Chapter 8: Love and Exile

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Violetpaw dashed away from the lake, but I couldn't leave Mellowpaw to follow her. I grabbed his scruff in my mouth and dragged him closer to the shore. I washed the blood from his pelt and began clawing up the soft mud on the lakeshore. When the hole was deep enough, I laid him into it gently and pressed my nose to his cold cheek.

"Goodbye, my dear brother. Rest in Starclan. I only wish you had never been the one to leave."

I pushed the clumped up of mud evenly over him. I found a clump of lilacs and dug them up gently to place over his grave.

"May Starclan light your path," I whispered and began to wash the blood from my pelt. While washing my chest, I heard rustling and looking up to see Wrenstar, Goldenheart, Hazelpaw, Duskpaw, and Violetpaw. Duskpaw raced up to me and looked at me worriedly.

"Tell me what Violetpaw says is not true!" She said, her eyes filed with tears.

"What did she say?"

"She claims that she saw you murder Mellowpaw!"

"Of course not! Why would I murder my own brother?" My fur began to bristle at the thought. Duskpaw looked around.

"Where is Mellowpaw?" She glanced around warily.

"I'm so sorry, I found him by the lake. I'm so sorry Duskpaw. I buried him over there by the lake shore."

Grief flooded into her eyes and tears streamed down her face. She let out an eerie cry of pain and buried her muzzle into my neck fur. I licked head soothingly.

"Thank you. He always loved the lake. It was the perfect place to him." She whispered to me.

"Thank you, for loving my brother," I whispered back to her. She walked over to Mellowpaw's grave and curled up on top of it. Her breathing slowed, showing she had fallen asleep. She looked really small, helpless, and innocent at that moment.

Paw steps coming toward me told me what was coming. I turned around to face Wrenstar and his emotionless eyes.

"Don't say anything! I know what your thinking already. What ever she says is always the truth." I hissed at him.

"Forgottenpaw, you are exiled from Streamclan for murder of your own clan member. If any of my warriors see you on our territory after sunset, they have my permission to kill you." Wrenstar said in a scratchy-ish voice, as if he was choking on something.

"I don't care. Why would I want to go there?"

"Get out!" Violetpaw snarled. I snarled back, unsheathed my claws, and tried to slash her nose, but she backed away quickly and hid behind Wrenstar.

I walked over to my sleeping friend, and curled up next to her. The Streamclan cats had already gone back to the forest by that time. I closed my eyes and drifted into an uneasy sleep.

"You have love and she takes it away

You have happiness and she takes it away

You have pain and she takes it away

You have hatred and she takes it away

You have her and make her go away"

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