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Date Posted: 23:30:55 05/09/03 Fri
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Demora
's message, "Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!" on 23:15:04 05/09/03 Fri
Russel Windkeeper was a normally recluse squirrel, living alone in Mossflower woods. He dropped by Redwall sometimes; mostly in the winter though, when he would need supplies. Usually, traveling beasts could pass right by his home and never know he was there. That was the way Russel liked it.
Russel went clad in a leather vest, and had feathers of varying colors woven into his bushy tail. He had an ax and a dagger, but only used them for chopping wood or carving something, as he often did in his spare time. Russel had never really had a serious vermin encounter, and he wanted it to stay that way. But you want and what you get are two entirely different things.
One morning, Russel woke and went to the edge of his clearing to the pile of wood, so he could start a fire and make breakfast. With a load of logs in his arms, he was about to go to the fire pit when he heard shouting far off in the woods. He set the logs down quietly and slipped into the shadows of the forest, carrying his ax. One could never be too careful. With the ax on his shoulder, he tiptoed closer to the shouting. Sneaking behind a tree, he peered around it into the forest. What he saw made his blood boil.
A young otter was being harrassed by three rats. He was tangled in a bunch of loose rope, fighting and yelling at the vermin. "Yah, I'll show you scurvy cowards! You couldn't beat me if I was half blind and with me rudder tied! I'm Willowsnap Jack, and I carry death in my paws!" Russel then noticed there was a fourth rat, laying on the ground next to a stump, jaggedly cut. A trickle of blood ran down the unconcious rat's head. The otter, Willowsnap, was hopelessly outnumbered. Russel was readying himself to fight when an arm grabbed him from behind.
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