Prologue
"Run, Sunstar, run!" Tigerfur's panicked shriek split the air.
Sunstar looked behind him and saw that an enormous brown dog was after him. Sunstar got to his paws and sprinted across the moore.
He could feel the dog's hot breath on his tail. Sunstar glanced behind himself and saw that the dog was almost on top of him. He felt a sharp pain in his tail as the dog grabbed it. Sunstar felt his breath being knocked out of him as the dog swiped him aside with a mighty paw.
The dog was on him now. Mudtail will make a good leader when I'm gone, he thought.
Then the dog closed its teeth around his throat and the world went dark.