Miranda

**Residence** | Southeast France

**Miranda** was a suspect in the murder investigation of Cyrus Robbie in Murder At The Lake House (Case #25 of Cambright) and Austyn Tucker in You May Kill The Groom (Case #30 of Cambright), before killing Simonetta in Brown Thumb (Case #33 of Cambright). She later became the victim in Pride or Envy? (Case #7 of Graecita).

## Profile

Miranda is a dryad who like to disguise under the identity of a 24-year-old forest dweller when around humans. She has black hair, green eyes, freckles and in her dryad form, her skin appears with a green tint, her hair goes ombre green, green eyeshadow and glitter forms around her eyes, her mouth is covered with green lipstick and yellow veins surround her face. She is seen wearing a dress made from leaves, grass and vines with flowers decorating it and a flower crown on the top of her head.

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## Murder details

When the crew got out of the ship, they were immediately taken aback by the breathtaking view of the French countryside and the taste of fresh air. However, they also questioned whether Artemis and her hunters were even here as there were no signs of another ship nearby, but Zachary reminded them that gods have different forms of transport and if Artemis’ hunters were here, they probably arrived through a flying chariot. He then told everyone that he and Mia will see if the forest dwellers know where they could find Artemis and they should stay in the ship and keep a low profile as nymphs tend to become nervous when a lot of humans are around. After being done speaking with their crewmates, Zachary and Mia entered the forest to look for any woodland creatures they could speak to and from a distance they spotted a dryad laying on the roots of a tree. The duo decided to approach her, but the poor nymph was dead and had a wound to her heart. Zachary gasped as he recognized the dryad as an old friend of his, **Miranda**.

## Killer and motives

Zachary and Mia discovered that Narkissus was Miranda’s killer. Zachary and Mia went to confront Narkissus, who was still admiring himself on the lake’s reflection and after Zachary pulled him away from it, he revealed that they know he killed Miranda. Narkissus, of course, tried to deny the murder but after the duo pressed him with evidence, he snapped and admitted to the murder, saying that he was saving himself from Miranda’s allure. Narkissus explained that he never felt any love for any entity other than himself but that was until he met Miranda. He was busy admiring his reflection, as usual and then he noticed Miranda sitting next to Ekho, dipping her feet on the lake and it was love in first site. Miranda was everything he dreamed of a woman: her green eyes, her raven hair and she looked like the spitting image of himself. For the first time since Nemesis cursed him, he took his eyes away from his reflection and they were all on Miranda and he knew that she was meant to be his, she’s the one who will save him from the curse Ameinus had Nemesis put on him. He tried to talk to her, but wherever he went, all the dryads would follow him and try to gain his attention and when he got the opportunity to be alone with her, he confessed his feelings to her but Miranda laughed on his face and told him that she will never be with a narcissistic man like himself and she would rather sleep with one of the fat satyrs at council than give him a kiss. This broke his heart and as he was walking back to the lake, he spotted a sword underneath a shadow which he recognized as the one he gave Ameinus to kill himself. Narkissus looked at his reflection on the blade, hoping to fall in love with himself again but failed, Miranda had put him on a spell and he could not break free. This is when he realized what he must do and went to confront Miranda, demanded that she fall in love with him, forcing her into a kiss. But Miranda fought back and seeing that he can’t win Miranda’s heart, he stabbed her there to free himself from her “sorcery”. Narkissus was brought before the woodland entities for judgement, where the satyrs demanded his death but the nymphs, who were still hypnotized by his beauty begged Rubarae to let him live. Rubarae didn’t know what to do since the votes seem to be 50/50, so she turned to Ekho, had not given her vote yet and asked her if she believes Narkissus should be punished or not. Ekho, although being in love with Narkissus, did not approve on what he did to her friend, so she gave a nod as approval for his death. Taking Ekho’s vote as the decider, Rubarae came face to face with Narkissus and exhales fire on him, burning him to his death.

## Events Of Criminal Case

### Murder At The Lake House

Miranda was found innocent of Cyrus Robbie’s murder after Kaleb and Jennifer learned that Alex Stamos was the one who killed her.

After Yvette had fainted, Kaleb carried her to the lake house where he allowed Alex to look at her. After Alex finished, Kaleb and Jennifer asked him immediately if Yvette would wake up, where Alex told them that she can, however this isn’t the problem and it would be better if she had been asleep when during the whole ordeal. Kaleb stared at him and asked him what he is talking about, where Alex sighed and told him that Yvette is pregnant, for nine months already and that her water had broke. Kaleb was shocked as Yvette didn’t look pregnant, however Jennifer wasn’t as surprised, swearing that she knew something was different about her than the last time they saw her, complimenting her choice of outfits as it simply made it look like she gained weight. Kaleb asked Alex what they could do since the nearest hospital is kilometers away and they had come here by bus which wouldn’t pass by them until after an hour or so. Alex calmed him down and told him that they don’t need any doctors and that nymphs can do the work as they’re used to deliver each others babies, deciding to go speak with Miranda who was playing dress up with Felicia. When she spotted the trio, she ran to them and shyly asked if they wanted to see her, where they led her to Yvette. Miranda freaked out when she saw Yvette’s conditions and told the others if they don’t bring someone to Yvette, she may die from childbirth. This made Kaleb shiver even more, but Jennifer and Felicia held his arms telling him that everything will be fine and that he’ll have Yvette back in perfect condition. They then turned to Miranda and asked her if she can help, but she shook her head and told them that she has no midwifing experience, however, she knows a couple of nymphs who could and that they need to carry Yvette deep into the forest...

### Brown Thumb

In the end, after collecting enough evidence, Alex and Kaleb went to arrest **Miranda** for the murder.

Miranda was shocked when facing the accusations and kept denying every piece of evidence Alex and Kaleb presented to her until they accused her of trying to pin it on Felicia where she gasped and told them that she wanted to pin it on the person who was taking care of the greenhouse and had no idea that Felicia was that person and only went for it because she saw the greenhouse door open at night and decided to take that as a sign to strike. Confusingly, Alex asked Miranda what pushed her into killing Simonetta as it didn’t seem like her to commit such a thing in which Miranda said in an angry tone that she killed Simonetta because she was nothing but a “traitorous scrub”. She then crushed her arms and asked Alex why does he think that Ursule managed to capture Simonetta so easily when she’s surrounded by forest creatures everyday and when he failed to answer, she told him that it was because she gave herself up. Miranda then continued by telling that Ursule expected the forest dwellers to attend Austyn & Elli’s wedding because shortly after Simonetta allowed them to do so, she rushed to Rolland, asked him to take her to his mistress where she spilled everything out, hoping that if Ursule captured all the creatures she needs, she’d offer her freedom, but obviously that didn’t go as plan and Simonetta got locked up either way. Curious, Alex asked her how she knows all this, in which Miranda crossed her arms again and told him that she eavesdropped on Rolland and Simonetta arguing and learned everything. Both Alex and Kaleb sighed and told Miranda that unfortunately they have no choice but to bring her to Rolland for judgement. Rolland was shocked to see that Miranda was the one who killed Simonetta as he knew her as a sweet girl and asked why would she kill her own leader, where she angrily replied by saying that she will not call a traitor her leader and if she had the opportunity, she’d have done the same thing to him. Rolland grinned and told Miranda that he admires her bravery to say such things to her superior, but unfortunately he has no choice but to punish her for breaking in the greenhouse and killing another dryad. And for this, he will send orders to Felicia to lock up her plant in a dark cupboard with a cup of CO2 absorbing substance so she can slowly die from de-starching.

## Case appearances

### Season 2: Cambright

* Murder At The Lake House (Case #25 of Cambright).

* Timber! (Case #26 of Cambright)

* Still As Stone (Case #27 of Cambright)

* Roll Over Me (Case #28 of Cambright)

* You May Kill The Groom (Case #30 of Cambright)

* Brown Thumb (Case #33 of Cambright)

* Dry Out (Case #35 of Cambright)

* No Power Over Me (Case #36 of Cambright)

### Season 4: Graecita

* The Drowning Of Victoria Lopez (Case #0 of Graecita)

* Pride or Envy? (Case #7 of Graecita)

## Gallery

Miranda disguising as a humanNarkissus, Miranda’s late killer