The middle ages are coming to an end, and a great epidemic sweeps the globe. Every human died of a disease that spread like wildfire over the total population. Tame horses, dogs, and cats all passed away from it, catching it from their masters. The only animals to survive were of the wild. The squirrels being one of them. They, unlike the rats and mice that thrived with the humans, then died with them as well, still lived and were now grouping together in North America. From Fox Squirrels to Red Squirrels, they fled Europe and most of Canada, the lands that were becoming populated by wolves and other predators, and grouped together. The forests that they lived in were mostly filled with nomad dreys... but eventually the idea of a human-like clan grew popular... though not all squirrels liked it. As most of the squirrels had come over already, some of them in boats with Europeans, many years ago, it was hard to convert some of the squirrels untouched by those ideas. But starting with the albino squirrel Martin, and going on from there, the forests were split up, and the lands were taken over by certain clans. As days progressed, they eventually began adapting things like humans would; taking milk from the stems of plants, establishing hierarchies, and occasionally walking up right. Would they grow to be creatures of human likeness? Or would the ways of an animal overcome that thinking? Only time would tell.