Tribe of Masked Secrets: book 1: The First Secret

Chapter 5, Banished

I come out of breath into the camp clearing. Thankfully Coldthorn didn't bother to follow me. Good. I take a moment to rest, sitting down near the edge of camp. Thunderstar, a gray tom with light gray paws and strips on his back. "Why have you been near rouges!" He snarls at my face. I am taken aback.

"Rouges? Thunderstar, I believe you are mistaken, I-"

"You filthy little lier! You smell like a rouge! Maybe you are a rouge for all I know!"

I catch a glimpse of cold thorn at the edge of camp. I smell like her because she brought me back last night, but I also smell like rouge... BY STAR CLAN is she a ROUUGE??? It's all coming together now...

"I was border patrolling there if-" he cuts off my lie.

"ENOGH! I exile you from this clan, don't come back you-" I shall spare your eyes from some of the things he is ranting about now.

Emotions fume from inside me, rage, confusion, utter desolation. Rage comes to the top of my to do list. I snarl and lunge me self at him, pinning him down. I growl in his face "I will leave, not because I am a rouge, but because-" the other cats pry me away cutting off my statement. They herd me away, I dash away (this is where the utter desolation part kicks in) I run to the border, but I can't will my self to go any farther, not into that rouge place.

"Follow me, I know a place you can stay." I whirl around to see cold thorn standing there.

I muster all my calmness and smarts together and ask "whaaa...?"

"It's the least I can do." Oh yea, Coldthorn, rouge, right.

"Uh......" So suffisticated, I know.

"Just come." And with that she walks into the rouge filled place.

"In there?" I ask, confused. She doesn't reply so I gather all my will power and pad after her, my senses screaming at me to get the heck out of there. I ignore them.