Without taking her eyes off of the woman, Parsee reaches out and snatches the scroll right from the cat's mouth. The animal leaps away and disappears into a bush as she unfurls the slightly-torn letter and begins reading it, her gaze flitting back and forth across the words over and over again. Her grip on the paper tightens each time she reads them, until finally she throws it down.

"One of who? Queen of hearts? Hah!" A short, mirthless laugh. "What a joke..."