A Mouse of a Woman

[Darth Morrow]

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Jaemus​

Royal Palace - Garden​

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It was midday when the Nezumi crawled from her hiding place in the garden to hunt for something small to eat. Bright white fur contrasted by a dark red robe, with beady little black eyes scanning her surrounding. The beautiful weather shined down across the Royal Palace garden and everything seemed happier for the time being, even if Sparrow was on her own.

Sparrow had been traveling about in recent times only to temporarily settle down in this garden she had found, a quiet place, little uproar, and plenty of planters and such to hide and switch between. As she skittered across the pathways she stopped from plant to plant, seeing what was edible, what was poisonous, referencing her small journal every few minutes to make sure she had everything right, others began to step into the garden and take places on chairs and before tables.

While she was doing this, unnoticed but twenty or so feet away resided several of the "too big" making hushed conversation between them. However, the mouse was focused on the task at hand, having found a few wild plants she so happened to love. With a stretched jump, she reached up and grabbed onto the berry that was far to large in comparison to her, and dangled off of it. A little reflective white spot hanging onto a big red berry as the sun beat down from above, and made her look like a mirror redirecting its wrath.

 

[Soundwave]

Duchess Roweena

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Royal Garden
Jaemus

There was little activity within the Royal Garden, the occasional gardeners making his passes through to make sure that everything was well kept and well groomed, lest they suffer the wrath of the Duchess who frowned upon anything ugly or displeasing to look upon. There were several guards posted around the garden, maintaining an ever vigilant watch upon the Palace's grounds. For a time it was rather quiet with little activity for anyone to note apart from the little Nezumi who had found its way into the Royal Gardens.

A tall and slender figure dressed in rather expensive looking clothes would stride out along the garden path, her hands held in front of her, her fingers all touching one another by the tips. The woman who entered the Garden had an aura of authority and power about her, her face masked by a large headpiece, making it difficult to discern her identity. However, the way she carried herself and how everyone else seemed to stiffen up in her presence was perhaps an unspoken indicator that she was someone of great importance.

Those that were not guards would give her a wide berth and clear the area as she walked through the garden, the Duchess only pausing as something caught her attention. Her head would turn as her gaze was fully turned upon the small furry lifeform that was dangling off a little plant. She would approach the little Nezumi as she raised a hand, an index finger stretched out before making a swift swiping down motion, causing the berry the little lifeform was hanging onto to break free and slowly float down to the ground.

[member="Sparrow"]​

 

[Darth Morrow]

Sparrow

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Royal Garden
Jaemus

The mouse clutched to the falling fruit tightly as this happened, expecting to go plummeting though rather, she fell light a feather. With a look of confusion the mouse turned while holding the berry to see the figure before her, her tail tucking between her legs as the berry hit the ground.

"I-I'm sorry, please don't hurt me..." The pip squeak voice spoke up. The terror coming from the mask, or the size of the woman was hard to tell, however Sparrow was small. Very very small. And she felt smaller than every before now finally coming face to face with one of the "too big".

On her two hind legs, the small creature backed up with her front paws up, leaving the small sewing needle strapped to her side. She couldn't afford to aggravate anything that could kill her with a smack. As she moved back the berry rolled towards her, a sign of her uncontrolled, subconscious use of her skills. Her eyes near bulging out of her head as it began to come towards her, a foot rolled it back towards the woman.

"I don't want to cause any trouble..."

[member="Duchess Roweena"]
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[Soundwave]

Duchess Roweena

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Royal Garden
Jaemus

The Duchess simply raised her hand back to its original position where it had been before she had used the Force to pluck the berry that the small Nezumi had tried to break off on her own. There was a lengthy period of silence as the Duchess looked down at the smaller life form, and indeed she was very, very tall considering everyone else around her stood much shorter than her noble self. The Duchess would watch as the berry was rolled along the ground before lifting it with her mind and moving it to the hands of the Nezumi.

As the Nezumi spoke, The Duchess simply stared down at the little mouse. What was possibly running through her mind? Was it such sheer terror that she was silent because there was a lifeform that was akin to a literal rodent in her garden? Or perhaps that there was something that would be classified as inferior in her eyes. What came from her lips was not anger or malice however but rather amusement. "How quaint."

A soft chuckle would escape her lips despite her near-expressionless mask giving no clue as to what she looked like, though the obvious tone of her voice would indicate that she was in a rather light-hearted mood. Perhaps it was the Nezumi's innate qualities that made her feel less inclined to stomp them into the ground like pathetic worms or the fact that the Nezumi was simply indulging her ego as a superior. "What is your name and business here little one?"

[member="Sparrow"]​

 

[Darth Morrow]

Sparrow

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Royal Garden
Jaemus

The mouse stared up at her in a slight bit of relief, holding the berry now carefully between her small paws. One thing she thought of, this berry would feed her for a week, two, she wasn't going to be murdered in cold blood.

Sparrow looked up to the woman, her ears still pulled down, her tail still between her legs, and in her quiet voice answered to the towering figure. "Yamabushi Sparrow." The mouse bowed slightly.

"I was... Hiding here for a few days before finding another place to stay... I'm so sorry, I can leave if you want, I wont bother you." Her little foot began to subconsciously tap on the ground silently, a nervous compulsion. The tail between her legs slowly wrapped around her right side. Sparrow's dark eyes observed every visible feature of the noble. Tall, very very tall, "too big." Thin, but strong. Everyone was scared too, it wasn't just herself, so that was something to note.

However the most scary factor to her was the mask, she couldn't gather any hint of feeling with a mask covering the "too big" ones face. Not that she was sure she could tell anyways, they always made weird expressions.

[member="Duchess Roweena"]