![]() ![]() The next day, far away in the Hazel Realm, the celebration for the holiday of Aldertide has begun. ![]() But before she perishes, the Starwife summons a peregrine falcon who carries her symbol of office, a silver acorn necklace, away to safety. Unbeknownst to her, her trusted handmaiden Morwenna has been poisoning her.Īs the bat army launches an attack that will destroy her realm, the poison begins taking full effect on the Starwife and Morwenna reveals her treachery. Meanwhile, in the Hallowed Oak in Greenreach, the Starwife has been seriously ill. ![]() In the midst of the preparations, Vesper longs to experience the battle for himself, but he is too young to go. They believe that the Starwife, ruler of the black squirrels, has stolen their birthright of insight and seeing into the future. The story begins in a ruined tower in London where the Bats live, and they are readying themselves to go to war to fight the squirrels. Set hundreds of years before the Deptford Mice Trilogy in the Middle Ages, the story tells the tale of the squirrel maiden Ysabelle, daughter of the ruler of the Hazel Realm, Lady Ninnia, and Vespertilio (or Vesper), a young bat. ![]()
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