Skykit woke up with a chill running down her spine. She looked around her usually warm den which was now frozen in places. This leaf bare had not been kind and has frozen almost 40% of the camp. She stepped out of the den and instantly felt the gloominess of the camp. They say someone's attitude can be contagious and in this case, it's true. You walk into camp happy and leave in total despair. Skykit looks at the fresh kill pile and notices there are only two mice in it.

She observed the cats that sit in camp and how small they've all gotten. They've all tried saving all of the food for the kits but, Skykit wouldn't take it. She would rather die than one of the Warriors, the ones catching the food in the first place, to die. Skykit has gone out on multiple occasions to get her own food and hasn't got caught yet. All of the other kits take their share of food they didn't catch greedily. Except one cat, her "partner in crime",Rockkit. Every day, after the warriors told the kits goodnight and went to their own dens, Rockkit and Skykit would sneak out to get their own food. Rockkit's brown fur made it easy to blend in but his vivid yellow eyes gave him away. Skykit had the opposite problem. Her light gray and white fur gave her away but, she would cover herself with dirt to blend in better.

One day while they were hunting, they stopped on a hill and looked up at the hundreds of twinkling stars above them. "Skykit, why do we do this?" Rockkit asked her. "What?" "Why? Why do we do this? Sneaking out at night, hunting for our own food when we could just take all the food we want?" Skykit looked at the ground, giving it some serious thought. After a couple of minutes Skykit looked back up, "Well, I do it because in my eyes, it's not fair. Yes we're young but, we don't deserve something we didn't catch. And if the warriors die of hunger, who's there to find us food now? No one. And you do it because you're proud. You're too proud to let someone else supply you with food. You want to control your own life." Rockkit nodded. "And that's what makes us such a great team. We have different reasons but both have the same conclusion. We won't take food from anyone." Skykit nodded and looked over at Rockkit, who was already staring at her. She looked back down and blushed. "Well, we should probably get back to camp before the sun starts coming up." Rockkit agreed and they both headed back to camp. They were silent but a million things were flooding Skykit's head. She wanted to do more for the clan than just feed herself and she knew Rockkit wanted to too. She wanted to do something more.

They reached camp and sneaked into the nursery. They laid down their food in the pile. Skykit was hiding it with straw when she heard Rockkit whisper. "Uh...Skykit?" "Hold on! I'm trying to get this covered up!" She whispered back. "Sk..Skykit. You need to see this." Skykit huffed and whirled around. "What is it?" She looked up directly at the face of Metalwave. "Uh oh.."