[h3][color=plum]Judy Hopps[/color][/h3]
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	Officer Judy Hopps was nothing if not punctual. On the dot, if not five minutes early, to every appointment. Today she was running a bit late; seventeen point five seconds, to be exact. Maybe if she hadn’t gotten stuck behind that family of sloths at the crosswalk she would have been on time.

	As she walked into the coffee shop she asked the waitress for her usual; blueberry smoothie and carrot cake.

	“Oh hey, right on time. You clockwork or something?” 

	Judy was about to reply with the honest truth, that she was at that time eighteen seconds behind schedule, but shook the thought out of her head. No sense giving her partner one more thing to good-naturedly needle her with.

	“Yes I am, as a matter of fact, and you…” she sniffed the air around Nick. “…are absolutely addicted to chocolate-cherry-sprinkle hot chocolate. Why couldn’t we just have had donuts and coffee at headquarters?”

	Despite her words (after all, she had already ordered her carrot cake and smoothie and did intend to enjoy it) she plopped down on the booth across from Nick. She pulled the file out from under his paws and rotated it, turning it towards herself. She recoiled from the picture of the hawk and slapped the folder shut, waiting until the waitress brought her snack before she dared open it again. This time, expecting the picture, she opened the folder slowly, her nose twitching as her stomach knotted in fear. It took her a moment to master her sudden urge to flee, but she managed to overcome it enough to read through the six pages. Precious little information, but then, they’d solved a case with far less.

	The picture of the snake also set her stomach to rolling. There was something odd about these creatures… They looked right at the security cameras like they didn’t care about getting caught. It hadn’t been too long ago that they’d been exiled from the city, after all… All of those venomous police officers, the eagle who’d built a palace in the sky and intended to rule over the whole city from it…

	The bunny shuddered, her ears trembling.

	“Well, what do you think, partner? Where should we start?” She sipped at her smoothie and nibbled on a bite of her carrot cake to try and calm the trembles in her ears. “I say we start with the snake. He’s probably easier to track and could cause more problems because he’d just have to bite, not actually drag all his… prey away.”