Spiderkit stretched out her small body and yawned. Her eyes found their way to the entrance of the nursery. Darkness. A bright glow of happiness grew from her eyes. She looked beside herself and noticed Teeterkit, sleeping quietly.
"Teeterkit." the half asleep she-kit mewed softly, "Teeterkit, it's dark out now." she nudged her brother gently, urging him awake.
"Huh?" Teeterkit blinked, "Spiderkit?" he lazily looked up at at the black kit. He got to his paws and stretched out slightly.
"Lets go." she purred excitedly. "Frogscreech will be waiting." Spiderkit padded out of the nursery trying her hardest not to make any noise. She led Teeterkit, and herself, towards the elders den.
"Hello?" the tiny tom squeaked, "Frogscreech? Snaketooth?" Teeterkit took a few paces forward, only to be bumped into.
"Oh." the raspy voice of Frogscreech whispered, "Didn't see you there. Now come on you two, I'll introduced you to Snowtiger."
"Okay." Spiderkit said, barely noticed. She felt her paws easily take her into the soft hollow of the elders den. As they made it to the center of the den, Spiderkit looked up, and through the fern and branches, there was a clear opening to the night sky.
"Whoa." Teeterkit murmured under his breath, "It's beautiful."
Spiderkit had to agree with her brother, the sky was a silky black, dotted with uncountable stars. She could feel all of them staring down on her, watching over her. She blinked and a shudder shot through her. It was a cold, very cold breeze that ruffled her pelt. Since it was late in the night, she let the odd feeling slide.
Frogscreech looked up and spoke, "You'll have to look carefully, but I'm sure you two will be able to find her." he lifted his tail and pointed to the sky, "Do you see that large cluster near the moon?" he asked quietly.
Spiderkit and her brother both looked up in unison, quickly spotting the cluster in the sky. Spiderkit squinted at one star in particular. It was whiter, brighter than the others. "Is that her? The bright white one?" the kit asked in a hushed whisper. Something instantly told her that was her.
Teeterkit stood, scanning the sky, "They all look bright, and white." he shook his head.
"You'll see it, you"ll see it." the old from purred, sitting next to the sandy kit. The three stayed silent, and watched the night sky for some time more. The black kit watched intently, half expecting something to happen. She shivered and looked up at Frogscreech. Then to her brother.
"Frogscreech," the she-kit peeped, "I'm going back to the nursery."
"Me too." Teeterkit whispered into the night air.
"Of course. You two have a good night." he nodded and looked back up at the sky.
Spiderkit carefully picked her way through the mossy tunnel. Before she left, she looked up on last time, staring in awe at the warriors of StarClan. Spiderkit began moving her small body forward again, back to the nursery.
Cloudfluff raised her head as her two kits came trotting in, "How was it? Did you enjoy yourself?" her voice was a smooth purr.
"Great." Teeterkit mewed, keeping his voice low in an effort to not wake the other queen of the nursery, Troutsplash.
"Good, good. Now come get some rest you two." she warapped her tail around the little bundles of fur that stared at her.
Spiderkit yawned, "Okay." her voice trailed off and in response, she snuggled into her mothers side. She felt the warmth of her mothers pelt fill her body, causing her to became much sleepier than moments before. "Night." the black kit purred, falling into sleep.
When Spiderkit awoke the next morning, she only felt her brother sleeping next to her. Without waking him, she quickly bounced to her paws, and scurried up the cotton wood. Spiderkits black fur fluffed up in the light newleaf breeze. Where she was perched, she watched the morning unfold. All three apprentices were already awake. Two warriors, Quaketail and Icicleclaw made their way out on patrol. Shatterbrooks injury must have healed since she was outside with the rest of didn't see her father, not yet.
"Oof!" Teeterkit squeaked as he pulled himself up next to his sister, "How do you climb so well?" he looked at her with his tiny head tilted slightly to the side.
She purred a small giggle as she watched him scramble to stay up an the branch. "Well, I come up here everyday. I guess i just taught myself." she smiled. With a quick pounce she was off the branch, and planted firmly on the ground.
Teeterkits eyes grew wide, "Oh." he tried to imitate Spiderkits actions. Sure, he didn't jump off the greatest, but he landed on all four paws. "I did it!" he purred.
As the two walked out the nursery, they watched for passing cats. The sun was almost at the height of its journey. Not too many cats were left in the camp, aside from Shatteredbrook and Puddlestep, and of course Owlwhisper, all activty was happened elsewhere. Spiderkit felt herself sigh, not much to be done.
As the day grew on, and the sun began to set, all the cats were back in the camp. Smokeflower was with Quakeatil, and her apprentice, Widepaw, all eating together. Reedpaw sat with her sister, and their two mentors, Rushingbreeze, and the deputy, Heronflight. Puddlestep and Icicleclaw sat together. And Owlwhisper was eating alongside Patchstar. Spiderkit only watched the activities of camp from a distance, not wanting to disturb any of the tired cats.
The sun was only visible for a little while longer, then disappeared revealing the night sky. Once agin she looked up in amazment at the night. As days went on, Spiderkit grew more and more fascinated with the darkness of a nights sky. She'd watch for great amounts of time, wondering the names of each warrior that watched her from above.
"Spiderkit, Teeterkit." Cloudfluff nudged the two awake, "Today is the day you'll become apprentices."