A paw gently clipping Silverpaw's ear woke her up.
"Get up, Silverpaw, we're going on the dawn patrol." Birchfall hissed so he wouldn't wake up the other apprentices.
Silverpaw yawned and did as she was told. "Never had to wake up this early." she mumbled to herself. Birchfall heard her though.
"You'll get used to it." he assured her. "Come on, Rosepetal's waiting.
The dawn patrol consisted of Birchfall, Silverpaw, Graystripe and Rosepetal. As soon as it was assembled, the patrol headed towards the Windclan border.
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"Can you scent anything?" Birchfall asked his apprentice.
Silverpaw tasted the air, then said, "Windclan cats approaching, probably to renew their scent markers."
Sure enough, Leaftail, Breezepelt, and Ashfoot bounded up to them as they were renewing their markers.
Ashfoot looked at Silverpaw, and said, apparently shocked, "What in the name of Starclan are you doing here? You're the rogue from before!"
"I'm training as a Thunderclan apprentice, obviously." Silverpaw replied, annoyed. "Is there something wrong with me being here?"
Ashfoot sighed. "So you're taking in another rogue?"
"Why shouldn't we? She's a good fighter already. I heard she took on two Shadowclan warriors in our border skirmish two days ago." Birchfalll argued.
"It doesn't matter. Thunderclan isn't pureblooded anymore." Breezepelt broke in.
"And I suppose pureblooded warriors are the most important thing in the world to you, the way you treat Jayfeather and Lionblaze." Graystripe shot back.
The two patrols glared at each other.
"Whatever. We don't want to fight anymore." Rosepetal turned around.
"Ha. Cowards!" Leaftail shouted, taking a step towards the border.
Birchfall whipped around. "You wouldn't either if you just fought a battle two days ago!" Then the Thunderclan patrol bounded away into the forest.
"Should we follow them?" Breezepelt suggested.
"Nah. Onestar would be mad." Ashfoot told him. Both patrols went back to their camp.
