Bushtail was jolted awake at the sound of cats screaming. After a moment to catch his bearings, he realized what they were screaming about.
He leaped frantically from his nest on the warrior's ledge and landed hard in rushing water.
He rushed to the nursery, his yes still not adjusted to the dark. He poked around, and felt his fur brush something in the water. No. Bushtail leaned over and grabbed the body in his teeth and dragged it out to the central cave.
He sniffed it, and at once caught the scent of his expecting mate, Ravenfur. Now Bushpelt truly had nothing left. No parents, mate, brothers, sister, nobody. He thought these things as he dragged his dead mate and unborn kit to the tunnel exit, wailing his greif all the way.
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Aspenstar awoke to a tickling sensation. She yawned, and got a mouthful of water. The tickling sensation was the body of her mate, Oakclaw.
Eyes widening, Aspenstar struggled to the exit, only to find it blocked by stones that has fallen.
She dug at the rocks, her lungs burning, until she realized that it was no use. Her vision darkened more than the blackness of the cave. Aspenstar remembered dimly that this was her last life. And, she guessed, the last life of Tunnelclan.
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