I can't think of a name, so if you have suggestions, please post them. Anyway, here's to Redwall!

Chapter One

From the diary of Deidan, historian and recorder of Redwall Abbey.

All is peaceful. The birds are singing, the insects buzzing. I can hear the abbey babes, known as the Dibbuns, helping in the orchard. It is the beginning of The Autumn of the Fallen Leaves. Blackcurrant wine, fizzy strawberry cordial, October ale from two autumns ago, and goodness knows what else! All these delicious drinks brewed by the Stickleback family are to be used at this coming feast. I did mention the feast didn’t I? My mind is overrun with thoughts about it. It is our good Abbess Latter Rose’s tenth jubilee.

The otters, not including me, are gathering water shrimp, penny cress, and water chestnut. Half of them are really playing around, but Skipper is doing well enough without them. They are supposed to go and invite all the woodlanders to come to our feast when they are done.

Friar Burdock is in his kitchen preparing the food. Pastries, pies, soups, candied chestnuts, salads, cheeses, cakes, puddings, and other tasty morsels. His staff of helpers are also down there. I can smell it from here, the otters have returned and are making hot root soup. It is a favorite of the otters, myself included. I’m off to the kitchens to see what help they need.

Deidan, (Recorder of Redwall Abbey.)