Brableclaw padded into the camp. He felt the chill of the night creep in his fur. He looked up at the night sky. It was a bright night, the moon almost half way. Leafpool would be going to the moonpool soon. All the stars were shining, there warrior ancestors watching them. He heard, only the breaths of cats sleeping in their dens, and a slight who of an owl off in the distance.
He padded towards the fresh kill pile to drop his two voles and his mouse onto the pile. There was only a mouse left; there'd need to be some more hunting patrols in the morning. He bent down to take the mouse he'd caught. He began digging into it, the scent touching the roof of his mouth.
When he was done, he padded over to the warriors den to go to sleep. He walked to his nest silently, trying not to disturb the sleeping cats. As he lay down, he closed his eyes, and let sleep take over him.
He opened his eyes to trees surrounding him for miles and miles. He looked up at the sky; it was pitch black, not a single star shining in the sky. As he walked on to meet up with Tigerstar, he saw darkness in the corner of his eyes, but when he turned around, nothing was there. It was one of the natural things about the dark forest, but it always made his fur stand on end.
"- and three voles." He herd Hawkfrost telling Tigerstar about some hunting patrol he'd been on. "Greetings." Brableclaw dipped his head as he approached the two cats. "You're late." Tigerstar said to him as he padded forwards.
"Sorry, the hunting patrol took longer than I expected." he said sitting down. "Anyways." Tigerstar began. "How is being the deputy going so far?" he asked, with pride in his voice. "It's exhausting!" he said with a sigh, he wasn't going to lie. "There has to be hunting patrols, and the border patrols, but you can't put one cat on both if they are at the same time, and you got to remember who needs to train there apprentice, and make sure each cat is fight enough so that they aren't to tired to not go on any the next day." He said.
As he talked about that, he felt the exhaustion sweep over him, and he felt like he could barely keep his paws up. All of a sudden, Tigerstar pounced at him, knocking him onto the ground. HE struggled to get up, but he was in no shape right now. Tigerstar let him up.
"Never let your exhaustion show, that is when the enemy has their chance." Tigerstar said to him as Brableclaw slowly got up. He felt blood starting to come out of his shoulder, and he tried not to wince in pain.
Hawkfrost signaled his tail to go a little away from Tigerstar. "I was wondering if you wanted to meet up tomorrow, in the waking world, you know, to discuss things?" Hawkfrost whispered.
'Is that a good idea? What if we get caught?' Brableclaw thought to himself. "Come on, don't worry. We'll meet on your side of the border. What do you say?" Hawkfrost said, trying to convince him.
Brableclaw let out a sigh. "I guess." Brableclaw said, looking at the ground. "At sun high?" Hawkfrost said. "Sure." Brableclaw agreed, silently begging to Starclan that they wouldn't get caught.
Brableclaw turned around and looked at Tigerstar's amber eyes. "I need to go, I really need some rest." Brambleclaw said beginning to pad away.
"Wait. Before you go, ther is something I need to tell you." Tigerstar said, looking at him dead in the eyes.
"Very, very very soon, you will have to make a choise. It will lead you to a path. Ne, is a path of glory, were you can rule for as long as you like. But the other one, will let out your secret, and your whole clan, even Squirrelflight, will turn against you, and you will live the rest of your days as a loner, if they don't chose to kill you." Tigerstar said, his eyes looking at him gave him a chill.