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"Warriors aren't meant to be afraid of anything."
~Leafshade, Thunder and Shadow
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Jayfeather didn't expect dying to feel so good.
He didn't realize how heavy his body felt until he left it. He didn't realize how much emotions pained him until he was happily racing toward Silverpelt. His heart felt light as a feather, all the pain in his bones abandoned him, his pelt tingled with warmth. He hadn't realized how much he longed for this until he was almost touching it.
Jayfeather didn't know what he had expected the journey to StarClan would be like. He was running but there was nothing under his paws. He just stood on the space between the earth below and the stars above. He didn't question it for long. He trusted that Feathertail knew where she was guiding him.
The world was covered in a blanket of darkness dotted with brilliant lights. Jayfeather understood what the stars were but not what the darkness was. Even when he stood in it, his mind couldn't quite grasp it. He was about to break the silence and ask when Feathertail came to a stop.
"Do you see it?" Feathertail asked. Jayfeather was confused for a moment. He saw nothing but starlit darkness. Then he blinked and he was suddenly standing on clouds.
"Woah!" Jayfeather took a step back in surprise and looked around, the sudden change surprised him. He glanced around, seeing that the cloudy plain he stood on didn't stretch for long. It was an island in the sky and below he saw territory. He was confused. StarClan watched the lake from Silverpelt, not the sky, afterall. Then he realized that he wasn't standing above the lake.
He recognized StarClan's hunting grounds almost immediately. It had diverse terrain but was mostly just a grassy field with trees and marsh on the edges. He was too high up to see any cats but if he was any lower, he was sure there would be cats with stars in their pelts sunning, sharing tongues, hunting, and just enjoying themselves.
Beside it, the terrain was a bit more rugged and stoney but it was just as beautiful as StarClan's hunting grounds. Jayfeather realized it was the Tribe of Endless Hunting's territory. Peaks jutted out of the ground and there were visible holes in the ground that undeniably lead to tunnels. Jayfeather peered at it curiously. He could feel memories threatening to flood back into his mind but something stopped them. Maybe he'd spent some time there as Jay's Wing before he was reborn.
The next patch of land was easy to identify. This one was covered fully in trees and shadows. If he listened hard enough, there was a distant sound of wails, shrieks, and howls coming from that direction. He couldn't tell if it was the wind in the dark trees and dry leaves or cats. He shuddered, not wanting to find out.
The fourth territory confused him. He expected it to be a Dark Forest for tribecats but that didn't seem to be the case. It looked like a twolegplace almost, half of it glowing with warmth and the other covered in harsh, cold stone.
"The tribe has very few evil cats," Feathertail explained, sensing his confusion. "They just keep them in the backs of the tunnels. That over there is the hunting grounds for kittypets and strays."
"What?" Jayfeather's mind whirled. Feathertail's explanation didn't clear anything up.
"Kittypets have an afterlife too," Feathertail told him, eyes glowing with humor. "They just want different things than us. And evil twolegplace cats like BloodClan cats deserve to stay in a place as terrible as the twolegplace streets until they fade. That's what that half is for. You can probably go visit Scourge if you wanted to but Jake doesn't let clan cats wander that way very often."
Jayfeather blinked. "What about rouges and loners?"
"They wander around the outskirts. They did that in life, they enjoy doing it in the afterlife," Feathertail answered with a shrug. "What do you think?"
"It's…" Jayfeather trailed off. "I didn't expect Silverpelt to be so… divided."
Feathertail deflated a bit, letting out a long breath. "We all watch over different cats. We all have our place. Well, some of us do. Cats like you and me get to wander."
"What?" Jayfeather panicked for a moment. Did he not have a place in StarClan?
Feathertail purred in amusement at his reaction. "Don't worry, Jayfeather. Or should I say Jay's Wing?"
Jayfeather calmed a bit. It made sense. He was two cats, he lived two lives. He had two places in Silverpelt.
Feathertail nodded once he caught on. "So, where would you like to go first? Visit your mother and sister in StarClan? Or-?"
"I want to see Half Moon," Jayfeather said immediately.
Feathertail smiled at him. "I thought so. Come on, she's been waiting a very long time to see you."
Jayfeather purred. "I have too."
Author's Note: Next one is the last one.