RAT RACE: A TRILOGY OF TROUBLE

By Dawn G. Griffiths

Introduction: A Word About Aurora

Hi. Welcome to the new "NIMH" series "Rat Race". I’m Aurora — and I’ll be your guide thru’ this Introduction. Like so many other authors have done, my creator has written herself into this series — and I’m the result.

I can’t tell you too much about myself right now. That would just spoil

some pretty fine surprizes that Ms. Griffiths is saving for later.

But I can tell you, I’m going to be a regular member of the cast — in fact, to make certain aspects and elements of my story more sensible, Ms. Griffiths had to do a retelling of certain key scenes from "NIMH". If you’d like to see these, let me know — and I’ll pass on your resquest. Eventually, you’ll get to see these scenes anyway, but let’s get the series’s main story-line established first, okay?

This first set of episodes is under the working title of "A Triology of Trouble". And, believe me, the story is named as such for a very good reason. I don’t want to give away too much, let’s just say that sometimes, old troubles can come back to haunt you, which becomes really bad news for my good friend, the now Chief-Aministrator of the Rats New Valley colony — Justin Wilson.

Incidently, we don’t have a title for this first part of the story, tho’ in the end, all the episodes which comprise "Triology" will probably be divided up differently. Feel free to send in your suggestions. In fact, we encourage you (my readers) to interact with the writing of this series. Help Ms. Griffiths to the stories clear and to the point … and the details (story and illustrational) straight. Let’s all work on making it the best series ever! If you have any suggestions, comments, etc., let me know at kbruch@earthlink.net.

Also, there will eventually be images uploaded for your viewing enjoyment, but Ms. Griffiths has to prepare them first. In the meantime, however, here is an image of myself.

Author’s Note: Believe it or not, this is not some of my best work, but I don’t have any really recent images of my Aurora. This was done with Windows 3.1 PaintBrush — and now, I use Paint Shop Pro, the best paint program on the market now, I think. Plus, I’ve been practicing a lot.