Jayfeather stopped. Someone was calling him. Flamepaw; it was definitely Flamepaw. He was a gifted young apprentice.

Jayfeather turned to meet his friend, dropping the water mint clamped in his jaws. He had been gathering it by the lake near ShadowClan.

"I had a dream!" Flamepaw yowled.

Jayfeather was instantly alert, "What was it about? You don't mind me asking do you?"

"Naw, of coarse not. It was about a battle. I didn't know any of the cats, though."

"No, I can't believe it! That's the dream I've been having!" Jayfeather gasped. Then he remembered something, "How are you? Are Dawnpaw and Tigerpaw all right?"

Flamepaw perked up, "Tigerheart and Dawnpelt now. They just got their warrior names. Everyone's fine." Jayfeather could feel impatience prickling through Flamepaw's pelt.

"Don't worry you'll get your name soon." Jayfeather told him. Flamepaw sighed.

"Can we get back to the dream? You said you've had it too?"

"Yes it was in a clearing and a silver she-cat finally called a retreat for her outnumbered clan." Jayfeather replied.

"I didn't see that much; the battling cats were outlined in shadows and it was dark. I didn't see the she-cat, but I knew none of the cats were from the four clans or StarClan."

"This is so frustrating!" Jayfeather growled. Their two dreams had been slightly different but Flamepaw's dream was simpler. Shadows, darkness, the dream had come to Flamepaw: did that mean that the unknown cats had something to do with ShadowClan?

He would tell Firestar, but, the dreams weren't clear enough yet.

He kneaded the ground in frustration; he hated not knowing what something meant. He liked a good challenge, but he wished he could find an answer to the mystery.

He would tell Lionblaze; his brother could help figure this out. Then he tripped over something. It was the water mint. He nosed around making sure the whole pile was there.

"Flamepaw, I'm sorry, but I need to get this back to camp. Let's talk about this at the next Gathering."

"Okay!" Flamepaw said enthusiastically, "We'll figure something out." He bounded off to Shadowclan.

Aas for Jayfeather, he picked up the water mint and headed back up the hill to Thunderclan.

Padding carefully through the forest, he kept wondering, over and over, "What does this mean?"