        He continued to watch them, noticing that the pearl unicorn was beginning to shift.  She opened her eyes, and lifting her head off the sand, smiled.  She looked at the sun, now well above the horizon, and rose with a regal grace.  She glanced at the soldiers, who had begun to chatter excitedly among themselves, and then at the mint unicorn, who rather softly spoke for a minute or so.  Dale noted to his fascination that larger unicorn was nodding every now and then.