Watership Down

Silverweed

Far Far Away by Redgear

'He has never seen a fox, but he knows it is one; he had once dreamed he was a man with a loud metal stick, and he had pointed it at a quicksilver flash of red in a bush, and it had smelled very strongly of smoke and rot and very faintly of blood and fox.' A dark, unusual vignette, in which a beautifully characterised Silverweed has a strange meeting. I love the edge of ambiguity to the ending

[Added 29/10/2017; Character Piece; 1000-2500; Watership Down; Characters: Silverweed, General Woundwort]