A male and a female rabbitmorph hopped from the transformation gate. The male looked at the female. "Oh no, Chuck, you didn't."
"Uh, I just didn't want to be attracted to Terry. That would just be too weird."
"Too weird." Wally shook his head. "You have no idea."
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"So, Sam Husky, why on earth should I give you a leave in the middle of your training?" Zack began, addressing the diffident husky before him.
"Uh, it's about Goldie, sir."
"Figured as much. You want to go with her?"
"Yes, sir."
"Now, why is that, husky? Can't face sleeping alone for a few nights?"
"Sir, if she's a witness for the prosecution, the defense lawyers will try and impeach her testimony anyway they can. They'll drag out the lone wolf stuff, everything she did before she was Goldie, and throw it in her face on the stand. They'll bring up the transgender stuff to discredit her with anyone on the jury who doesn't like transgenders. My mom was a prosecutor, I know how this stuff works. She's going to need someone there. She doesn't have family or friends on the outside. If I'm not there, there won't be anybody there for her."
"And how were you planning to pay for your flight and housing when you're there?"
"Sir, I have some money saved! It should be enough."
"Granted." said Zack "And I'll try to find some money to help you out."
"Thank you, sir!"
"Dismissed."
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Naomi had formally resigned her position as leader of the husky pack during her brief return to Terra Firma, and Irene had done the same thing, in Harry's name. Zack was now the official, permanent leader of the pack, a position he had never anticipated or wanted. Administrative matters like Sam's leave, meetings with what was left of the management, and other bureaucratic responsibilities were taking up more and more of his time, at the expense of the fieldwork he loved. It was even affecting his relationship with the twins, which he was considering breaking off as not appropriate for a pack leader due to the appearance of favoritism. And what had happened to Harry was still eating at him.
So he smiled for the first time in a week when he saw Jessica Husky walk through the door.
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I like a challenge, Steve thought, but this is ridiculous. With the disappearance of the lawyers who had been part of the conspiracy, the skunkmorph was now the head of what was left of the legal staff. Fortunately, the panther lady was sympathetic enough to anthros to keep the criminal charges aimed at specific individuals rather than the park itself, but the civil suits were going to be a nightmare. All of the families of the new does were going to sue, and Steve didn't think arguing that the does had consented to be transformed by agreeing to the bet was going to fly when the horny nymphos who had formerly been (mostly jerkass, to be honest) male humans took the stand. Reverting them was out of the question while they were pregnant and not consenting (and all of them wanted to be mamas) even if they could find the original files.
And Susah, the bear who had been tortured by Max, was also filing suit for negligence. Steve had seen the records from when they had brought her in, and could imagine their effect on a jury. Looks like by the end of this, we might need a good bankruptcy lawyer, he thought.
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"So the harpy used to be Yeltis" said Tasha.
"Appears so" answered Johnson.
"Well, that's fucked. He's probably going to be even more of an airhead than the Minotaur, since he's spent more time as one of these things. And the idiot deleted the human file for himself, so we can't even revert him. I've got people going through the briefcases seeing if he saved it anywhere, but with the damage. . ." Tasha looked at the picture of her four kittens on the screen of her laptop. She was ready to go home, but the case wasn't.