Act One: Resentment.
Adriana walked down the drenched and soaked sidewalk as the wind would blow around her pink dress, her furry grey face, and her dark purple cape. While the rain had indeed cleared up, things were still far too wet for her liking. However, Adriana strode through the coldness and rain in her red high heels as the anthro vixen would be given stares by crowds of onlookers. She knew what it was all about, they all knew her.
As Adriana would move by the others in trench coats and raincoats, she would be given those nasty looks she always hated. She could almost sense the psychic animosity emanating from them. No, she wasn't a big war hero like her younger siblings. She was the coward, the outcast, and the leftovers of her brother's reign. Every so often they would even spit at her general direction and she would hear words like "loser" and fake magician" from from them. Still, Adriana would continue to press onwards past the crowd.
Her father had promised everything to her, that Siag would become a utopia. That she would one day be leader of the entire city, and that people would eventually accept her differences. All these hopes were shattered however after her father fell in battle and the Grey Party chose her brother to be the leader of the Order. Why? Simple, she was weak.
On Moebius, you are nobody if you're not strong and prove your worth. Yet here she was, the little fox woman in a pink dress with the cape. Everyone laughed when she would claim she is a powerful sorceress, many claim that she was just roleplaying and acting out for attention while living in her brother and sister's accomplishments. Ivan may have brought Moebius prosperity, but people there still haven't changed one bit.
She would continue to press pass the crowds carrying her purse, you'd think her brother would have been nice to leave her an VIP escort. But that wasn't how her brother thought. No, Grief claimed to be so much for equality, that she had to suffer just like anyone else from muggers and harassment it seems.
Adriana moved down pathway towards her apartment, yes an apartment for a woman of her lineage. She would see off in the distance the park that her father had made. It was designed shortly after Siag was built as sort of a memorial and also an attempt to soothe the anxiety of the populace of Siag. She remembered as a little girl her father, her sister, and of course...him going there. As she glanced at the tree, she recalled her brother stuck her in there. Of course Scylla tattled on her behalf, but Grief got away with that too.
Scylla moved out of Siag, but Adriana had remained with the great grey walls of the city. Siag was the only city she had ever lived in, before that it was that accursed dark forest hiding out with her family from Scourge. To be honest, Adriana envied her sister Scylla as well. Not just because she was the big and strong war hero of the Order, but also because things were just so simple for her not remembering their past. Scylla barely remembered their mother, and barely remembered the dark reign of King Scourge.
She sighed as Adriana would begin to take a detour towards the park. She liked isolation and thought even in this murky and dreary grey clouded weather, some solace would do her mind some good. As she went there, the vixen woman gaze her green eyes upon a new golden statue...of her brother. Of course it would be about him, a monument with the oh so important Great Baron of the Order, looking down at all these plebeians, especially her. Curiosity suddenly got the better of Adriana, she was used to big monuments of her brother's ego. But she wanted to see what was on the plaque. As she would enter the park, she would see some crows perched upon the trees.
Loneliness had consumed poor Adriana as she wanted a friend to converse with. So suddenly, Adriana would begin to put out her hand with her prized ruby red ring and one of her golden bracelets and stare at one of the crows. With a simple spoken order to the bird, which made onlookers make her think she was deranged, she commanded the pheasant to come to her. Almost instantly, the crow would caw and fly down from the nearby tree as it perched upon her hand. To this she would smile and begin to pet it.
This would cause some attention, as the vixen in pink now was conversing with a crow on her hand. Many already considered Adriana maddened, but this would make them think she was delirious. Adriana would remain stoic and try her best to ignore them and simply pet the crow as she would go up to a nearby park bench and proceed to sit down on it, even if it were wet.
"You know, Mr.Crow. You and I are not so different. We're both feeble and yet seen as bad omens. You have a flock, and I have a family. Yet you are not leader of the flock, and neither am I the leader of my own family" she would say to the bird as it would caw.
"Alright, I've think I kept you away from your flock long enough, go now" she said as Adriana pointed towards the tree and suddenly the crow would fly back towards it.
Adriana would then proceed to stand upright as she would walk over towards the monument. She would walk up to it and lean down to read the inscriptions. But after a moment or two she would she hadn't as she clinched her fist.
"Oh this is bullshit!" she would blurt out loud having a bit of a flareup.
"Baron Grief Bradanska, Hero of the Order after victory in Mercia. What victory? We took how many casualties that day? Grief could sneeze and the media would paint it as heroic!" she said to herself out loud.
"Grief, Grief, GRIEF! GRIEF! it's always about him!" Adriana would let out as she would then begin to lift up her ruby red heeled slipper to stomp on the plaque.
"This is what I think of your big head, little brother!" she then proceeds to stomp on the plaque until it caught the eyes of the Civil Authorities.
"Hey hey! Cut that out lady!" one of them demanded.
It seems that Adriana had suddenly attracted the wrong type of attention as two people came over, the first was a simple canine officer man and the second was a female officer squirrel with long dark red hair in a Order Civil Authorities dress uniform.
"Don't lady me! Do you know who I am?" Adriana would say as she would point at the man to put him in a trance.
"No..I don't know who you are" he said while dazed and in said trance.
"Of course you don't" she said as she sighed.
"I don't care if you're the inventor of toothpaste, you need to come with us!" the second officer woman replied.
At this point Adriana knew this situation was bad, she could put one of them in a trance but two people at once was just too much of a mental strain. She thought to just make a run for it, but she knew they would find her. The penalty for vandalism was high in Siag, even for her. Of course she wouldn't ever live it down if she just came clean with the officers of Grief being her brother.
"I'm sorry officer, I don't know what came over me." she simply replied in a monotone.
"Yeah, well I know what is about to come over you" the female officer said as she walked up and shoved Adriana right onto the ground, right onto her butt.
"Ugh! You brute!" Adriana said as her dress covered hindquarters collided with the cement around the monument.
"Shut up you crazy bitch, I know who you are. Going around claiming you're some sort of fairy godmother and crap. If you weren't related to Grief I'd have your pretty little ass locked up. I'm sure your brother won't mind you having a little fall" she said as she laughed.
On the ground, Adriana gritted her teeth. While she could just order the first guard to attack the second, she knew she couldn't take on them if either of them called for backup. Plus, if she resisted anymore, it would mean Grief would hear about it and he wouldn't be as merciful as the guard who just shoved her down.
"You gonna use your magic to get yourself up or are we done here?" the officer woman asked.
"No...I'm done...sorry for my anger" she said, trying to contain herself.
"Good, well then pick up your shit and see yourself out of this park, baroness..."
"Si si, va bene" she simply replied.
As Adriana would slowly stood up the trance from the first guard would stop. They both looked at each other and were confused what was going on before the second lead the first out of the park. Adriana had to pick up her belongings as it began to rain once more and thunder would make her ears twitch.
"An omen" she muttered to herself as she began to be drenched with rain.
"I guess I need to get home before I get into more trouble" she muttered to herself as she would begin to slightly cry and head towards her apartment's location.
