User blog comment:D2r/Was Veil ultimately Redeemed?/@comment-1399757-20111231155103/@comment-1859920-20111231204340

Wow. Once again, I retain the same sentiments. Only I've been focused mostly on what BJ intended his readers to think regarding the situation. Its odd though, because I just listened to a video clip of him on a small-time British TVshow, and in it there were several Redwall fans that asked him questions. One of the kids(a girl) asked him if he would ever make one of the creatures such as a "weasel or a stoat" be good. BJ replied something about how he wasn't going to do that. I think it was something to do with retaining a difference between the two sides, because if they blended it would really mess up the readers perspective of good and evil in accordance with the Redwall series.

Anywho, thats besides the point. I'm pretty sure that BJ made a concious decision to leave the situation with Veil, unanswered and just left it up to the reader to beleive the best or the worst about him, in the long run at least. So in accordance to this train of thinking, I think he PURPOSELY made that question part of the plot line. Btw, did you like my poem(below)?