User blog comment:Astar Goldenwing/The Coming of Badger Lady/@comment-2142396-20160418174304

@Sayna: I’m glad you like Blackpatch as the villain! True, you need to be extra tough to survive encounter with Cregga, but Blackpatch was really motivated… you can say it was life or limb decision. ;) You can keep wondering about the old rat. :D He’s quite a mystery, but he has yet a role to play, so your questions will be answered, sooner or later. It’s good to know that you loved Arven’s introduction – I suppose that mischievous Dibbun still inside of him is really proud of his ruse with the spider, though you can also see Arven’s serious side in his reaction to Cregga’s intervention. It’s true that the story could’ve turned dark easily, but hopefully, it’s not ‘A Slave’s Revenge’, so Osrik is safe, though Cregga is going to be pretty scarred up if she doesn’t pause on the fighting. ;) I think if such a situation happened and somebeast really had died, that would’ve driven Cregga right over the edge – and I don’t think it’s impossible in the future, since her desire to track down and kill all vermin in ‘The Long Patrol’ had to be fueled by something. Ah, Sandor. The whole thing was really sad, and left a deep impact on Cregga. *whispers* I’m somewhat unsure whether or not he is really dead, but what we know for now is that Blackpatch said that he is, and that’s what Cregga’s thinking. Anyway, thanks for reading and commenting!

@Segalia: Well, Redwall timeline is pretty hazy, but I placed ‘The Coming of Badger Lady’ 12 seasons after ‘Pearls of Lutra’ and 25 seasons before ‘The Long Patrol’, thus making Arven around 18 in ‘The Coming of Badger Lady’ and around 43 in ‘The Long Patrol’, keeping his age close to the canon. Cregga has yet a lot to learn about Bloodwrath, but I guess she would always have quite a temper – it’s Cregga we are talking about, after all. Well, we will learn some more of the old rat’s motivations as time goes, this plotline isn’t over yet. You are right, Redwall is too far off for the heroes to go there right away, but we will see some more of Redwall-related stuff soon, including Arven’s side of the story. Thanks for catching up errors, it’s easy to miss such typos for me.