Duskpaw awoke on a soft sandy ground. Blinking to clear his vision, he saw that he wasn't in IceClan territory.

'Or maybe I am since I haven't seen all the clan area and no clan with such a sandy territory.' Looking around, Duskpaw analyzed that he was in a rock cave.

'Not a very deep one.' He thought looking at the end and the entrance. Duskpaw stood up quickly, a shooting pain coming across his head as soon as he did. Duskpaw bit back a yowl. He tried standing up slower, exerting less pain in his head.

'Must have bashed my head against the ground when I was tackled…" Duskpaw's amber eyes widened as he remembered his unfortunate encounter with the RuneClan warriors. 'So does that mean I'm in RuneClan camp? Why is their terrain so sandy? It's very different from our mountains.'

"Oh! You're awake!" a voice interrupted Duskpaw's thoughts. Duskpaw turned to see the cat that had spoken. The she-cat that had spoken was a tortoiseshell blocking the entrance. She neared Duskpaw confidently, her two front white paws silently touching the ground as her bright amber eyes held their gaze on Duskpaw.

'A RuneClan cat,' Duskpaw thought, a bit ashamed that he was excited about meeting another cat from a different clan even under his circumstances. The she-cat stared at Duskpaw once she stood before him, easily within clawing distance. Duskpaw thought about attacking the small she-cat but went against it.

'If I were to attack her, surely more cats, warriors, would come and whip my as-,'

"Hey! What's your name?" the she-cat interrupted his thoughts.

"Why should I tell you thief?" Duskpaw hissed without thinking. The tortoiseshell flinched back.

"Thief? I'm no thief, nor is anyone in our clan one. You must be mistaken with FlowerClan," she replied.

"Sure! Of course I did," Duskpaw hissed sarcastically. "And a golden brown tom and white she-cat with black and brown dapples didn't ambush me and bring me here."

"You know. You're very rude," the tortoiseshell replied to him with a straight face, as if she hadn't heard a thing he had said.

"And you're clan is dishonest," Duskpaw told her.

"We weren't the ones to take you by force. In fact, we were requested to 'catnap' you," the she-cat replied calmly. Duskpaw froze, shocked.

"You're lying," he muttered. The tortoiseshell shook her head. Duskpaw didn't believe what the she-cat had told him.

"I'm telling you the truth and although I haven't been told much, you will be told in time," she said. "Umm… I'm Shallowpaw, by the way."

"What am I going to do here?" Duskpaw asked. Shallowpaw gave him a puzzled look.

"What? Well, you do normal apprentice chores. You're part of RuneClan now," she replied.

"I-I don't understand you," Duskpaw said. Shallowpaw sighed.

"I guess it would be best to meet Rainstar now, instead of later." Shallowpaw muttered. "C'mon. Follow me, and ignore any possible hostility you may get."

Duskpaw didn't know whether to trust the she-cat, or to be cautious of her. He followed her, deciding that the tour might lead for a chance to escape. He didn't believe that one of his clan mates had told RuneClan to make him a part of it. Shallowpaw seemed to be wary of him to by occasionally looking back at him to make sure he was still with her.

"These are the apprentice's den," she showed first. Duskpaw looked at the gaping hole in the rock. Moss aligned the edges, blocking wind from passing into the sides of the cave. Duskpaw saw many nests built inside, most empty but a few occupied by a gray she-cat with black stripes and brown tom with darker splotches.

"Will I meet them?" Duskpaw asked.

"No," Shallowpaw replied. "Not now, but for the future, that's my brother Lakepaw and my sister Oceanpaw."

"Lakepaw and Oceanpaw," Duskpaw repeated. He looked over at Shallowpaw, but had lost sight of her. Duskpaw saw that she had moved to his right towards other caves. Duskpaw ran after the tortoiseshell she-cat in fear of being questioned or imprisoned again by another cat, forgetting about any chance of escape. As they walked around the camp, Duskpaw saw many RuneClan cats.

'And I thought that IceClan had the best warriors,' he thought looking at a ginger tom with white legs and greens eyes bare his teeth in a yawn. 'I hope I never get to fight these cats.'

Shallowpaw showed him the elder's den, a cave also but it was covered mostly by rocks with only a slight opening on the side for a cat to get through. The nursery had no opening; instead there was a hole that Shallowpaw said the cat had to dig to get through. The warrior's den was similar to the apprentice's den but with a smaller opening.

"Well, that's pretty much our whole camp but the leader's den, the medicine cat's den and the Boulder where the leader makes an announcement." Shallowpaw said.

"Shallowpaw!" a dark gray tom with amber eyes and darker gray paws called out. The tom padded over to Shallowpaw, giving a glare at Duskpaw.

"What are you doing with him?" the tom hissed at Duskpaw.

"I'm showing him around the camp." Shallowpaw replied calmly.

"Why? I don't think that Rainstar asked you to, or did he?" the tom glared at Duskpaw.

"No, but he's part of our clan now so I think he should know our camp." Shallowpaw answered. "You want to help Stormpaw?"

"No. I'm not going to stick up for you when Rainstar chews your tail off." the tom said.

"He won't." Shallowpaw seemed sure of herself.

"How do you know?" Stormpaw looked at her with a bit of concern. Shallowpaw fidgeted a bit, looking at her paws.

"I just know he won't." she replied. Stormpaw sighed and shook his head, with one last glare at Duskpaw he left.

"And you called me rude," Duskpaw said. Shallowpaw chuckled at his comment

"I'm curious." She stated. "Do you have any battle training?"

Duskpaw shook his head. "Today was my first, or second, day of apprenticeship."

"Oh. That's bad. Why you're no more than a kit." Shallowpaw said. She looked at the sky for a moment, thinking. "Rainstar should be ready by now. Let's go to meet him and get you officially acquaintanced with RuneClan." Shallowpaw started leading to a slanted boulder with a gap at the top.

"I suppose we have to climb that?" he asked looking at the loose pebbles leading to the top.

"Yep! Let's get started." Shallowpaw said and jumped onto the boulder.