Lionblaze bolted through the entrance of camp, not breaking stride as he hurdled to the otherside of the camp. He didn't stop as the other cats were forced to jump to their feet and get out of the way of the running cat. He about stepped on Squirrelflight's tail as she sat quietly conversing with her sister but, a warning hiss from Leafpool she managed to pull her tail up out of the way before he squashed it. He still didn't stop, or even slow down for that matter but, kept running, he only had eyes for the narrow den on the otherside, he needed to tell Jayfeather what he had smelled at the border, maybe his brother was right…
As he ran into the becoming more familiar darkness of the medicine cat den he yowled his brother's name, as loud as he possibly could, again and again, hardly waiting for a response inbetween. A low hiss came from the back of the cave, his eyes had fully adjusted now and he could see his brother curled up in his nest, head raised and unseeing eyes glareing at him. "Keep going on like that and Riverclan is going to come see what's wrong." Jayfeather growled tiredly.
Lionblaze bit his lip, he hadn't meant wake his brother up but, then again this news was more important that a small nap, or at least he thought so and after the way Jayfeather had argued with him, he figured his brother would find this more important too. Or at least he hoped his brother did, he didn't want to lose his ears today, or anyday for that matter, he liked his ears.
Lionblaze blinked back the thoughts of losing his ears, of course Jayfeather would find that important, and his ears would, oh, why couldn't he just stop it? His eyes focused back on his brother whose eyes were now icily staring through him waiting for an explaination. "You were right! Jayfeather, you were right!" He cried, lowering his voice when he accidently yelled.
He watched as his brother blinked not-understanding what he meant. He felt mousebrained, he shouldn't have expected Jayfeather to understand something that he hadn't bothered to explain after he had woken him up and blabbered like a fool. "You were right about Hollyleaf." He said simply and quietly.
He watched as Jayfeather's mouth dropped open to speak and then clamped shut again. The other cat's eyes staring unblinkingly at a single spot that apparently was behind him because his brother was look right through him, onto the otherside and then past the wall that surrounded the cave.
As he watched his brother gazing he noticed how heavily he was breathing, his tongue was halfway out of his mouth and he quickly pulled it back in. Yet, his mouth still hung open panting from the sudded sprint he had done to get back to camp.
Brambleclaw came to his mind, he had left the deputy staring after him as he had made a mad dash into the forest, along with the dead bird he had caught. He shook his head to clear the thoughts, they weren't important right now not after what he had just found.
He was aware of his brother's movements as the medicine cat came out of the trance. "Wha… nevermind, how do you know this? The last time I saw you thought I was crazy and for the last time lower your voice, we don't want the whole clan hearing this." The last part was a low hiss coming from Jayfeather's mouth.
"I-I." His breath was still heavy from exhaustion, "I was hunting w-with Bramb-bleblaw and the wind-d changed and I caugh-ht her scent so I followed and it led out of the upward border, far out-t that way."
Jayfeather looked at him, not through him but, at him this time. His brother looked as if he was searching Lionblaze's face for any sign of teasing but, seemed to find none. He didn't know how that worked, his brother being bli… he stopped that thought before it popped into his mind, he still ahd a theory that his brother could read his mind. "You're sure?" His brother's voice broke through his thoughts.
He nodded he couldn't say anything, he didn't know what to say. He didn't know wherther to apologize or continue talking about what had happened but, he had exhausted the whole he-knew-Hollyleaf-was-alive scenario so he decided to apologive. "I'm so-" he started but, was silence by Jayfeather.
"I know,"
There his brother went again, he was sure the blind cat could read his mind, huh, maybe he shouldn't have thought blind. "What should we do then?" His own voice broke out as soon as the thought had crossed his mind suddenly.
"I-I-I don't know," Jayfeather confessed "I'm just getting used to be medicine cat, and I don't know if I trust my-"
Now it was Lionblaze's time to stop Jayfeather, "Don't think that way, you're a great medicine cat, and you've never doubted youself before!" Yep, shouldn't have thought blind...
"It's just…"
"Shut up!!"
"Alright, alright…" Jayfeather said simply looking over at his brother a flicker of hope gleaming in his dull eyes.
"So what should we do?" Lionblaze repeated and trying to get his brother's mind off of, he wasn't going to think it.
"We go after her of course." Jayfeather said simply standing up and shaking moss pieces from his fur.
Lionblaze just nodded absently, his mind was elsewhere. If Hollyleaf was alive, saying she had survived the rock fall, was Jayfeather right when he had said she had been up on the ledge before or worse, during the meeting. Had she heard their lie about her and what had she thought of her death? Furthermore, what did she think of them, her own blood?
"We must go after her, and we must find her, she is one of the three, we need her." His brother's voice barely echoed into his thoughts.
Hollyleaf wasn't going to be easy to find, or at least he didn't think she would and she wouldn't want to come back it was obvious by the fact that she didn't come back that she didn't care about the prophency. Or maybe she was just hurt or upset, maybe she was just off sulking as she sometimes did, maybe she would come back soon and they wouldn't have to worry about coming after her, so why did he doubt it.
