Nevertheless, Yuumi and Book were both determined to find their master and bring her home. While Yuumi would sometimes break from their search to follow the scent of a mouse or restore her strength with a quick catnap, Book was frustratingly cautious, grumpy over lost time and nervous about threats they might encounter. Yuumi sought Norra’s scent on the wind, to little avail. Yuumi and Book began their arduous journey, visiting dangerous and unfamiliar lands. She became Book’s unlikely Keeper, vowing to protect it with the courage of a lion-if it fell into the wrong hands, the doorways to Bandle City could open to all kinds of unsavory and ravenous intruders. Yuumi and Book would have to explore every possible threshold. The page Norra had used to travel was lost, but Book might be able to get them close. Each of its thousand pages led to a different location along the lines of magic that crossed the material and spirit realms. Yuumi knew she had to rescue Norra, and turned to Book for help. Yuumi learned that Norra had gone somewhere so perilous, she had destroyed the portal as she traveled. Despite not having a voice, Book made itself loud and clear. In response, the book wiggled, and Yuumi was surprised to learn she could understand thoughts amidst the rustling paper. Unable to read its title, Yuumi cried out to it in distress, calling it, simply, “Book”. She saw the book on her master’s desk and flipped through its pages in a panic, noticing that some were torn out entirely. Yuumi never paid the book much attention until one starless night, when she returned home from luring moon-moths with her shinylight to find Norra missing. When Norra opened a portal, she and Yuumi would gleefully dive into its glowing paper and arrive at their destination, joined a moment later by the book. But Yuumi’s yordle, Norra, possessed the powerful Book of Thresholds, which allowed her to instantly travel anywhere depicted in its pages. Yuumi watched as other yordles waited for days for the eastern star to align with a particular stone archway, or waded impatiently between marsh-lilies, seeking a silver blossom blooming from the mud-only then would a pathway appear. The doorways between realms are finicky and seldom open, even to creatures as dexterous as cats. Nevertheless, Yuumi would use her magic to protect Norra from harm, and would warm her feet when they returned home. She examined each artifact with deep reverence, though Yuumi never understood their purpose.
Norra spent her time collecting strange objects like broken cups, shards of colored glass, and fabric with funny stitching. Whenever adventure sparked her interest, she joined Norra on explorations across the material and spirit realms. In a cottage nestled between the verdant trees lived a yordle enchantress named Norra, with her cat, Yuumi.īorn with magical powers of protection, Yuumi enjoyed a life of leisure for many years, pouncing on sunbeams and napping beneath the mouse-trees. In the outlands of Bandle City, there was once a wooded glen where the moon-moths glimmered and the riverbanks overflowed with rainbowfish. In the end, however, she always returns to her quest to find her friend. While Book strives to keep her on task, Yuumi is often drawn to worldly comforts, such as naps and fish. Yearning for affection, Yuumi seeks friendly companions to partner with on her journey, protecting them with luminous shields and fierce resolve. When her master mysteriously disappeared, Yuumi became the Keeper of Norra’s sentient Book of Thresholds, traveling through portals in its pages to search for her. A magical cat from Bandle City, Yuumi was once the familiar of a yordle enchantress, Norra.
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