Sandra awoke in the middle of the night. She found herself having trouble sleeping without Kyoya's warm pelt pressed up against her. Sandra blinked with sadness when she saw Kyoya sound asleep a little ways away. Sandra also saw Jayfeather rushing over to the warriors' den. Sandra got up and headed out of camp for a walk. She had to get out on her own for awhile.

Sandra padded through the forest, not really sure where she was going. Though Hollyleaf had volunteered to help her and Gingka, she still couldn't help but feel disappointed inside. Kyoya was training in the Dark Forest and craved battle. He was a completely different person from when Sandra had met him. She remembered the tournament where Kyoya had chosen to partner with her. She remembered the song she had sung that brought out all the feelings she had for him, and she remembered when they first kissed beside the river.

"It was enchanting to meet you," Sandra murmured the words of the song as she walked. Again she found herself at the lake. The star glittered on the surface of the water. It looked so beautiful.

"It didn't always look so nice," Sandra jumped a little as Brambleclaw came up and sat beside her.

"You had to scare me like that?" Sandra growled, but there wasn't much anger behind it. Her sadness still masked everything.

"I heard that you had a fight with Kyoya. It's that why you've been out of it lately?" Brambleclaw asked.

Sandra sighed. "Yeah. He just seemed to change from the Kyoya I knew. When talking to me he had a gentle side but that side seemed to vanish."

"Well, have you tried talking to him?" Brambleclaw suggested.

"Well, no," Sandra admitted. "But I'm a little afraid to talk to him now. The way he was acting was really scary."

"You can't solve the problem until you talk to him," Brambleclaw pointed out.

Sandra got to her paws and looked at him. "Than why don't you take your own advice?"

Brambleclaw tilted his head. "What do you mean?"

"I know what happened between you and Squirrelflight," Sandra meowed. "You still love her Brambleclaw. I know you do. If you love her why don't you talk to her?"

"That's different," Brambleclaw argued. "Squirrelflight lied to me. How could she say that I was Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf's father?"

Sandra sighed. "Thanks for the talk, Brambleclaw, but I think I just need to be alone for a little while."

Brambleclaw blinked, sypathedically. "Alright, but come back to camp soon, alright? If you don't I'll come looking for you again." Sandra nodded and watched the deputy walk back into the trees. Once he disappeared, Sandra looked back out at the lake. She sat there for awhile longer, her thoughts wondering. She looked at her reflection in the water, baring her teeth and swiping at the water.

"Hope you aren't thinking about catching a fish," Sandra blinked in surprise and turned to see Squirrelflight.

"What are you doing out here?" Sandra asked.

"I saw you leave camp, then Brambleclaw went after you but then he came back without you so I thought I'd come and check up on you," Squirrelflight replied. "Besides, I haven't gotten to talk to you that much."

"Well, now's as good of a time as ever," Sandra meowed. She waited for Squirrelflight to say something, but her sad look crept back onto her face.

"What's wrong? You've seemed a little out of it lately," Squirrelflight asked.

"Well, Kyoya and I had a fight," Sandra answered.

"Toms!" Squirrelflight snorted. "They always have to have things their way. Honestly! I wish they'd just pick up their pride every once and awhile and listen."

Sandra smiled, feeling amusement rising inside her. "You've got that right." She looked up at Squirrelflight and smiled. "Thanks, Squirrelflight. That actually made me feel a little better."

"Anytime," Squirrelflight smiled back. "Now what do you say we head back to camp? And my advice is to make the tom wish he never argued with you. Ignore him and make him think that the argument didn't affect you."

Sandra nodded and followed Squirrelflight back to camp.