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Days had passed, and Sorrelpaw was carefully forming a plan. It would be perfect, but not foolproof. But they could probably defeat this loner and rescue Hollypaw. She had to clean the elders' den, so she decided to work on that while she worked on cleaning.
"What're you mumblin' about?" Purdy asked as she was laying out new bedding.
"Nothing," she replied. He didn't question her further. After just a bit longer, she finished, and Birchfall came in.
"You've finished. Okay, good. Do you want to come hunting with me?"
Sorrelpaw, puzzled, nodded her head. The tom beckoned her with his tail and they padded off together to the lakeshore.
"You've been planning, haven't you?" her mentor asked along the way.
"For what?" she asked, knowing what.
"An attack."
She smiled. "How could you tell?"
"You're my apprentice. I can always tell when you're up to something. When are you doing it?"
"In the next claw-moon, I hope. It will give us just enough light to see, and still easily stay hidden."
"That's in a little more than half a moon. Are you okay with that?"
"I've the outline of it planned already. All I need to do is plan the rest and tell it to Bramblestar, and wait for his approval. I can do that with time to spare."
"Would you be okay with telling me what you have?"
Sorrelpaw looked at her mentor, surprised. "Well, it starts when we go to the Moonpool on the claw-moon..."
After she finished, Birchfall looked at her proudly. She smiled, and she felt true joy inside her for the first time since what felt like forever.
"Sorrelpaw!" Bumblestripe called, unknowingly interfering with her moment. "We need you on the dusk patrol."
She got up, recovering herself. "Coming!" she called back, rushing to the cats that apparently were the dusk patrol. It also consisted of Poppyfrost, who appeared to be the leader, Fernpaw, Brightheart, and Spiderleg. Fernpaw and Sorrelpaw looked at each other, confused, because neither Birchfall nor Mousewhisker were with them. Brightheart leaned over to them.
"Your mentors and Bumblestripe thought you could probably go on patrols on your own now," she explained. The both quickly understood and began to pad along with the patrol.
There were no problems with ShadowClan, surprisingly. All of their scents were inside their border.
"Wow," Spiderleg commented, jokingly shocked. "This is incredibly rare."
Brightheart nudged the tom. "Come on, you stupid furball." He ran to Sorrelpaw's side.
"Hey, Sorrelpaw," he whispered, "What's all this I hear about you planning to attack the loner?"
"It's true," she answered. "I'm going to at the next claw-moon."
"Does anyone else know?"
"Not the details of it, and some cats don't know about it at all. Did Birchfall tell you?"
"Yeah." He opened his mouth, as if he was about to yowl the plan to the patrol.
"Don't you dare tell anyone!" she spat in his ear. He slunk away nervously and paid no attention to her now.
For a moment, she felt proud, until she realized what she did. Did I just control a warrior?
