Gonff and Gingivere
Gonff, Ferdy and Coggs had been walking in circles all afternoon without knowing it. They were hot and tired and so when they passed the stream for the fifth time they sat down and had a rest.
"I'm sure we've passed here before" sighed Ferdy, cooling his spikes in the cold water.
"At least eightytwentysix times" agreed Coggs, splashing his brother.
"Don't worry, I knows where we's going" Gonff said confidently. "Just around that corner is your Uncle Gingivere's house, isn't that right Ferdy?"
Not wanting to be out smarted by a mouse younger than himself, Ferdy got up and said, "That's right Gonff. He's knows his directions does this mouse" So the party got up and carried on.
They got to a fork in the path. "Which way?" asked Coggs, "Isure we've been here before, and we turned right then"
"Well this time we'll go left then!" said Gonff.
After one hour they were completely lost.
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In Redwall Abbey everything was choas. Gashleg and some of his horde were slinging stones and firing arrows over the walls. Abbess Germaine was running around helping Lady Amber and Skipper to recruit their soldiers and fire back. Bella and Goody Sticle were zooming around searching desparately for Ferdy and Coggs while Gonff and Columbine were franticaly looking for Gonff. From far awway they heard Gashleg's cruel laugh.
"Keep it up boys, those stupid Abbey dwellers will be ours to command soon enough!"
~
The three travellers stumbling into the clearing just as night was beginning to set in. They heard gruff laughs and a high pitched squeal.
"That's Auntie Sandingomm!" Coggs shouted.
"Ssssh!" Gonff hissed. "I smell a rat!"
"A sea-rat! And a stoat and a ferret too!" Ferdy whispered. They crawled silenty aroung the small wooden house and peeked in through the open door. Tied in a wooden pole in the middle were Gingivere and his wife Land Sandingomm. There were about five members of Gashleg's horde surrounding them, laughing and stuffing their filthy mouths with the Autumn harvest that Gingivere had just collected.
Gonff jumped up, "come and fight you dirty vermints!"
Ferdy and Coggs squealed. The game was up.