From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.

Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Prince Percival, and I'm currently a toad.

Um.

Um.

It all started when my father, the king of Hemsminster, sent me on a quest.

It's not my fault, I'm the youngest of seven sons.

But since I'm probably not going to be taking the throne, I guess he wanted to keep me out of trouble.

I was supposed to find a special herb growing in the garden of a well-known witch, two kingdoms over.

I should have just asked her if I could have some of the plant, but no, I had to follow

the traditional rules of fairy tale questing and steal it, as is tradition.

So I climbed over the garden wall with a pocket full of smoked fish to distract the giant-winged

cats that protect her garden.

That went fine, and I avoided the snare traps, the pit of sticky mud, and the gargoyle who demanded

that I solve his riddles three. But then I came around the corner and there she was,

gardening, in her garden. I must have startled her because, whammo, she cast a spell on me,

and next thing I knew, I was a warty little toad hiding under a cabbage leaf.

It's not so bad, but because it's all part of the traditional rules of fairy tale questing,

I'll have to find somebody to kiss me back into being a prince so I can get home.

But I'm afraid nobody will want to smooch this handsome little toad face because toads are supposed to give people warts.

That can't be right, though, can it?

How do people get warts anyway?

Phoebe was curious about this, too.

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