As Holly recounts the miserable tale of the violent destruction of the Sandleford warren—and his narrow escape alongside Bluebell and two since-deceased rabbits named Pimpernel and Toadflax—he reflects on something one of the unlucky other rabbits said on their first night out in the wild. As Toadflax remarked that the men who gassed their warren, killed their friends, and dug up their land did it “to suit themselves,” the larger mechanisms of violence and power which rule the world beyond the rabbits’ purview come into play. The violence Hazel and his friends have encountered so far has only occasionally been…