PROLOGUE
A gray cat slunk through the moorland, comfortable in the cool night shadows. He walked slowly, his blue eyes scanning the landscape. Suddenly he paused and tasted the air. Pressing himself against the ground, he watched as a rabbit darted past him, a black warrior close behind it. The gray cat narrowed his eyes and leaped high into the air, landing on the black warrior’s back. The black cat fell to the ground and stared at the gray cat in surprise.
“What is your name, you puny scrap?” the gray cat said, his voice sounding strange due to moons of not using it.
The black cat didn’t answer. There was unmistakably terror in his eyes. “StarClan save me,” the black cat whispered, too soft for the gray cat to hear.
“What’s your name?” the gray cat snarled.
The black cat blinked. “Crowfeather,” he meowed, his voice shaking.
“Well, Crowfeather, you are about to be killed by Thorn,” the gray cat growled.
He sank his sharp yellow teeth into Crowfeather’s neck and the warrior went limp. Thorn watched, satisfied, as blood oozed quickly from the WindClan cat’s neck and his breathing stopped. Thorn turned and trotted onwards until he reached the border.
He took a deep breath. “ThunderClan, I'm back,” Thorn said. “And it is time for revenge.”
Thorn walked through the forest until he reached a hollow surrounded by smooth stone walls. His piercing eyes searched for one cat and they hardened as they saw the black cat emerging from the medicine cat den with catmint in her jaws. Sunkit had caught greencough near the end of leaf-bare and was almost completely better. Shadecloud, the black she-cat, was giving the kit the last of the catmint and her blind mentor called, “Thank StarClan no other cats caught greencough this leaf-bare.”
Thorn turned away, tail twitching, and as he crept away, moving silently over the leafy ground, he hissed, “Oh, Shadecloud, your death is near.”
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