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A color illustration of a giraffe in a three-quarters profile. Samantha knows that in medieval bestiaries giraffes were imagined as a mix between camels and leopards, a Camelopardalis. In Jacob van Maerlant’s 14th century masterpiece, Der Naturen Bloeme, a giraffe is shown kneeling before a knight with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other. It is a questing beast and it has been found. It’s a lesson Samantha knows well. Wherever there is magic, men will track it down. They call it a quest, but it’s really a hunt.