Sunflame was learning a ton from his new teacher, Farseer. Every night he learned what it meant to be a medicine cat. What herbs he should use to heal cats and which ones made them worse. And he learned about Farseer herself.

At first she had seemed very distant to him. Like she was far away, and only there to teach, and didn't want to get to know him. But soon he realized that she was afraid of getting to know him. She felt that she had created Moonstorm in some odd way. She was saddened by what she perceived to be her mistake. And she viewed teaching him as her punishment.

Now, on this night, he had learned enough that he felt that he truly could live up to his new medicine cat name. That he would be capable of healing someone that was sick. Until he felt that he even deserved his new name.

But then came the summons, the meeting from Dottedstar. He would learn one last and final lesson before being a true medicine cat. And this time, it would be without Farseer.