Maurice’s Change of Heart

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

A calculating street cat gradually accepts moral responsibility, acts for companions rather than profit, and risks his remaining lives to save them.

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An Amazing Cat An Amazing Cat from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". A New Self Sudden awareness Maurice becomes self-aware after eating a Rat changed by magical waste, and begins to understand himself as an individual.

An Amazing Cat from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". A New Self Sudden awareness Maurice becomes self-aware after eating a Rat changed by magical waste, and begins to understand himself as an individual.

A New Self Sudden awareness Maurice becomes self-aware after eating a Rat changed by magical waste, and begins to understand himself as an individual. A practical philosophy He uses his intelligence to steer people and treats money as the key to security.

The Rule of Speech The Rule of Speech from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". Food with a Condition A new boundary Maurice decides not to eat anyone who can speak, a rule that separates his present self from ordinary feline instinct.

The Rule of Speech from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". Food with a Condition A new boundary Maurice decides not to eat anyone who can speak, a rule that separates his present self from ordinary feline instinct.

Food with a Condition A new boundary Maurice decides not to eat anyone who can speak, a rule that separates his present self from ordinary feline instinct. A shaky conscience He follows the rule while still rationalizing theft and manipulation as useful work.

The Confession The Confession from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". Additives The hidden cause Maurice admits that he ate Additives before the Change, explaining why he became intelligent despite never eating the magical…

The Confession from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". Additives The hidden cause Maurice admits that he ate Additives before the Change, explaining why he became intelligent despite never eating the magical…

Additives The hidden cause Maurice admits that he ate Additives before the Change, explaining why he became intelligent despite never eating the magical refuse. Guilt made explicit He confesses that he killed a speaking Changeling before he knew what he was doing, and fears the dead Rat’s voice remains in him.

Returning Underground Returning Underground from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". Choosing the Others Escape within reach Maurice could leave Bad Blintz and avoid the danger gathering underground.

Returning Underground from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". Choosing the Others Escape within reach Maurice could leave Bad Blintz and avoid the danger gathering underground.

Choosing the Others Escape within reach Maurice could leave Bad Blintz and avoid the danger gathering underground. A reluctant return His conscience and loyalty pull him back toward Dangerous Beans and the Clan, despite his repeated claim that he is only protecting his plans.

A Life Given Up A Life Given Up from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". The Cost of Choice Instinct unleashed Spider strips away Maurice’s conscious identity, leaving a furious cat to attack the rat king.

A Life Given Up from "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents". The Cost of Choice Instinct unleashed Spider strips away Maurice’s conscious identity, leaving a furious cat to attack the rat king.

The Cost of Choice Instinct unleashed Spider strips away Maurice’s conscious identity, leaving a furious cat to attack the rat king. A deliberate sacrifice After dying in the fire, Maurice bargains with Death and gives up an extra life to save Dangerous Beans.

Before the first town on the journey

During the traveling rat-piper scheme

After Hamnpork is taken to the rat pit

After Maurice escapes Spider’s first pursuit

Immediately after the rat-king confrontation