Chapter 3
Starheart headed to sleep. Moonkit was curled up next to her.
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Starheart was in the old camp. Before her was a cat she hated. Tigerstar.
"Tigerstar?" Starheart mewed.
Tigerstar just smiled. Starheart recognized that smile from Hawkfrost and she found it… comforting.
"Well, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Why did you bring me to Firestar?"
"You don't know why you ended up in the hunting grounds I rest in as a kit; do you?"
"It never bothered me before. But let's hear it." Starheart mewed.
"You were a kit in ThunderClan when I was a young warrior. You were one of Dappletail's kits. I remember one day they woke up and one kit was dead."
Starheart gasped.
"It bared the scars of a warrior. No one knew what happened so they hid Dappletail and the remaining of her kits in the far end of the nursery hidden by bramble. The next day they woke up to see another kit died. It bared the same scars as the first. Dappletail stayed awake the next night to see you wake up and kill the last of her kits."
Starheart stared at Tigerstar.
"Then the next day another queen's kit was dead. They knew it was you so they demanded that Dappletail get rid of you. She said that she didn't want to leave you out to die and she wanted you killed quick and painlessly. And I obliged."
"You killed me!"
"Yes, and now you still don't walk beneath StarClan."
"No, I walk beneath StarClan. They accepted me."
"Maybe so, but why would they let Hawkfrost die?"
Starheart just stared at him. He was right, Hawkfrost had blackcough.
She felt a shiver beside her. She immediately woke up.
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"Moonkit, wake up," Starheart mewed.
"I had a dream, father died." Moonkit mewed quietly.
"Let's go see him." Starheart answered.
They headed to Leafpool's den and they saw no cats inside. They saw Mousefur, Sandstorm and Longtail walking in.
Leafpool was behind them. "Leafpool, where's Hawkfrost?" Moonkit mewed quietly.
"Sorry Starheart," was all Leafpool mewed. Starheart nodded.
"C'mon Moonkit," Starheart sighed.