chapter 12

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Three moons have passed since Tornkit was born
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Five clan warriors stumbled back into camp, two of them were seriously injured. The uninjured cat went to report to the leader what happened while the injured cats hobbled and dragged themselves, with the assistance of two of the less injured cats, to the medicine den.

Upon seeing the severe injuries of the cats, Freckledwish asked as she placed the two warriors on the treatment beds, "What happened?"

"Fox attack, we chased it away but we got injured in the process."

Freckledwish inspected the lesser injured cats and determined they would heal satisfactorily on their own so she flicked her tail to let the non injured warriors out so she could concentrate on the severely injured warriors. As she saw them out, Tornkit was hanging yet again nearby, and seeing the injured warriors as she glanced in she mewed to Freckledwish, "hey- can I help?"

Freckledwish seeing herself in the young Tom nodded and pointed to each of the herbs she needed on the medicine shelf. The small kit took the indicated poppy seeds, cobwebs, moss, chervil and dock leaves, then passed them to Freckledwish.

"Here eat these," she said handing the 2 injured cats poppy seeds to ease their pain.

She quickly chewed up some chervil and dock, placing the juice on 2 separate leaves, pouring the dock on the wounds, then pouring the chervil onto the cobwebs. She then placed the cobwebs to seal up the wounds ensuring that all the juice fell on the wounds and not anywhere else.

While she did this she sent Tornkit off on an errand with moss to get water, "Tornkit, can you get a warrior to fill this with water?"

The warriors were still uncomfortable so she got down some thyme and honey she found earlier out and gave them to the warriors, "Here, try this, this is designed to help calm you down," she said as the kit returned with the moss.

She took the moss and placed it down in front of the warriors, "If you're thirsty, here is some water."

The warriors nodded before passing out.

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