[Mineal Shade]

The little ball of cloth topped with a hat stood up when he noticed someone had stopped and was staring at him. Mineal stood up and turned to face the human. From afar it looked like an odd showdown of sorts as the two stood apart facing each other. Mineal looked at the human from beneath the low brim of his conical hat. Garbed in tan and creme colored poncho he stared back at the human, pink nose at the end of his tan muzzle twitching slightly. Perhaps the man had come to pray to the bubbling mound of earth like the others but had been distracted by his presence. It was not everyday one found a rodenti standing around in the middle of a village square. Xenophobic by nature most rodenti were at home more in their underground burrows among their own kind than out walking about all of Telath.

Certainly being gawked at was not a natural phenomenon but sadly Mineal was becoming used to it. He had gotten the same looks of interest or disgust everywhere he traveled. It seemed many people in the western part of the empire were not used to seeing rodenti in any form. Still he did not say anything but with a plain expression stared back at the man.