Moonheart woke by the murmurs outside the den. Cherrypaw came running to her. "Moonheart! R-Ripplestream is back!" Moonheart jumped. It have been three nights after Smokekit, Icekit, Cinderkit, and Tawnykit came to ThunderClan and Moonheart was becoming more and more worried. They promised two nights, not three.
Moonheart hurried out. "Ripplestream! I missed you so much! Where'd you go?" She mewed with half lie and half truth.
"Moonheart! I missed you too!"
"Is that you, Ripplestream?" Firestar emerged in.
"Yes, Firestar. It's me."
Moonheart rested her tail on her sister's shoulder. With an excited mew, she meowed, "Ripplestream came back!"
"Congratulations, Moonheart." Lionblaze mewed.
"Where'd you go?" Firestar asked.
"I'll explain everything. May we talk somewhere quiet?" Ripplestream asked.
"Sure. Come to my den." Firestar replied.
"I went out hunting squirrels alone. Did Bramblestorm tell you?"
"Yes."
"Well, I spotted a squirrel and I was stalking it. Clumsy me stepped on the wrong spot and I fell into the stream near WindClan border. I tried to get back on the land, but the water was too high for me. I thought I knew my territory well, so I swam with the current until the water got shallow. I got on land, but I was lost. I didn't know where I was. Trees were everywhere. I just kept walking when I came really close to a monster. Twolegs caught me and I was trapped in a monster." Ripplestream meowed.
"How did you escape?"
"My parents. My parents saved me. They opened my cage by prying it. Jake, your brother, and Lily, your brother's wife, saved me." Ripplestream's eyes were filled with sorrow as she thought about her parents. They threw Ripplestream, Hazelfall, and Moonheart in the woods, and they left them. Then they met Firestar. The moment she saw him she knew. That Jake, her father, was Firestar's brother. But she didn't tell. She was scared her siblings and she would be thrown out again. Though not anymore. Ripplestream saw love and sorrow in her parents' eyes. She was proud.
"Y-You are my niece. I've always thought Hazelfall looked a lot like me." Firestar's voice was filled with sadness and sorrow. He was trembling, too. Ripplestream was worried.
"What's wrong?"
"Er… N-nothing. You may go."