Nineteen twenty-six, Prohibition in American was rolling along like a well greased steam shovel on Bradford Street with shattered brakes and no driver. In Chicago a plump, middle aged mouse around thirty years old known only as Madam Bethany (those who called her Beth ended up in the lake, even the last Police Chief) was watching as the latest 'insurance agents' were trussed up in heavy bags soon to be filled with wet concrete and dumped into Lake Michigan that night, next to the current DA's oldest son. She had her own 'insurance', a small group of Chinese immigrants who were very good and silent removal of infestations.

Two of those Chinese, both female, slept with her every night no matter where she was or what she was doing. Supposedly they were bodyguards, well they did guard her body. Rather well she thought and their pay was American Citizenship along with more money a week than they had made in a year while living in China.

Bethany smiled as one of her personal bodyguards lifted two filled bags weighing nearly four hundred pounds total, a really cute little pygmy dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus) who looked like she would break in half if she simply lifted a cinder block. Lefty Papa Bear was going to find himself missing seven men at tonight's dinner, if he sent more he would find out exactly what had happened to them as had a couple of other mob bosses. Slowly the mob in Chicago was learning to leave the 'little dive' across from the The Uptown Broadway Building alone, they knew it was profitable, they knew it catered to every vice known to mouse from toe sucking to slavery and they were beginning to understand exactly why the current Police Chief refused to even attempt to raid the place. Even the Mayor refused to mention the place anymore.

Madam Bethany though really didn't care what went on outside of her territory, she was aware of the Broadway Building, they didn't mess with her and she didn't mess with them. Occasionally they worked together, a rather nosy reporter simply vanished while at the neighborhood bar, a high society snooty woman vanished, to be found in Nevada dancing nude at some seedy gambling venue, her eyes glassy and no longer aware of her own name. It worked out, they were at peace, profits were really climbing.


Madam Bethany drawn and colored by OmzikO
Character, concept and backstory © Mr. David R. Dorrycott