Saba

right|300pxSaba is a female shrew and the star of Shrew Soldier.
==Biography==
She was seen trekking back to her camp with her best-friend Tash Stag Otter after helping his holt. Upon reaching her camp, they are horrified to discover that it was attacked, with her parents and log-a-log dead and any survivors missing, however they also find a dead corsair-weasel and conclude who the culprit is.
They then made their way to Redwall-Abbey to bring the bad-news, and when she spent the night she was having a nightmare showing her remaining guosim as slaves to a bird warlord. This all turned out to be Martin's doing, and in the morning Saba finds her three friends Tash, Backle Squirrel and Tailfight the sparrow had the same dream. Knowing what this meant, they got to training themselves, even though Saba herself had wanted to be a healer.
A few days later, Commander Steeltalon the raven arrived demanding the abbey to either surrender or die, and when the abbey chose to fight back, it was war. Saba, along with Tash and Tailfight, guarded an injured Luminara down some stairs, then got challenged by Steeltalon personally. Saba was reluctant initially, but through some encouragement from Tash and Steeltalon admitting about guosim-survivors, she fought with vigor. While Steeltalon was more experienced, Saba defeated him and drove him off.
In the aftermath, Iskorol the recorder-mole deduces that Saba and her friends must journey to Terramort-Isle to find her missing guosim. After Friar Raltud the otter packed rations for them, she gave a farewell to gatekeeper Furple, who's a former guosim.
Saba and her friends encountered many things on their quest: they received help from an elderly weasel named Parsinkel, then witnessed a pack of Pelecanimimus hunt down wild horses. She earns a rematch with Steeltalon after he baited her with the beaten up snake Bablo and has grown more vengeful and obsessed toward her. Despite being outnumbered, Steeltalon puts up a good fight and almost kills her, but Bablo stops him at the last minute. Saba demanded he give up and that it was hopeless, but this only made Steeltalon get Bloodwrath and fight even harder. Saba was able to kill the maddened raven, and in turn they gained Bablo as an ally.
They then stopped at Salamandastron the next day to ask help from Brockthorn the Sturdy and his Long Patrol. The badger and hares agreed, then struck Steeltalon's ship the Steelwing, where Steeltalon's last remaining corsairs lay waiting for their leader. After ridding the ship of the corsairs, Saba and her friends, now joined by half the Long Patrol under the leadership of Major Kimiko Thyme Dillworthy, set sail for Terramort, with her as the christened leader.
While on the ship, she agrees to Backle's idea of her, himself and the hares as slaves while Bablo and Tash be corsairs looking to join the slavery, and then helped disguise Bablo and Tash, then discover the leader of the slavery is a seagull named Snoke the Vicious.
Four days later, they arrived at Terrmort: Saba having given Tash the sword of Martin to look disarmed. When she was presented to Snoke, a rat named Yellowfoot flirted with her until a younger shrew named Yeal blurts out her name, and Snoke, having had nightmares about her days earlier, immediately deduces her to be the champion and the one destined to destroy him, and quickly orders her killed, but the heroes fight back and it erupts into a full battle. During said battle, she reunites with Yeal and meets Agen, though orders Yeal to stay out of the fight. She then goes after Snoke, almost getting stopped by Pyropunch the fox. She finds Snoke in his castle, but he sent three ferrets to stop her. Saba defeats them and fallows Snoke into the dining room. When she came near enough, Snoke attacked and the two fought, eventually taking it to a balcony. When they momentarily stopped they exchanged some words, then launch one final attack at each other: Saba suffered a blow to her right-flank, but emerged victorious. When Snoke claims he just wanted to be famous, Saba offers to tell the world about him and he thanks her for it before dying.
In the aftermath, she tends to her wounds and asks that Snoke be given a proper burial (which Agen and Tash fulfill), then they part ways with some slaves and the hares before returning to Redwall with her guosim. Sixteen seasons later, she was said to become a Log-a-Log.
==Appearance==
She wears a red-shirt, black-trousers and had a pair of braids sticking out of her head, plus bright green-eyes. She never wielded a weapon before Martin's sword.
==Personality==
Saba is a noble shrew like the majority of shrews in the Redwall-universe. Though a member of the guosim, she preferred medics more than combat and was initially upset to be the one next in line to use Martin's sword, but she got over it.
==Gallery==
Category:Shrews
Category:Females
Category:Shrew Soldier Characters
Category:Heroes
Category:Abbey Champions
Category:Healers