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I woke up to a soft prodding on my side. I sleepily opened my eyes to find, Bearclaw, looking down at us. Sandkit, was yawning next to me and sleepily mumbling.
"Come on its time to begin your tests," Bearclaw told us. "Were going to the courthouse to learn about the history of Truthclan." Sandkit and I groggily sat up grumbling.
"It's only dawn! Why are we getting up so early?" Sandkit yawned/wailed. He was too dramatic.
"It's gonna be a long day of learning. Then your gonna take a test on what you learned tomorrow. If you pass, you'll begin learning on how to be a lawyer," Bearclaw mewed.
"What if we fail?" I asked.
"Then you'll go through the tour again then retake the test."
I nodded and we left. After the many turns to get back to the front path in the middle of camp we walked straight up to the "Courthouse". The name still confused me. I'll have to ask why they call it the Courthouse.
The courthouse was the largest den in camp. It was in the same shape as the other dens of Truthclan but a lot longer. Many tail lengths longer. There was a smaller den in front of it that was the same shape and size of the other dens but with a hole that led into the larger den.
When we walked in we were warmly welcomed with a greeting from several cats and a gray and white she cat. "Hello young kits. I am Moonstar; leader of Truthclan or the Judge of Trials which you will learn all about today. Are these all the kits that came during the rotations, Bearclaw?"
"No, Moonstar. Watersky's kits came back yesterday. They're probably just running a bit late," Bearclaw, told her.
She nodded. "Well were gonna have to wait. So, what are your names kits?" She asked us.
"I'm Sandkit!" Sandkit mewed.
"Copperkit," I said.
"What clan are you two from?"
"Huntingclan," Bearclaw told her.
"Just like you," Moonstar purred. "Bearclaw, is one of my best lawyers in my clan. I have many great lawyers but his mentor taught him well."
"Bearclaw, is our brother!" Sandkit squeaked.
"Really?" Moonstar seemed quite surprised. "I thought your younger brother, Eaglepaw, or whatever his name is now, was your only brother?"
"I did too," Bearclaw purred.
"Were here!" A loud squeal said at the entrance of the courthouse. We all turned to see Leapordkit and Speedkit running towards us. Watersky was approaching more slowly.
"Sorry were late, Moonstar. Speedkit refused to get up this morning," Watersky apologized.
"It's no problem Watersky. So now let's begin the tour and lesson. Please follow me young kits and you two," she looked at Bearclaw and Watersky, "you two can go do something." They nodded and turned to leave.
"Okay. So first thing is first. We will start with the tour of the courthouse. Now, the courthouse has four chambers. Three are for trials and one is my den."
"why is this place called the Courthouse?" I asked.
"This is where all our trials are or where we have "court"," Moonstar explained.
"Mommy told me that at one point there were only three chambers to the courthouse where only one was the leaders den and two were trial rooms," Speedkit commented.
"Yes. At one point we only had three chambers. One trial room was for murder cases and one trial room was for clan arguments. Then we had a special case spring up so we built an extra chamber for special cases," Moonstar told us.
"What was the special case?" I asked.
Moonstar looked over at me and I saw her claws unsheathe just slightly before she replied saying, "it's classified for Truthclan and leaders of the clans." She turned her back and started walking away.
"Can we start learning about the history of Truthclan please?" Sandkit begged.
Moonstar started putting and nodded. "Of course young kit. Let's go to my den." She led us past a room with lichen covering the entrance and then we walked into a room also covered in lichen.
The entrance opened up to a large den with a little light coming from a small square opening in the wall with lichen near it.
"Sit down kits. Let me tell you about the history of our clan. Now," she said after we all sat down, "Truthclan was one of the last clans to form. Our first leader, Whitestar, created our clan when a fight between the original clans almost started a war. He reasoned with the cats to not fight and many cats admired him and left their clans to join him and that's how Truthclan came to be."
"Which clans were the original clans?" Leapordkit asked.
"Medicineclan and Warclan. Both were like how they were today but at that time nobody switched clans. Once the cats joined Truthclan began the rotations."
"How did the other two clans form?" Sandkit asked.
"You'll learn that when you go to the other clans."
"Why were Medicineclan and Warclan fighting?" I asked.
Moonstar looked over at me and again I faintly saw her claws unsheathe. I wasn't sure if she was mad of the questions I asked or if she was uncomfortable answering my questions. "Again young kit. It's classified."
"But why is it classified? Were here to learn about the clans so why can't I know about what they were fighting over?" I was getting annoyed with her evasiveness.
She sighed and her tail tip twitched. "Copperkit, your just too young to know."
I rolled my eyes but nodded.
"Good. Now, anymore questions?" Moonstar asked.
"What clan was Whitestar originally from?" Speedkit asked.
"Medicineclan."
"Why did he feel the need to stop the clans from fighting?"
I stopped listening after that. I couldn't shake the feeling that they were hiding something from not only me but from everyone. Something Truthclan honored was telling the truth no matter what. Mom told me that.
What are they hiding? Why can't I know? More importantly though; why are they hiding the information from me and everyone else?
What is Moonstar hiding? What don't they want Copperkit to know? Why am I asking you questions you don't know? What did you think? Tell me! Review review review!