"What can I do to help?" Mistyfoot asked. She was worried because she knew that this was Roseheart's first litter. "Maybe I can get Elmclaw," she meowed, referring to Roseheart's mate and Larkkit's father.
"That would be good. Also, get Rabbitstar and tell her to get a warrior to collect some more coltsfoot. I'm running low." Blueherb agreed. "Then you can go back to your kits. It's your first litter too, and we don't want them getting sick too."
"Okay, fine." She mewed and went off to go to the warriors' den. She found Elmclaw and told him to go to the medicine cat's den. Then she went to the ThunderClan leader's den to tell her Blueherb's order of herbs that she needed. After she finished she went back into the nursery to her kits.
"I told Elmclaw about Larkkit and he's in there now." She told Roseheart, "and Rabbitstar is sending a warrior out to get some more coltsfoot." This seemed to comfort the queen, and her kits, finished suckling, curled up to go to sleep.
"Mother," Thunderkit squeaked, "Where's Larkkit?" Mistyfoot stared at Thunderkit. How could she talk so fluently and so quickly? And how would she notice that one of Roseheart's kits was missing if she couldn't see yet? Then she saw that Thunderkit had her eyes open. She gasped.
Then Tigerkit spoke too, "Yeah, why isn't Larkkit here? She is the only she-kit in the litter and we want to play with her." Mistyfoot was still wondering how they could talk and see already, but her kits wanted to know what had happened, so she had to tell them.
"Well, Larkkit is sick and having trouble breathing, so she's in the medicine cat den with Blueherb who is giving her some coltsfoot." Mistyfoot explained, hoping that her kits would understand. They nodded.
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Meanwhile, Rabbitstar was in her den, trying to go to sleep to get a sign from StarClan. One of the kits in the clan was sick, but it wasn't a sickness and it was the middle of Greenleaf. She opened her eyes to be not in her den anymore, but in Fourtrees. There were cats of StarClan around her and she saw the former ThunderClan leader Branchstar.
He padded up to her and mewed softly, "Beware Rabbitstar, for there is trouble to come. The tiger of thunder that comes from the mist in brambles will save the storm, night, air, and water and teach them." Then he started to fade away.
"Wait! What do you mean? Come back!" Rabbitstar yowled, but he just kept fading until only his scent remained. She awoke with a jolt and thought to herself, I must tell Blueherb about this.
"Blueherb! Blueherb!" Rabbitstar called as she padded into the medicine cat den.
First one to guess what the prophecy means gets some spoilers for the story.