Mother and daughter reached longingly for each other, forever just barely separated by a tauntingly Escherian landscape.

The diminutive Princess Hedgerella looked down from her lofty perch, her spines quivered in fear as she spied the massive devilish hedgehog below try ro climb towards her.

The hedgehog princess quaked nervously on the balcony of the castle. "What do I have to do to keep these creepy hedgehogs from climbing up my tower wall??!"

You think, oh, hedgehog Rapunzel -- no hair, no problem. But actually then the prince just brings a ladder. And you politely decline his rescue but -- yes! ha ha ha! YES! -- there's several hedgehog princes right behind him, each hoping to be the one.

The hedgehog princess was alarmed — the army of hedgehog prince suitors who had been milling about the base of her tower had finally found a ladder and, as this year's hoglets drifted past, riding the wind to their (possibly more secluded) new homes, she was beginning to regret her own choice of landing spot.

The high priestess possum stood atop her tower, trying in vain to stop the hurricane that tossed her people through the air like leaves - when suddenly, someone stepped forward from the crowd below: a young scientist possum wearing a bow tie, offering to try to stop the winds with his rocket.