LYSSARA
The rabbit arrived on a Tuesday. Nobody brought it. That was the specific quality of its arrival that the pack house spent three days discussing in the specific way pack houses discussed things that had no satisfying explanation, not with resolution but with the comfortable acceptance of something that had decided to happen and that the pack house had decided to accommodate.
It was simply there one morning in the palace garden.
It was small and grey. The specific grey of something that had been that color for its entire existence and that had no interest in being any other color. It sat in the precise center of the garden's stone path with the complete stillness of a creature that had assessed the available options and determined that this particular spot was correct and that th
