Crowfeather awoke silently, moonlight was streaming into the barn, bright and blinding. He squinted and stretched out each leg at a time. Yawning he got up, and with drearily, blurry eyes surveyed the barn. All signs of Smoky were gone. Maybe he knows I heard what he said yesterday. Well I find hin sometime and find out what he means. Floss was sitting by the doors, gazing at him with beautiful blue eyes. He padded over to her slightly apprehensivley and she meowed.

"You heard earlier, didn't you?" Floss' tail twitched angrily and her eyes blazed slightly.

"Yes I did I have to ask you-" Crowfeather's scentance was finished by Floss.

"-Who the mystery she-cat is?" Floss growled "Well I don't know. I've never seen her, but that can't stop me hating her. She has corrupted Smoky's mind, always going on about how her mate would be furious if he found out and telling him he should live by StarClan's code, which by the way, untill she told him we had never heard of. I personally hope her mate finds out!"

"So you can't tell me whos she is?" Crowfeather couldn't help sounding a little dampened.

"Sorry I can't" Floss' eyes softened when she met his and she meowed. "You've had a rough time recently, havn't you?"

Crowfeather figited uncomfortable "Um...Yeah, how'd you know?"

Floss shurgged "Dunno. Something about your face, the way your eyes look slightly... Dull. I'm sorry if I sound rude but they do."

"I's okay" Crowfeather sighed and turned around. "See you"

"Look what's your name?" Floss asked.

"Crowfeather of Windclan"

"Well Crowfeather of Windclan. If I see this she-cat, I'll tell you what she looks like"

"Thank's" Crowfeather flicked his tail in fairwell and padded out of sight. As he walked he thought vacently about his kits. He was glad they would not have brothers and sisters in another part of the forest. He would protect them from the pain he had suffered over loving cats from different clans whatever it took. He could picture it now Nightcloud lying in the nursery with kits nuzzling into her belly. At the moment the thought odf his unborn kits soothed him and all his anger at his mate from the previous night faded. Maybe he would be allowed to mentor one! He wondered, as he walked slowly across the barren moorland, how Nightcloud was. He was supprised that all of his anger from the previous night had gone so quickly. When Feathertail had died he had been angry with himself for moons. When he had loved Leafpool, but she hadn't noticed he was angry with himself for a long time. Was this a sign Nightcloud was made for him? But no matter how hard he tried to comvince himself of this he still couldn't shake the feeling of not belonging with Nightcloud. His heart told him Leafpool. Leafpool. As it ached for her sweet scent to linger around his nostrils. He shook his head Those days are gone and will never come back!

He looked around and spotted Willowpaw of Riverclan padding towards him. He stopped and let the young apprentice catch up with him.

"What's up Willowpaw?" He couldn't help noticing a panicky look on the young cats face. She had only recently been given her apprentice name and she was destined it StarClan accepted her to be a medicine cat apprentice.

"I must go to the moonpool to get Mothwing. I know I'm not supposed to because StarClan havn't said anything about me yet but one of our elders has got whitecough! If not properly treated to it could become greencough and then cats will die and I don't know how to how to tresat that yet. I'm a usless medicine cat apprentice!" Willopaw wailed.

"Woah woah hold up there! You were made and apprentice what? A few weeks ago? You can't be expected to know everything. Besides look at the moon." Crowfeather meowed.

The young cat switched her eyes to the night sky. He round eyes easily reflected the half moon. "It's a half moon..." She meowed confused.

"Yes and it's almost gone, look at that orange tint on the horizon" Crowfeather meowed.

"Yes."

"Meaning Mothwing will be on her way back soon. So instead of wasting all your energy running to go get her go back to your patients and I'll get Mothwing on her way back and tell her to hurry" Crowfeather mewed quietly.

The young cat hesitated obviously wondering whether to trust him with her clan but thought better of her hesistation. "Okay. But please can you go as close as you can to the moonpool?"

"I'll get as close as I can" Crowfeather promised and turned to watch the young cats race off as fast as her legs could carry her. Then he ran off towards the moonpool. Maybe this encounter would let him find out what Leafpool wanted.