Warriors: A Silver Moon Rises

Chapter 10

              A crisp chill in the air told me leaffall was coming soon, the cool breeze blew through my pelt and sent a cool chill down my spine. I was in the forest gathering more herbs and berries, with leaffall coming..sickness would be brought with it and I wanted to be prepared. I padded by the twoleg place and gathered more catmint, the scent of twolegs and their kittypets wafted into my nose, it had been three moons since the twolegs came into the territory and killed prey. I got a shiver just thinking about how heartless the twolegs were. I wandered into the forest, and right as I did I ran into Poppypaw.   " I see you are gathering more catmint," she said as she helped me to carry some back to the camp. " So what happened at the last gathering," she asked.

   " well, Crookedstar asked if any of the other medicine cats had recieved a message from Starclan, and we had decided that we would all keep an eye out if anything changed with the forest," I said as we arrived back at the camp. " Do you think what Bluestar saud was true," Poppypaw asked curiously....I stood there for a moment. " I believe we should just wait to see what happens," I finally answered. Poppypaw nodded her head and bounded off into the medicine den. I followed after her.." Poppypaw, why were you questioning the word of Starclan," I asked her, she stopped and turned to me. " I just....don't see why Starclan sends these messages, when they could simply tells us when these things will happen, and how to stop them, wouldnt that be easier," she said as she continued to sort herbs. I didn't know how to answer that, I brushed off the question and began to help her sort out the herbs.

Angelheart called me from the clearing, I quickly got out of the medicine den, I didn't want to answer Poppypaws question for I didn't know the answer, even I began to question it. I quickly brushed it off and padded up to Angelheart. " You called me," I asked. " Yes, I wanted to know if you would come into the forest with me for a walk, also to hunt a bit?" she asked. I nodded my head and followed her out of the camp. Why was Poppypaw constantly questioning Starclan? I ran this question through my head the entire  walk to the good hunting spot. " Are you okay, you seem like you are troubled by something," Angelheart asked in a worried tone. I paused for a moment...." Lately Poppypaw has been questioning the actions of Statclan, and I just..I don't know what to think or say to her," I finished. Angelheart gave me a worried look. " Why would Poppypaw question Starclan? she is going to be a medicine cat," she said with a confused look. " I honestly don't know what's going on, I am scared to ask her..she might yell at me," I said sadly.  " I don't think she would yell at you, she is your apprentice..you really should talk with her," Angelheart said with a sincere look. I licked her forehead and pointed to a vole that was not to far away. Angelheart turned and quickly swiped at it, a clean kill. We continued the hunt as  I watched her catch two vole and a chaffinche.

When we arrived back at the camp Poppypaw was already asleep in the apprentices den. I decided I would not disturb her and that I would talk with her tommorow. I padded into the medicime den and found my nest, I lay down and slowly closed my eyes. Sleep did not come to fast as I was busy worrying about hiw Poppypaw would react. But eventually I managed to fall asleep under the brightly shining moon.