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Needle
Needle running
Birthplace: Mistmantle Island
Species: Hedgehog
Gender: Female
Family: Mistress Ramblen (mother)
Unnamed father
Scufflen (younger brother)
Allegiance: King Brushen
King Crispin
Appears in: Books:
She's going to be captain one day!
―Fingal about Needle
I'm a hero of Mistmantle, and she's setting a trap.
―Needle


Needle of the Threadings is a hedgehog who was daughter of Ramblen and the older sister of Scufflen, and is one of Urchin's oldest friends. She is one of the Senior Workers in the Tower Workrooms. Needle is also a Circle member and a Companion to the King.

History[]

Urchin of the Riding Stars[]

Needle is a hedgehog from Anemone Wood and is one of Urchin's oldest friends. The two were often at the mercy of Crackle and Gleaner's critical comments. She was to start work in the Tower Workrooms the day after the Night of Riding Stars in which Prince Tumble was murdered.

Not long after Crispin's exile, she runs into Urchin in the Tower. She seemed to have fit well into her work at the Tower, telling him about Thripple, the hedgehog who she gets to sit next to at work. She also reports that her mother had given birth to a baby boy. Needle was concerned about the fact that he was small and his hind claws were the tiniest bit curled up as he might be taken for culling. After Urchin cheers her up, she points him in the right direction to find Captain Padra.

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Needle before Aspen's wedding

However, when her brother Scufflen is brought to the Tower to be culled, Needle is distraught and blames Urchin for failing to save him. Later, Scufflen is saved by Lugg, and Needle is reunited with him in the Old Palace when she helps them escape Tay.

When Captain Husk and his mercenaries openly attack Captain Padra and the king's supporters at the Spring Festival, Needle helps Padra to fight Granite and, together with Crackle and Sepia, uses banners and garlands to trap some of Husk's mercenaries.

Urchin and the Heartstone[]

When it is discovered that the Heartstone disappeared, Needle organizes the search for it together with Hope, Sepia and Fingal. Together with Sepia, Needle thwarts the rebellious plans of Gorsen by fighting on King Crispin's side. When Urchin arrives home from Whitewings, she is very happy and talks a lot with him. During a snowball fight, she throws snowballs at Gleaner.

The Heir of Mistmantle[]

She is about to be appointed a member of the Circle along with Urchin, but asks to put off the ceremony when Princess Catkin is kidnapped. Needle becomes slightly jealous of Juniper because he is such good friends with Urchin, but she soon overcomes that. She and Urchin follow Juniper when he descends into Chamber of Candles to find Husk's body, but falls into an pit from a underground cliff, and Juniper helps to heal her injuries.

Later she is making a threading of Captain Lugg after his death, but when she made it she thought it was too lifelike and began to cry. Eventually, she and Urchin joined the Circle.

Urchin and the Raven War[]

When Needle is sewing in the Workrooms, she shows a Threading made by Myrtle, a new Workroom hedgehog, to Thripple, finding that it was odd. Eventually it is discovered that Myrtle sews prophetic designs into Threadings without realizing it.

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Needle and Thripple

When the animals of Mistmantle are preparing for the raven attack, Needle helps to hide the more precious and ancient Threadings to keep them from damage, as well as weaving a web in the windows of the Workrooms in the hope of keeping the ravens at bay. She and Crackle later helps fortify the Tower's interior against the ravens by dumping cooking oil, soapy water, and other slippery materials all over the floors to make it hard for the ravens to land inside the Tower.

When the ravens broke into the Tower, Needle along with Myrtle pretended to betray King Crispin and Mistmantle. When the Taloness commands them to make a Threading for the Silver Prince, Needle and Myrtle use the Threading Code to convey to Crispin the plan that they had previously worked out with Urchin to rescue Princess Catkin and defeat the ravens.

Urchin and the Rage Tide[]

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Appearance[]

Needle is a female hedgehog with long and very sharp spikes equal only to those of Ouch.

Personality[]

Needle is generally a kind hedgehog, but she also has a sharp temper, especially when she is stressed. She can be bossy and can easily organize other animals.

Gallery[]

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