Amalthea (The Last Unicorn)

The Unicorn is the protagonist of the story. When secretly following two hunters within her forest, she overhears them say that all the unicorns of the world may be gone, save her. Concerned that she has not seen any of her own kind for quite some time, she decides to leave her home and the safety of her enchanted woods in search of her kind. Along the way she learns from a talkative butterfly that a creature called The Red Bull may have driven her kind to the ends of the earth. When she first encounters the Red Bull, Schmendrick the magician manages to inadvertently change the Unicorn into a human female to confuse the Red Bull and force its withdrawal. Schmendrick calls her "Lady Amalthea" so as not to arouse King Haggard's suspicions, but he soon grows suspicious of Lady Amlthea becaues due to her eyes never showing his reflection in them, but rather, shows green leaves and fox cubs and images of the forest from whence she came. Peter Beagle notes that he took the name "Amalthea" from a Greek deity with the same name.