User blog comment:Argulor/Why the subplots?/@comment-9946467-20130524231248/@comment-3148757-20130525010536

But it would have made no sense to have the ENTIRE story focus on Matthias and friends' quest to get their children back without at least cutting back to Redwall a few times to see what everyone else (ie, Cornflower, Constance, etc) was doing.