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Seedpaw scrambled to her paws and shook the dust from her fur as Frogpaw released her.
"What has gotten into you today? I know you can do better than this." Rainfall stepped up to her apprentice from where she was watching with Molefur.
Seedpaw shrugged, flicking a scrap of moss beside her paw.
"Come on, we're going to go out hunting." She murmured. Louder, she asked Molefur, "Will you be okay on your own?"
Molefur nodded and Seedpaw trudged along behind Rainfall as she led the way into the forest. The gray-mottled she-cat turned on her apprentice. "Tell me."
"It's nothing." Seedpaw stared at her paws.
"If it was nothing you could focus. It is not nothing. You can tell me what's wrong, Seedpaw."
Seedpaw hesitated. "It's about Sagekit…"
"Oh… Just, just don't worry about it, okay? We'll find her.
"For once Seedpaw's mentor didn't seem to know what to say. She seemed to be trying to persuade herself just as much as Seedpaw.
Seedpaw shrugged. Of course she wouldn't understand.
"Well, let's hunt." Rainfall turned away, lifting her nose to the sky.
Seedpaw padded away in another direction, deep in thought. What had happened to Sagekit? She was positive that rogue they had met knew something. Why hadn't the other cats seen it? Why were they so simple-minded to believe that this small kit would just walk out of camp and not come back or hide so well that not even well-trained warriors could find her? None of it made sense. Seedpaw eventually realized her paws had carried her to the border between Dewclan and unclaimed forest. Fresh scent markers overlaid the musty scents of the forest, from the recently passed border patrol.
Seedpaw shook her head. She was thinking nonsense. It wasn't a rare occurrence for a curious kit to wander into the forest, she even remembered thinking about it while confined to the camp herself. And why wouldn't that rogue seem uneasy, she was being questioned by warriors! She was about to turn back, and hunt as her mentor had told her to, when she saw a flash of gray. She spun around as a big gray tom padded from the shadows. When he spotted Seedpaw his eyes flashed in surprise.
Seedpaw froze.
"My daughter." Stonefall whispered.
"Stonefall." Seedpaw would recognize the scent of her father anywhere.
Stonefall bounded to the apprentice, purring wildly. Seedpaw blinked. Her father! The one her mother had brought her and Frogpaw to see, once. She was still young when that visit had occurred, and the memory was fuzzy, but she remembered Mistcloud and Stonefall brushing against each other, purrs rumbling in their throats and Mistcloud murmuring happily as she told Stonefall the names of their kits. Stonefall had licked first Frogpaw, then Frogkit, on the head, then Seedkit. Then the purring and happiness had ended as a huge white and gray tom had appeared, snarling beside Stonefall and led him away. Seedpaw remembered all this. And she hadn't forgotten the last look of love and pain that Stonefall and Mistcloud had shared as Stonefall was dragged away by his leader.
"Seedpaw!"
Seedpaw's eyes widened. Rainfall was close-by. She had no prey, even if Stonefall got away before being spotted, how would she explain? But it was too late, Rainfall emerged from the rise, and surprise lit her blue eyes.
"What is going on here?" Rainfall stepped closer, her body ridged with shock and anger. "Who is this?"
And that's the end of the chapter! Purrfect, it's a cliffhanger… hehe… Hope you enjoyed! Please review, what did you think? And anything else you want to mention, REVIEW AWAY HUMANS! Or if you are another species, also REVIEW AWAY except you have a bonus question: What species are you? Hahaha I probably just lost a few followers. Sorry guys that's just the way I am, STRANGE. :D
