I was so scared. But I wasn't going to let my children die. I couldn't... I don't think I would be able to live with that. I had to protect my children, at all costs. And since Johnathan wasn't around to do it... I had to.

I... I went and visited the Great Owl. I begged him, and begged him, to help me, to give me some sort of clue. Something that I could do to save Timmy. ...It was my husband, again, that saved me. Because even in death, he left his name with me. The owl only told me once hearing that I was Mrs. Johnathan Brisby that the Rats of N.I.M.H. could help me.

And when I went to seek their aid, it was only Johnathan's name that let them turn their ears towards me.

I felt as if I was using my husband. As if being his wife was simply a tool in getting what I wanted. But...