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It was a few moons later, and the sun was just coming up. All the kits were up. Except Silverkit. She was the only one in the whole clan still asleep, not counting the elders.

"Wake up, sis!" Firekit yowled in her ear.

She groaned and rolled over. Moonkit looked over, and said, "Oh, let her be. If she wants to sleep away her chance at training, let her."

Silverkit jumped up fasting that thought possible, fully awake, and said, "What training!?"

Moonkit and Firekit laughed and told her Oreclaw would be willing to let her watch while she cured a warrior's ear mites. Silverkit walked proudly over, she wanted to be a medicine cat so bad! She would be first to ask, so neither of her brothers would the place.

Even so, Moonkit wanted to be a warrior, and Firekit wanted to become a warrior, then a deputy. Snowpool, the current deputy, always told him he had a lot of training to do. Then Firekit would puff his chest and say he would handle it easily.

They were quite the litter, and were the only kits in the clan, though Eveningheart, another queen, was expecting.

Silverkit ran the whole way, once stumbling and flipping before correcting herself, to Oreclaw's den. Once she arrived, Oreclaw laughed at her Silverkit's now dusty fur and said," A little early, aren't we?"

Silverkit, gasping for air, said, "What time should I be here! I came as soon as I was told!"

"I have to help Dashflight, she has a thorn in her paw. Then I'll start with Furmoon's ear mites"

"Can I watch you help Dashflight?" she asked, grinning her widest.

"You've watched me take out thorns so many times!"

"So? That means I can learn the process even more!"

"Fine. You can even help. Go get a mouthful of karoroot and start chewing it up into a salve when she gets here and I remove the thorn."

"Ok!"

They waited a few minutes, Silverkit tail thrashing around, until Dashflight came in limping. She looked annoyed, but when she saw Silverkit, she smiled.

"So I see you have a helper today, Oreclaw!"

"As usual."

Silverkit ran to the herbs and found some karoroot and brought it back. She asked if it was right, and her meows were muffled because she was holding it in her mouth.

"Ish dish dee wight une?"

"Yes, good job."

She started chewing it up while Oreclaw got the thorn out. There was a brief yowl from Dashflight, then she looked happy.

"I don't think I need medicine anymore! It doesn't hurt!"

"It will when you stand on it! Silverkit, you may now apply."

Silverkit spit it out onto her paw and rubbed it on the paw. Then Oreclaw gave the usual speech of staying off of it and being careful. Dashflight thanked her as she walked out.

"Thanks Oreclaw! And you too Silverkit!"

Oreclaw went to go find Furmoon, and left Silverkit with instructions to be careful. Silverkit promised and sat down. She looked around while she waited, examining the many roots and herbs around the den, the sweet scent of the plants filling her small nose.

She was looking and smelling until Oreclaw returned with a very unhappy Furmoon. He was shaking his head, and his ears we covered in specks of black.

Oreclaw looked at Silverkit and said, "It's not too often we get ear mites here in Sparkclan, but it's good to be prepared."

Furmoon layed down on his back as Oreclaw examined his ears. Silverkit watched as herbs and salves, and at one point, catnip, to a yowling Furmoon. Once he tasted the herbs, his tongue lolled out and his eyes crossed.

"This is one of the more rewarding moments of being a medicine cat," Oreclaw giggled.

When the catnip wore off, Furmoon has been ridden of the mites, and the itching was subdued.

He walked off and Oreclaw called out, "If it starts itching again, come back for more salve."

Once he was out of sight, Oreclaw collapsed and sighed. She seemed really tired, even though it wasn't even sunhigh.

"Are you okay Oreclaw?"

"Yes, I'm just tired. I had a dream last night about an herb I need to stock up on and I can't find any. And no, you can't help, the herb is too dangerous."

Silverkit looked disappointed, but didn't argue with the exhausted feline.

She tried to cheer up her role-model by saying, "Hey! I haven't had anything to eat yet, and I can tell you haven't, so let's go to the fresh-kill pile! Ashspots caught the juiciest vole yesterday for me, and I'd be happy to share it!"

Oreclaw smiled at the little kit, and agreed.

They walked to the pile and began eating. Just as Oreclaw was finishing up, Goldstar called to her.

"Oreclaw! I need to ask you something. Silverkit! Finish up and don't leave wasted kill."

Silverkit looked a little sad and uttered, "O-Ok then."

Goldstar sighed and looked around, then walked off with Oreclaw, towards her den.

Silverkit looked around and gulped down the rest of her vole. She ran towards Oreclaw's den, very curious.

Oreclaw was working on something small, orange, and it was coughing very bad. Was that…?

It was Firekit! She gasped then shrank back, listening.

"He sniffed some deathberries and got some of the fumes in him. There's a root that could save him, blueheart flower root, but I can't seem to find any…and the thing is, I just had a dream about it, a dream in which I needed to find some, but the was fire in my den, and a streak of a shiny gray color had gotten it for me." Oreclaw said, a tear falling from her eye.

Silverkit backed up. She had to save her brother! She ran out to look for the flower she had seen only once before, and as she ran, but as she ran she heard the rest of the conversation.

"What was the streak of gray?"

"Well it was more of a silver…..Silverkit! We have to make sure she doesn't go looking for it!"

"I left her by the kill-pile."

"Make sure she's still there!"

Silver kit ran on.

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~WL9