“Late autumn winds sighed fitfully around the open gatehouse
door, rustling brown gold leaves in the fading afternoon.
‘Come in, little one, and close the door’
The mouse did as he was bidden.
‘You said that you would tell me a story, Miz Bella.’
The badger nodded slowly.
‘Everything you see about you, the harvest that has been
gathered, from the russet apples, to the golden honey, is yours to enjoy in
freedom. Listen now, as the breeze sweeps the last autumn leaves off into the
world of winter. I will tell you of a time long ago before Redwall Abby was
built in Mossflower.’ “
And thus starts another adventure of Matthias the Warrior, the
mouse who had helped save the Redwall Abby from the clutches of the fiendish
rat, Cluny the Scourge. Mossflower is second in a long series by Brain Jacques
about Matthias the Warrior, mouse, the Redwall Abby and its occupants. What a
poetic start of one very noble and gallant mouse.
Mossflower, Brain Jacques
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