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Chapter 3

"Don't get angry, please, that's not what I meant. Why didn't you tell anyone, like one of your sisters?"

Nightpaw looked down with her sightless eyes. "I've lived my life looking at a black world. I thought that when I was an apprentice it wouldn't matter. I knew that if Firestar found out that I was blind then he wouldn't let me become a warrior and I would have to go to the elders' den. I was wrong."

"If you got around as a kit blind then you deserve to be an apprentice," Spiderleg meowed.

"What will I do? Firestar stopped my training, so Sandstorm won't train me-"

Nightpaw stopped talking, raised her head so her eyes were even to Spiderleg's. "Unless you train me."

Spiderleg and Nightpaw went back to camp with their jaws crammed with fresh-kill. Almost every cat in the Clan was up when they arrived back at camp. And almost every cat up thought that Spiderleg had caught all that since Nightpaw was blind.

"Do you want me to talk to Firestar about letting you go to the Gathering?" Spiderleg asked once the dropped off their fresh-kill.

Nightpaw nodded. "I'll get you some fresh-kill.'

"Okay," Spiderleg replied. He went to Firestar's den and called, "Firestar?"

"Come in."

"Firestar, could Nightpaw go to the Gathering tonight?" Spiderleg asked.

"No, Spiderleg," Firestar meowed at once. "I've been thinking about it and I've decided."

"But Firestar, if she can't go to one in her life since she's blind, at least let her go to this one!" Spiderleg begged.

Firestar looked at Spiderleg with a look that said that that makes me rethink everything. "All right, she can go, but I want you to stay with her."

"Thank you, Firestar," Spiderleg meowed, padding out of the den.

Spiderleg padded over to Nightpaw, who was eating a piece of fresh-kill and had a piece beside her. "What did he say?"

"You can go, but you have to stay with me."

"Where else would I go? I'm blind," Nightpaw meowed with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.

Spiderleg stared at her with awe. "How do you do it?" he asked.

"Do what?"

"Live even though you're blind."

There was silence, "I don't know," Nightpaw meowed finally. "I guess that since I live through being a kit blind it comes natural."

"The cats that are coming to the Gathering are Dustpelt, Brackenfur, Sorreltail, Brambleclaw, Squirrelflight, Rainwhisker, Ivypaw, Spiderleg, and Nightpaw," Firestar announced. "We are leaving now."

Nightpaw walked beside Spiderleg out of camp. Spiderleg didn't need to tell Nightpaw when they came to the stream that divided WindClan and ThunderClan.

The ThunderClan party met up with the cats from WindClan. Brambleclaw, who was padding behind Spiderleg, started to talk to Crowfeather.

Spiderleg wondered why Crowfeather all of a suddenly started going over to a cat from a different Clan. He had seen him before and he wouldn't talk to them until they were on the island.

"How are you going to cross the tree, Nightpaw?" Crowfeather asked. "It's a fallen tree."

"I'm not a helpless kit you know," Nightpaw growled.

"But you are-" Crowfeather never finished.

"Yes, but that doesn't mean I'm helpless," Nightpaw hissed. "I don't want everyone to know that I'm blind! Why do you care anyways?"

For once Spiderleg didn't butt into the argument. He walked watching. Spiderleg watch that Crowfeather was speechless and couldn't find what to say.

Now Brambleclaw had an answer. "Nightpaw, what is with you? You've never been this rude."

"Maybe because no one has ever judged me before," Nightpaw retorted.

"I didn't mean it that way!" Crowfeather apologized.

Think, when has Crowfeather ever apologized? I don't know of that he has ever. R&R!