way to the Good Magician's castle, Esk meets Chex, the winged centaur. Despite having wings, Chex is unable to fly due to her solid equine weight; she is going to ask Humfrey how she can fly. But at Humfrey's castle, they find a worse problem still- the Good Magician and his family have disappeared without a trace! They decide to look for him.
Later, the two of them meet up with Volney Vole. Volney has a problem of his own, as his home by the Kiss-Me River has become unbearably infested with bugs ever since the demons decided to straighten out the river's undulating curves.
Later, the team discovers that Chex can make items temporarily light when she flicks them with her tail, which provides a solution to her problem of how to fly.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gnxr n ybat ybbx nybat.