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... Hey? I am Bramblenose. owo For those of you who don't know me... I write all of the Bramblekit/paw/nose chapters. I guess this is the first time that I've added something to the author's note thing.(It's not an AN because I didn't put AN up there XDDD) OWO Sure. Anyways, hope you guys... enjoy... eue

"Light is Fading and Darkness is falling, but the Stars will Rise and end the long night."

Chapter 10:

Doubts

The early morning frost coated the stone walls of the hollow, turning them a odd mixture of blue gray and sandy yellow. Though it was still early, the camp was already waking up, and cats were starting to emerge from their dens. Cloudtail made his way towards the fresh-kill pile, his long white fur fluffed up against the cold, while Brook- who had been on guard duty for the night- mewed a quiet greeting before heading into the warrior's den, dark shadows under her tired grey eyes.
Bramblekit had often wondered what it was like to live in the mountains that the tribe she-cat called her home. One snowy leaf-bare night she had asked Ferncloud what the tribe was like.
"We stayed with them during the great journey," The gray pelted queen had said "Though outwardly they seem strange… and quite primitive... I think we learned that we are all the same at heart."
" .kit." Someone said. A paw waved in front of her muzzle. Bramblekit blinked, and tore her gaze away from Brook just as the tribe she-cat slipped into the warrior's den.
"What?"
Mousekit lowered her paw and stared at Bramblekit with a half skeptical, half amused look on her face. Lionkit sat nearby with a sparrow at his paws.
"Are you awake in there?" The golden brown she-kit asked, her high mew squeaking a little bit as she tried to hold back a giggle. Bramblekit tipped her head to the side a slight frown, her amber eyes narrowed as she tried to read her friend's expression.
Something light and papery bumped into her ear, creeping down off of her head when she moved.
"Augh!" Bramblekit yelped, shaking her head rather violently. "What in StarClan's name is on my- ?!" She stopped abruptly and narrowed her eyes, a sheepish grin on her face. The leaf (which is what freaked her out) floated silently down to the ground.
"HA!" Mousekit laughed hysterically while Lionkit reenacted Bramblekit's shocked expression. "Paranoid much?"
Bramblekit narrowed her eyes even further and sat down with a bump on the stony ground, blocking Mousekit's mental jibes and refusing to acknowledge the two mouse-brains.
"Mousekit! Lionkit!" A voice barked. The two kits straightened seriously, as Brambleclaw padded across the clearing towards them. Squirrelflight followed a few steps behind him, her emerald-green gaze unreadable.
"Where's Hollykit?" The orange she-cat asked them, glancing around for her other daughter.
Bushes rustled as Hollykit scampered out from behind the apprentice's den, scraps of herbs and dried leaves flecking her black pelt. "I'm here!"
Brambleclaw beckoned the kits towards him and his mate with a sweep of his tabby striped tail.
Bramblekit hung back, not sure if she should join them. Mousekit glanced over her shoulder.
(Coming?) She asked jerking her head towards the others.
(I guess…)
Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw sat side by side, their pelts barely touching. Hollykit and Lionkit were before their parents waiting for Mousekit and Bramblekit to join them.
Brambleclaw was just opening his mouth to speak when Mousekit- unable to contain herself- spilled out a river of questions.
"Is this about Jaykit? Is he doing okay? He seemed fine when I visited him yesterday! I mean, Leafpool said that-"
"Mousekit!" Squirrelflight reprimanded her daughter. The green-eyed she-kit froze in the middle of speaking, her small pink mouth open wide for a moment. "Sorry..." She apologized meekly, her gaze shifting obediently back to her father.
"Will he be okay?" Hollykit mewed.
There was a pause.
"It's very… hard for a blind cat to become an apprentice, let alone a fully-fledged warrior." Brambleclaw began, his mew grave. "And Jaykit..."
"Jaykit will never be a full apprentice."Squirrelflight gently finished for her mate.
There was a shocked silence. Hollykit turned her gaze out towards the forest and Lionkit sat down with a dull thud, his shoulders sagging miserably, but Mousekit gazed at her parents with green eyes ablaze with fury.
"So that's it." She spat, her ears flat against her head. "We become apprentices and Jaykit stays in the nursery or- or gets dumped in the elder's den?!"
"Mousekit, it's not like-"Squirrelflight began, but Mousekit wasn't done.
"You don't get it do you?! Just because he's blind doesn't mean he can't see!"
"It's like he can see with his nose and ears instead of his eyes." Hollykit added helpfully while Mousekit glared defiantly at her mother.
"Just give him a chance!" Bramblekit said quietly... But a nagging doubt disturbed her consciousness.
(Will the Clan accept a blind warrior?)
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