<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Large trellises laid heavy with various blooming vines formed the privacy walls between the plots of the Yurei's elaborate garden space. Multi-colored roses bloomed among white jasmine and lilac wisteria, blanketing the area in a relaxing perfume. Koi trailed lazily through the open ponds and narrow channels that boasted their own flora of yellow, white and pink lotuses with large lily pads. Beds of multi-colored stones were raked into patterns designed to calm the mind. Large trees of varying kinds towered high over the walls casting their branches in every direction possible and providing shade to the warm summer's day. <br/>
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The sun had yet to reach its pentacle but the heat was already sending many in search of cooler places. Despite that birds sang and called upon one another as they fluttered to feeders and baths set up so visitors and patrons would view the exotic little beasts with ease. Mouse warblers they were commonly called by those from the unseen realm. <br/>
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They had feathers, and the general appearance of a bird including a beak and a love for seeds but they stood on four legs, with long slender tails that were only notable by the way it swayed back and forth when the creature was pleased with something. Mouse warblers had one other unique feature that granted them their names. Ears the shape of mouse ears were pinned to the side of their heads. Their songs were just as pleasing as watching them play in the basins of water that served as their baths. <br/>
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Tomoe reclined on the porch watching some of the tiny beasts fly back and forth over his head. Every now and then a brave one would land on his chest give trill of a chirp then fly off. The green and blue feathers adding the little one in avoiding him. Not that the mountain ogre had much concern with capturing it. It was peaceful. <br/>
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His short white hair fanned out on the wooden planks as he watched the birds with enchanting golden eyes framed in red markings that he had since reaching adulthood. Two smooth slender horns protruded from his temples. Many called him beautiful with his slender form and pale coloring. He was exotic even among his own kind who normally were reddish in completion. Letting his eyes drift closed he sighed relaxing a bit more.<br/>
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