Jaypaw woke, startled by a strange noise, like pawsteps just beside his ear. With a jolt he realized that he could see. The landscape around him was green and rolling, a meadow with small white flowers. The tips of the blades of grass were touched silver by a moon that was just less than full.

He was dreaming.

He snorted. Got your hopes up, didn't you? he told himself. You can see! ..Yeah, right. StarClan doesn't have enough power to do that.

"You really shouldn't be so cynical about StarClan's abilities," meowed a voice gruffly, and Jaypaw looked up sharply. It was Yellowfang, to his annoyance. Couldn't the old fool just leave him and his dreams alone?

"What do you want?" he growled.

"Do you know all of StarClan's powers?" continued Yellowfang as if he had not spoken. "Do you know what we could do to you?"

"No, I don't, but I know that you won't do anything," challenged Jaypaw. "You're not supposed to interfere," he mocked her.

A look of anger briefly crossed Yellowfang's face, but disappeared just as quickly as it had come. "You pay attention."

"I always do," snapped Jaypaw.

"That's a lie," snorted Yellowfang. "You, pay attention? I think not."

"What are you talking about, you old long-tooth?" Jaypaw was on his paws now, bristling with anger. Why did StarClan cats always beat around the bush about things? Why couldn't they just come out and say it?

"Why, why, why," mocked Yellowfang as if she'd heard. "It's always 'why' with you, isn't it? Why this, why that, why does the world hate me."

Jaypaw's skin burned with embarrassment. "That's not how it is."

"Of course it is," Yellowfang meowed pleasantly. "Jaypaw, you have not lived a twelvemoon, not many twelvemoons as I have. You have not experienced The Moon of No Boundaries."

"What is that?" hissed Jaypaw cautiously.

"It comes next moon," replied Yellowfang. "It is the moon each twelvemoon when no boundaries exist between the Clans. It was a law set down between the leaders of the Clans at the daytime Gathering not too long ago, set in secret, to be announced soon. It is meant to briefly dissolve Clan boundaries and allow cats of all Clans to speak with one another on friendly terms."

"What does that have to do with me?"

"Oh, you'll see," purred Yellowfang. "It'll be funny when it happens, too."

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes and unsheathed his claws, though he wasn't going to attack the elderly old she-cat. "Get out of my dream," he hissed.

"Gladly," replied Yellowfang cheerily, and then she was gone.

-x-

When Jaypaw woke next, he really was awake, out of the dreamworld where he could see. But he hadn't forgotten Yellowfang's words about 'The Moon of No Boundaries'. He thought about asking Leafpool, who he could hear breathing relaxed in sleep, but then recalled that only the leaders knew about it. Except for him, of course.

Well, that made him feel a little powerful.

But now he was left to wonder why Yellowfang told him about this special moon. What did that have to do with him? It wasn't as if any cat would let him go into other Clans' territories anyway. After all, he was blind. He wouldn't be able to take care of himself there.

That filled him with a surge of anger and a sudden impatience for this so-called Moon of No Boundaries. That was when he would take his chance. He would show them all!

Very very special purrs to Rainfeather's Hope for letting me use her "Moon of No Boundaries" idea!