both stood panting on each side of the chamber they’ve been fighting in, the Lion-hearted Rabbit told the General that he recalled the events before the Battle of Efrafa in that he had said that he was trying to impress him and that he hopes that he has achieved that.
The General recalls that he had promised to kill the Lion-headed Rabbit
himself, and says that this time, there isn't a white bird here to save or help him. And with that, the General advances forward by jumping and pushing the Captain of Owsla down in order to empower him. However, he loses footing and is then beaten by the bold rabbit forcing him to back away slowly. The General then ask the traitor why does he throw his life away for these rabbits that he's protecting?
“Hraka, sir. My chief told me to protect this run.”
With this, it led the General to be shocked as fear start to tell him with that there is a possibility of a much stronger and wiser rabbit than his rival even though this wasn’t the case, yet he didn’t know that.
The General retreated to the safety of his Efrahan Rabbits as they look at the General shock by his retreat.
He limps to the surface and tells one of his comrades Vervain to finish the Lion-headed rabbit. Glad, yet scared with the task, he heads on down the run to the Honeycomb where he meets a now awake Fiver. Vervain starts to slowly approach the seer in order to take the life out of the rabbit, yet he stops dead in his track when the seer tell him that he is sorry for Vervain death.
“You are closer to death than I.”
Then Vervain witness something that only a rare few rabbits have ever seen.
He sees all the distorted images of rabbits he has killed officially in the past. In the corner of the Honeycomb, the Black Rabbit of Inle watches very closely with its ghostly red eyes at this encounter as if confirming what the seer had said, yet Vervain does not see this. The terrified Vervain runs to the exit of the run into the surface.
At the same time, pure chaos erupts from the outside as Captain Campion yells out to run for their lives as both Dandelion and Blackberry return back with Bob the dog.
Both rabbits jump simultaneously into their home warrens run as the dog starts it highly graphic attack against the Efrahan Rabbits. Some of them run inside the warren and surrender to Fiver for safety while others dash on down the Down as the dog attacks every poor Efrahan rabbit it comes across, viciously ripping and tearing them apart.
General Woundwort yells for his rabbits to return and fight back for dogs aren’t dangerous he says. Then, the General leaps up into the air towards the dog as it charges towards the Rabbit. And with that, the General has been never seen again, as the some Efrahan Rabbit leaves the warren while being lead by Captain Campion, back to their own as they scurry away from their unsuccessful attempt to take and destroy their warren. It could be that the General lives his fierce life somewhere else. Yet from that morning on, mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they do not do as they're told, the General would get them.
Such was Woundworts monument.
The rabbits of this warren were victorious in their fight for freedom and their successful attempt to protect what they loved as Lord Frith's light shunned down upon the lone Beech tree as this marks
The end of The Battle Of Watership Down.
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