Namine meets Pixie and Dixie

In the glade of the forest, Namine made her way into the center of the woods, calling out his name twice.

"Mister Rabbit! Oh, Mister Rabbit!"

However, Br'er Rabbit was gone again. There was still no luck for the Intergalactic girl to catch the brown rabbit.

"Oh, dear. I’m sure he came this way,” she said, looking around with her fists on her hips. "Do you suppose he could be hiding somewhere?"

Little did she know that there were two mice peeking from behind the bushes.

One mouse has gray fur, wearing a blue bow tie. His name was Pixie.

The other mouse also has gray fur, but he is wearing a red vest. His name was Dixie, Pixie's twin brother.

"Where could he possibly be hiding?" Namine wondered, as she looked behind a tree. The two mice moved between the bushes and the tree, yet they were hidden within a shadow. As Namine turned toward an open log, the mice moved next to the tree and they stood right behind her.

"Not here…," Namine said, before kneeling down to the log’s level. "I wonder..."

As she crawled into the log, the mice looked at each other and skipped on top of the log in unison, before stopping in front of the other side of the log. Once Namine came out from the log, she stood still for a moment and brushed her dress with her hands.

"I suppose he—" she started to say, before she jolted and gasped in shock when she turned and glanced at the two mice.

"Why… what peculiar mice."

Just then, she spotted two blue ribbons with their names embroidered in yellow and read them one at a time: "Pixie...And Dixie!"

Namine placed a finger on the bow tie-wearing mouse's nose, and a low honking sound came out of his mouth, surprising her.

"If you think we're made of wax, you ought to pay to see us, you know." Pixie said, and he jabbed his brother with his left elbow. As a result, a high honking noise emitted from Dixie's mouth.

"If you think we've come to life, you ought to say something to us." Dixie added, before jabbing his brother with his right elbow. The same low honk came out of Pixie's mouth, and Pixie bounced into Dixie, the same high honk emitting from him. The mice then hopped on the log and made the same honking noises by jabbing one another with their small feet, slim hips, torsos, and backs before landing on the grassy terrain.

"That's logic!" the mice said in unison, holding their left index fingers up.

"Well," Namine said with a short chuckle, as she gave them a short curtsey. "It's been nice meeting you boys. Goodbye."

Just as she started walking away, however, the mice darted and stood right in her way.

"You’re beginning backwards." Pixie said to her.

"Aye, the first thing to say actually is,” Dixie added, before the mice broke out in song again and took Namine's hands. They spun her around in a circle, like a game of ring-around-the-Rosie, before they shook her hands rapidly and released her, causing her to fall on the ground.

Pixie and Dixie: *How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*Shake hands*
*How do you do*
*And shake hands*
*State your name and business*

"That's manners!" the mice said to her, holding up their opposite index fingers in front of her.

The two front bangs of Namine's hair were covering her face, so Namine flipped them out of the way to give herself a better view.

"Really?" Namine asked them, and she then stood up on her feet. "Well, my name is Namine, and I’m following a brown rabbit, so—"

As she turned to leave, the mice suddenly appeared in front of her again, stopping her in her tracks.

"You can't leave yet." Pixie said to her, waving his hands in front of her.

"No, the visit has just started." Dixie added.

"I'm very sorry, but—" Namine said as she continued walking, with the mice still in her way.

"Would you like to play hide and seek?" Pixie asked, as multiple clones of the mice popped up from the trees and a single bush. The clones disappeared, and the mice then fused themselves into one body, yet their legs and arms were still with each of the two mice.

"Button! Button! Who's got the button?" Pixie said.

"No thank you." Namine replied to them politely, only to see the mice in front of her again in fighting stances.

"If you stay a little longer, we’ll have a battle." Dixie said, and the mice began bopping one another in a honking, comical fight.

"That’s very kind of you, but I must get going." Namine said, as she gently pushed them out of the way. The mice then jolted in front of her and stood next to two trees that served as an archway in the woods.

"Why?" they asked her in unison.

"Because I’m following a brown rabbit." Namine answered them, only to be blocked by them again.

"Why?" the mice asked her once more.

"Well, I'm curious to know where he's going." Namine replied to them, before finally starting to leave again.

"Ohhh, she's curious." Dixie whispered, as he and Pixie had inquisitive expressions on their faces.

"The oysters were curious, too, weren’t they?” Dixie whispered to him, causing Namine to stop and turn around to listen to what the mice were saying.

"Aye. And you remember what happened to them."

The mice huddled with one another and started crying before Namine came walking straight back to them.

"Poor things!" they said in sad voices.

"Well, what did happen to the oysters?" Namine asked them. Pixie and Dixie began marching towards the log.

"Oh, you wouldn’t be interested in hearing about it." Pixie said to her.

"Oh, but I am." Namine replied to them, as she followed them and got in front of them.

"Ohhh, no. You’re in much too much of a hurry." said Dixie.

Namine was still in front of them as she was walking in reverse towards the log, and said, "Well, perhaps I could spare a little time."

"You could?" the mice said, smiles of delight forming on their faces. "Well!"

With that said, Pixie and Dixie placed Namine on the log before making back-flips and landed in front of the bushes and trees.