"Skullface had time for just one agonized scream before he fell. The iron-shod cartwheels rolled over him. He lay in a red mist of death, the life ebbing from his broken body. The last thing he saw before darkness claimed him was the sneering visage of Cluny the Scourge roaring from the jolting backboard, 'Tell the devil Cluny sent you, Skullface!'" Book 1, The Wall, Chapter 4, pg. 15.

" 'Did you see the faces of those mice today? The mere mention of Martin the Warrior sends them into ecstasies. don't you see, he is their symbol. His name means the same to those mice as mine does to the horde: in a different way maybe. Martin is some sort of angel; I'm the opposite. Think for a moment. If anything were to happen to me, you'd all be a leaderless rabble, a headless mob. So, if the mice were to...