A black carriage was kicking up a huge cloud of dust as it rolled into town. It stopped outside the bank and the driver, a raggedly-dressed young raccoon, opened the carriage door, and let out a more lithe, well-dressed raccoon. He carried a cane with a vicious claw clasped in his own, and the left half of his head was covered in a metal cast. The cast was engraved beautifully with gold, and it gleamed in the sun as the lithe raccoon stepped into the bank.