━━━━ goldrain padded into the valley. the senior tom—cat's bruising had finally healed. it was about time: he was going to loose his mind if he had to stay one more day in the medicine den.

mind you, he enjoyed the company of the healers, it was just the foul, potent smell of flowers and herbs that he disliked heavily.

goldrain plodded along at a relatively steady pace, and held his tail upwards as he strode. he flicked his whiskers briskly at a faint smell that carried on the wind, and his heckles flickered and raised.

a flash of white splintered through the air, and a hiss crackled, shattering the quiet.

goldrain stood his ground. his tail lashed angrily as he eyeballed the feline who circled him menacingly.

❝ bold of you to leap out on a warrior, ❞ snarled the tom—cat, while narrowly watching as the feline just stepped around him like a hungry shark in blood infested waters.

the unfamiliar cat pounced towards goldrain, but he briskly jumped aside. the cat missed by a mile, and it made goldrain muse quietly. ❝ yeeesh... now that has gotta hurt, eh? ❞

after spitting out a mouthful of grass, the white cat shook its head and grumbled. it jumped while it's opponent lightly laughed at the situation, which caught goldrain off guard — sending him backwards into the ground.

❝ that has to hurt, hm? ❞ mimicked the cat. the cat drew a clawed paw upwards, and raked its talons over goldrain's body. goldrain's throat erupted with a roar of pain as the cat raked its claws across his fur and flesh.

goldrain writhed under his attacker then staggered to his paws. blinking back the pain, and swallowing the urge to whimper, goldrain bounded forwards. he struck the cat atop the side of the face, lacerating it's cheek.

the warming sensation of blood pushed goldrain on and he continued with his elongated swipe. his paws were drenched with crimson.

the piercing cry of the rogue caused goldrain to draw his paw back. he watched as the feline cowered down into the greenery below, paw cupped over an eye as the other stared hazily towards him.

❝ you're a god damn monster! ❞ spat the cat, before it stumbled to its feet to flee.

goldrain's tongue just clicked and lolled out with a brief laugh, before the realisation of pain smacked him like a harsh wave. he waded back to camp to see the medicine cats' about his injuries.

all that excitement about getting out of the medicine den, for him to wind back into it.

daisyknoll joked about the fact that goldrain couldn't get enough of his presence, and the medicine den.

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━━━━ with browndash's sprain having healed, he and hazelrise ventured into the territory to spend some time alone. it had been a while since that had the chance to do so — with browndash being in and out of the medicine den, after having issues with his leg.

thankfully, hazelrise was a patient cat. he visited him often in the medicine den: bringing him prey, as well as flowers and other gifts.

the sound of a yapping being caught their attention. the couple investigated the noise, only to find a large coyote yipping at a bush.

confused, they pressed on. browndash yowled for the canid to follow him, while he allowed for hazelrise to investigate and assess the situation.

while browndash rallied away the coyote, hazelrise pushed his nose into the bush.

kits.

gasping, hazelrise pulled the two kittens close to his stomach, and trailed his tail across their bodies to keep them warm.

hazelrise grew concerned when his mate didn't come back from running around after the coyote, so he carefully stuffed the kittens into a crevice under a tree and set out to find browndash.

the tom—cat sprawled out in a clearing. the coyote was nowhere to be found, chased off: as browndash exclaimed through gritted teeth.

while tackling the coyote, the canine ragged the tom and injured browndash — breaking his leg, leaving him unable to travel back to hazelrise.

hazelrise hurried back to the kits quickly. he brought them back to browndash.

❝ we should adopt them... seeing as we cannot have kittens of our own, ❞ whispered browndash, his eyes softened with joy as he stared at the two wriggling balls of fur that shifted by his stomach.

hazelrise didn't take much convincing on his mate's offer. he wanted kits of his own one day. ❝ let's get you and our kits back home, shall we, ❞

hazelrise helped browndash back to camp, rushing him to the medicine den upon their arrival.

and their kits, cracklekit and snapkit, were looked over quickly, and soon welcomed into peakclan.

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━━━━ robinpetal has recovered from heat stroke.

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━━━━ while out hunting, oriolelaurel was picked up by a hawk. the bird dropped him after he bit into it's feet, and thankfully landed on all fours.

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━━━━ amberpaw has reached the age in which she can become a warrior. she is honoured for her leadership, and is named amberburr.

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━━━━ burnetpaw has trained really hard with his mentor, and has finally received his warrior name. his mother cheered the loudest during his ceremony as he was honoured for his thoughtfulness.

burnetpaw is named burnetgale.

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━━━━ springpaw is honoured for her dignity. she is granted the name springspeckle.

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━━━━ locusttree bushes his nose into roarpaw's rear when gorgestar beckoned for him. roarpaw stepped up to receive his name.

he is honoured for his bravery, and named roarclaw.

he almost forgot how to breath during his entire ceremony. he is pleased with his progress, and is appreciative of the amazing mentor he had.

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━━━━ locusttree put in a good word to gorgestar and scrubstorm. although he is still young, roarclaw is given an apprentice to train.

racoonkit and valleykit have reached the age in which they can be apprenticed. racoonkit is named racoonpaw, and valleykit is named valleypaw.

roarclaw's name is called out while gorgestar assigns a mentor for raccoonpaw. embarrassed, racoonpaw's tail remained tucked between her legs as she and her mentor touched noses.

valleypaw fidgeted throughout his ceremony. he just wanted to get out and explore. all those times he had nearly escaped from camp were now put behind him. he was an apprentice: he could do anything now.

geckotooth is made valleypaw's mentor.

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━━━━ to gorgestar, riverpaw is kind hearted. she knows he is ready for times of peace, but isn't sure as to how he will serve in a war.

nevertheless, riverpaw is named riverchaser, and is honoured for his compassion.

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━━━━ the medicine cat from hemlockclan pushed their way into camp. eyes and ears turned towards them as they stalked across towards the medicine den.

they begged for rosemary, but didn't specify what it was needed for.

after conversing with one another, the medicine cats of peakclan agreed to help: and offered up the herb.

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━━━━ burnetgale spluttered awake. the tom—cat felt a strange burning sensation on his pelt, and he turned his head around the warriors den.

the gentle hum of sleeping felines passed around the den and he blinked slowly, confused. then, a strange, glowing figure on the opposite side of the den caught burnetgale's attention.

the figure stood over his mothers sleeping body. it's head craned downwards towards loachpath's head, and the starry cat's nose pushed towards loachpath's forehead.

was burnetgale having an odd vivid dream?

he dragged his paw across his eyes smearing his arm across his gaze to see if that helped to wake him. he looked back towards where his mother lay, and the cat had vanished.

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━━━━ mudhare stumbled upon a sick and injured cat. he comforted the feline and offered them a place in peakclan, until they get back on their paws.

dirtmoor is welcomed into peakclan.

━━━━ worried about daisyknoll, scrubstorm sent out a patrol to follow the medicine cats trail. the cats returned with the elderly medicine cats body draped over their backs.

the clan mourned the loss, sharing tongues one by one for a final time, before retreating to their den.

robinpetal gently licked daisyknoll's fur clean, just as he once did for him moons ago when he was a kitten, and he blinks back a waterfall of tears. he remained by his body for hours, and only sought shelter in the warriors den after concerned clan members ushered him to rest.

tremors wrecked his body as he dwelled on how the tom—cat won't see another morning.

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━━━━ inkmeadow and wheatwave fell sick with heat exhaustion, following a strenuous patrol the pair took part in.

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━━━━ chasmpoppy cannot believe how quickly time has passed since whisperpaw was a little kitten. it feels as if yesterday whisperpaw was tumbling in and around camp, and playing.

whisperpaw is named whisperkestrel, and honoured for her courage.

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━━━━ despite having healed from their wound, avalancheseed's bite has caused for a limp to form. it is permanent — as said by heronwhisper.

heronwhisped recommended some excersise to the warrior, to help strengthen the leg.

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━━━━ a rockfall trapped springspeckle's tail, and has caused it to become badly injured.

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━━━━ amberburr is made a medicine cat for the clan, following a dream she had. hawkbitflare visited her in her dreams — declaring that she was to aid the clan.

anxious at the new responsibilities she now has, she is determined to learn from her peers and prove that she can be a brilliant medicine cat.

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━━━━ burnetgale suggested baiting prey while on a patrol with the deputy, and a few warriors. the cats weren't sure if it would work, but they agreed.

the hunt was successful, and everyone returned to camp with a squirrel each.

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━━━━ on their way to make the far corners of the valley, locusttree spewed out a story to keep the rest of the patrol entertained. but the rocky terrain made it difficult to focus on his footing, and the tale, so the tom—cat gave up.

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━━━━ butterflytuft and whisperkestrel followed a scent. it wasn't from a peakclan feline. they walked cautiously, and found a rogue. the rogue was asked as to why they trespassed, and stuttered out some form of an excuse for why they trespassed.

the warriors tumbled back to camp, mocking the cat and copying its stammering as they walked.

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━━━━ grouseshatter collapsed into the river while on a patrol to find herbs. the medicine cat managed to drag herself to safety, but has been coughing and spluttering up water ever since.

━━━━ after countless moons of remaining in the medicine den, and camp, gorgestar's broken bone has healed.

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━━━━ rabbitneedle misstepped while on a patrol and dislocated a joint.

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━━━━ despite the enforced nest rest, and how tightly bound his wound was, browndash's leg injury has caused mountainfall to raise her brows. she's a little concerned, and has started to plan what will happen should the infection progress further.

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━━━━ wheatwave has recovered from heat exhaustion.

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━━━━ chasmpoppy and mudhare slipped out of camp to wander into the valley on an evening patrol, so they could watch the moon rise.

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━━━━ after feeling sickly, with a cough, pinebone ventured into the medicine den to seek out what was wrong with him.

the warrior has fallen sick with whitecough.

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━━━━ the sickness dirtmoor had when she joined the clan has gone. but, still remains in the medicine den following a fall while on her first patrol.

she slipped and dislocated her leg.

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━━━━ whisperkestrel wandered the territory all on her own, wanting some time to herself. somehow she managed to get lost.

thankfully, she followed another patrol's scent to them, regrouped with them and followed them back to camp.

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━━━━ with leaf—fall hitting the clan, basslight decided to venture out with some warriors to gather up as much herbs as she could. she needed to keep her mind distracted from daisyknoll.

marigold and goldenrod was found, and the patrol gossiped with one another as they plucked the herbs up from the ground.

basslight appreciated the company, and often found herself gazing up at the sky, hoping daisyknoll was watching over her.

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━━━━ almondstripe walked ahead of greatstorm and locusttree. the three tom—cats blabbered loudly about who was going to catch the biggest prey, but the cackling was soon silenced when greatstorm called for the patrol to pause.

the scent of hemlockclan caused greatstorm to worry and he carefully pressed on with caution, unsure as to what they may stumble on.

an apprentice from hemlockclan was discovered. the cat looks distraught after it realised it passed over onto peakclan's territory, but greatstorm guided the cat back to their own territory.

relations with hemlockclan have improved.

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━━━━ turning swiftly, geckotooth looked over at valleypaw. ❝ are you even listening? ❞ she asked.

the apprentice wore a distant expression. it looked as if he was away with the stars, and this soon worried geckotooth.

valleypaw nodded his head, then shook it briefly. ❝ i have been struggling to sleep, ❞ he mewed, ❝ it's just been shadows... and strange things... ❞

geckotooth allowed for her apprentice to spill what was on his mind. she listened sympathetically, her head nodding gently as valleypaw talked until he ran out of words.

he's been dealing with a lot recently, and geckotooth wasn't sure as to what she could do except offer him her support and time away for the tom—cat.

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━━━━ paws thundered on the ground heavily as nectarnip chased after coldbee. the grass below soon grew closer and closer and nectarnip let out a growl of pain. his muzzle scraped along the dirt, scraping his face as he fell.

maybe next time he'll watch where he puts his paws.

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━━━━ goldrain lay motionless in his nest. the soft plodding of paws announced the approach of one of the medicine cats, who gasped loudly at the tom who lay before them. 

❝ q—quickly! goldrain's dead! ❞ stuttered amberburr as she poked her paws into goldrain's pelt.

the elders chest quickly raised, then dropped, and he let out a jovial laugh. ❝ gotcha, ❞ he croaked.

amberburr wanted to slap him across the side of the face, but knew she would be punished if she did. so amberburr turned and stalked out, annoyed.

it seems goldrain won't stop pulling pranks.

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━━━━ rustwatcher was roped into playing a game of hide—and—seek with snapkit and cracklekit. she enjoyed the game, and struggled to find them when it was her time to find.

snapkit and cracklekit boasted and bragged about it for a few hours, before ordering rustwatcher to play more games with them.

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━━━━ gazing up at the stars one cloudy night, loachpath blew out a breath.

she wondered if starclan can hear her.

━━━━ goldrain's claw wound from the rogue has healed, but he realised his nose had started to run. it won't set him back much, he'll just sniffle while on his patrols.

hopefully he doesn't scare away the prey.

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━━━━ impatience has led to rattlefleck's leg not healing properly. after mountainfall broke the news to him, rattlefleck was irritated with himself.

on top of his leg issues, rattlefleck's fallen sick with whitecough.

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━━━━ inkmeadow recovered from her issues with heat exhaustion. she's been told to take it easy.

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━━━━ webwhistle has fallen sick with whitecough.

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━━━━ nectarnip's body isn't sore from the scrapes he sustained, only to injure himself some more while on a patrol. he slipped from from a rock and didn't land properly.

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━━━━ avalancheseed and roarclaw no longer have to reside in and out of the medicine den. roarclaw's cut has healed nicely, and avalancheseed's soreness has passed.

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━━━━ blackear was caught on hemlockclan's side of the territory. the tom—cat was scolded for this, and shortly fell sick with whitecough days after.

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━━━━ spiderfur was tasked with leading a patrol, and dragged roarclaw, and his apprentice, with him. the patrol caught wind of the scent of a mouse, and roarclaw suggested that raccoonpaw should be the one to catch and kill the rodent.

raccoonpaw stalked the mouse from afar. the mouse nibbled on a seed, unaware of the trio of felines, and before long, a soft squeak sounded out as the she—cat pounced onto the unsuspecting creature.

roarclaw was impressed with raccoonpaws efforts.

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━━━━ amberburr needed to gather some herbs. it was an easy task at paw, and so she beckoned for a warrior to join her.

goldrain was picked for the job, seeing as he still had the sniffles and a running nose. there was no prey to scare away should he sneeze and suck in his mucus, so goldrain was the best candidate.

the day was long, annoyingly, but the two managed to finally find the speckled leafed plant, pick it from the earth, and return to camp.

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━━━━ greatstorm had an idea, and plucked up a younger warrior to test out the plan. having offered to join him, burnetgale tagged along and joined the white tom—cat in the valley.

greatstorm pitched the plan to the younger tom: the both of them would practice training together, but not like any ordinary training session. they would work on mirroring one another's moves.

the training session was successful, surprisingly, and greatstorm was pleased that burnetgale gave the idea a chance and didn't give up on his thoughts.

the pair walked back to camp, tired and aching from the training session — but recalled what happened, and laughed about it on their way back.

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━━━━ scrubstorm entered gorgestar's den, to find the she—cat lazing in her nest. he mused softly and gave his head a shake. ❝ c'mon lazy bones, ❞ the tom purred, gently flicking his paw at the l floor to roll a pebble towards his mate.

gorgestar turned her attention to scrubstorm and in a matter of moments, was on her paws. she followed him out of camp, not questioning where he was taking her.

the deputy walked his mate up to the tallest peak, and perched himself atop a flattened rock. ❝ isn't it just beautiful? ❞ he asked, turning his gaze towards the leader, a smile upon his maw.

gorgestar stared in awe at the sprawling valley below them, her jaw lowered with amazement.

the two spent some time together at the top of the mountain, watching as the sun set and cast a tangle of shadows and colours across the mountains and the valley before them.

scrubstorm really did love gorgestar. if he could spend every lifetime with her, he would.

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━━━━ the loud thwacking sound peaked curiosity within riverchaser and brightstrike, as they walked the mountainous peaks while on a patrol.

❝ woah, look! ❞ exclaimed riverchaser.

two goats rammed their heads forcefully into one another's head, an explosion of clanks and clatters coming from them as they butted heads over, and over, and over.

curiosity got the better of riverchaser, and he edged a little closer.

the goats shifted positions with every butt of their bodies, dancing along the mountain side. gradually they closed in on the warrior, who failed the see the danger getting increasingly close to him.

a goat jerked its head and riverchaser fell backwards down the rocky slope he had perched on. a painful crunch sounded from his leg, and then a splintering pain swarmed the area.

the tom—cat growled out with pain and looked down at his broken leg, and then to brightstrike, who had since rushed to his aid.

brightstrike helped riverchaser back to camp.

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━━━━ whispers and giggles travelled along after a patrol of three felines, as they dabbled about a tale of a ghost that haunted the valley.

despite the tense mood, and their flighty jumps after a few twigs snapped, the border patrol was very successful.

━━━━ rabbitneedle's dislocated joint feels much better. she was told a number of excersise to ease any pain or discomfort in it.

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━━━━ webwhistle and rattlefleck's whitecough has passed.

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━━━━ the infection harbouring within browndash has vanished.

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━━━━ squirreldusk's nest has remained empty for a number of days. this has worried everyone within the clans, her mate especially.

thankfully, squirreldusk returned to camp. she won't tell anyone what happened, or where she went.

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━━━━ after moons of numbness, and mourning, robinpetal feels less dulled and dreary. he is slowly moving on from the loss of daisyknoll.

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━━━━ burnetgale entered camp. he looked a little roughed up, as if he was just tangled in a fight. the warrior exclaimed that he just fought off a large and very viscous eagle.

and he had the claw marks to prove it.

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━━━━ avalancheseed trapped her leg within some twoleg's contraption. in an effort to escape, wounded her trapped leg.

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━━━━ springspeckle's mangled tail has healed.

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━━━━ the bubble of a story travelled across the camp, or clayhowl having fended off a fox. but who was to believe such a tale?

the tom was bruised up from the fox, and that was his proof of the incident. if nobody believed him, he didn't care. he knew what had happened.

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━━━━ butterflytuft bounded ahead of robinpetal. the setting sun created a blend of beautiful colours on the valley, the mountains cast long, ominous dark shadows that mixed with evening hues.

❝ come on, we're gonna miss it! ❞ the she—cat called as she bumbled ahead of the ginger tom—cat, who trailed slowly behind her, wearing a weak smile.

robinpetal picked up the pace to catch up with the two coloured tabby she—cat who continued to race up ahead of him. ❝ slow down! ❞ he beckoned. he choked out a laugh as he watched butterflytuft blend into the darkness of a bush.

there was a sudden silence, and the aroma of fear soon clouded robinpetal's nose. ❝ butterflytuft? ❞

the she—cat let out a blood curdling yowl. robinpetal dashed towards the sound, leaping through the bush as he raced across the shadowy, grassy ground. the smell of blood soon flushed into his system, and the warrior panicked.

butterflytuft remained hunched over, paw twisted in an awkward position, entrapped by some object that robinpetal had never seen before.

❝ h—help! ❞ yowled the molly, tears streaming form her watered eyes. ❝ my leg is trapped! ❞

robinpetal sprang forward, and looked over the odd contraption. he didn't know what to do, or how to help her...

robinpetal's eyes were washed over with panic, his gaze frantic and his fur fluffed. he couldn't help her, how could he help her?

butterflytuft thrashed in the trap. left and right, up and down, left and right... until she yowled out again in pain. her leg was free. her leg was angled funnily and a throbbing pain soon formed.

robinpetal helped her back to camp, rushing her to the medicine den, and alerting gorgestar on what had happened down in the valley.

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━━━━ pinebone and blackear's whitecough has gone. the two are well enough to work again, and both are thankful — they were getting sick of each others company.

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━━━━ grouseshatter's lungs no longer crackled when she breathed. the water within them has gone, allowing for the she—cat to return back to her duties.

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━━━━ a horrible smell has started to drift from riverchaser's broken leg. it's a concerning matter for the medicine cats, and they are doing everything they can to fight the infection.

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━━━━ dirtmoor is feeling much better. their leg is no longer pained or causing them discomfort, and the joint dislocation has since been sorted.

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━━━━ the moss in the medicine den has dried up and can no longer be used. mountainfall patrolled into the valley, alongside hazeneedle, to gather some more.

but upon their arrival, it's clear that an animal has dug up the moss piles. mountainfall is angered but knows it will grow back in due time.

the patrol walked back to camp, empty mouthed.

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━━━━ roarclaw pounced upon an unsuspecting rodent that nibbled on a seed up ahead of him. his apprentice remained hidden in a bush nearby, just watching as roarclaw worked on getting the prey.

a small, jagged pain of shock hits roarclaw's paw as he collided with the floor. he had misjudged the jump and his paw ached because of it.

raccoonpaw aided her mentor back to camp, where roarclaw was told his paw was sprained. a few days of rest — and he'd be okay.

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━━━━ a twig snapped up ahead, and cragspark slowed down. he turned to spiderfur, his patrol peer, and awaited to see what had made the noise.

voices were soon heard, and cragspark eased up. it was only a hemlockclan patrol. the blue tabby tom greeted the patrol on the opposite side.

a conversation quickly struck up, and cats from both of the clans settled in to listen.

cragspark blurted out a story, one which was a little embarassing for him, but was lighthearted and made the hemlockclan warriors laugh.

relations with hemlockclan have improved.

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━━━━ webwhistle's leg's toppled, and the tom hit the floor. he cursed under his breath, and looked to see what had caused him to trip.

a small kitten wriggled in the grass and mewled. it's parent was nowhere to be seen, nor scented. the warrior knew he couldn't leave it to die. he scooped up the kit carefully, and raced back to camp.

the kit is welcomed into the clan, and taken to the nursery. webwhistle asked if he could name the kit, and his mother, gorgestar, agreed.

the kit is name wolverinekit.

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━━━━ coldbee walked alone. she wondered, while she stalked the darkness, how the cats the clan has helped in the past are doing.

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━━━━ a hemlockclan apprentice remained at the border of peakclan's territory. they were lowered to the ground, ears folded back, and upon the arrival of a patrol, begged to be let into peakclan.

chasmpoppy is eager to steal a hemlockclan cat from right under their noses, and walks closely beside the apprentice.

at first, the clan is unsure. but after chasmpoppy's sharp tongue, burrpaw is welcomed into the clan.

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━━━━ blackear and locusttree spotted the body of a feline while on a patrol. at first, they thought it was a dead badger, but upon further inspection realised it was in fact an injured cat.

the cat coughed and showed signs of life, and so the two rushed it back to camp.

bighowl is welcomed into peakclan. relations with outsiders have improved.