Chapter Ten
Around sun-high we begin walking. I join in near the back close to Cougarpaw.
"Silverpaw? Where are you?" Jadestar calls me and I run up to the front. "Right here, Jadestar." She slows down for me and puts her tail on me.
"At the Gathering, meet the other medicine cats. Tell them about your visit with StarClan. And if the other Clans make fun of you, ignore them. Also, at the half-moon, the medicine cat apprentices are going to the Moonpool. I'd like you to join them. I will ask the other clans to guide you there so you aren't alone." With that we enter Fourtrees.
I do as told and meet up with the other medicine cats. I speak to them about StarClan and the unheard prophecy. They seem unfazed. "And where is Windstripe?" asks the orange ShadowClan medicine cat. I explain the battle hurriedly before Jadestar begins the Gathering.
"Thornstar, would you like to begin?" she asks the ShadowClan leader kindly. "Gladly. We have two new apprentices, Redpaw and Plushpaw. Brackenfur had her litter- two toms. They are unnamed since they were born the moment before we left. No attacks have been reported."
Shinestar, the WindClan leader, says nothing new has happened in her camp, besides prey becoming plentiful. Cloudstar begins RiverClan's report. "We have sighted a fox in our territory but it has not attacked. It appears to have two kits with it and is extremely hostile. We have a new kit- Frostkit. We've also exiled a cat, Dawnpaw, due to a horrendous murder he tried to cover up with a border skirmish. Acornpelt reports that he has been chased off. Nothing else has happened." Jadestar steps up.
"A band of rogues attacked our camp. Many cats were killed and our medicine cat, Windstripe was gravely injured and is hunting with Starclan now.
But from bad comes good. We also have six new kits, which are Goldkit, Oakkit, and Echokit; from Goldenflower, who died during kitting; and Snowkit, Firekit, and Rockkit, from Mossflower.
Our medicine cat, Windstripe, was killed in said battle. As he leaves a clan without him, his mentor Silverpaw must go to the Moonpool. We ask that she may be transferred by a Riverclan patrol. That is all."
Cloudstar nods and announces, "Tinypaw and Leafheart, you may escort her."
Jadestar leaps off the the Great Rock and pads away to the ThunderClan cats. The other leaders follow, although Cloudstar stays and stares into my eyes. He has the gaze of a warrior, sizing up their enemy before a battle. A shudder goes along my spine.