Set hundreds of years before the Deptford Mice Trilogy in the Middle Ages, the story tells the tale of the squirrel maiden Ysabelle, daughter of the ruler of the Hazel Realm, Lady Ninnia, and Vespertilio ( or Vesper ), a young bat.

Later that night, the group is attacked and Ysabelle, Vesper, and many of the squirrel guards are taken prisoner by Hobbers, a group of creatures who worship three evil rat gods called the Raith Sidhe, in particular the worst one, Hobb.

Ysabelle and Vesper escape into the night, but along the way are confronted by the high priest, who curses them both.

Vesper is disheartened by his grim prophesy, but Ysabelle doesn't care and wants to continue her journey to Greenreach with him as her guide.

When they get there, however, Ysabelle, Vesper and Tysle see that the orchard is not the beautiful place it once was.

Upon following a stream, Ysabelle, Vesper, Giraldus, Tysle and Wendel reach a lake, but its water is dark and polluted, and there are no signs of the woodlanders anywhere.

However, Fenny soon receives a message from a mysterious figure called The Ancient, who wishes to speak with Ysabelle and Vesper.

After Ysabelle and Vesper return, their three friends are also released from their cell.

Ysabelle and Vesper dance together, and begin to realise that they are falling in love.

Ysabelle and Vesper escape through a tunnel, though not before Wendel reveals his treachery.

But before he dies, the mole starts a cave-in and Ysabelle and Vesper can only watch as the entire tunnel collapses on Giraldus, Wendel, and the Hobbers.

Feeling better, Vesper awakens and hears Ysabelle crying out and goes to rescue her.

Vesper swoops down and grabs Ysabelle, just as Hobb kicks the Hallowed Oak and it topples to the ground.

Ysabelle tells Vesper to take her down to the ground, where she snatches the silver acorn which had fallen.

At the same time, Ysabelle is feeling guilty for the way she treated Vesper, and realises that she does love him.

Not wanting to disappoint Giraldus, they tell the blind mole that it still looks the same, though Ysabelle does not feel right lying to him.

Ysabelle is eager to join the festivities, much to the dismay of her field mouse nursemaid Griselda.

By dipping Ysabelle's silver acorn in blood, he is summoning Hobb to the world, and when the evil rat god arrives he will destroy Ysabelle.

After the group goes to sleep in the limbs of one of the trees in the orchard, Ysabelle is awakened by a voice speaking to her.

The four again meet up with Wendel Maculatum, who is astonished to see that Ysabelle is alive.

He also tells Ysabelle that because the high priest dipped the silver acorn into the blood of the squirrels that were sacrificed, Hobb has been summoned back into the world, and that even now he is rising from the Pit.

As the two talk, Ysabelle begins to piece everything together and figures out that Morwenna is the one who betrayed the Greenreach squirrels.

It is then that Ysabelle realises that Hobb has begun to break through the ground.

Ysabelle stares in horror while Morwenna is jubilant — that is, until she sees the claws of the rat god reaching for her.

At the end of the year, the Great Oak ( in which the rat god Hobb was imprisoned by Ysabelle in The Oaken Throne ) falls down because of heavy winds, and many of the grey squirrels in the park begin to whisper that it was Audrey's fault because she is not a squirrel but merely a mouse.

They say their painful goodbyes, knowing that they will never see Ysabelle again.

Ysabelle realises that the two could accompany her on her journey since they are bound for the same place.

Ysabelle doesn't care however, and insists that they come with her.

Ysabelle, shocked, asks the Green which one of them it will be, but he disappears before giving her an answer.

In three days time he will appear to claim Ysabelle.

Morwenna approaches Ysabelle, and tells her that she wants to help her bring the silver acorn to the Starglass.

Just as soon as he was born on the planet Vesper, he was kidnapped and deposited on the planet Arcturus IV.

He then went on a quest to learn more and found his mother Kismet, alive and living in a secluded religious retreat on the planet Vesper.

Vesper is a bit hesitant at first, and Giraldus understands, knowing that it is probably because of his disease.

Fleming decided Bond should look a little like both the American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself and in Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd remarks, " Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless.

Turk Mountain lane is a collector road that has a terminus directly below the Turk Mountain overlook and is the southern limit of Crimora's CDA ( Community Development Area ). 90 % of Crimora's newest housing stock has sprung up near Turk mountain lane in Northwood and Vesper View Subdivisions.

The final phase of Vesper view is not yet built.

Vesper is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.

Vesper is located at ( 44. 481016 ,-89. 967423 ).

So, in 1686, he left his home on Wickasee Island, which is now known as Tyngs Island, in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, where Vesper Country Club now sits, and took his people to Canada.

Although there is no reliable evidence that she was a friend of Ian Fleming, Skarbek is said, by some, to have been the inspiration for Bond girls Tatiana Romanova and Vesper Lynd.

Rodent prey is usually dominated by locally superabundant species, like the Delicate Vesper Mouse ( Calomys tener ) in southern Brazil.

The Vesper Sparrow ( Pooecetes gramineus ) is a medium-sized American sparrow.

When he returns from Vesper headquarters expecting to find an empty house, she is there waiting for him.

Hesperus ' Roman equivalent is Vesper ( cf.

It is situated on a hill between West Park and Horsforth and is circled by Butcher Hill, the A65 and Vesper Road.

The nearest public house is " The Vesper Gate " on Kirkstall Road.

Hawksworth Wood Primary School is the only school on the estate, it was originally Hawksworth Wood Primary School but was split into two in the 1970s, the Broadway building became Hawksworth Wood Primary and the Cragside building was redeveloped with old and new buildings to become Vesper Gate Middle School, in recent times the Broadway building was closed and changed to part of Park Lane College and is now a day centre whilst the Cragside building is now called Hawksworth Wood Primary again.

There is a licensed restaurant called " Hand Food's " on Vesper Road.

The " James Bond Theme " appeared though four times, after Bond's conversation with M during his flight, after that during Bond's first card match, then after he has survived the poisoned martini and one last time when Bond is following Vesper.

Vesper Country Club is formed in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

: Vesper is a character in Roman mythology.

Gordon's Gin is specified by name in the recipe for the Vesper Cocktail given by James Bond in Ian Fleming's 1953 book Casino Royale.

In the midst of the preparations, Vesper longs to experience the battle for himself, but he is too young to go.