Princess
The next sunrise, Nightfrost was at the morning border patrol. Later, he went out with Swiftpaw. The two trained fought. Later, Swiftpaw hunted with him watching and he bumped into Fireheart. The flame colored warrior was sniffing the ground in circles.
"Fireheart, what are you doing?" The tom sat up and licked his chest fur, embarrassed.
"I thought I found a familiar scent on this spot. I'll go hunting now."
Fireheart opened his mouth and padded away carefully. Nightfrost look around him, recognizing the place where he had hunted the pheasant to other day. He took a sniff at where Fireheart was smelling, the grass holding Princess's stale scent. He blinked in surprise, before a cry of a bird made him turn back to watching his apprentice hunt. Later again that night, he dreamed of his half-siblings as kits.
Nightfrost blinked awake and stretched. He padded out to see it was dawn outside. He grabbed a sparrow and headed to one of the shades to pull off the feathers. His friend joined him after mewing happily to Willowpelt with a shrew. After taking the last bite on the sparrow, Nightfrost turned to Whitestorm.
"Whitestorm, can you take Swiftpaw for the day? I need to take Fireheart somewhere."
The white warrior look up from his shrew as his brother padded to him. "Alright. "
After telling the guard that they are going hunting now, Nightfrost headed straight to the Twolegplace, ignoring everything except his brother behind him.
"Where are we going, Nightfrost?" Fireheart mewed.
"It's a surprise."
Seeing the fence, he jumped onto the fence with Fireheart following. He sniffed the air for Princess's scent and followed it, leading them to a Twoleg nest. In the garden, a queen padded to the edge of her lawn. Fireheart sniffed, eyes wide with recognition. Nightfrost jumped down, making her hiss.
"Princess. It's me, Tiny. Your big brother." Nightfrost calmly waited as Princess remained tense.
"Tiny? You don't smell like him but you do look just like him," Princess meowed carefully.
Nightfrost stopped himself from rolling his eyes as he stated the obvious. "I quite certain there is no other cat that has both the looks and size of me in one."
"So you are Tiny," Princess meowed, relaxing.
"Rusty is here too." The orange tom padded out of the bushes, making Princess stiffen again. He spoke hesitantly.
"Princess?"
"Yes." She padded to him and the two rubbed each other's cheeks. "Our mother's scent is still there," she mewed, relieved.
"You still have the scent from mom too, Princess."
Princess nodded, until her eyes narrowed and she took a step backward, her ears flat with distrust."Why are you here?"
"We just want to talk to you," Fireheart mewed.
"Why?"
Fireheart answered. "Because you're our sister."
Princess studied them for a moment. Her guarded expression lifted. "You're both very thin," she mewed critically.
"Thinner than a kittypet, maybe, but not thin for a Clan—a forest—cat," Fireheart replied.
As the full-blooded sister and brother talk to each other, Nightfrost thought about his own siblings and shook his head, knowing that it would be impossible for them to speak in family terms. Soon a twoleg calls for Princess. Fireheart and Nightfrost darted under a nearby bush.
"I should go," Princess mewed. "They'll be worried if I don't go back, and I have many tiny mouths to feed. I can feel them moving inside me." She glanced at her swollen belly, her eyes soft.
"We have to return to our clan anyway. We'll come to see you again," Nightfrost mewed sincerely.
"Yes, I'd like that!" Princess called over her shoulder. She was already trotting back toward her Twoleg nest. "Good-bye!"
"See you soon," Fireheart called.
Princess return to her Twoleg nest and the two toms leap back into their clan territory. Nighfrost stopped to lick himself clean of Twoleg scent and Fireheart copied him. After making sure the Twoleg scent is gone, Nightfrost turn to Fireheart.
"We should hunt for prey, so we won't appear strange."
Fireheart nodded. "It's so the clan won't suspect us going to the Twoleg place?"
"Yes."
The two warriors hunted separately. Nightfrost brought back a robin and a mouse, while Fireheart carried a vole and a wood pigeon.
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