Fermald, a clever, though senile old beast, had expertly hidden the pearls throughout the abbey before passing away several seasons ago. There he befriended an old squirrel called Sister Fermald before he went off to die in the woods. He had become gravely injured in a fight with the weasel Flairnose, whom he killed, over the pearls before seeking safety at Redwall. With the fearsome Lask and his lizards gone to Mossflower, Barranca decides to seize his chance.īack at Redwall, the old bankvole recorder Rollo determines that the skeleton in the quarry was Graylunk. Presently, Conva's brother Barranca discovers that Ublaz has killed his brother, and he begins hatching a plan to overthrow the pine marten and take the island for himself. She eliminates a longboat-crew of searats and then takes their boat southward into Mossflower, where she hopes to find the corsairs that slew her family. The otter fashions a powerful bow and a quiver of green-fletched arrows, with which she planned on wreaking her revenge. Far away on the western shores, Grath Longfletch, a strong female otter, was at the gates of the Dark Forest before being found by a pair of bankvoles, who nurse her back to health. However, the daughter of the Lutra chieftain is not dead. They are escorted by the ferret captain Romsca and her crew. He then sends out an elite force of monitor lizards, headed by their general Lask Frildur, to Mossflower to retrieve the pearls. Conva tracks him to Redwall Abbey, where Graylunk takes refuge, before returning to Sampetra. The stoat captain Conva is sent out to retrieve the Tears of All Oceans, six perfectly spherical rose-pink pearls, but after murdering the Holt Lutra who owned the pearls, the Tears are stolen by the weasel Graylunk, who flees into Mossflower Woods. Ublaz Mad-Eyes, a large, sinewy pine marten with a hypnotic stare, gathers an army of barbaric monitor lizards and trident-wielding searats.

Meanwhile, far across the western sea on the tropical isle of Sampetra, trouble is brewing. Tansy quickly leads curious Redwallers back to the quarry to examine the mysterious skeleton, and along the way, they meet two travellers: the irrepressible hare Cleckstarr Lepus Montisle and his owl friend Gerul. They are disoriented in a rainstorm and after failing to return to the abbey before the breaking of the storm are rescued by Martin II, son of Mattimeo and grandson of Matthias. When gathering herbs near the quarry in Mossflower Woods, the young Redwallers Tansy and Arven come across a mysterious skeleton among the rocks. It is the ninth book published and eleventh chronologically in the Redwall series. The Pearls of Lutra (published as Pearls of Lutra in the US) is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1996.

Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques