CHAPTER 8
Sighing, Brambleclaw tucked his paws beneathhis chest and gazed out over the lake again. Ever since he had returned to Tigerstar’s forest in his dreams, his sleep had been uneasy. His restless thrashing had disturbed Squirrelflight and the rest of the warriors1, crowded together in what had been salvaged3 of their den4. So he had taken to slipping out at night to keep watch by the lake, to give his Clanmates a bit of peace.
It had been a shock when Leafpool disturbed him. However much the young medicine cat denied it, he was convinced that she had followed him. Did that mean she knew where he went in his dreams? Like her sister, she wouldn’t understand that he could visit Tigerstar and still be loyal to his Clan5. He tried to tell himself that his meetings with Tigerstar did no harm to any cat, but he was beginning to wonder whether he should go on visiting the shadowy forest. He was afraid of what Leafpool might know and more afraid still that she would tell Squirrelflight. The sisters were so close, it was hard to believe that Leafpool would keep any secrets from her.
Narrowing his eyes, Brambleclaw peered across the lake. In the dawn light he could just make out the Twoleg boats clustered around the half-bridge on the opposite side, on the border between RiverClan and ShadowClan. Just as Daisy had said, the Twolegs had stayed there so far, but Brambleclaw couldn’t stop worrying that sooner or later they would invade ThunderClan territory.
The growing daylight glimmered6 on the surface of the water. He remembered what Squirrelflight had told him about Leafpool’s vision of their entwined paw prints, and his fur prickled. He wished he had the power of a medicine cat, to read the future in the lake, but to him the reflections of the stars were nothing more than meaningless sparkles on the indigo7 water: beautiful, but telling him nothing. Does my future really lie in the paws of StarClan? he wondered. No starry8 warriors walked the paths of Tigerstar’s forest. Was he turning his back on them by visiting his father? Did they know?
At last he slipped into a doze9 again and woke to the sound of birdsong. The sun was rising over the hills behind WindClan. Brambleclaw sprang to his paws. He hadn’t meant to stay out so long. A cat who wanted to be deputy didn’t wander out of the hollow in the night!
He headed back to camp, pausing to hunt on the way so that by the time he approached the thorn barrier his jaws10 were filled with prey11. He was about to enter the tunnel when an eerie12 wailing14 rose up from inside the camp, freezing Brambleclaw’s paws to the spot. Had the badgers15 come back?
A heartbeat’s thought told him that wasn’t possible. The patrols hadn’t found any sign of badgers in the territory since the attack, and the thorns in front of him were undamaged. Then the cry came again, more clearly.
Brambleclaw squeezed through the tunnel and into the camp. Daisy was standing18 outside the nursery, her fur bristling19. Cloudtail was with her and two of her kits20 were peering out of the entrance, their eyes wide with alarm. Leafpool was hurrying across the clearing from her den, with Brightheart hard on her paws. Brambleclaw dropped his fresh-kill on the pile and bounded across.
Anxiety stabbed at Brambleclaw. Berrykit had always been the liveliest kit of the litter, and the most likely to get into mischief22. It was all too easy to imagine him sneaking23 out of camp in search of an adventure.
“When did you last see him?” Cloudtail asked Daisy.
“Last night. When I woke up this morning, he had vanished. I’ve searched and searched, but he isn’t anywhere in the camp!”
“Calm down,” Brightheart meowed. “Wailing like that won’t help, and you’ll upset Sorreltail. We’ll find Berrykit.”
Brightheart rolled her good eye, and even Leafpool twitched24 her whiskers impatiently. “Daisy, you know there hasn’t been any trace of badgers around here for days. Berrykit has wandered off somewhere, but we’ll track him and bring him back.”
By now more cats had begun to emerge, drawn25 from their dens26 by Daisy’s yowling. Firestar leaped down the tumbled rocks from the Highledge, and padded over to Brambleclaw.
“What’s going on?”
Brambleclaw explained rapidly.
“We’ll send a patrol out,” Firestar decided27. “Cloudtail, you can lead it. Pick two or three other cats and go at once.”
“Oh, no, no!” Daisy wound her tail around Cloudtail’s neck. “I need you to stay with me. What if my other kits go missing too?”
Brightheart let out a hiss28 of annoyance29 and turned away. Brambleclaw couldn’t blame her. Hazelkit and Mousekit looked too scared to set a paw outside the nursery, let alone the camp. He could understand how upset Daisy must feel, but she didn’t have to make this amount of fuss. Cloudtail was looking embarrassed, but he didn’t try to tell Daisy that no cat countermanded30 the Clan leader’s orders.
“Hazelkit and Mousekit aren’t going anywhere,” Leafpool mewed calmly. “Cloudtail, take Daisy into the nursery. I’ll fetch her some poppy seed to calm her down.”
“And I’ll lead the patrol,” Brambleclaw offered.
Firestar nodded and watched as Cloudtail disengaged himself from Daisy’s tail and nudged her back to the nursery. Brambleclaw signaled to Squirrelflight, who was standing a tail-length away with Stormfur and Brook31.
“Let’s go,” he meowed. “I’ll skin the little wretch32 when we find him, upsetting the camp like this.”
“No, you won’t.” Squirrelflight flicked33 his shoulder with her tail. “You’re as worried as the rest of us that he might be frightened or hurt.”
Brambleclaw grunted35. For all his fierce words, he couldn’t deny a sneaking admiration36 for Berrykit’s latest escapade. It took a lot of courage for a kit to venture out alone into the forest, especially after seeing the badger attack. “The sooner he’s apprenticed37, the better,” he muttered, adding silently, And I’d be more than happy to be his mentor39
Squirrelflight was the first to pick up the kit’s scent40 a couple of tail-lengths from the end of the tunnel. “He’s gone that way,” she reported, pointing with her tail in the direction of the ShadowClan border.
“Then we’d better find him fast,” Stormfur meowed. “I don’t suppose ShadowClan will be too pleased to find a strange kit in their territory.”
Berrykit’s trail led almost directly toward the border, though occasionally the kit had made a detour41 to investigate the roots of a tree or a sandy hollow beneath a rock. Brook spotted42 tiny paw prints in the soft mud beside a pool, as if the kit had stopped to lap the water. A little farther on, there were a few shallow scrapes in the ground.
“The mighty44 hunter!” Squirrelflight mewed, her tail curling up in amusement. “He must have been pretending to bury his fresh-kill.”
“Like that, you mean?” Stormfur pointed45 with his tail toward a beetle46 climbing slowly up a frond47 of fern. If it had been Berrykit’s chosen prey, it had survived the experience.
“I don’t suppose you were any different when you were a kit,” Brook scolded him gently. “At least we know that Berrykit was okay when he got here.”
“But the ShadowClan border isn’t far away,” Squirrelflight pointed out.
Just then Brambleclaw thought he heard something up ahead. He gestured with his tail for the others to be quiet. For a moment he could hear nothing except for the rustle48 of wind in the trees and the piping of birds. Then the sound came again: a piercing shriek49 like the sound of prey under a cat’s claws.
Squirrelflight turned to him, her eyes wide with alarm. “That could be Berrykit!”
Brambleclaw tasted the air. The kit’s scent reached him strongly, along with another that was both familiar and unwelcome
“ShadowClan!” he exclaimed. “Come on!”
Brambleclaw raced through the trees toward the sound, the other three cats keeping pace with him. That mouse-brained kit must have crossed the border and been spotted by a ShadowClan patrol. If they have laid one claw on him. . . Brambleclaw thought, fury raising the hair on his neck and shoulders.
He pelted50 around a bramble thicket51 and into a clearing near the dead tree on the ShadowClan border. “Berrykit!”
The thin wail13 of a cat in pain answered him. Brambleclaw saw Berrykit writhing52 on the ground in the shelter of a clump53 of ferns. No other cats were near him. At first Brambleclaw thought the kit must be too badly injured to get up. Then he saw a shining silver tendril wrapped around his tail. Berrykit was caught in a fox trap!
Squirrelflight let out a long hiss. Her neck fur bristled54 as she stared at a spot just across the border. Following her gaze, Brambleclaw made out three ShadowClan cats crouching55 in the shadow of a hazel bush: Russetfur, the Clan deputy; Oakfur; and Cedarheart. From the look of it, they had been there for some time, watching Berrykit struggle in agony.
Russetfur rose to her paws and paused to give her shoulder a couple of slow licks. “Every cat knows that ThunderClan ignores borders,” she meowed. “But ShadowClan sticks to the warrior2 code. Besides, that’s a kittypet. We have nothing to do with kittypets in thisClan.”
Squirrelflight let out another hiss; Brambleclaw could see she was too angry to speak. “Forget it,” he muttered. “We need to help Berrykit.”
Squirrelflight’s claws flexed57, as if she would like nothing better than to sink them into ShadowClan fur. Instead, she spun58 around and followed Brambleclaw across the clearing to Berrykit’s side.
Stormfur and Brook were already bending over the kit; Brook was giving him a comforting lick around the ears, while Stormfur sniffed60 at the shining stuff gripping his tail. All around Berrykit the ground was torn up with tiny, desperate scratches as if he’d tried to drag himself free. His wails61 had sunk to a frightened mewling.
“I’m s-sorry,” he whimpered. “I just wanted to hunt some prey and—”
“You frightened your mother and upset the whole Clan,” Brambleclaw meowed sternly. “Keep still and we’ll soon have you out of there.”
But when he examined Berrykit’s tail, he wasn’t sure it was going to be that easy. The kit’s haunches were matted with blood, his tail mangled62 in his struggles to free himself. The shining tendril was pulled tight around it and stretched taut63 to the stick buried in the ground. Brambleclaw gave it an experimental tug64; it didn’t move, but Berrykit let out a shriek of pain as the tendril jerked.
She crouched66 down beside Berrykit, but Brambleclaw could see that the tendril was too deeply embedded67 in his fur for her to get her teeth to it. Instead, Berrykit let out another wail. “You bit me!”
“Sorry.” Squirrelflight stepped back, panting, a smudge of blood on her nose.
Brambleclaw stared down at the trapped kit. Would they have to bite his tail off to free him? He was bracing68 himself to suggest it when Brook twitched her ears toward the stick that held the tendril.
“If we dig that up, the wire should loosen,” she pointed out.
Brambleclaw exchanged a bewildered glance with Squirrelflight
“The stick’s holding the wire,” Brook explained. “But it can’t hold it tight if it’s not stuck in the ground.”
“Brook, you’re brilliant!” Squirrelflight flung herself at the stick and began scraping furiously. Brook joined her on the other side, tugging69 the stick to loosen it as Squirrelflight threw up showers of earth. Every time the stick moved Berrykit squeaked70 in pain. Stormfur crouched over him and licked his ears soothingly71, at the same time shielding the kit’s face with his body so he couldn’t see the state of his tail.
“How does that feel?” he asked Berrykit.
“Better,” the kit mewed. “Not so tight.”
“Keep still,” Brambleclaw told him. “It won’t be long now.”
“Stand back!” Squirrelflight gasped. “I’m nearly there.” She fastened her teeth in the stick and tugged73 hard; her paws shot out from under her as it sprang out of the ground. Berrykit scrambled74 forward when he felt the trap release him, dragging the stick with his injured tail.
“Stop!” Stormfur meowed. “Let’s get this thing off first.”
Now that the stick was out of the ground, the tendril was much looser. Delicately Brambleclaw worked one claw under it, then loosened it a little more with his teeth. “Try pulling your tail free,” he instructed Berrykit.
Relief flooded over him from ears to tail-tip as the kit managed to draw his tail out of the shining loop. Berrykit tried to get to his paws, staggered, and slumped75 down on one side, his eyes closed.
“Rest for a moment,” Brook mewed. “We’ll clean your tail up a bit.”
She crouched beside Berrykit and began to lick his wounded tail. Squirrelflight joined in with swift rasps of her tongue. Brambleclaw winced76 when he saw Berrykit’s torn flesh and the blood that was still trickling77 out of the wound. He gathered a pawful of leaves and pressed them down over the worst of the bleeding—they wouldn’t be as effective as cobwebs, but there wasn’t time to look for anything else.
“As soon as we get back to camp, Leafpool will take a look at you,” he promised.
Berrykit didn’t reply, and his eyes stayed closed; Brambleclaw wondered if the kit had even heard him.
Meanwhile Stormfur had taken a few paces toward the ShadowClan patrol, who were still watching from the shelter of the hazel bush. “Seen enough?” he snarled78. “At least you’ve had a lesson from ThunderClan on how to deal with a fox trap.”
“ShadowClan can deal with fox traps, thanks,” Russetfur replied with a flick34 of her tail. “We’ve seen a couple of them in our territory, but wehave the sense to stay clear of them.”
“More sense than a kit?” Stormfur took another step forward until he stood right on the border. “That must make you so proud. You’re really fierce warriors, I can see that.”
A growl79 rose in Oakfur’s throat and he sprang to his paws. “Take one step over the border and you’ll find out how fierce we are—deserter!”
Stormfur’s neck fur bristled. “I was one of the cats who made the journey to the sun-drown-place. I helped the Clans80 find their new home. And I’ll tell you this—I didn’t do it so that the four Clans would grow too far apart to even help an injured kit.”
“But that’s not a Clan kit,” Cedarheart sneered81, coming over to stand beside Oakfur. “Maybe you’ve been in the mountains for so long, you’ve forgotten the warrior code. If you ever knew it in the first place, half-Clan.”
Stormfur unsheathed his claws, and Brambleclaw knew that the insults were on the brink82 of giving way to a full-blown fight. That was more than he wanted to cope with now, especially when they still had to carry Berrykit back to camp.
He bounded up to Stormfur and nudged him. “We don’t want a fight right now,” he mewed quietly in his ear. “They’re not worth it. Ignore them.”
Stormfur’s gaze locked with his; his amber83 eyes were hot with anger. Then he took a deep breath, and the fur on his shoulders began to lie flat. “You’re right,” he agreed. “But crow-food is still too good for them.”
Both cats turned away and padded back to Berrykit. A scornful yowl rose up from the ShadowClan warriors, but neither Brambleclaw nor Stormfur looked back.
When they reached Berrykit, Brambleclaw thought he was still unconscious, but as he bent84 over to sniff59 him the kit’s eyes flickered85 open. “Thank you,” he whispered. “I’m really sorry.”
“That’s okay,” meowed Squirrelflight.
“Will Firestar still let me be an apprentice38?”
Brambleclaw gave Berrykit a comforting lick on the shoulder. “I’ll tell you a secret,” he meowed. “When Firestar was an apprentice, he got into no end of trouble—isn’t that so, Squirrelflight?”
Squirrelflight nodded solemnly. “It’s no secret! The whole Clan knows it.”
Berrykit blinked. “Firestar? Really?”
“Really,” Brambleclaw reassured86 him. “What you did was wrong, but it was brave too. Firestar will understand that.”
Reassured, Berrykit let out a sigh, and his eyes closed again
“Come on,” mewed Brambleclaw, looking up at his companions. “Let’s get him back to camp.”
Brambleclaw and Stormfur shuffled87 through the thorn tunnel, carrying Berrykit’s limp body between them. His mangled tail was still bleeding. Brambleclaw was sure that the kit was still alive only from the faint rise and fall of his chest. He desperately88 needed Leafpool’s care before they lost him to StarClan.
Squirrelflight followed the two tomcats into the camp and raced off at once to her sister’s den. Brook brought up the rear. “I’ll tell Daisy,” she mewed, heading for the nursery.
As Brambleclaw and Stormfur carried Berrykit across the clearing a shrill89 wail broke out behind them. Glancing over his shoulder, Brambleclaw saw Daisy shoot out of the nursery entrance; Cloudtail was just behind her, meowing, “Daisy, wait!”
The cream-colored she-cat skidded90 to a halt in front of Brambleclaw, her eyes wild with terror. “Berrykit! Oh, he’s dead, he’s dead!”
Brambleclaw, with a mouthful of the kit’s fur, couldn’t reply.
“He’s not dead,” Cloudtail panted as he raced up. “Brook said he wasn’t, remember? Look, you can see him breathing.”
Daisy just stared numbly91 at Berrykit, as if she couldn’t understand what the white warrior was saying. Then she flung herself at her kit and began covering him with desperate licks. Brambleclaw’s ears twitched impatiently. Didn’t the mouse-brained kittypet realize she was in the way? Couldn’t she understand that the most important thing was to get her kit to a medicine cat quickly?
“Come on.” Cloudtail laid his tail gently on Daisy’s shoulder. “Let them take Berrykit to Leafpool. Come and tell Mousekit and Hazelkit that he’s going to be okay. They’ve been worried, too.”
Daisy gave him a doubtful look, then let him draw her away, back toward the nursery.
Leafpool rushed out to meet Brambleclaw and Stormfur before they were halfway92 to her den. “Poor little scrap43!” she exclaimed, giving the wounded tail a rapid sniff. “Bring him straight in, please. Brightheart is making a nest for him.”
Brambleclaw and Stormfur carried the kit around the bramble screen and laid him in a nest of moss93 and ferns just outside the entrance to Leafpool’s den. He lay on one side, not moving. Brightheart stroked his fur with one paw while Squirrelflight looked on worriedly.
“I’d better tell Firestar,” she muttered after a moment, and slipped away.
Leafpool dived through the cleft94 into her den, and emerged a moment later with a pawful of cobwebs. “We have to stop the bleeding first,” she meowed as she bound them around the ragged95 wounds in Berrykit’s tail. The leaves Brambleclaw had used had fallen off during the long trek96 back through the forest. “Then he can have some marigold to stop infection.”
“He’s going to be okay, isn’t he?” Brambleclaw asked in a low voice.
Leafpool looked up at him, her amber eyes shadowed. “I hope so, but I don’t know,” she replied honestly. “I’ll do the best I can, but he’s in the paws of StarClan now.”
When he left Leafpool’s den, Brambleclaw found Dustpelt and Thornclaw about to go out on patrol. He bounded over to join them, hoping to put his worries about Berrykit out of his mind for a while. But all the way along the stream bordering WindClan, he couldn’t forget the kit’s limp shape, lying so still. If he died, Daisy would probably take her other kits straight back to the horseplace, as she’d been threatening to do already. And then there would be no more apprentices97 until Sorreltail’s kits were old enough. That was almost six moons away!
Brambleclaw lashed98 his tail, angry with the way his thoughts were heading. He cared about the bright, disobedient little kit for Berrykit’s own sake, not just because Brambleclaw needed an apprentice. But however hard he tried, he couldn’t stop thinking about being Clan deputy, and what he needed to do to get there.
Returning to the camp just after sunhigh, he meant to go and check on Berrykit right away, but paused when he saw Stormfur and Brook crossing the clearing with Firestar and Squirrelflight.
Stormfur waved his tail in greeting and raced ahead of the other cats to meet Brambleclaw. “Hi,” he meowed. “We waited for you.”
“Why?” Brambleclaw’s belly99 lurched at the shadow of regret in his friend’s eyes. What was happening now?
Stormfur touched his nose to Brambleclaw’s shoulder. “Brook and I are leaving.”
“Now?” Brambleclaw sank his claws into the ground in frustration100. It had felt so right, so comfortable, to have Stormfur around again. Though Brambleclaw had known he and Brook would have to leave one day, this seemed much too soon. “I suppose you have to go back to the mountains.” He sighed. “But I hoped you would stay longer.”
Stormfur hesitated. “No, not to the mountains,” he mewed. “To RiverClan. Those ShadowClan cats were right. If we want to stay here, then we have to live by the warrior code, and that means being loyal to RiverClan.”
Brambleclaw stared at him. “Is that the only reason you’re going? Because of what those mangy crow-food eaters said?”
“No,” meowed Brook, padding up to Stormfur’s side. Squirrelflight was beside her. “You’ll see us again, I promise. We want to stay by the lake for good, and when we get to RiverClan I’m going to train to be a warrior.”
Brambleclaw stared at her in astonishment101. They were staying for good? That meant they hadn’t just come here to make sure the Clans had found their new homes. Why exactly had Stormfur and Brook left the mountains? And why didn’t they want to go back? But he couldn’t ask; if Stormfur had wanted him to know, he would have told him already. Sharp claws sank into Brambleclaw’s heart at the thought that his friend didn’t trust him enough to confide102 in him.
“It’s great that you’re staying.” He forced a purr. “At least we’ll get to see each other at Gatherings103.”
“Yes, we’ll expect all the RiverClan gossip,” Squirrelflight mewed, pressing her muzzle104 against Stormfur’s and then Brook’s. More quietly, she added, “None of us will ever forget our journey. Part of us will walk together always.”
Firestar was waiting a couple of tail-lengths away for the friends to say good-bye to one another. “We won’t forget what you did after the badger attack,” he told the visitors. “You will always have ThunderClan’s thanks. We owe you more than we can ever repay.”
Stormfur dipped his head. “We’re grateful to you too, for letting us stay this long.”
With Brook just behind him, he turned and made his way through the thorn tunnel. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight followed them out and watched, side by side, as the two cats padded into the undergrowth.
“May StarClan light your path!” Brambleclaw called after them.
Stormfur paused to look back, curling his tail in farewell, then both he and Brook vanished among the ferns.
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| n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘，边沿 | |
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| adj.尖声的；刺耳的；v尖叫 | |
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