BEHIND BARS - LEAFPOOL AND CROWFEATHER
Leafpool's Pov
As I looked at my love, his black pelt shining in the moonlight, I felt the bars close around me. I was behind the bars of the Clans, looking out at those that were free. I wanted to break free of those bars, to race away, free. The warrior code was the bars that kept us apart.
"We're behind bars, Leafpool. The Clans, their code, everything about them is the bars that binds us!" Crowfeather looked tired. Their forbidden love had taken it's toll from both of them.
I looked at him sadly. "These bars are all that keep us from the unknown, Crowfeather. The bars will keep us out as well as in if we live."
Crowfeather bowed his head. "Please, Leafpool."
That was the night they ran away together.
I had to go back. "Crowfeather," I began. "Those bars are all I know. We must go back."
But the bars would always be what kept us apart.
