The next morning, SilverPaw woke up to one of the apprentices face in hers. "Your awake." he grunted and sat up to wash himself. "What's your name?" she asked the Tom. The white Tom answered without meeting her eye, "WhitePaw" he meowed. "SilverPaw do you want to go hunting?" Bluefur called. SilverPaw turned her attention to BlueFur and nodded as she made her way to the camp entrance. "Today, I am going to show you the borders and some sneak peeks." SilverPaw was a tad disappointed because she wanted to hunt, but seeing cool stuff was fun enough. The two raced out of the clearing.
They passed trees and shrubs until they came to a huge tree with spiraling branches. "Wow!" SilverPaw meowed in amazement. "This is the great sycamore. You will learn climbing here." BlueFur meowed licking her daughters head and continuing on. Eventually, they came to a pathway. It was clear. SilverPaw put her paw lightly on it. "No! don't!" BlueFur meowed angrily and pulled SilverPaw away. "Sorry." SilverPaw meowed her eyes big and fur standing on end.
"This is the thunder path never , and I mean never cross it." "Yes BlueFur." SilverPaw meowed understanding BlueFurs warning but was a tad annoyed. "What about over there?" SilverPaw said pointing her nose to the pine trees beyond the thunder path.
"Well what do you smell dear?" BlueFur asked. SilverPaw sniffed and scrunched her nose. It smelled of acid and sourness, it was awful. Though, she did smell an aggressive scent. "I do smell something other than the acid scent... Something aggressive," remarked SilverPaw. "Good very good." Praised BlueFur. "That is ShadowClan and they are quite aggressive." SilverPaw nodded in understanding. "That's enough for today. The Sun is setting."
SilverPaw turned to look to see a sky full of warm pastel colours. As the cats returned to camp, a fresh hunting patrol came and dumped the prey on the fresh kill pile.
"Bring some to the elders first." BlueFur ordered. SilverPaw picked out a bunch of prey and brought it to a fallen oak where she could here the elders gossiping the daily news. She entered the den and the elders turned their heads. "Ooo food." OneEye remarked picking a mouse. "Can you change the bedding?" OneEye asked, SilverPaw nodded and exited the den.
"This is the RiverClan border." Bluefur past few days had been boring. SilverPaw's mother could not train her because she had deputy things to do. They had stopped at the RiverClan border after learning to hunt. "SilverPaw?" BlueFur asked, "oh yeah, RiverClan." "Yes." She meowed.
"BlueFur PineStars needs you!" MouseFur shouted. BlueFur turned around. "Okay." Bluefur then looked at SilverPaw "Stay here" she meowed and disappeared into the bushes. SilverPaw looked around curiously. She saw stones leading across the river. She tilted her head. She was tempted to go across. Her suspicion overtook her ...