Nozomi

Nozomi was an intelligent nezumi. She and two other pups were orphaned while they were on some abandoned farmland. A magistrate who was seeking Scorpion ronin stumbled upon the three infants. The magistrate attacked them with his yari, seeing them only as vermin. He was beheaded by his own yoriki, a ronin member of the Sword of Yotsu who cared for the helpless. The ronin took her and escaped. A bounty was placed over the head of the ronin, who named her Nozomi, and she in turn called him A'op'chtch-tchr, "father's stick". Way of the Ratling, p. 119
Category:Nezumi