As you go to stand at the base of this flowering pear tree, you can’t help but notice the tree’s peculiar shape compared to the others within the clan’s forest grove. Most of the surrounding trees look wild; either left to grow as they please or further decorated with moss or mushrooms. However, the tree before you is kept in a perfect cloud-like shape. Despite the clearly intentional shape, the trimming looks far from choppy or abrupt; instead, the edges are very natural. Whoever tends to this tree takes great care in encouraging it to grow this way, rather than simply cutting it into the desired shape.

Before you’re left wondering who’s work this is, a light gust of wind blows past you and through the tree, causing some of the green-white petals to fall gently around you. With it carries what appears to be an Imperial, who lands gracefully on the forest floor beside the tree’s trunk.

“Greetings,” she addresses you with a soft smile as she takes a few steps closer. “It’s not often that strangers visit my tree. My name is Jade.” Her long tail curls up toward her whiskers as she sits down. “I must ask: are you here to admire my handiwork? Or perhaps to ask about the supplies my clan needs?”