Shadow's Suffering

Chapter 50

The dark grey furred female woke up in the morning and felt Mud still next to her. She smiled and nuzzled against his side but looked around the small camp. She looked like she was the only one up at the time. She blinked her light blue eyes and got up slowly. She didn't see the other brown tom anywhere. He could be trying to find Eagle. That's always a possibility. I'll have to find him soon then. The female thought moving away from her love and heading toward their makeshift camp's entrance.

She got out of the camp unnoticed and scented the air for the tom. She could barely scent him and his scent was faint as well. She had to hurry if she was going to find him. She followed after the scent carefully moving around trees and thorn bushes so she didn't run into them. She kept her paw steps light but then felt something strange on her back. It was cold.

The female looked up into the sky and saw white falling down. Snow! Its snowing! The scent is going to go away if I don't hurry! Oh why does it have to snow now? The female thought to herself with a mental hiss. She quickened her pace after the scent. She knew she would have to find him before he got hurt.

She soon got closer to the scent but the snow was falling down quicker. She shivered against the cold. That was the first time she had ever seen snow. It was a lot colder than she expected to me, especially with the wind blowing toward her.

"Brown! Where are you?" She yowled as loud as she could knowing she was close to crossing the border for no clan's territory. Could he have crossed it? She wasn't sure but she didn't know how close he was to Eagle either. She could manipulate him to doing something he didn't want to do.

She crossed over the border and looked back for the scent. She couldn't smell it anymore. It was gone. She frowned and headed back through the snow that was still fresh. She saw the sun trying to peak through the clouds but it wasn't working. She tucked her tail close to her side looking around. She had to know if Brown was still alive or if he was killed by Eagle. She knew StarClan would be no help at all for this so she didn't even bother asking them.

Shadow got into the camp and was bombarded by kits. She giggled looking at them and their excitement from the snow. The camp had a thin layer of snow around it just like the rest of the forest and the trees above it looked like they had more in them.

"Is this snow? It's so pretty!" Feather giggled as he lashed his tail back and forth. Meanwhile his brother, Hail, was basically blended in with the snow and hard to find except for his ice like eyes.

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I may not get caught up today because I have to help my mom but I'll try my best. It might be updating Ember tho cuz I'm having some writers block for this!