Darkwing woke up...

Back in Iceclan.

He slammed his head against the roof of the Warriors den as he sat up, confused as he could possibly be, wondering what in Cloudclan's name was going on.

Back in Iceclan. Was it all a dream?

The first thing he realized was that it was foggy... maybe he'd been damaged in his eyes.

Then, he noticed the aching he felt in his muscles. So... he had been somewhere.

"Im going crazy," was his first thought.

He rushed out of the den, ignoring the pain.

"Crimsonkit. Ive got to find Crimsonkit." He told himself.

Hold onto a thought, keep yourself sane.

Cats moved around, their heads low to the ground. At some point he thought he might have seen his friend Songheart, but the crowd of moving cats pushed him aside, not giving him a chance to ask what was going on.

He stopped, trying to calm himself down. This was so strange.

"I was talking to a spirit... and now i'm here."

And then he heard it. A she-cat yowling from the apprentice den, and unmistakably, his brothers voice.

He rushed in, to see some apprentice-sized cat he didn't recognize, sitting with his brother.

"You had a nightmare, didn't you?" Crimsonkit, or appeared to be Crimsonpaw now, asked the she-cat, who's face was so blurry he could hardly see.

"Crimson!" Darkwing called desperately.

Crimsonpaw turned his head and looked straight at Darkwing, horror appearing on his face.

And then his brother turned his head back toward the she-cat.

"Crimsonpaw!" He called again, this time yelling as loud as he could.

But if Crimsonpaw could hear him, he wasn't showing it, because all further attempts to communicate were failures.

He finally willed himself to move on, hoping to see any more cats he knew, but none of his friends appeared.

Whatever was going on, he was sure of atleast two things:

The first thing: He'd only been able to see his brother clearly. All others had been impossible to focus his eyes on, and didnt hear him at all.

And the second: His spirit had somehow gotten trapped in an Iceclan trance, with no way to wake himself up.