In chapters 21-24, After they leave the Boniface Estate, the didn't know where to live. They went to Thorn Valley. When they got there they were looking around the woods and they came across a crashed truck in the forest. They read the words on the side of the truck that said Toy Tinker. They looked inside the truck and t hey found lots of tools. They took some tools back to the cave. Nicodemus then told Mrs. Frisby that it was time to go feed Dragon, and Justin said he would go to. Mrs. Frisby went in from a hole under the counter. She was about to put the powder in when she was surrounded with something. She was captured! She was put in a cage. The next day the Fitzgibbon Family was eating dinner and Mrs. Frisby overheard Mr. Fitzgibbons talking about the news. He said that he saw that the news said that in a hard ware store, the workers found seven dead rats! The newspaper said that they seemed to be chewing on a cord in the wall and got electrocuted.