Mouse college student Sadie Ambert walked to the pizzeria closest to campus, Pizza Happiness.

They didn't deliver, they weren't the best pizza in the city, and the mascot looked vaguely unhinged. But it was the perfect middle point of convenience and quality.

Pizza Happiness had another, lesser known quality as well. You could, at any time, announce during a boring study group 'I'll go get us pizza', go get pizza, and just never come back to the study group. Because it was boring. What was Sadie doing studying chemistry when she could be discovering chemistry with a guy.

She needed to find something interesting to get into, or vice versa.

So the mouse enacted her escape plan of announcing she'd go get pizza. She wasn't a complete dick so she told everyone they could pay her later. Once she had pizza and was off to find something interesting, she'd shoot a text message with some half-assed excuse.

She wouldn't have suspected she'd find her pizza, something interesting, and her half-assed excuse all in the same place.

Right outside the restaurant, right under the sign with the offensively smug tomato mascot, there was a shabby winged feline staring entranced through the window at the displayed pizza.

Sadie assumed she was entranced. The weirdo's eyes were completely covered by her hair. But a winged cat! Sadie had never heard of such a thing. That was... interesting, possibly.

"Hey, you never see pizza before?" Sadie chided, because she wasn't one not to chide if the opportunity leapt up at her.

"Pizza? Is that what that heavenly scent is?" asked the weirdo in a voice so soft Sadie had to strain to hear. "The thin remnants of my oracular talents directed me here and I became entranced by this novel foodstuff."

"Oh, that's the saddest thing I've heard today," Sadie said cheerfully. She pulled out her phone snapped a quick picture and then shot off a quick group text: "Won't make it back to study. Found a charity case. Girl never heard of pizza."

And a quick response from Sable who always seemed to respond first: " =( "

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The stranger was easily lured back to Sadie's dorm by a box of pizza.

One of the two of them was being insufficiently careful with strangers but it was probably Felicity as she introduced herself.

Felicity was hesitant to part with her torn jeans and hoodie but Sadie withheld the pizza until the sphinx shed her filthy outfit. Sadie threw them into the dorm's laundry machine. The clothes stank and Sadie didn't want that odor hanging around while she studied this oddity. But also, with Felicity down to her underwear and a tank top, it was easier to study this oddity.

The sphinx ravenously devoured most of the small pizza pie, Sadie satisfied with only two slices.

Between bites, Sadie pressed the sphinx for information about herself, about her poor, deprived life on a mountain, about her decision to explore life off the mountain, about being the actual legendary Oracle of the mountain!

So Sadie had the Oracle of the mountain in her dorm. She idly played with Felicity's wings. This 'Oracle visits the common folk' thing should be good for a couple days of amusement or her name wasn't Sadie Ambert.


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Felicity the Oracle, Sadie Ambert owned by me
Art by  foxboy83