GROUNDSQUIRREL
Groundsquirrel shuddered when he heard Shadecloud’s words. He decided he would sleep the entire day so that he wasn’t overwhelmed by thoughts of Shadecloud’s ominous vision.
He settled into his nest, but he struggled to sleep. He eventually fell asleep to the soft whisper of the wind brushing the trees and the distant chirping of the birds.
When his eyes opened in his dream, he was being carried away on a river of blood. An endless chasm was ahead of him, and he tried to paddle away from it. But the current was too strong and Groundsquirrel was pushed towards the void. He slid into the gaping black hole with blood falling on to his snout, and he gasped for breath but only got a mouthful of salty blood. He was falling, and falling, and falling…
A caterwaul of grief woke Groundsquirrel. Had Shadecloud’s vision come true? If so, who had died?
Groundsquirrel darted out of the den. The sun was setting quickly, just a faint glow on the horizon. The pale orange light illuminated the hollow and he saw a tom lying by the unmoving body of a she-cat. Her throat was still oozing blood and her face was covered with deep scratches.
He noticed that the dead she-cat’s fur was a beautiful dark brown and the mourning tom’s fur was light brown. Suddenly, Groundsquirrel realized who the two cats were. He gasped and the grieving tom’s eyes opened.
His amber eyes were filled with sadness and grief. Woodpelt said nothing as he saw Groundsquirrel, just pressed his cold black nose back into the soft, smooth fur of the dark brown she-cat and closed his eyes again, lost in bittersweet memories.
Groundsquirrel sank to the ground in disbelief. Shadecloud’s vision was true, a ThunderClan cat had died by the vicious claws of Thorn.
And Groundsquirrel wanted nothing but revenge. He wanted to tear out Thorn’s throat as Thorn had done to this she-cat today. He wouldn’t be satisfied until he felt soft flesh tear under his claws and spatter blood onto them.
Because Flowerburst, the pretty brown she-cat he loved, with her sky blue eyes that sparkled in the sunlight, was the dead cat who laid on the ground in front of him.
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