Great Artists Come From Anywhere
Chapter 1
"...And so it goes to say that I must speak my mind. Your choice isn't of a surprise to me, but I do feel that you are making a mistake, my Faye. Stay with us, please don't make the same mistake your mother did. I couldn't bear to lose you too."
These words rang inside the young female rat's mind as Faye slowly crawled along the sidewalks through the nights of Paris. Where she was going was of question even to her. But she needed to get away, far away, anywhere.
"I'm not making a mistake, father! This is what I want. Mother made her own choices and they have nothing to do with mine. Why can't you just accept the fact that I don't belong here? I won't live up to these standards. I'm not a pet, and I'm not going to be kept inside a cage all my life and be controlled by some prissy, spoiled human!"
That argument that she had with her father the day before clouded her mind like a dark, thick fog on a cold winter day. She had her chance to run away, and took it. But everything she tried to leave behind, everything she hated, came with her. It was all trapped inside a memory of hate and disapointment. She couldn't forget, no matter how much she wanted to.
"Ugh! I will not have a rat in front of my shop!" Faye heard a voice shout as she felt herself being sharply pushed off the sidewalk by a shopkeeper and his broom. She landed with a thud in the middle of the busy street with cars whizzing over her. She quickly ran for cover to a nearby sewer drain. Faye collapsed on the cold ground in pain and exhaustion from her long journey. She shut her eyes and fell into a peaceful, deep sleep.
A few moments later, a rather large brown rat came crawiling through the sewers. He noticed the blonde rat lying on the cold hard ground, she looked hurt.
"Oh no! I better go get dad!" he quickly turned around and headed for the large colony that was hidden deep inside the sewers of Paris.
"I was heading out to find Remy, but then I saw her lying there and I went back to get you," Emile explained to his father Django, the leader of their clan.
"Git, help her back to the colony and we'll get her some food and a place to sleep," Django ordered Git, the largest, toughest rat of the clan, and a former lab rat. Git picked up the still sleeping Faye and followed Django back into the sewers as Emile headed out of the drain to find his older brother Remy.