Later that same day Flareheart was able to escape the kits while they were playing again with Spraykit. She walked around camp looking at some of the cats she recognized. There was Frosttail, Silverclaw, Stormpelt, Tallstar, Sweetfur, Windleaf (who was the medicine cat), Grayfang, and a few others. She was beginning to wonder why Tallstar had been so nice to her in the first place. He didn't even punish Stormpelt for his actions. Which was a good thing, but unusual.
Luckily when she walked out of camp to get a mouse she ran into Tallstar who was walking towards the entrance of camp with a rabbit. "Tallstar, do you have a minute?" Flareheart asked hopefully. Tallstar smiled warmly and nodded. He dropped his rabbit. "What is it Flareheart?" "Um…I was just wondering, why did you let me join Wind Clan so quickly, and why didn't you punish Stormpelt for being the father?" She tried to make it sound curious rather than suspicious. He looked surprised, but happy to have been asked. "How could I punish him for following his heart? Especially when he chose so well out of all the she-cats." How did Tallstar figure she was so 'well'. "What do you mean?" she asked intently. "I mean what I said. You are a fine she-cat to fall in love with." His smiled seemed to be putting her under a spell which calmed her suspicions. "How would you know that I was a fine she-cat to choose though, sir?" she asked with less fire in her eyes.
"I would know considering…" He stopped and gazed into her eyes inquisitively. "Considering what?" she urged. "Considering that I am your father, Flareheart." His eyes carried many years of observing, all the years he had watched her from afar grow up and now to have kits of her own. Flareheart was taken aback. Tallstar was her father? "But…how?" she asked, released by his spell of calmness. "Bluestar was your mother Flareheart, and I your father." He explained seriously. "Bluestar always said that Lionheart was my father…" Flareheart said remembering back to the years of her kit-hood. Lionheart was always beside her, until he was killed. "He was in on the secret. He cared for Bluestar enough to hide it with her. Flareheart, I am your father." Tallstar explained once again.