Chapter 2:

Tyra and Tulia dashed into the Great Hall of Redwall Abbey before the bell stopped ringing. Almost immediatly after they ran in the Warrior of Redwall stepped in their path.

The warrior's name was Breton, and he was tall for his species. Breton wore the sword of Martin across his back, and at that moment he was glaring at the two, who were staring at the floor as if to find inspiration there.

"I heard that today you were attacking my two children in the orchard today..." Breton said.

Tyra felt the burning desire to tell him what she thought of the two.

"If you knew wot--" Tulia said.

"Now," he said, continuing as if he hadn't heard Tulia,"You know what the standered punishment is for this, for both of you."

Tyra looked at Tulia and rolled her eyes.

"You know that the standered punishment is kitchen duty. And while you are helping Friar Ardennails you can't be snatching anything to eat out of there, Tyra."

Finally they were allowed to sit down. They worked their way toward their usual table and sat down next to their friends Sassyfras the squirrel (Sassy), Muddbottom the shrew (Muddy), and Viktor Vilano the water vole (Viky).

"Now what did you do?" Sassy asked, eyes shining with suspense.

"Now, Sassy, it sounds bad, yiss yiss, I don't know if--"

"Oh, shut up Vicky." Muddy said. "I think that you are being just a touch stupid, shipmate. If they don't want to tell us then they won't."

"You tell them, m'gel." Tyra said. "I don't want to."

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Predak stood with her officers. There were five of them - the rat Eric; the pine marten Ed; the ferret Scagg; the stoat Chopface; and the weasel Akhal. They were discussing the plans for the attack on Redwall.

"It's quite simple," Ed said. "We'll drag the old catapults over to here, and batter down the walls, then rush in and take the abbey under dark of night, first scaling the building, and taking it from the top down. We'll probably hit the dormitories first, then be able to capture the abbey."

"The walls, smart guy." Chopface said. "We'd be venreble to attack with them down."

"There is an old quarry just down from here. After the abbey is defeated, then we would set them down to rebuild the walls. It's all here," he said, tapping the paper. "All we need."

"Yes, Ed," Predak said. "Very simple, yet the abbeybeasts won't catch on until it's too late. We will start this in two days. Set the army to dragging the catapults over to here."