Two moons had passed by after Liongaze and Emberflower had found Flamefur in the sink hole. Liongaze had all but forgotten about the encounter and was padding over to Sunstreak, his former apprentice, to relieve him from his vigil. Sunpaw had been the only apprentice left in SkyClan and the birth of Icebird's and Flamefur's new kits, Dawnkit, Firekit, and Ashkit, would be quite helpful for the younger warriors who still needed to tend to the elders.

"Your vigil's over," Liongaze mewed happily to the new warrior. "Go and rest."

Sunstreak nodded, yawned, and quickly trotted off for the warrior's den. Liongaze found himself yawning, too, and picked a mouse from the fresh-kill pile as Emberflower padded over.

"Have you seen Flamefur?" she asked as Liongaze started to wolf down the mouse.

He gave his licks a few lips and shook his head. "He just left for the dawn patrol."

"Who went with him?"

"Tigerpelt, Blueflower, and Copperstream," he answered. "Something wrong?"

"Yes! I wanted to talk to about what happened at the sink hole," she mewed and lashed her tail. "Or did you forget about that already?"

"I haven't forgotten." He scuffed his paw on the dirt for a minute. "I just don't think it's that big of a deal. I mean, if he's going mad then we would have figured that out by now. He just had a nightmare."

"Nothing's that simple, Liongaze!" Emberflower hissed and Liongaze could tell her bottled up rage was finally going to come out.

"Okay, okay, okay!" he mewed gently. "Once he comes back, we'll talk to him."

Emberflower fixed his gaze with a glare. "Good."

Liongaze nodded and flicked his tail. There was silence between them for the longest moment before Liongaze couldn't take her glare anymore. "Is there something you want to say?" he hissed.

Emberflower looked away from him. "Nothing we can talk about now."

"Then how about we take a walk?" he suggested and took a step towards the camp entrance. "We need to talk about this already!"

"Liongaze, I don't think it'll be that easy!" Emberflower mumbled but followed after him.