It's been a big year for Wagner Vaughters. Picked second to last in the FBA Draft, the coyote found himself the bench point guard for the league's most dominant team and playing next to his idol, All-Star coyote power forward Charles Yotechuk. Even more, just two and a half weeks into the season, the starting point got sick with the flu and Wags had to start his first game against the fearsome Montana Howlers. The little coyote played with everything he had and helped his team keep their undefeated record. But after the game, Shane Rufus, the Howlers' reserve point who had been kept off the floor that game, threatened the young rookie during a snarling press conference.

The next day at practice, Yotechuk gathered the other canids on the team, swift fox Jake Velox and dhole Vincent Wei, and chatted with Wags, both to tell him what a great job he'd done and that Rufus' threat meant nothing.

"When I was a rookie, Fang said the same thing to me," Yotechuk told the young coyote, reassuring him. "And then three years later, he got traded from Plymouth and we ended up on the Howlers together!"

"Really?" Wags said. "Was that weird?"

"Yeah, it was weird at first. But I learned something. You never know who you're going to play with down the road, just like neither of us knew we would be wearing Mayors jerseys. And that's why you never talk like that about anyone. You play with your team, no matter who they are, no matter what's been said, and you play your hardest every day like you did. Rufus needs to learn that. But some guys never learn."

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A wonderful commission from the talented and imaginative  christaphorac. As well as creating the Wagner Vaughters character, he's been a massive contributor to the FBA. Big, big thanks for this one, C-Cat!