A/N: I'd like to say sorry about the Character List. I'd like to thank one of my reviewers for pointing out the problem – Cloudwhisp is dead, unfortunately, but I forgot to take her off. Just clearing this up for you all!
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Ashpaw's POV
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Ashpaw looked around. Thin lines of cloud were in the night sky; they looked like whiskers. She was dreaming, she realized.
"This is the sign you receive. Whiskers of cloud, herbs and berries…," mewed a mysterious cat. When the cat came out of the shadows, Ashpaw saw that it was Snowfeather, Whiteleg's mentor. "You are not ready to be a medicine cat, yet, young one. You have much to know and learn."
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Back to Frostfoot's POV
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"Hey, Ashpaw!" Frostfoot called. "I need to ask you a couple of questions."
Ashpaw gave Frostfoot sidelong glance as she was stocking some more cobweb.
"Hold on a moment," she mewed, finally getting the web off her paw and into the little cubby. "What do you need?" She twitched her black nose.
"Can you tell me how many berries were stocked on the day Tantail died?" asked Frostfoot, sitting down and curling her tail over her paws.
"Sure. I have a good memory." She pointed her tail tip to her head, letting out an mrrow of laughter. "But why do you need to know."
"Just hear me out; then I'll explain," Frostfoot meowed.
"Alright. You're one of my closest friends; I trust you," mewed Ashpaw, putting her tail across Frostfoot's shoulders. "Now, let's see…There were eleven juniper berries. And fifteen deathberries." She shivered. "I hate those things."
Frostfoot stood up. "Everyone hates them. Hey, can I check the stocks? I have a hunch about Tantail's death." Frostfoot twitched her nose.
Ashpaw nodded. "Of course." She paused. "But can you explain now?"
Frostfoot sighed. "I thought you'd say that," she meowed. She then launched into the long story of Icefrost and how she had been helping her and how she was in StarClan now.
Ashpaw dipped her head and murmured, "I am sad she has died, but I'm so glad she made things right before she left us to hunt among the stars." She lifted her head. "Come with me. Juniper wouldn't kill Tantail, but deathberries would. We haven't gathered any, or used any, so there should still be the same amount there."
They counted the juniper. Eleven.
They counted the deathberries. Five.
Ashpaw and Frostfoot's pelts bristled, and their eyes widened.
"She would probably need about five to kill Tantail, a grown cat like him…Why are ten gone?" Ashpaw questioned.
"To be safe that it'd kill him?" Frostfoot suggested.
"No, she's a medicine cat…She'd know the exact amount it would take to kill him. And I bet she put it in his prey, otherwise, he would've struggled," hissed Ashpaw angrily. Her blue-green eyes flared. "She must be planning to kill someone else…"
"Great StarClan, she's coming this way!" snarled Frostfoot. "I have to go, before you get in trouble."
Whiteleg stalked over, dropping a fish in front of Ashpaw. "Eat."
Ashpaw glanced down at the fish. It had a slit up on top. "Hey, Whiteleg, can you fetch Honeystar for me? I need to tell her about something."
"Received a prophecy?" asked Honeystar, approaching the two.
"Nope. I have to tell you about Whiteleg."
Whiteleg looked shocked and a flicker of worry passed across her face, but before she could do anything, she was pounced on, and held down, by Frostfoot, who was stronger than the medicine cat.
Ashpaw and Frostfoot hurriedly explained about what Whiteleg had done to Tantail. She didn't deny any of it, but simply looked defeated. Ashpaw pulled back the slit in her prey to reveal five deathberries.
Honeystar hung her head. "But, Ashpaw, you are not ready for medicine cat duties. You are young."
"I have received a dream…It means Cloudwhisker is to be medicine cat…We know she knows the herbs. She was kind of a fallback in case something happened to a medicine cat, wasn't she?" asked Ashpaw.