Two actor performances in the style of a scene out of a movie.
Judge Harold Killicker is a panda that dislikes 'whiners' - which he defines as anyone that claims entitlement or otherwise gives excuses for even inconsequential crimes. As bigoted and prejudicial as he is, he's also wealthy and influential and has found ways to stay on the bench for a long time. During an intense court case against a donkey defendant, the judge ignores exculpatory evidence, claiming the donkey is playing the 'species card' for sympathy. The innocent defendant loses the trial, and the judge goes home proud. But the next day, when he wakes up in the urban slums with everyone around him - donkeys all - calling him by a different name, he's shocked to see his reflection as a donkey himself! Will he be able to embrace open-mindedness, or is his unchanging mind doomed to live and die in this life of poverty and injustice?
One of the last cases of an average day of His Honor Harold Killicker, the panda has lost his patience after suffering through 'whiners' all day, and now has to hear the case of a kangaroo, brought to the court to answer for hopping in a no-hopping zone. A minor infraction, but the judge finds a way to make it a major one, and make an example of the latest 'whiner'.
It's supposed to be one of the easiest jobs imaginable for an introvert like Mohammed Wing. It takes years to fly a ship all the way out to Uranus and back, the only place in the solar system that goes as long without any sunlight for so long. It should be just ten years on a state-of-the-art ship playing videogames, eating good food, and letting the computers do the work. Unless a surprise happens, like an alien lifeform arrives.
Partially contractual obligations but mostly on rabbit android Warren's insistence, Mo is pressed into donning his spacesuit and exploring the recently discovered floating remains of an apparently alien starship. Even though scans indicate the ship is abandoned, the beaver is reluctant to be the first Earthling to set foot on an alien vessel. But even if he'd rather hide behind the planet's shadow and forget this discovery, he finds himself fulfilling his contract and exploring the ship.
She's been digging for a long time. When the wombat Digger gets lost in her tunnels, she ends up in a world far from home. With the guidance of an idol to the god Ganesh, she starts on a journey filled with peculiar characters, looking to find a way back.
Stumbling home after being wounded in a battle with thieves, Digger is found by the shadow creature she met a day earlier. Despite seeming young and innocent, the creature killed a bandit in a terrifying display of his strange powers, then ran and hid when the Vieled, a sect of monks, came to help Digger. Still not understanding what Shadow is, her explanations to the Veiled made them conclude he was a demon to be destroyed. But Shadow doesn't know what he is, either.
She's been digging for a long time. When the wombat Digger gets lost in her tunnels, she ends up in a world far from home. With the guidance of an idol to the god Ganesh, she starts on a journey filled with peculiar characters, looking to find a way back.
Earlier in the story, Digger met a newly born shadow creature still young and naïve to the world. After misunderstanding Digger's advice about the value of life, he's made trouble for the local hyena tribe. Grim Eyes, their top warrior, offended Digger last they spoke when she insulted her friend, but now the hyena reaches out to the wombat for help in freeing them from the strange shadow creature.
In a bizarre legal case, Enoch's minor infraction activated an undiscovered city law that required his castration. And with elections coming up, the incumbent city attorney sticks to his policy of unquestioned obedience to the law. But when a friendly doctor freezes the tissue and assures he can reattach it, Enoch begins a quest to find a loophole forcing the judicial system to give him back what's rightfully his--his balls.
As punishment for his jaywalking, as prescribed by city law, Enoch has been sent to hospital for mandatory castration. When he wakes up from the general anaesthetic, he meets the doctor who performed the procedure and learns that he may have a slim chance at getting back what's rightfully his.
Judge Harold Killicker is a panda that dislikes 'whiners' - which he defines as anyone that claims entitlement or otherwise gives excuses for even inconsequential crimes. As bigoted and prejudicial as he is, he's also wealthy and influential and has found ways to stay on the bench for a long time. During an intense court case against a donkey defendant, the judge ignores exculpatory evidence, claiming the donkey is playing the 'species card' for sympathy. The innocent defendant loses the trial, and the judge goes home proud. But the next day, when he wakes up in the urban slums with everyone around him - donkeys all - calling him by a different name, he's shocked to see his reflection as a donkey himself! Will he be able to embrace open-mindedness, or is his unchanging mind doomed to live and die in this life of poverty and injustice?
Harold Killicker went to bed in his estate, and woke up in a slum in the worst part of town. When his head hit the pillow, he was a panda and a judge. Now he's confused and scared that a female donkey is referring to him by a different name, believing he belongs in this hovel. His fear only escalates when he finally looks in a mirror, and discovers it isn't just his location that changed overnight.