Chapter 6
What Are You Doing?
A voice came from the shadows. It was Hazefur. "Dawnheart, it doesn't have to be this way!" Dawnheart spun around, her eyes softening. She said, "Hazefur, you do not know what will come of this!"
"And you do? Dawnheart, my beloved Dawnheart, what are you doing?"
"I am saving the clan!"
"By killing its leader?"
"LeafStar must die! StarClan has spoken!"
Hazefur's pelt stood on end. StarClan had told Dawnheart to kill LeafStar? The deranged look in Dawnheart's eyes did not fade as she continued to speak. "They gave me a prophecy...
The starlight on the leaf will be the end of the clan. It will be because of the starlight on the leaf that the hazy coat of fur and the bird on the snow will fail. The star in the shadowy sky will die and herald the end of the Clans because of the starlight on the leaf."
Hazefur was silent for a moment, and when he tried to speak Dawnheart cut him off. "The coat of hazy fur! Hazefur, that is you! And our kits are called Starkit and Snowkit! Does that mean the Starkit will die and you and Snowkit will fail?"
Hazefur looked at her, fear finally shadowing his eyes. He said, "Dawnheart, leave this be until our kits receive their warrior names. I will not let my kits die, but it may not be them. LeafStar is a good and noble leader, and Rainfur is not yet ready to lead. Why don't you go back to the nursery? Our kits will need you."
Dawnheart looked into his eyes, wishing that these were the days before the prophecy about the heart of dawn, and before the prophecy of the starlight on the leaf. Finally she bent her head and padded alongside him to the nursery. She looked sadly back at LeafStar's den. There was a time when all she had wanted was to be just like her. Except that Dawnheart had never wanted to be DawnStar. She slipped back into the nursery, her heart heavy with knowing she would never be able to escape what she had almost done.
And little did she know that her sister's green eyes were watching her from the back of LeafStar's den, watering with what she had just seen. Hollyclaw knew in that moment that her sister was not the enthusiastic apprentice she had once been, eager to learn and eager to be the best warrior she could, and nothing more.
Now her sister was a traitor, and Hollyclaw didn't know what she would attempt next.
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