I am very, very, very sorry for not updating in all this time but I have been really busy. I will try to update more often from now on.

Oh yeah, and I switch POV's a lot in this chapter, so I'm sorry and I hope you don't get too confused. Also, next to 'Starpaw's POV,' if it says 'past,' that's her point of view from when this was happening. If it says 'present,' that's her point of view afterward (A.K.A. her telling the story).

'…Do not get lost in the stars, for you will lose your place in the world of sunlight…'

"I said wake up!"

Starpaw let out an ungraceful 'oof' when one of the other apprentices, Auburnpaw, launched herself at her. "What are you doing?" Starpaw inquired, astonished.

"I have been trying to wake you up since sunrise and you haven't budged an inch!" Auburnpaw replied. "I was beginning to think you might be dead!"

"How long have I been asleep?" Starpaw murmured sleepily.

Auburnpaw snorted. "Much longer than you should have been. Ravenfur is furious."

Starpaw gasped. "My apprentice training! It was supposed to start today!" She leaped up from the ground and catapulted herself out of the apprentice's den, knocking over Auburnpaw on the way. Starpaw ran across the Thunderclan camp and skidded to a halt next to the exit, where Ravenfur was waiting.

Before Starpaw could blurt out an excuse, Ravenfur looked at her sternly and asked, "Have a nice nap?"

She stared at the ground, embarrassed. The tomcat sighed. "Well, there's no use being angry about it, I suppose. But tomorrow we start lessons an hour early." He locked eyes with her to make sure she was paying attention. "And that's an hour early than when we were supposed to start."

"Yes, Ravenfur."

Starpaw's POV (past)

He led me out of the Thunderclan camp and into the damp forest. It was a familiar place to me, being the misbehaving kit that I was when I was younger. The other grown-up cats always told me never to leave the Thunderclan camp, and…well, what's a kit supposed to do when you're told something like that? Of course I couldn't resist. I had many small escapades, but they all ended in my being recaptured and brought back to my mother before I could get very far.

Now I was seeing the forest in a new light. It wasn't the dark, dank place that I was forbidden to enter and unable to resist. Now it was only a forest, that stretched over almost all of Thunderclan's territory and that was impossible to avoid. It had lost it's sense of mystery. I stifled a yawn. If it isn't against the rules, it's of no interest to me.

Ravenpaw's POV

I looked over at Starpaw as she made a half-hearted attempt to stifle a yawn. I didn't think the forest would excite her now; she was expected to—supposed to—go in it now. Of course it would have lost her interest. She was a strange cat, but far smarter than she should be. It would get her in trouble some day.

"I would normally start with a tour, but I'm not sure if you need it," I mewed.

She chuckled. "Don't worry; my adventures never took me any farther than the great sycamore. I'm sure you still have some things to show me."

Narrator POV

And so the rest of the day progressed. Starpaw was shown around the rest of Thunderclan's territory and taught about a bit of it's history and the like. At one point, they heard a snapping of twigs and saw a flash of black, but they found nothing and passed it off as a bird. Nothing else out of the ordinary occurred.

That is, until night fell.

When the moon rose and Silverpelt glimmered in the sky.

At precisely seven after midnight, three things happened. Each of them was very out of the ordinary.

And though it was not known at the moment, they were all inevitably linked.

It was then, at that precise moment, that the wheel began turning.