The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter XI: Settling In.

Bellatrix:

To give you a bit of a visual on what the new Forest Spirits Division camp looked like, I shall tell you; it was larger than the previous one, with trees surrounding the area with small patches of sand on each side while the rest of it was grass and the center of it became known as the Den of the Leader.

"It's massive." Storm gasped in amazement as he looked around. "Yep," StealthHunter added, "it's also our new home."

"Welp, let's started, shall we?" CrimsonFoot added in.
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Amethyst:

"All right, the best place to start is to grab bundles of moss as well as sticks, especially for the healer's. And stones... but please do not break anyone's bones, we just got here and we have very limited amount of medicinal supplies at the moment but we'll grab sticks and a few empty webs while we're out. I'm talking to you, apprentices. Now, we'll need to grab as much of these things as we can and bring them back here and set up boundaries and a lot more." I instructed to the Stream Echoes upon making it into their new territory. "Do... do they really have to... go, mom?" Shy asked her mother, DewFlower. "We have to set up our new home, dear." DewFlower answered her. "But they'll be back sooner than you think; don't worry."

"Okay." She said. Shy and her brothers, Mud and Gorse, were part of DewFlower and Chief TimberHeart's second litter. Oh, she did truly live by her namesake; so shy, so quite, so sweet. Well, as a pup, at least.

"But within that time, we along with the rest of the healer's will be on a medicine expedition with Bellatrix helping us out." DuskHeart announced. "We'll need them."

And with all that, we were on our way, looking for the items that were needed to build a new foundation.
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Milly:

"Milly, you, Abigail, ShrewTalon, SilentShadow, SandFur, and LittleFern will help the elders with building the new camp and me, ShadowHunter, BoulderSnout, FrogPounce, BeetleLegs, and MaggotFur will help with hunting." ScarFace ordered us, looking at us sternly as he added: "I'm counting on all of you to do your job."

"Y-Y-Yes, sir." LittleFern stammered. "We'll get right on it."

Despite having a grudge against ScarFace, there were orders that we had to follow that were given by him.

"Don't know why we have a so-called 'Fighting General' bossing us around like he's the joint leader when BoulderSnout is." SilentShadow muttered to me as we worked. "This doesn't make any kind of damn sense!"

"He's an authority too, SilentShadow." I told him. "He has responsibilities and orders he has to follow, even given orders as well."

SilentShadow: "It's still a bunch of hogwash, Milly. What difference does it even make?"

Milly: "It's still something we have to follow as long as we don't get on his bad side. Besides, arguing now won't get our job done."

SilentShadow: "You're right, let's just get this over with and keep just this to ourselves."

Milly: "It's best if we did so."

And so we continued with job, keeping our own personal thoughts amongst ourselves for the greater good. Then SilentShadow whispered to me: "Though… there are some that follow his orders." We both looked to our right to face one animal; a small female bobcat with sandy colored fur, tan spots, and yellow eyes was helping ShrewTalon and Abby. "LittleFern?" I asked him as we observed her while she helped them. "If you ask me, I'd say she's quite fond with him." He said. "Though, I can't ever imagine them ever becoming mates."

I sure hope not. I had thought to myself–but, boy, oh, boy, his words would later be proving wrong.
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Jemma:

"We managed to find some herbs." Frost told Chief FalconTalon when we brought herbs with HollyStem. "It's not much, but it should do for right now." HollyStem added. We all had to split the herbs that we found evenly amongst ourselves until we could find more. "Thank you, you three." CosmoPelt told them. "This will do for right now, though, we'll have to ration them until then."

We brought them to an area which would later be the Den of the Healer's, well, it wasn't yet a den, but you get the picture.

As we were sorting the herbs, me and HollyStem had noticed that Frost seemed a bit troubled. "Is something bothering you?" HollyStem asked her. "Something… feels a bit off." She said as she worked. "Like what?"

Frost: "I have this feeling that… death might be upon all of us as we speak."

We were shocked by her words. Why would death be upon all of us? Was there another threat in the forest? Was there a traitor? There must have been something that made her think this. "What do you mean by that?" I asked. She looked at me and said: "I had this vision back during the second month of the new green season one night; I was in the center of an unfamiliar place and then I saw a river, then, it turned red with blood and as it flowed, skulls appeared in the river and when turned around, I saw all different of animals… dead with wounds and some were beheaded and dismembered–it was terrifying, I was told that the blood of the young and old would spill and I heard 'Let the river run with blood. Beware of the snake.'."

I was shocked by this. Was this a warning? Was the fire just the beginning of things? Was this a warning of a mass extinction event? Was this impending doom? I thought of some many awful things that could happen. "Is… this something we should keep in mind amongst ourselves?" I asked.

"It's best if we do, we don't want to cause panic and gossip. But we should probably tell my father when he and the rest of his patrol gets back." Frost replied. Chief FalconTalon was her father and she and her sisters, Storm and Echo, were part of his second. And yes, this indeed was something that she would have to warn him about.
"Okay." We then continued with sorting the herbs, but this omen, I just could not stop thinking about it. And later… my thoughts of fears for this omen would later be shown.
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Summer:

I helped RowanStep had EmberNose with the mothers and with the rest of the Division and setting up boundaries as well. This whole thing was important for all of us, and now that I think about it, I know that none of it was a lie.

I don't know how else to put this, but just like everyone else, I too had a dreaded feeling that we were all in danger and all of this was only the beginning of it. We would later be familiar with suffering and death as we knew it.

Too familiar.