This is the last chapter and no entreaties will change that. (Though the fact that you are entreating will make me very happy) My muse has given warning that she will

be off to Italy I think. Though before you whine, the fact that she gave warning is a great improvement. Anyhoodles, last chappie.

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Hare

Amenda Lapinscut wakes up and is starving. A perfectly normal state for a growing leveret. She jumps out of bed, going quietly past her brother's room. Hurrying

to the kitchen she checks what's being cooked, wot?

Jolly good, Mumsie's best pancakes! But she wont let Amenda near.

"Be off with you, Mendy! They'll be ready when they're ready, wot!"

Amenda scurries to the table in the next room, grabbing her favorite seat. Soon the room begins to fill with the inhabitants of Fort Tussock. Amenda's

brother, Gavin, comes in.

When he sees that Amenda has the best seat already, he mutters something that makes Mumsie tweak his ears.

"There'll be no language like that in my house, young rip, or no brekkers for you."

"Taint a house, s'a fort, and Mendy's gone and stolen my seat!"

"If you ever want to get into the Long Patrol, you'll hold your tongue, or I'll take soap to it!"

Amenda sighs softly, it's just one of many arguments that have been taking place lately. Gavin will soon be going to Salamandastron to join up to the Long

Patrol, and no one is quite sure if Mumsie wants him to go or not. She just keeps harping at him…and since he's going and their older sister Becka before them,

Amenda will probably be expected to go too…

Amenda's thoughts are interrupted by a Molemum setting down a tray of pancakes on the table.

Previous descriptions of hectic mealtimes are nothing to the scene that now takes place.

Amenda quickly clears off her fourth helping and jumps down from the table, time to play!

Of course it's never that simple…

"Mendy! Help clear off the table, young'un!"

It doesn't take long though, and Amenda is out the fort gate in a flash. She heads straight for the outlying bush of Mossflower. There wait her friends.

She sits down on her special boulder and whistles. The trees rustle, and Levy SkyBrush jumps down beside her. The stream ripples, two sleek bodies jump

out, spraying water over the both of them, as Thyme and Tide Slipstream grin wickedly at the now wet hare and squirrel. Krisser Harvestpaw pops up beside them,

towing Loey and Nift.

Amenda sighs happily, what does they run off into Mossflower. What does the Long Patrol matter? It can keep, what matters now is making sure Tide

doesn't tag her…that and getting back in time for lunch….

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Okay, call me sappy, but I like the ending. To all who reviewed, thank you very much. To all who read all the way through and didn't review, thank you. To all you who didn't

read and didn't review, well...you looked at it. Thanks.