User blog comment:Verminfate/Essay: Redwall's most controversial character..... Veil/@comment-1669318-20100501030520

I think Brokkers is right; when Swartt threw te spear, his first instinct was to help Byrony. Earlier in the story, when he was not being rushed in his decisions, he tried to kill her. If he had had time to think, he might not have saved her. Or he might have...who knows?