Editing Ridget Fallbranch

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|Name = <!-- Actual full legal name -->
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|Alias = <!-- titles and nicknames-->
|Age = 13
|Gender =Female 
|Status =Decesed 
|Classification = <!-- Human practitioner Other what have you -->
|Affiliation =Russet Squirrels 
|Family = 
|Occupation = High Knight
|Chapter = [[In Absentia 21.5]]
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Ridget Fallbranch is the High Knight of the Russet Squirrels of Bayberry.<ref>“I, Ridget Fallbranch, high knight of the Russet Squirrels of Bayberry, guardian of the crossing between High Spring and Northern Canada… I do suppose you are sick of titles.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref>

== Personality ==
She has spent her life fighting a genocidal racists war against the black and grey squirrels.<ref name=":0">She lifted weapon and shield aside, finding a snow-dusted rock to stand on, and she began to sing.  A war song and anthem of Highhome, promising the extermination of the black and gray squirrel kingdoms.  The blacks, who were brutish and savage, and the grays, who were savage and brutish.  The song promised bloodless executions, for the russets -the red-furred- were the noblest of squirrels, and blood was reserved for battlefields.  They would use hot steel to sear their enemies, so they might be sterilized and muted, as befit the beasts they were, for black and gray, king and peasant, male and-- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref>

== Relationships ==
She killed [[Percival Awarnach|Percival]] after the [[Carmine Exile]] allowed her to stab him as a form of greeting.<ref>“Three times, I met champions of enemy forces.  Three times, we had an exchange of blows.  Three times, I slew my foe.  If Percival is allowed his introductions…” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref> She ended up biting into the acorn that made up his brain.<ref name=":1">Ridget the squirrel knight twitched violently as she crawled across snow.  Metal raked across the texture of the crust on the snow, like a metal tool dragged down a section of road, start, stop, start, stop, timed with her finding the strength to pull herself forward.

She bit into Percival’s acorn, long since scattered from the little spirit’s being, tearing it partially open, before she died.  Her little sword turned against Percival had started this event.  Her bite into the acorn marked the beginning of the end of it. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref>

== Appearance ==
She has black eyes<ref>“Shut up!  Glamour and nuts!  I-” she turned to the Carmine, little black eyes widening. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref> and red fur and is equipped with a sword and small shield.
Wears a cape with two medals pinned to it.<ref>She showed off her two medals, pinned to her cape. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref>

== Abilities ==
She can not read due to being a squirrel.<ref name=":2">“May I ask a different kindness of you?  My brain is the size of a walnut, which I think is the finest size for a brain to be, not too large and not too small.”

The Carmine nodded.

“Yet it is not large enough to hold what he demands I hold.  All those words.”

“Can you read off a paper?” the Carmine asked.

“I cannot read, sir.  I am a squirrel,” she replied, bewildered at the idea.

- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref>

Has a brain the size of a walnut.<ref name=":2" />

Knows how to sing.<ref name=":0" />

== Chronology ==
Spent six years training as a night and another seven guarding the crossing between High Spring and Northern Canada. She had to litters of pups and received two commendations.<ref>“Over the first six years of my life, I trained to be a knight,” Ridget told the Carmine.  “Over seven more years, I worked as a knight, guarding the crossing against foulest enemies, leading forays against those same enemy camps and settlements.  I fought hard, married, had two litters of kits.  I recieved two commendations, one for leading a breach of the gates, and one after a successful year-long campaign.  See?”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref> She trained two generations of knights and three squires.<ref>She looked past the Carmine to the Sable.  “I trained two generations of soldiers, three squires, two of whom became very good knights.  I’m old.  I thought I would fight for change, to change the tides of the war, before my body slows too much.  I hoped for a noble end, even if my chances of success were slim.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref>
She entered the Carmine contest in the hopes of being able to drive her enemies away from her home town if she won.<ref>She bent down into a kneeling bow, planting sword into the ground.  “I am but a humble knight, come this far south because foul enemies plague Bayberry.  I thought I might fight in this contest, to win the ability to drive them away.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/in-absentia-21-6/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.6]]</ref>

She was killed as a result of attacking Percival.<ref name=":1" />
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