Chapter 12: The Secret River.
Summary (WARNING SPOILERS)While in Efrafa,

discovered a secret river of knowledge that gave her information if she was in its path.

and Thethuthinnang felt it too, but not as strongly. The river told her about a warren dominated by does, Thinial. The two leaders are Flyairth and Prake. One day, Flyairth encounters a rabbit infected with the White Blindness, and over time she becomes obsessed in preventing the disease from entering the warren as it would destroy it. The obsession eventually results in several other rabbits opposing her and bringing in (against her will) four rabbits whose mother was infected but themselves show no sign of infection. Then the escape from Efrafa occurs and nobody knows how it all turns out.
ReviewI originally thought that while the first two parts consisted of isolated stories with no link with each other, the last part would be one single story, telling what happened after

s defeat. How wrong I was. This is another isolated story, told by

about her time in Efrafa.
Nobody in Efrafa knows what a river is. The ordinary Mark rabbits never leave the warren so they never saw one. Even those in the owsla might not know, as the Wide Patrols rarely went beyond the iron road and the river Test is on the other side of the iron road. So why is it that suddenly the three main Efrafan does talk about a river?

said it plainly in the original: "What is a river?". Oh well, in all fairness, maybe she just didn't make the connection because HEY THIS RABBIT CAN HELP YOU ESCAPE FROM EFRAFA! (and this river of knowledge could not be of any help anyway since the information it provided was about Thinial, not Efrafa, and this

was clearly not from Thinial).
Anyway, the idea of a warren dominated by does obviously comes from the accusations of sexism regarding the original book, but the idea of such a warren is not unbelievable. It is handled well, but so far, this chapter opens more questions than it answers. But then, remember what

said: "I doubt whether we've heard the last of it." And with another chapter later on being called "Flyairth", he's probably right.
Another thing is that this is

we're talking about. In the original book, she shows no sign of having the ability to feel things like

or

(but in all fairness, it wasn't said that she didn't have any such feelings). In the original,

feels that

isn't a spy and has a vision of the final battle. The whole thing also gets added into the movie and not in the series because

has no visions.
Anyway...wouldn't it have been more consistent if it was

who had a special connection with the river? Let's be plain: in the original, she, Nelthilta and

were the only does who actually got any character development.

hardly got anything, so there just isn't enough information to say that this is inconsistant with the original.
You know, right now I feel like I'm all over the place. I just write about many different aspects of this chapter and overanalyze them. This is the longest review so far. So what about it? What rating shall I give it? Uh...I really don't know. Oh well. It's written better than many of the

stories, the secret river thing makes much more sense than the hole in the sky or the Third Cow,

finally gets character development and THE WD RABBITS ARE BAAACK!!!
Rating: 5/5.