“Fool!” the creature hissed. “Everything is afraid of me; foxes, badgers, horses, cattle, cats, dogs... even humans! Isn’t that true, mouse?”
For a young and inexperienced hedgehog, abandoned by his mother, the world can be perilous enough - but when you are a one-in-ten-thousand white hedgehog - and you stand out like a midnight moon - you are going to need a whole lot of luck and some very special friends.