Honza and Dash: In the City of the Big Castle

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Ms. Maggie, Honza’s next door neighbor, stood on one foot on top of a small kitchen stool just outside her door. It wasn’t much of a stool at all. It was just a small block of wood. However, to a Tower Mouse, a small block of wood can transform into nearly anything.  

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Honza’s ears perked up in surprise. “It’s okay if you want to take today off,” said Mr. Green, the grocery mouse. “But,” started Honza. “The big family meal is tomorrow. You said we’d need to work extra hard to scrounge enough food for it.”

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Winter in the City of the Big Castle is quite the challenge  for a Tower Mouse. The mice live off of food they find on the streets or in the trash bins. In the spring and summer, when thousands of people eat at street-side restaurants, scrounging is easy. 

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Honza is a very brave field mouse. Though he is not from the City of the Big Castle, like his best friend Dash, he has made his home in the village of the Tower mice. His curtains are open today. There must be adventure.

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Despite the fact that Honza lived in the City of the Big Castle for many months, he had never actually been to the castle itself. He looked out onto the Big Castle every morning as he sipped tea from his tiny cup, sitting in the window of his home. He looked out onto the Big Castle on the Hill. His view was the best in the city.

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In the City of the Big Castle, there are many different kinds of animals. There are your obvious city creatures - such as mice and pigeons. But there is also a whole host of various animal friends living in the City’s many parks and green spaces.

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And though it can’t be seen from the ground, if you look carefully above the 11th hour, there is a little window.  This is Honza’s window. His curtains are closed. Something is amiss. Flicker fluttered outside of Honza’s home, just as the sun came up. “What’s this?” he asked himself. Flicker lived alone and so enjoyed talking to himself almost as much as talking to someone else. Almost as much. “Honza should be up by now. Why are his curtains closed?”

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Despite being a mouse - and a capable scrounger at that - Honza still struggled with one of the most common places a city mouse finds food: the trash bin. He wasn’t a city mouse, at least not yet.

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Honza added a small bag of nuts to his pack, slung it over his shoulder and went to meet Dash at her house to leave for their hike. However, when he opened his front door, he discovered a large pool of water had collected on the floor. Next, he found the source of the water...

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A loud rumbling shook the entire mouse hole. Honza flew from his pin cushion bed and onto the floor. “What’s that?” he yelled out to no one in particular. And no one responded either. He wrapped his tail around the

bed post, then pulled himself up off the bare wooden floor and sat on the edge of the bed. He scanned the room for the source of the disruption. But there was no sound. He wiped the sleep from his eyes and looked again. No rumble.