They become instrumental in helping Martin, along with a young male Eurasian red squirrel named Felldoh, and Rose's brother Brome, escape Marshank.

Meanwhile, Martin, Rose and Grumm meet a female common hedgehog named Pallum after being imprisoned by Eurasian pygmy shrews.

Boldred, a scholarly female short-eared owl whom they met on the way to Noonvale, helps gather a huge army, including the pygmy shrews and the Gawtrybe (a group of savage red squirrels).

He declines going back to Noonvale with the rest, the memory of Laterose lingering too strong, not to mention he'll have to tell Urran Voh what had happened to his daughter.

The story of Martin and Rose is later brought to Redwall during the time of Abbot Saxtus the Eurasian harvest mouse by Aubretia the mouse, a descendant of Brome, and Bultip the hedgehog, a descendant of Pallum, who brought a sprig of climbing-rose culled from that which grew on Rose of Noonvale's grave.