Prologue
Moonlight glowed silver on a ginger tabby's pelt. The ThunderClan cat moved swiftly, silently.
The trees around him began to fade as he came to the river.
A she-cat stood on the other side, her blue eyes glittering. She slid into the water, sleek silver pelt moving fluidly.
Climbing out as she reached the other side, she paused briefly to shake her pelt.
He nuzzled her. "Silverglow. I have Stealthkit, Silentkit, and Rosekit."
The she-cat looked troubled. "But Ambersky….where is Moonkit?"
Ambersky's eyes welled with tears. "She…didn't make it through the night."
He explained softly, looking at the three kits he'd carried to the RiverClan border. "You'll take care of them…right Silverglow? As though they were your own?"
The she-cat nodded. "They will be the siblings of my Sunkit. No cat in RiverClan shall know that these are my sister's kits." Silverglow had kitted that very day, and none had seen her litter.
She would tell none that these were the kits her sister had died giving birth to. The kits that had been fathered by Ambersky of ThunderClan.