Clarice/History

"Why is it, every time something terrible happens, everyone tells you the worst thing that ever happened to them, as though that makes it easier?"

Clarice emerged from the winter landscape one sunny spring morning just north of New York City about eight years ago. They said that she was soft in the head, couldn't read or write, but the Lost of the freehold there helped her along. Then she went nuts -- some say she went loyal -- and disappeared into the woods again. People from that area might remember the lonely, quiet mouse in the corner that never said much.

That same name popped up in Maine, around Dunlin's Reach. There, the Mouse emerged in service of the Winter Court. They say she kept mostly to herself, keeping counsel with only the Winter Queen. Then she went nuts -- some say that the mafia killed her lover -- and disappeared into the woods once more. People from that area might remember the Mouse that became the Captain of the Dragon Guard, keeping the Freehold safe and prepared.

That was the last anyone's seen or heard of Clarice Hudson. That was almost two years ago.

And now, she's been seen in Fort Brunsett.