The Second Wave CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN It was Chip who first noticed that Tamarisk was not with them in the cave behind the ivy on the castle wall. The squirrels were preparing to send a foraging party to the human village and Chip was steeling himself for the usual deprecating comments and unkin...
These yearlings were Marguerite and Juniper’s son and daughter, Oak and Burdock. Oak was named after his grandfather and Burdock after her great grandmother, both of whom were long Sun-gone and buried together, nourishing the Council Tree in Beech Valley. Their father, Juniper, had died heroicall...