User blog comment:Astar Goldenwing/For Freedom/@comment-1427879-20181115123202/@comment-2142396-20181125085531

Thanks for reading and commenting, Segalia! Indeed, the boiling soup scene was inspired by many Redwall books as it's such a classical element of almost any siege, plus I really wanted to give Marfa an opportunity to avenge her husband. Branch, the Ravenfeather weasel, only briefly appeared before, so I'm not surprised that you don't remember him, but he has a role to play in the future. In fact, I created Brittle Downriver and 'Raven's Feather' story while developing this very plotline. ;)

Ah, yes, poor Nabon. All he ever wanted was to make his father proud, but it seemed that everything he did only made things worse. Well, if I'm completely honest, at some point after Dom and Maple's escape I realized that I don't know what to do with his character. I thought long and hard on that question, but in the end, I couldn't see another outcome for Nabon. But you're right that it's going to affect a lot of things, and it's true that Coneslingers wouldn't be able to completely avoid the war as they initially planned – in a way, we're going to witness a domino effect there. But all in its own time, and thanks again for following my stories, however long-winded they may be.