This is my first time writing a story on here, so please cut me some slack!
Squirrelflight yawned and stretched luxuriously. Around her, cats started to wake up. I should start setting some patrols. She padded out of the warriors den and into the sunshine. Cats were starting to appear. She thought for a moment. I need, lets say, one border patrols and one hunting one. Or should a make that two?
She decided on one and started pondering which cats to choose.
"Ivypool! You will be on the border patrol! Take, let's see, Molewhisker, Lionblaze and Lilyheart." Ivypool nodded and, without a word, flicked her tail to summon her patrol as she headed out.
"And Cherryfall can take Dovewing, Hollyleaf, Cinderheart and Dustpelt." Squirrelflight continued.
"On it!" Cherryfall replied. Her patrol gathered around her as they, too, disappeared.
Squirrelflight turned to see Jayfeather padding towards her.
"Hi, Jayfeather. Can I help you?" She asked, dipping her head respectfully to the medicine cat.
"I need to gather a few herbs, but Leafpool insists I have a warrior go with me. Are there any that could come?"
Squirrelflight grinned. "I'll come with you!" Seeing the doubtful look on Jayfeather face, she pressed on, "I'm bored and it'll reassure Leafpool!"
"Fine." Jayfeather grumbled. "But don't treat me like a kit in the snow for the first time, got it?"
"Yes, Jayfeather." Squirrelflight sighed, smiling.
"While I'm picking some marigold, try to find some tansy." Jayfeather told Squirrelflight once they had left.
"Okay, what does it look like?" Squirrelflight replied.
"It has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent." Jayfeather called back, nipping some stems of marigold. He paused. "Squirrelflight, do you smell that?"
"All I can smell is this. Is it tansy?"
"Jayfeather sniffed. "Yes, what you have is tansy, but I also smell something else… another cat!"
Squirrelflight froze and sniffed carefully. "I think you're right… it's hard to tell."
"Should we go get Fire- Bramblestar?" Jayfeather had to force himself to not say their previous leader's name, the legendary Firestar. Squirrelflight blinked at him sympathetically.
"Let's first see what this cat is. If it's a kittypet, Bramblestar won't be too pleased!" Jayfeather agreed but before they could start searching, a pale gray she-cat emerged from behind a few bushes.
"I think you're looking for me." She meowed. Squirrelflight and Jayfeather leapt back, startled. The cat looked almost ghostly in the pale light. Almost like a cat from StarClan Jayfeather thought.
"Who- who are you?" Squirrelflight demanded, recovering from her shock.
"I'm Feather. What's a kittypet?" Feather asked curiously.
"A cat who lives with Twolegs. I'm Jayfeather and this cat here is Squirrelflight." Jayfeather replied.
"Twolegs?" Feather asked. "You mean those hairless pink creatures?"
"Yeah." Squirrelflight replied. "Sometimes cats live with them. We call the kittypets."
"Oh. No, I'm not one of them." Feather told them.
"Why are you here?" Squirrelflight pressed.
"It's a long story." Feather sighed.
"Please tell us!" Squirrelflight meowed.
Feather sighed, "Okay, here goes…"
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(Also, I am going to take forever to upload!)
