Chapter 29: Who to Take?
Silverstar paced in her den contemplating who to take with her in search of WaveClan. Finally, she got too tired and decided that sleep would help her more than pacing around would.
The night was dark. Silverstar was sitting on the single cloud in the sky. For a heartbeat, she thought HeatherClan had been attacked, and that she had been murdered by the cruel and heartless Brightstar. But then she realized that she was supposed to watch what was happening below her.
She saw herself, slinking through the shadows, followed by a band of three cats. She recognized the faint but distinct scent of Birdflight, Sandpelt, and Graynose. That's who I should take! she thought. She was about to make herself wake up, but saw something happening underneath her.
"Hey! Look at this!" Birdflight exclaimed. "It's a badger burrow!"
"Get away from there!" Sandpelt wrinkled her nose. "That garlic stinks, and it could hide any scent of badger!"
Birdflight flattened her ears. "Sorry," she murmured.
The Silverstar with the patrol seemed to agree with Sandpelt, but Silverstar on the cloud had enhanced senses. "No!" she wanted yowl. "WaveClan is right in front of your noses!" But she couldn't make a sound.
"Let's rest here," Graynose suggested, leading the four cats into a ditch.
"Rat!" Silverstar suddenly hissed from her cloud.
Birdflight looked towards the sky, as if she'd heard her mother. Then she looked away as the Slverstar with her yelped. "Rat!" yelped Silverstar, echoing her own words.
Rats streamed into the ditch by then hundreds, swarming over the cats and delivering lethal bites. The four cats threw themselves into battle and fought with their best, taking out ten rats in two heartbeats.
But by then, it was too late, and soon, unharmed, Silverstar was looking at her kit and Clanmates' torn bodies bleeding to death...
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