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Melody hadn't gotten the green eyes, to
match the rest of her; the storks might have gotten confused. She carried a
little drum.
     
     “Hello, Princesses,” Clio
said.
     
     The three froze momentarily in place,
abashed. But the mood passed in exactly its moment, and they resumed animation.
     
     “Hello, Clio,” Melody said.
     
     “We're glad to meet you,”
Harmony agreed.
     
     “What are you doing here?”
Rhythm asked.
     
     “I have to fetch some
dragons,” Clio said.
     
     “Dragons!” Melody exclaimed.
     
     “Why?” Harmony asked.
     
     “Did they do something
wrong?” Rhythm asked.
     
     “Dragons are going extinct,”
Becka explained. “Because they don't have souls. We need to replace them
with souled dragons.”
     
     The girls considered half a moment.
     
     “Can we help?” Melody asked.
     
     Clio hadn't considered that, but
realized that they might indeed be able to help. Any single princess was a full
Sorceress; any two squared their power, and the three together cubed it. That
was a lot of magic. “Actually, Che Centaur is arranging for host bodies
for them here. That may be a big job. He could surely use your help.”
     
     “Che!” Harmony said gladly.
     
     The three vanished, leaving behind only
a word from Rhythm: “Bye.”
     
     “You handled that neatly,”
Becka said.
     
     “I was lucky.” It was the
truth.
     
     They entered the castle. Princess Ida
came up to meet them. She resembled Princess Ivy, the triplet's mother, but was
immediately identifiable by the little moon orbiting her head. “Dara said
you would be coming.”
     
     “We need to go to Dragon
World,” Clio said.
     
     “That is not safe.”
     
     “It seems the Good Magician felt I
was the appropriate person for it. Becka should be helpful there.”
     
     Ida nodded. “That is true. And of
course if you get chomped there, you will merely return here. Still, it would
be an unpleasant experience. Are you sure this excursion is necessary?”
     
     “I am not at all sure,” Clio
confessed. “And I'm not partial to dragons to begin with, present company
excepted. But it seems this is a thing I must attempt.”
     
     “I think the Good Magician has
lost it,” Becka said. “But this isn't my mission; I'm just helping
because I want to save the dragons.”
     
     “It is true that the dragon
population has been declining,” Ida said. “Something needs to be
done. Let's hope that this is it.”
     
     They went to Ida's office, where they
reviewed the mechanism for traveling to the moons. Clio reminded herself to
focus on Dragon World, so as to be transported directly there; she didn't want
to struggle with the confusing time schemes of planet Ptero.
     
     They lay on couches, and Princess Ida
gave them sniffs from a vial. Soon they left their bodies behind and floated up
toward Ida's moon Ptero. Clio took Becka's hand and concentrated on Dragon
World.
     
     Their souls accelerated toward the looming
world. It seemed to be getting larger, but actually they were getting smaller.
They zipped down to its surface, for it no longer resembled a tiny moon; it was
a giant planet. They came down by Castle Roogna, recognizable because it was
the same as the one on Xanth. They flew into it, and into the chamber where
Princess Ida stayed, with her pyramidal moon.
     
     They did not pause to greet her; they
zoomed right up to the moon, which seemed to expand enormously. Each triangular
face of it was a different color: blue, red, green, and gray on the bottom.
They descended on the blue section, and flew to the modest house where its
Princess Ida resided with her doughnut-shaped moon, more properly known as
Torus. On its curving inner surface, on an island in a sea, was yet another
Princess Ida, with her moon Cone.
     
     After that, the route fuzzed in her
mind. There seemed to be an endless chain of worlds and Idas and worlds. Of
course she had written about them before, as she recorded