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"My Diary, by Frederick Usiku Kruger, Lieutenant of the Rackenroon Hyena Brigade" "While I must spend my days stamping down my emotions, I find that I must have a place to give free rein to the contents of my heart and soul...and so I begin this Diary, to allow myself a vent, a check-valve as it were, lest I go mad with the effort of bottling up my true feelings..." "My name is Frederick Kruger. I am a spotted hyena. After the fashion of my species, I was given an African name, Yeye Ambaye Mpasuo Kooni Katika Usiku, which means "He Who Slits Throats In The Night." I much prefer my Westernized name, as it means "peaceful ruler" and was given

"Technically, there are no 'civilian' spotted hyenas--they're all trained to fight, and they enjoy doing so. But there's a caste distinction between those that are in the Brigade, and those who are not. And there's a caste distinction between the males and the females, officers and enlisteds, the various grades of officers, and, ultimately, the high-caste members of the Royal family. And no one forgets their place in this system...or allows anyone else to forget it, either. "The officer warriors comprise the highest caste of the hyenas' society. The common soldiers are next, with the civilians considerably below them. All other species exist