━━━━ loachpath has healed from the strain of having her kits. she's spent her time within the confines of the nursery, and is glad to finally be able to go on patrols.

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━━━━ willowstripe got her paw stuck in a twoleg trap. luckily, she escaped with only a sprained limb.

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━━━━ gecko tooth and squirreldusk have become mates. it's a bit of a surprise to the clan, but they are all happy for the new couple.

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━━━━ brightstrike's sprain has healed, which he's thankful for. he hated being cooped up in camp.

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━━━━ wheatkit bumbled along the river. the small she—kit had slipped from the safety of the camp, having been drawn by the glistening water that she had caught sight of from the peaks back at camp.

the fearless little kitten cared less for the sense of danger. she'd tackle whatever came her way, no matter its size.

wheatkit stopped and peered down at the water. she stared at her reflection, which stared back. she was mesmerised by the fact that her reflection rippled and shifted with each slap of her paw she placed on the waters surface.

then, the ground gave way. wheatkit found herself under the water, engulfed by the wetness as she tried to reach the surface, her paws clawing violently at the water in an attempt to reach the top.

wheatkit thought she had died. a flash of light hit her, and the sound of bird song hit her ears. her eyes opened up and she stared at the reddish pelt of robinpaw.

❝ what are you doing! ❞ wailed robinpaw after he dropped the kit onto the ground. ❝ almondstripe! i got her! ❞ he called.

robinpaw saved wheatkit from drowning.

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━━━━ loachpath decided to head out of camp, and venture into the mountains, alone, wanting to explore and have some time to herself.

she returned back to camp hours later feeling a little refreshed. the loss of splitmimic and the birth of her kits has taken a toll on her mentally and physically.

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━━━━ hawkbitflare trudged slowly across the territory as he led basslight and heronpaw on a quick patrol to bring back some herbs. with each drop of rain that hit him, his whiskers twitched.

unfortunately, with the rain, the patrol doesn't find any useful herbs and returns to camp with nothing but drenched fur and miserable faces.

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━━━━ goldrain sluggishly trailed behind his two patrol partners, chasmpoppy and inkmeadow, as the two talked ahead of him.

a cat steps out from behind goldrain, and beckons for the patrol to stop.

they comply, and halt slowly.

❝ can we help you? ❞ asked goldrain with a flick of his left ear. he felt a little uneasy.

the cat dipped their head, thankful that they had stopped just as they asked, and sat down. they curled their tail around their paws. they meant no harm.

❝ i've seen y'all walk these parts. what are you? some colony or something? ❞ the cat drawled as he looked over goldrain's shoulder to the other two.

goldrain turned slowly to his peers, then back to the stranger and his shoulders rolled. ❝ something like that, yeah. a clan, ❞ he replied.

❝ we live on the mountains. we hunt and eat when we want, what we want. it's fun, it's great fun! you should totally come back to camp with us, ❞ blurted out inkmeadow quickly. she gasped for a breath at the end, having heaved too heavily to force out her sentence.

the cat laughed lightly. ❝ hmm, i might take you up on that offer. show me the way then? ❞

butterflytuft joins peakclan.

━━━━ honeystream had caught a warrior from hemlockclan trespassing on peakclan territory while on a walk to clear her mind. they were far from their own camp, so she knew it wasn't accidental.

honeystream drove the trespassing feline from peakclan's territory, who retaliated and attacked. the elder only sustained a sliced up ear, and is otherwise fine.

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━━━━ swifthawk's claw wound has healed.

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━━━━ heronpaw noticed hazelrise limped around camp, and offered up some advice on excersises he could do to help strengthen his leg, and reduce any pain he was dealing with.

basslight is proud of how far heronpaw is coming with her training and independence.

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━━━━ browndash will always remember his sister. she was his best friend, and his support in a number of ways. he's been grieving the loss of her for some time now, and has finally come to terms with the fact that she won't ever come back.

he will always remember her, and always grieve the loss he suffered. but it has eased, a little.

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━━━━ bearmask's body was found within the clans territory. he had been sent on a patrol, and the clan was worried when he hadn't returned.

the clan mourned the loss of the warrior. he was new but still had a massive impact on those who had grown close to him over the moons.

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━━━━ basslight took part in one of the more grimmer jobs as a medicine cat — the grounds where peakclan goes to mourn their dead, as if needed to be tended to. she brought heronpaw along for the trip, feeling as if she was ready for the task.

the patrol tidied up the burial grounds, dusting off cobwebs and ensuring the graves were neat, when a sharp howl of pain startled basslight.

turning, she focused her gaze on her apprentice, who hopped up and down and cursed under her breath. she had stood on a thorn while cleaning up, and cut her paw.

basslight decided to walk heronpaw back to camp to check her over. she'd return later to finish what she had started.

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━━━━ a large, heavy sounding thump caused both almondstripe and robinpaw to shift around. they had left camp to train, but the beady black eyes of a bird had caused their plans to change.

not wanting to get robinpaw injured, or worse, almondstripe decided on the idea of hunting instead and quickly led robinpaw elsewhere to hunt.

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━━━━ inkmeadow stumbled upon the body of a cat while on a patrol. he had veered away from his patrol partner, brightstrike, after having scented the smell of a bird. he wanted to catch it and show it off, but stumbled on something else.

alarmed, inkmeadow dashed towards the cat. gently she pushed her paws into their side and jumped up when the cat choked out and spluttered out a cry of help.

having heard the commotion, brightstrike raced over to help inkmeadow, worrying that she had been attacked.

the cat looked young and was wounded badly, so the patrol helped them onto their feet, and guided them back to camp for treatment.

pinepaw joined the clan, thankful for the strangers and their actions, as they saved his life.

━━━━ gorgestar is happy to find that her body has finally healed from her wound she sustained from an animal attack moons ago. her bone has strengthened over the moons with her time resting in and out of the medicine den — and she is able to continue her roles as a leader properly, and partake in patrols.

gorgestar had been itching to jump on the idea of a patrol, and found herself wandering in the valley after she was given the all clear from basslight.

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━━━━ time has taken its toll on doespots, and he has noticed that he has been slowing down over the weeks. he has worked tirelessly as a warrior for the clan, but sees now as a good time to retire and spend the rest of his moons in the elders den, watching over the clan as they blossom and flourish.

gorgestar is saddened by the fact that he has retired.

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━━━━ the medicine cat of hemlockclan wandered into peakclan's camp, asking the medicine cats for a few herbs to spare. daisyknoll refused, knowing that his own clan needed it.

he did however, tell the medicine cat where they can find some of the herbs that they're in need of.

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━━━━ duskeyes has recovered from his sprain.

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━━━━ locusttree noticed his chest crackled when he breathed in and out. concerned, he visited the medicine cats and was told he is currently sick with whitecough.

the warrior cursed to himself. he hates being sick.

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━━━━ after being told that her sprain has healed, willowstripe decided to venture down into the valley to hunt. unfortunately, she was attacked by a fox that tried to steal her prey.

thankfully, she only limped back to camp with a tail injury.

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━━━━ hazekit, whisperkit, avalancekit, springkit and claykit eagerly awaited for their names to be called out by gorgestar, who stood upon the calling spot and beckoned for the clan to gather.

hazepaw is called up first, and is given brightstrike as a mentor.

whisperpaw is so excited to begin training that her heart felt as if it would explode. she touched noses with her mentor, rattlefleck, and asked him when they would start their training.

avalanchepaw promised that she would be the best warrior that the clan has ever seen. her mentor, dovesoar, found her enthusiasm funny.

springpaw is given goldrain as a mentor, but later falls sick with whitecough and cannot take part in any patrols or training sessions — which angered the new apprentice.

claypaw is given squirreldusk as a mentor. the first thing he does is retrieve his mentor some prey off the fresh—kill pile, to ensure her stomach is full for when they go on their first training session.

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━━━━ with gorgestar's wound having healed, she figured she could pull her mate aside for some time together as a couple. she nudged scrubstorm awake from his nap and drawled at the tom for him to follow after her, as she bounded out of camp.

gorgestar and scrubstorm ended up lazing in the grass, staring at the clouds, laying on their backs with their paws tucked close to their chest. they gawked and hollered at different the shapes that rolled by in the sky.

one of the clouds looked like a really fat rat, and it made scrubstorm laugh.

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━━━━ a patrol stumbled upon a hemlockclan patrol, who were marking their borders. oriolepaw was a little uneasy about the situation, worried that something bad might happen — and so he sheltered himself under his webwhistle's legs.

sensing the anxiety in the air, nectarnip stepped forward and greeted the hemlockclan warriors, then told an embarassing story about himself to lighten the mood.

both parties laughed, enjoying the tale, before they bid their farewells and parted ways.

relations with hemlockclan have improved.

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━━━━ almondstripe organised a patrol to show butterflyfleck around the territory. they walked by the river, and the warriors noticed a fish.

cragspark rallied the patrol close, organising a small competition about who could catch the biggest fish.

almondstripe accepted the challenge, and hooked a fish with a clawed paw. it landed on the grass and bounced up and down, it's fins flicked as it tried to make it back to the water. the tabby struck it across the head to kill it, then sauntered about with his fish.

unfortunately for him, butterflyfleck pulled out a fish much larger than his.

cragspark struggled to catch anything, and blamed it on the fact that the others had scared off all of the fish with their splashing.

the patrol returned to camp with the fish, and joked on the way about their hunting session.

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━━━━ dovesoar spotted a squirrel, and eager to bring back prey for the clan, pursued it. the tom-cat misjudged the distance and tumbled to the floor. he winced.

brightstrike rushed over to his patrol partner and he leaned into the white tom's weight, offering him support as he aided dovesoar hobble back to camp.

dovesoar sprained his paw.

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━━━━ a gaggle of medicine cats patrolled out of camp, and down into the valley. they patrol decided to gather as much herbs as they could before they spent their time idling.

once herbs had been gathered, basslight, heronpaw and mountainfall shared tongues with one another and sunned themselves in an open grassy patch.

it was late when they returned back to camp, having been distracted by one another's conversations.

━━━━ the weather has been cold and dry, and has taken its toll on the clan as a whole. a few felines had refused to patrol due to the bitter winds.

due to the weather, squirreldusk's paw pads have become dried, and have cracked. she took refuge in the medicine den after realising what had happened. 

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━━━━ scrubstorm decided to spend some time with some of the warriors, and pulled them into a circle one evening for a meal, and to share tongues.

the warriors appreciated the deputies efforts.

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━━━━ loachpath's kits have reached the age in which they can become apprentices. the mother is brimming with pride as she watches her sons and daughters travel up to the front to receive their name and mentor.

daisypaw is given greatstorm as a mentor. loachpath knew that he was a great choice for a mentor.

amberpaw couldn't sit still during during her part of the ceremony. she touched noses with her mentor, mudhare, before running to the crowd to greet her mother and relish in her praise.

burnetpaw cautiously walked up to the front of the crowd. he was nervous about being an apprentice, he would have so much responsibilities. coldbee is made his mentor.

wheatpaw is the last of the four siblings to be called upon to receive her mentor and her name. gorgestar thought on who should mentor the young she—cat, and decided that her own mother should have the honours of doing so.

loachpath liked the idea of teaching her daughter, and it meant they could spend more time together.

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━━━━ while on his first patrol with greatstorm, daisypaw finds an abandoned kitten. confused, he looked for the parent but soon returned back to the kit, not wanting it to fall sick from the snow.

greatstorm sauntered over, ready to bash his 'paw for not doing the task he had asked of him. but, upon seeing the small furry bundle, the white warrior soon changed his mind.

daisypaw picked up the kit and the patrol returned to camp for the medicine cats to check it over. 

roarkit is welcomed into peakclan, and remains in the nursery for the time being.

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━━━━ butterflytuft walked the border, alone. the she cat enjoyed the peace and quiet of walking on her own. she wandered across the border, marking as she passed by, and came upon a part of the border in which moistened mud slipped and shifted, which caused the scents to mingle, or in this case, vanish.

butterflytuft quickly marks her side of the border.

relations with hemlockclan have improved.

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━━━━ chasmpoppy and inkmeadow stalked quietly across the territory towards a place in which the two of them could spar.

inkmeadow stopped and asked chasmpoppy for some advice with something.

selfishly, chasmpoppy refused and continued on her walk to the grounds she wished to train on.

inkmeadow was taken aback by the she—cats rude act, but followed after her, tail lowly tucked between her legs.

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━━━━ the two elderly medicine tom's, daisyknoll and hawkbitflare figured it was best to wander out to find some herbs, seeing as their stocks were low.

they shared a number of stories with another as they walked and plucked herbs up from under the snow.

it was a successful patrol.

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━━━━ a patrol confidently strolled along the clans border, marking it. they talked loudly to one another as they travelled by. kestrelpaw walked behind the rest of the patrol as he took in the scents and sights of the walk. even if the earth was covered with snow, it was still beautiful to him.

the tom—cat realised he had staggered too far back from the patrol, and trotted to catch up when a bush nearby rustled.

❝ o—oriolepaw? ❞ he choked out, lowering himself down into the snow. ❝ it's not funny, come out ❞ he whispered. the young apprentice trembled and he blinked.

when his eyes opened, a figure stood before him. the cat didn't smell like peakclan, or hemlockclan. they reeked of blood, and dead things.

kestrelpaw gulped heavily. ❝ y—you're on peakclan territory! g—get g—get off our land! ❞ he yowled out through chattering teeth.

the cat laughed, then mocked the tom's stammered sentencing before pawing closer to him with its claws pushed from its paws.

kestrelpaw cried out for help and scrambled at the snow, kicking a flurry of white from his hind legs as he bolted towards the patrols last known location.

pursuing him, nipping at his heels, the strange cat followed. kestrelpaw's blood ran warm and pumped through his body like a racehorse as he ran across the border, desperate to find his mentor, or his brothers.

❝ help— help me! ❞

kestrelpaw hit the ground with a heavy thud and the wind huffed from his lungs upon the impact. the cat looked over him, licked it's lips, then struck a paw across kestrelpaw's flank, slicing his gut.

kestrelpaw's jaw remained clamped shut as he tried to show his attacker that he was strong.

then, another sharp pain cut across his shoulder. but kestrelpaw couldn't hold back anymore. he let out a deafening howl of pain.

webwhistle's paws hammered heavily on the snow as it crunched under his weight. the tom—cat raced over to the sound of his brothers cries for help, and pushed into a clearing to find a larger feline atop his brothers smaller frame.

with a forceful head butt, webwhistle sent the cat off his brother. he clambered over kestrelpaw quickly and stood his ground, his fur flickering up while his lips wavered with a threatening snarl.

the cat readied to attack, but the arrival of hazelrise and oriolepaw caused it to cease further action, and it fled.

webwhistle leaned down to look at kestrelpaw's body as he lay still, bloodied. his stomach slowly rose and then fell ever so slightly, a sign of life, or what little life remained in him.

❝ hold on kestrelpaw. hold on please! ❞

kestrelpaw could hear the world around him fade out as a slightly strange, yet warm, darkness engulfed him whole.

hazelrise and webwhistle carried kestrelpaw back to camp, to break the news to the clan. gorgestar and scrubstorm were devastated by their loss, and both refused to leave their sons body.

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━━━━ having worked tirelessly in the snow and harsh weather, avalanchpaw has fallen sick with yellowcough.

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━━━━ goldrain offered to take hazepaw out on a patrol, after her mentor was otherwise occupied with another chore around camp. hazepaw was hesitant, stating that she didn't want to walk with a 'slow, flea ridden old cat'. but she agreed, and followed.

the walked the border slowly, while also keeping an eye out for potential prey to chase and hunt, when a sound startled them.

they stopped, ears flickering to pinpoint the noise. it was a hiss. upon further investigation, goldrain soon found the owner of the noise — a loner, who had rose to their paws in an effort to scare off the approaching patrol, but their pain was too much, and they collided with the floor again.

goldrain described peakclan to the loner, and how the clan has medicine cats who can help them. and the cat begged for goldrain to take them back.

blackear joined peakclan, remaining in the medicine den while he heals from his mangled leg.

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━━━━ basslight dragged scrubstorm out on a herb patrol with her, along with her apprentice heronpaw and rabbitneedle. she needed to harvest horsetail, as the clans supplies were incredibly low. she worried that the worst possible scenario could happen, even if it wasn't likely — but basslight couldn't take any chances.

with her clan members following suit, they find what they're looking for. basslight begins to pluck the plant from its foots when she finds a bundle of moss.

she ordered for the warriors to pull out the bush that hid the moss, and bring it back to camp, while her apprentice gathered up the moss.

the warriors back and camp fluffed up with fear when the patrol arrived, only to realise it was just a bush they carried along behind them.

basslight rallied up the medicine cats to pluck off the bushes branches to store the herbs easily.

━━━━ duskeyes entered the nursery, a mouse in his jaws. he had spent a number of days visiting the new kit that the clan had rescued last moon, and had become attached to roarkit.

the mouse in his maw hit the floor quickly and the warrior darted across the den. his paw swiped at the ground, hooking up the elongated body of a viper that slithered towards the sleeping kit.

a sharp, needle—like pain pierced at his foot and the tom looked down. a slither of blood pooled from two holes on his leg, and his heart skipped a beat. but he shrugged it aside, picking the snake up.

duskeyes quickly turned to roarkit, who remained in their nest, sleeping peacefully. thankful that he had just rescued the kit. he briskly left the nursery and made his way across camp to dispose of the body.

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━━━━ almondstripe entered the nursery in search of duskeyes. he had been told that the older tom was checking up on roarkit again.

❝ duskeyes, wanna go on a pat— ❞ almondstripe hummed as he trotted in with his tail high. he halted and looked at duskeyes. the blue furred tom—cat was curled up beside the kits nest.

almondstripe smiled warmly then rolled his eyes and walked closer. he pushed his paw into duskeyes side.

his stomach dropped quickly when duskeyes didn't shift. almondstripe leaped over duskeyes body, and stared into the tom's lifeless, dulled eyes. and in his grasp, lay roarkit, snuggled up to his fur, his eyes red and sore from crying.

❝ he—he's dead! ❞ roarkit sobbed, crawling out from duskeyes body, and towards almondstripe's legs.

almondstripe just stared. a wave of sickness washed over him and he bolted out of the nursery, racing to the medicine den. his body toppled into the stone below him when he reached the medicine den, and he wailed out loudly.

concerned, daisyknoll approached.

❝ duskeyes is dead! ❞ cried almondstripe, his face buried into his paws.

duskeyes succumbed to the venom from the snake that bit him in the nursery.

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━━━━ locusttree's whitecough has gone.

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━━━━ swifthawk creeped up behind loachpath and planted a lick on her lower back.

the she cat turned and hissed, and drew her paw back before slashing it towards swifthawk's face.

confused, swifthawk scrunched his face up with disgust. ❝ what was that for?! ❞ he spat.

❝ what was that for? what are you doing? ❞ spat loachpath. ❝ i don't like you, in any way. i don't see you as anything. yes, you're the father to my kits but that doesn't mean anything to me, ❞ she added.

the venomous bite of her words stung swifthawk and he lowered himself down. he had made a fool out of himself, that was for sure.

swifthawk vanished from the warriors den, hoping that nobody had heard what they argued about. he was embarrassed, and more.

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━━━━ rattlefleck slipped on a rock while on a patrol and dislocated his leg.

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━━━━ coldbee fought off a rogue while patrolling. she managed to cause the cat to retreat, but was cut in the process. she returned back to camp and was relieved of her duties temporarily while her wound heals.

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━━━━ dovesoar's sprain feels much better. he and squirreldusk had spent their days in the medicine den laughing and joking with one another.

squirreldusk's cracked pads have healed.

⛰︎

━━━━ springpaw's whitecough has gone. with one apprentice better, another falls sick.

amberpaw is told she's sick with greencough.

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━━━━ roarkit has reached the age in which he can be mentored, and become an apprentice. roarpaw is given locusttree as a mentor.

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━━━━ loachpath approached cragspark in camp and asked if he could attend a training session with wheatpaw, as loachpath wanted to teach her how to leap up a rocky cliff.

cragspark agreed to tag along.

wheatpaw watched as her mother demonstrated how to properly approach and tackle a craggy surface.

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━━━━ almondstripe leads a patrol to distract his mind from the loss of his friend. not only does he catch a terrifying amount of prey, but he offers up support to his peers.

the patrol returns with a large haul of prey.

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━━━━ chasmpoppy brought a loner back to camp after finding them under a tree. the cat was injured and attempted to put up a fight.

the loner had an elongated claw wound that smelled foul, and chasmpoppy couldn't abandon them.

rowansmoke joins peakclan. he shelters in the medicine den to seek treatment for his wound, and is getting adjusted to clan life.

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━━━━ pinepaw is still in the medicine den. he has been resting in the medicine den for moons now after he arrived with a head injury.

the medicine cats are worried that he may not ever recover from the trauma.

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━━━━ while searching for herbs, basslight is spooked by a strange whisper on the wind. sure that it is a sign from starclan, basslight follows the noise.

instead, basslight finds a queen who lost her life in a harsh kitting, her newborn kits clinging to her body as it gradually grows cold.

basslight wraps herself around the kittens and begs her apprentice and hawkbitflare to rush back to camp and prepare the nursery, and bring some of the clans warriors to bury the mother.

raccoonkit and valleykit are welcomed into peakclan.

their mothers whisky figure watched from afar as basslight protectively hugged her kits. relieved that her kits would be loved and cherished, slightleaf vanishes and her spirit is left to wander.

peakclans reputation towards outsiders and loners has improved.

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━━━━ daisyknoll purred with laughter as he watched browndash parade with such a big bundle of cobwebs that he found it difficult to see, and he collided with a number of bushes.