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DEPUTY
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RUSSETFUR—dark ginger she-cat
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MEDICINE CAT
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LITTLECLOUD—very small tabby tom
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WARRIORS
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(toms, and she-cats without kits)
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OAKFUR—small brown tom APPRENTICE, SMOKEPAW
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CEDARHEART—dark grey tom
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ROWANCLAW—ginger tom
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TAWNYPELT—tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes
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QUEENS
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(she-cats expecting or nursing kits)
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TALLPOPPY—long-legged light brown tabby she-cat
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ELDERS
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(former warriors and queens, now retired)
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BOULDER—skinny grey tom
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WINDCLAN
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LEADER
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ONESTAR—brown tabby tom
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DEPUTY
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ASHFOOT—grey she-cat
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MEDICINE CAT
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BARKFACE—short-tailed brown tom
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WARRIORS
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(toms, and she-cats without kits)
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TORNEAR—tabby tom
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WEBFOOT—dark grey tabby tom
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CROWFEATHER—dark grey tom
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OWLWHISKER—light brown tabby tom
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NIGHTCLOUD—black she-cat
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WEASELFUR—ginger tom with white paws
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QUEENS
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(she-cats expecting or nursing kits)
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WHITETAIL—small white she-cat
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ELDERS
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(former warriors and queens, now retired)
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MORNINGFLOWER—tortoiseshell queen
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RUSHTAIL—light brown tom
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RIVERCLAN
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LEADER
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LEOPARDSTAR—unusually spotted golden tabby she-cat
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DEPUTY
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MISTYFOOT—grey she-cat with blue eyes
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MEDICINE CAT
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MOTHWING—dappled golden she-cat APPRENTICE, WILLOWPAW
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WARRIORS
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(toms, and she-cats without kits)
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BLACKCLAW—smoky black tom APPRENTICE, BEECHPAW
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HAWKFROST—dark brown tom with a white underbelly and ice-blue eyes
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VOLETOOTH—small brown tabby tom
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SWALLOWTAIL—dark tabby she-cat
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STONESTREAM—grey tom
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REEDWHISKER—black tom APPRENTICE, RIPPLEPAW
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QUEENS
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(she-cats expecting or nursing kits)
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MOSSPELT—tortoiseshell she-cat with blue eyes
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DAWNFLOWER—pale grey she-cat
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ELDERS
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(former warriors and queens, now retired)
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HEAVYSTEP—thickset tabby tom
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THE TRIBE OF RUSHING WATER
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BROOK WHERE SMALL FISH SWIM (BROOK)—brown tabby she-cat
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STORMFUR—dark grey tom with amber eyes
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OTHER ANIMALS
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SMOKY—muscular grey and white tom who lives in a barn at the horseplace
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FLOSS—small grey and white she-cat who lives at the horseplace
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PIP—black and white terrier who lives with Twolegs near the horseplace
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MIDNIGHT—a stargazing badger who lives by the sea
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Maps
Prologue
Night lay heavily over the forest. No wind stirred the long grass at the edge of the path where a massive tabby cat stalked through the shadows. He paused, ears pricked, amber eyes narrowed. No moon or stars shone in the sky above his head but tree trunks thick with fungus shed an eerie glow on the bare earth beneath his paws.
The huge tom opened his jaws to draw in air, though he did not expect to taste the scent of prey. He knew that the twitching of the ferns meant nothing, and the flickering scraps of darkness that he could see from the corner of his eye would vanish like mist if he pounced on them. There was no hunger in this place, but he longed for the sensation of claws sinking into prey and the first warm bite of fresh-kill after a successful hunt.
The fur on his neck and shoulders rose as a new scent drifted towards him: the scent of cat, but not the two he had met here before. This was a different cat, a cat he knew from long ago. He stalked forward, following the scent, until the trees thinned out and he stood at the edge of a clearing washed by sickly light. The other cat came bounding
