Chapter Two
Briarlight stretched and dragged herself back to the medicine den. She like the new-leaf sun after the long leaf-bare cold, but she wanted to see the kit everyone was talking about. As she went through the screen she saw Jayfeather sitting there, staring at the kit.
"Anything wrong, Jayfeather?" She asked the medicine cat.
"Huh? No. Yes. Maybe. I don't know. I've never seen a kit this injured before," Jayfeather mewed confused. Briarlight put her tail on Jayfeather's shoulder, "I'm sure you can help it, you helped me."
"Yeah but, what if I over-dose her," Jayfeather mewed, "and you were a warrior, this is a kit that seems to be less than a moon."
Briarlight nodded, "the kit's a girl?" Jayfeather nodded.
"Why not give her marigold, chevril, and cobweds," she said, "and maybe celadane?" Jayfeather looked up at Briarlight, then mewed, "okay, but I'll hold the celadane 'till she is conciouse." Jayfeather walked slowly to the crevices where he holds his herbs and took them out. Briarlight dragged towards the kit and watched Jayfeather treat her. It took 'till sunhigh when he was finished treating the kit.
"That's alot of cobwebs for a kit!" Briarlight meowed, staring at the cobweb-covered kit, "What's her name?"
"I dont know. But I think Squirrelflight would want to name her," Jayfeather mewed and went to sort herbs. Briarlight sighed and went to her bed of moss.
Squirrelflight padded out of the nursery, but looked back. She wanted kits, but she's the deputy, and deputies cant have kits. She quickly padded to the medicine clearing to see the kit.
"Hey, Squirrelflight," she heard a voice say out behind her and let out a quiet groan. She turned around to face the cat.
"Yes, Sorreltail?" Squirrelflight mewed, a little impatient.
She shifted her paws uneasily, "I was wondering if I could tomorrows Dusk patrol? I haven't been in one for a while.."
"Yea, yea sure," Squirrelflight said and padded back toward the Medicine den. As she padded through the entrance she was greeted by Briarlight with the flick of her ears. She felt pity spread through her, even though she knew Briarlight wouldn't want her to, she couldn't help to. She had lost control to her lower spine from the tree fall many moons ago to get Longtail. But that was over now, the past is the past.
"Greetings, Squirrelflight," Jayfeather said, "Here to see the kit?"
She nodded, then padded toward the little bed the kit was in. She looked like a white puffy cloud with all the cobwebs on her. Squirrelflight licked between her ears and purred, "Have you named her?"
"Jayfeather thought you'd want to name the little mite," Brairlight crawled nearby.
She looked looked at the kit, then to Briarlight and Jayfeather, then back to the kit again. What would I name her? She wondered to herself. Icekit? Snowkit? Frostkit? Iciclekit? She thought real good about it, 'till she found the perfect name.
"Spiritkit..." She whispered.
"Huh?" Briarlight tilted her head.
"Spiritkit, her name is Spiritkit."