DIRECT CONTINUATION OF WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF ENDLESS COUGH

"Nothing." Echobreeze said. "No, you meant something. What?" Ivymist asked firmly. "There is a..." Echobreeze hesitated, not sure if she should continue. "Prophecy about me, Treespirit, Endlessheart, Sunpaw, and Blazepaw." She finished. "Okay." Ivymist said as though she didn't care. She walked over to a corner of the den, then turned around. "I know." She added. "Wait... How did you know?" Treespirit asked, wincing as he shifted in his nest.

"I see things, and then the reasoning surfaces in a dream where a cat that died tells me about what I realized. Most of the time I don't notice." Ivymist explained.

"No, Starclan send you dreams." Greenpaw said. The cats flinched as they realized Greenpaw was there.

"Like Twilightstar told me, I don't have to believe you to respect that you believe it." Ivymist said, turning to look at Greenpaw.

"What is the prophecy?" Treespirit asked.

"A breeze will echo off the walls of the stars themselves, bringing on the battle, dusk will be defeated, but the blaze won't be enough. The sun will have light the path, night and tree will follow, the heart will reunite them, but only temporarily, as the threat of breath persists, the breeze will find a way, to block the tunnel that the stars have made, to prevent the end that seems so near, will the breeze find out in time is still a mystery, even to the stars themselves. Dusk will become a threat again, if the breeze doesn't find out, that the heart has been seeing deaths in dreams, the sun will scare away the dusk, but the end of the clans will still come, despite the attempts of the stars themselves. If the sun scares away the dusk, after the breeze finds out, the clans will survive until the end of the stars themselves." Echobreeze recited.

Ivymist started mumbling to herself, then looked up. "That is definitely referring to those cats." She said.

"Couldn't be a bit vaguer, could you?" Treespirit said.

"Oh, I can be vaguer." Ivymist said.

"I'm not crippled!" Endlessheart yelled.

"You are. Four out of the five cats in the prophecy are basically, well, to put it directly, crippled." Ivymist said.

It turned out three of those for cats were in the den. "No we're not!" Echobreeze, Endlessheart, and Treespirit yelled. Ivymist purred. "You are." She said. "Echobreeze, if you took off that device, you wouldn't be able to be a warrior. Treespirit, only one cat has been known to fully recover from a broken leg. Endlessheart, if feverfew and wet moss didn't exist, you would be dead. Treespirit is the only one of you three who has a chance to fully recover. I know how to fully heal a broken leg." Ivymist explained to the listening cats.

A cat appeared at the entrance. In was Morningflight. "Is Treespirit okay?" She asked. "The only injury he seems to have is a broken leg." Ivymist reported.

Morningflight turned to her son. "Does it hurt?" She asked. "Yes. Obviously." Treespirit said. "What happened?" Morningflight seemed to ask the air. "I fell of a rock." Treespirit said. "I meant how did you fall off the rock." Morningflight corrected herself. Treespirit's expression changed. "I don't want to talk about it." He said, then turned to Ivymist. "Though I wouldn't mind talking to Twilightstar about it." Treespirit didn't seem to notice that Morningflight looked hurt. "Okay." Morningflight said as she walked out. Echobreeze could see that she was trying not to look hurt. "How could you be so ignorant, Treespirit?" Echobreeze yelled as she stormed out of the den after Morningflight

Echobreeze found Morningflight under a bush. She sat down in front of the bush, careful not to crack the sticks holding her spine and back legs in position. Morningflight seemed to be staring through Echobreeze.

"You okay?" She asked.

Morningflight shook herself. "Echobreeze." She said, as though addressing her.

"Yes, my name is Echobreeze." Echobreeze said.

"No, I'm not okay." Morningflight said.

"That was mouse-brained of Treespirit." Echobreeze said.

"He didn't know what he was doing." Morningflight said.

"That doesn't give him the right to do it." Echobreeze said.

"He just wasn't ready for me to know yet. He wanted to tell Twilightstar instead. I don't understand why that bothers me so much." Morningflight said.

"The most likely reason it bothers you is probably that Twilightstar isn't related to Treespirit. It would be different if he wanted to tell me or Endlessheart, wouldn't it?" Echobreeze offered.

"I guess it would. It also might be because I want to help him, but he doesn't want it." Morningflight said.

"It could be both reasons. Would it help to think about why he didn't want to talk to you about it?" Echobreeze offered.

"Maybe." Morningflight said, sounding optimistic.

"Treespirit might not want to talk to you about because he doesn't want you to know, or to worry, if it's possible to worry about whatever it is." Echobreeze said.

"Why wouldn't he want me to know? I'm his mom!" Morninglight said.

"He might not be ready for you to know." Echobreeze said lamely.

"He treats Twilightstar like a replacement Treefrost!" Morningflight yelled.

"Is that a bad thing?" Echobreeze asked.

"I don't think so." Morningflight said.

"Twilightstar was his mentor." Echobreeze said.

"I know. Do you really think I would forget that?" Morningflight asked playfully.

"No. I'm just saying it might have something to do with it." Echobreeze explained.

"Twilightstar was your mentor, too." Morningflight said.

"I know." Echobreeze said.

Echobreeze could here the pawsteps of a cat coming towards them. She turned towards the sound and saw Ivymist heading towards them.

Echobreeze turned back to Morningflight. "Twilightstar did always treat Treespirit like a son, though." Morningflight said sadly.

"Because he didn't have the chance to with Ivymist." Echobreeze said.

"He had a chance." Ivymist said. Echobreeze realized she was close enough for them to hear her.

"He missed Brightleaf." Echobreeze said, turning to look at Ivymist as she sat down next to them.

"I hardly knew who Brightleaf was!" Ivymist said.

"He didn't actually do any duties for a moon." Morningflight said.

"Brightleaf was six moons older than him. I always thought that it was strange they liked each other." She added, looking at the ground.

"I knew that Brightleaf was older, but not six moons older! That would be like a just-born kit liking an apprentice." Ivymist said.

"Luckily they only started liking each other during the brief time they were both apprentices." Morningflight said, shifting her front paws as though this conversation were making her uncomfortable.

"Is Treespirit okay?" Morningflight asked turning to look Ivymist.

"He will be." Ivymist said.

"Why is Twilightstar so playful?" Echobreeze blurted out before she could stop herself.

"I don't know." Ivymist said.

"Why are kits playful?" Morninglight asked.

"Because they're young... I guess." Ivymist said.

"Is Twilightstar young?" Ivymist asked.

"Is 27 moons old young?" Morningflight asked.

"Not compared to kits." Echobreeze said.

"Echobreeze, Treespirit wanted to know what you meant by 'How could you be so ignorant?'" Ivymist said.

"I meant what he thinks I meant." Echobreeze said.

"What did you mean?" Ivymist asked.

"What do you think I meant?" Echobreeze shot back, bristling with anger.

"Echobreeze, how could I possibly know what you meant?" Ivymist asked calmly.

Echobreeze stood up, and tried to think of the most offensive thing she could say to Ivymist. "Ask StarClan!" She yelled running off into the woods. How could Ivymist and Treespirit be so ignorant?

"Echobreeze, come back!" Morningflight yelled behind her. "No! Tell Twilightstar I'm leaving EarthClan!" She yelled, continuing to run.