Violet looked up at the castle looming before her, its shadow darkening her brown fur and casting a chill over her. The cobbles beneath her paws were massive, and the furrows between each one felt more like canyons than cracks. Her entire family, all twelve of them, could live comfortably on just one cobblestone. “Watch out, wee one!” a human girl shouted as she dodged the fieldmouse. Violet squeaked and scrambled to the side of the walkway, clutching her satchel as she d