"WHERE THE HELL IS MY LETTUCE," screamed Cowslip as loud as he possibly could at Silverweed, Buttercup, and Winters Wrath. "I can't believe I trusted you with getting me the greens I wanted," Cowslip said a little but quieter this time to Buttercup. "I give you one small task to do for me, and you completely screw it up," he continued.
Two days before, Cowslip had asked Buttercup to take four rabbits and raid the farm garden. Buttercup had automatically agreed, and rounded up four of the rabbits in the Owsla. They were Pimpernel, Walnut, Ivy, and Thistle. They had set out at around ni-frith, and headed to the farmhouse. Everything went wrong with the raid. The rabbits had no idea what to do, and all of them but Pimpernel and Buttercup got lost before they even got to the garden. When Buttercup reached the garden with only one of her raiders left with her, she decided that it would be best just to round up the others and head on home. It took over a day to find everyone and get back to the home warren and to a very angry Cowslip. "It wasn't Buttercup's faul-," Silverweed began, but Cowslip cut him short.

"Then why don't I have my lettuce and carrots with me right now," Cowslip snapped at Silverweed. "I suppose Buttercup here had nothing to do with that." Cowslip was about to say something else when Winters Wrath cut it. "Silverweeds right Cowslip, it wasn't Buttercup's fault. It was the rabbits she was traveling with. They had no idea what to do, and they got lost. I think we might have to train them a little bit." "Train them," Cowslip sputtered, "great idea, only one problem, we don't have anyone to train them. Every single one of us in this warren knows just about as much as they do about garden raiding, patrolling, and fighting." "I do," Winters Wrath shot back at him. "Why do you think I was chosen by Silverweed to lead this Owsla. He knew that I had experience in everything that is required out of a decent officer." Cowslip was silent. Winters Wrath's marli had told him about some of the horrible deeds that Winters Wrath had done long back when the wires were still ripe in the warren. She had told him about how her daughter had never listened to her. She also told him about how her daughter destroyed her family. Winters Wrath continued. "When I was just a kitten, I'd realized what was going on in this place. I saw how you, Silverweed, Strawberry, and Mushroom were leading our warren into complete destruction. I told myself that I would do the best I could to get out of the way of life in this warren. When I was just five months old, I started going out on my own little training patrols and teaching myself how to fight. It was only two months later that I started teaching my six brothers and sisters along with Dogwood, Vervain, and Vine the same things I knew." At this, Cowslip interrupted her with her speech. "Ever wonder why your mother never talks to you anymore," Cowslip said. "It's because of those stupid patrols you did. You and your brothers and sisters were by far the strongest of the five litters your mother had. She had great expectations for all of you. Then, all but Buttercup and yourself got killed. Even Vine, who was very strong for his age, got his life taken." "Sure, most of my siblings were killed," Winters Wrath continued, "but Buttercup Dogwood, Vervain, and myself were the only rabbits in the warren that actually knew how to survive like normal wild rabbits. And I did notice that all of my siblings and friends were starting to die. Why do you think that I stopped taking other rabbits out on the patrols after three months? I thought that all three of the rabbits that survived my patrols could live the life of a regular rabbit. It appeared that I was wrong after you blew Vervain's life by taking out him and a bunch of our other rabbits out to attack three tired and hungry wanderers that just wanted shelter, food, and comfort all because they mentioned the names Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig." "Never mention those names in front of me," Cowslip roared, " Apparently you didn't see what that rabbit Hazel and his group of goody-goodies did to our warren. The whole place almost went into civil war because of the things that they said." "Anyways," Cowslip continued, "Vervain was destined to have an early demise. He was a total moron. Killing him off and keeping the elil void of a meal was one of the only good things we did back in those times. But fine, why are we arguing? I want my greens as soon as possible, so I will let you train our Owsla. Start tomorrow for all I care." With that, Cowslip stormed out of his burrow. The next moment, Winters Wrath followed him.

Silverweed and Buttercup had backed out of Cowslips burrow before the shouting match was even half over. When they backed out, they immediately bumped into Dogwood and Mallow, who wanted to talk to Cowslip about something. When the two rabbits heard the yelling from inside the burrow, they immediately questioned Buttercup and Silverweed about what was happening. "What's going on," Dogwood asked Buttercup. "It sounds like half of Frith's kingdom is caving in. "I know," said Mallow calmly and intently, "what did Winters Wrath do to upset Cowslip-rah this time. "It was mostly something that Buttercup here did," Silverweed answered. "The garden raid that Buttercup was taking out completely failed, and now Cowslip-rah is angrier than Prince Rainbow when El-ahrairah stole his carrots." "So that's why Ivy's injured," said Corona, as he approached the four talking rabbits from where he was on silflay by himself. "It's because Buttercup can't lead a raiding party without messing up." Buttercup cuffed Corona on the head before saying, "I didn't mess it up for your information. It failed because none of those stupid rabbits knows how to get into a garden, steal a carrot, and get out. Honestly, Cowslip-rah can be so idiotic when he doesn't get what he wants." "I think our chief rabbit gets so mad because he was so used to getting a free ride in life when the snares were still here," Dogwood said. "He misses getting all those valuable greens easily so much that he gets all stressed out when he has the opportunity to get them and doesn't." "I'll tell you what's wrong with him," said Hawkweed as he approached the group, "it's the fact that he doesn't have one hell of an idea of how to run this place." "Oh c'mon Hawkweed, that's a little bit too harsh," said Mallow. "If he had no idea how to run this place, then the rabbits of this warren wouldn't have chosen him to be chief rabbit when Frith killed the evil farmer." "Plus," he added, "I thought you liked Cowslip-rah." "I do," said Hawkweed as the shouting went on inside the burrow, "he can just be such a moron at times." "Getting back to the subject," Buttercup said, "I actually do agree with Hawkweed. Cowslip-rah has no idea what he's doing, and he shouldn't be called chief rabbit." Corona and Silverweed were both about to make replies, when Cowslip stormed out of his burrow. Without giving any of the rabbits a look, he hopped off as fast as he could. All six of the rabbits stared at each other when Winters Wrath came out of the hole.
"Look alive and listen up," she said. "Tomorrow we start training for the Owsla."
"I thought we all ready were in the Owsla," Corona said.
"Yes, you are," Winters Wrath said, "but all of you need some training. As I was saying, tomorrow you all start training in garden raiding, patrolling, and fighting. Dogwood will be doing fighting, and Buttercup will be teaching patrols and raids. You have two months to pass the training. If you don't pass within the time, you're out of the Owsla, and someone else will take your place." "Corona, will you please spread the news to all the other members of the Owsla that aren't here," Winters Wrath continued, "and I assume the injured members will be better by tomorrow." She was about to hop off, when she turned to Silverweed and said, "by the way Silverweed, in a little while, I'll need you to help me console Cowslip. He's very pissed off." Without another word, the Owsla captain hopped off to talk to some of her friends that were out on silflay.
"Training," said Silverweed, "training, Buttercup is your sister completely out of her mind?"
"I have no idea," Buttercup replied, "but I have to go open another burrow, see you later." With that, Buttercup also left, and was followed a minute later by Corona, who was muttering something about the task he was assigned to. Mallow, Dogwood, Silverweed, and Hawkweed all looked at each other for a few moments until Hawkweed said, "I'm going out to the field to get a bite to eat, how 'bout the rest of you?" The other three agreed, so the four bucks made their way into the feeding field, where they would be training the very next day.