I don't own Warriors.

Tanglestar opened her eyes. She was back in the cavern at the Moonstone. She raised herself into a sitting position, shaking her fur out. It wasn't until then that she realized the gray tabby body pressed against hers.

Mothwing led her out of the cavern, the kit stumbling beside Tanglestar. Out under the open sky, Tanglestar surveyed the stars. She thought back to how the stars had moved to become those cats.

"The kit…?" Mothwing prompted, staring at the she-cat.

"She was given to me," Tanglestar started. "She was never alive, but she should have been. I'm supposed to care for her, whatever the cost."

Mothwing gave her a long look. "Has that ever happened before?"

"Not that I know of." Tanglestar picked the kit up and set a hard pace back to the camp. She didn't care to discuss the matter.

xxx

Much to Tanglestar's surprise, the clan accepted the kit easily. The kit just continued to stare up at them, her amber eyes wide, and the elders and queen fussed over her. She didn't speak at all, just looking at everything with wide eyes, shock and excitement written all over her face.

There was something else there too, hidden in the depths of her face, but no one except Tanglestar seemed to see it. She didn't want to draw any attention to what had happened to get the kit, so she never spoke of it.

One thing did plague Tanglestar, however, naming the kit. She needed just the right name, one that could show how she came across the kit, but would be subtle enough that no one would question the name. The name needed to worthy of her daughter.

"Cats of RiverClan!" Tanglestar yowled as cats padded out of their dens. "A kit that came to our clan recently should be named now, and after consideration thought I believe I have found one." Tanglestar paused, leaping down so she could be eye level with her clan. "This kit, because she was given life by the stars, will be known as Soulkit."

"Soulkit, Soulkit!" The clan chorused, and Tanglestar licked her daughter's head. All she had to do now was fulfill her promise to Anelman.

xxx

Silentwind looked paler than usual, even though her eyes were always colorless and her fur was white. All of the blood seemed to have rushed from her body when Sparkfur and Darkshadow told her. Ravenfang looked disgusted, but not surprised.

"I should have expected something like this," he said quietly. "Silentwind—"

"It'll be fine," Silentwind said, although she didn't sound too reassured. "It isn't your fault."

"We said that we'd warn you," Sparkfur said quietly. "I don't know how we can help though."

"You don't need to help," Ravenfang replied. "Silentwind is part of ShadowClan now. She's a member of the clan, and we'll protect her."

"Really?" Darkshadow asked. "All of you?"

"Yes," Ravenfang said. You can call ShadowClan whatever you like, but we aren't the faithless, evil cats you think. We've had a bad history, I'll agree with that. Yes, we've been with Tigerstar and Blackstar, but you can't act like ThunderClan never had their faults. Tigerstar was your deputy. You can't judge us saying that we would let a clan member die, just because they were hazardous to the rest of us. What Tigerstar and Blackstar did was them, not ShadowClan."

Sparkfur nodded. "Tanglestar was from ThunderClan too, remember. Just, keep her safe," he added, looking at his sister.

"Yeah," Darkshadow added suddenly. "You have too."

Ravenfang let Darkshadow and Sparkfur leave ShadowClan territory without an escort. His authority in ShadowClan seemed unnatural; he was only a warrior, and a fairly young one, too. But Russetstar seemed to trust his judgment, and that relaxed the other cats.

"I won't be going back to camp," Sparkfur announced. "I want to start my training."

"I know," Darkshadow replied. "It's just weird, you know? When we were kits I always thought that we would just end up being great warriors, the kind that would be told in the elder's stories."

"We will be," Sparkfur said with conviction. "It'll just be a little different than we imagined."

Darkshadow nodded. "Are you sure you want this?" he asked. "Are you sure that you want to give up on Tanglestar?" Sparkfur's expression told him everything. "Well, what about Secret then? Do you really think all this will impress her?"

"Secret won't be impressed by anything Freya teaches me," Sparkfur replied. "And I'm not doing it for her. I'm doing this because I need to."

"Yeah," Darkshadow said. "I won't be visiting you, so good luck."

"Thanks."

Sparkfur turned, moving toward the Sunning rocks to enter Freya's den, and his brother moved back to ThunderClan camp.

It was odd how he used to think of Tanglestar as his friend and Darkshadow as his enemy, and now it was the opposite.