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Here's the next chapter. Enjoy!

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Berrynose bounded out of camp and sprinted away toward ShadowClan's border. When he reached it, he leapt right across it and kept going only a little more cautiously. His internal struggle had forced him to think about his reasons for avoiding Dawnpelt, and he had realized that the real reason was fear. He was afraid of losing someone else he cared about like he'd lost Honeyfern. But he was a warrior, and he wasn't going to let his fear control him anymore.

When he got close to the entrance to the ShadowClan camp, he crouched behind a thick clump of weeds and peered out through a gap, watching the entrance carefully. Every time a cat came or went, he hunkered down closer to the ground and flattened his ears.

He saw four cats come and go before he finally caught sight of Dawnpelt leaving the camp.

"Dawnpelt!" he hissed. He knew it was a risk, but he had to do it. She looked around at the sound of his voice, searching for its source. "Over here."

She approached slowly, careful to look as though she was going nowhere in particular. Then, suddenly, she leapt over him and started back toward ThunderClan, muttering,

"Follow me."

He followed her back almost all the way to the border till she stopped in a hollow hidden behind a bunch of bushes.

"What did you want?" she asked curtly.

"To see you." he replied very quietly, afraid that she was angry at him. She blinked at him in surprise, but then something akin to warmth lit in her eyes.

"Why?"

"Because..." he began, touching his nose lightly to her shoulder, "I-" But as he was about to tell her, there were pawsteps nearby.

"Run!" Dawnpelt hissed urgently, shoving him with her shoulder. When he didn't move, "Meet me on the border at moonhigh. Now, run!"

He ran.

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