CHAPTER13
Hollyleaf blinked in surprise when shewoke among the stone walls of the Twoleg nest instead of under the branches of the warriors3’ den4 in the ThunderClan camp. Then she remembered their journey to find Sol, and how Jingo had brought them to this abandoned Twoleg nest to save them from the dogs.
As Hollyleaf sat up, her brother yawned and stretched. “I don’t like this place,” he muttered. “It’s time we left.”
Hollyleaf murmured agreement. It wasn’t right for warriors to be so close to all this Twoleg stuff, even though there were no Twolegs here.
The pale light of dawn flooded into the den through the gap in the wall. Looking around, Hollyleaf saw that Birchfall and Hazeltail were still asleep. Brackenfur was perched on the ledge7 under the gap where Hussar had sat the night before. There was no sign of Brambleclaw, but a moment later he sprang up from outside and squeezed through the gap to sit beside Brackenfur.
“All’s quiet,” he reported. “But there’s a strong smell of dog.”
Hollyleaf twitched8 her whiskers; she could pick up the rank scent9 even here.
“We have to get moving,” Brackenfur meowed. “Have you seen Jingo?”
Brambleclaw shook his head. Speckle and her kits10 were curled up in a furry11 heap on one of the soft boulders12, while Fritz and Pod were sleeping on the other. There was no sign of the other Twolegplace cats.
“She’ll be here somewhere.” Brambleclaw jumped down inside the nest. “I think we can trust her.”
He padded over to prod13 Birchfall and Hazeltail awake. As the two younger warriors were blinking sleep away, Jingo padded in through the entrance to the den.
“Good, you’re ready,” she mewed, with a brisk nod of greeting. “Let’s go.”
She led the way into the Twoleg territory through the gap in the wall. “This journey’s going to be a bit different,” she warned the Clan5 cats when they were all in the raw, damp air of the leaf-bare morning. “We won’t be setting paw to the ground until we get where we’re going.”
Hollyleaf shot a startled glance at her Clanmates, and saw that they were all looking equally surprised. How could they get anywhere if their paws didn’t touch the ground? Was Jingo expecting them to fly?
“It’s not safe to walk around on the ground since the battle with the dogs,” Jingo explained. “The dogs lie in wait for us and hunt us like prey14.”
Shuddering15, Hollyleaf leaned closer to Lionblaze. “That’s exactly what happened to us yesterday.”
Her brother nodded; his amber16 eyes were gleaming and his claws flexed17 as if he was imagining his chance to slash18 a dog that attacked him or his Clanmates. Better to stay out of their way,Hollyleaf thought.
“So we’ve found a different way of moving around our territory,” Jingo went on. Gracefully19 she leaped up onto the top of the Twoleg fence. “Ready?” she called, glancing over her shoulder at the Clan cats.
Brambleclaw quickly leaped up beside her, followed by the rest of the patrol. Jingo set off, balancing easily on the narrow fence, then turning a corner to pad past several Twoleg dens20, with a small Thunderpath on the other side.
Hollyleaf stiffened21 as the door to one of the Twoleg nests opened and a little white dog bolted out; its high-pitched yapping filled the air.
“It’s okay,” Jingo reassured22 the Clan cats. “That’s a housedog. It’s a stupid nuisance, just like all the others, but it’s not dangerous like the wild dogs.”
Hollyleaf had to take her word for it, but as she watched the dog bounding along the bottom of the fence and scrabbling about in the earth under a bush, she was glad that she wasn’t down below where it could get at her. She dug her claws more firmly into the narrow strip of wood under her paws and focused on the tip of Lionblaze’s tail.
The fence came to an end at a row of small dens with flat roofs. “These are monster nests,” Jingo told them, leaping up onto the nearest roof.
“Monsters have nests?” Hazeltail exclaimed.
“Sure.” Jingo waved her tail to where a Twoleg was approaching at the edge of the Thunderpath. “Watch.”
The Clan cats jumped up onto the roof beside her and watched the Twoleg as it opened the door of one of the dens and vanished inside. A moment later they heard the throaty growl23 of a monster. It nosed its way out of the den and headed down the Thunderpath, with the Twoleg in its belly24.
“Great StarClan, this is where they sleep!” Birchfall’s neck fur was bristling25.
“Yes, but they can’t climb up here,” Jingo meowed. “Let’s get on.”
The patrol easily bounded across the flat roofs until the cats came to another fence and more Twoleg dens. Daylight was strengthening and a stiff wind had sprung up; Hollyleaf gripped with her claws at every step, scared that she would be blown off her skinny perch6. So this was what Jingo meant by not setting paw on the ground. Not flying, but staying high up, out of reach of the wild dogs. She tried to imagine not daring to set paw on the ground in the forest, and having to leap from tree to tree to avoid being chased and killed.
No cat should be forced to live like this.
At the next corner, the fence gave way to a wall built of red stone; the top was wider and it was easier to pad along. The Thunderpath here was wider too, with stone trees growing at both edges, and a few monsters prowling along it. Every so often the wall was interrupted by a lower section of wooden fence; Jingo slid down onto it, padded quickly across, and leaped up onto the wall on the other side. The Clan cats followed. Hollyleaf’s pelt26 prickled with fear as she remembered how the dog pack had leaped the low fence the day before; but no dogs appeared, and every cat reached the other side of the wooden fence safely.
Farther along the wall, Jingo halted; peering past her, Hollyleaf saw that one of the wooden sections had been swung back, leaving a gap between their stretch of wall and the next. As if at a signal, a flurry of barking broke out somewhere behind them, and a gust28 of wind brought the scent of dogs.
“We’ll have to jump,” Jingo decided29. “Get back a bit; leave me space for a running start.”
Once the Clan cats had shuffled30 backward, Jingo bounded along the wall and took off from the end in a powerful leap, landing neatly31 on the other side. The Clan cats glanced at one another; Hollyleaf could see that Hazeltail and Birchfall were both looking nervous.
“I’ll go next,” she meowed, deciding it would be better to get this over with than to watch her Clanmates go ahead of her. She hurtled along the wall and into the air before she could think about the wide gap and the nearby dogs.
Her paws hit the red stone of the wall and Jingo jumped forward to steady her.
“Well done,” the brown tabby mewed. “Move along to give the others space.”
Hollyleaf squeezed past her, turning in time to see Brackenfur leaping easily across the gap. Birchfall followed him; the young warrior2’s front paws landed on the wall, but his hind27 paws dangled32 down. His eyes were huge with fear as the barking grew louder and two dogs raced round the corner. Quick as lightning, Brackenfur grabbed Birchfall’s scruff in his teeth and hauled him the rest of the way; his tail whisked up just in time, out of reach of the leading dog’s teeth.
Birchfall shuddered33. “Thanks, Brackenfur. I thought I was dog food for sure.”
Hazeltail was shivering on the other side of the gap, gazing down in terror at the barking dogs as they reared up on their hind legs and scrabbled at the wall. “I can’t, Brambleclaw,” she whispered. “I just can’t. I know I’ll fall.”
“No, you won’t,” the Clan deputy assured her. “You’re good at jumping. You’ll be fine.”
“If you fall, I’ll leap down and fight the dogs,” Lionblaze promised.
With a despairing look at both of them, Hazeltail moved back a couple of fox-lengths and bounded up to the end of the wall. Both dogs hurled34 themselves at her as she leaped, but she cleared the gap with a tail-length to spare, and was welcomed on the other side by a quick lick on her ear from Birchfall.
Lionblaze followed and then Brambleclaw, and the cats set off again, with the dogs pacing alongside a fox-length below, whining35 and yelping36 in frustration37 at not being able to reach their prey. Hollyleaf wondered if there was any way of shaking them off. The Twolegplace wouldn’t last forever. Sooner or later they would have to come down to the ground, and then they would be ripped to pieces.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
A new voice came from up ahead: Hollyleaf spotted38 a huge blue-furred tom standing39 nose to nose with Jingo. He had the sleek40, well-fed look of a kittypet, but his neck fur was beginning to fluff up and his blue eyes were unfriendly.
“Just passing through,” Jingo replied calmly.
“Well, get a move on,” the kittypet growled41. “I’m going home for some sleep. I don’t want to listen to that racket all day. Those dogs wouldn’t even be here if you hadn’t brought them.”
Anger lit up Lionblaze’s eyes, and he began to push forward along the edge of the wall to stand beside Jingo. Hollyleaf’s fur prickled. Starting a fight here would probably end with both cats falling off the wall into the waiting jaws42 of the dogs.
Brambleclaw raised his tail to halt Lionblaze. “Stay out of it, unless the kittypet attacks,” he ordered. “Let Jingo handle it.”
Lionblaze obeyed, but he kept his furious gaze fixed43 on the kittypet.
“You’re the one who’s holding us up,” Jingo replied, still calm. “If you weren’t stuck there in the way, we’d be long gone.”
The blue-furred tom let out an angry snort, but said nothing more. Instead he leaped down into the Twoleg territory, raced across to the nest, and vanished through a small hole in the door.
Hollyleaf relaxed; they had more important things to do than teach kittypets some manners. Still with the dogs following, they padded farther along the wall until they came to another corner.
“This is where we can get rid of the dogs,” Jingo told them. Turning the corner, she led the way along a narrow wooden fence between two Twoleg dens. There was no way for the dogs to follow, even though they tried to push themselves into the gap at the foot of the fence. Their frustrated44 yelping sounded behind Hollyleaf as she and her Clanmates approached the nest.
“This way—and watch where you’re putting your paws.” Jingo sprang up onto a narrow, flat area above the entrance to the Twoleg nest, then clawed her way up a creeper that grew alongside it until she reached the edge of the Twoleg roof. “It’s not hard!” she called down, beckoning45 with her tail.
“And hedgehogs can fly!” Birchfall muttered.
But when it was Hollyleaf’s turn to climb, she realized that Jingo was right. The creeper had thick, twisted stems that created plenty of paw holds, and it was strong enough to bear even the weight of Brambleclaw and Lionblaze. But the edge of the roof felt unsteady, and Hollyleaf tried unsuccessfully to dig her claws in, terrified that the wind would blow her off.
“Where now?” Brambleclaw panted as he hauled himself over the edge to stand beside Jingo.
As an answer, the brown tabby she-cat began scrambling46 up the steep slope of the roof. “This is a good shortcut,” she meowed.
“We can’t go up there!” Hazeltail gasped47. “We’ll fall!”
“If Jingo can do it, we can do it,” Brackenfur declared firmly. “Up you go, Hazeltail. I’ll be right behind you.”
Slipping and scrabbling, the Clan cats clawed their way up the slope to where Jingo was sitting with her tail curled round her paws, at the very top of the roof next to a couple of tree stumps48 made of stone.
“It’s great up here,” she mewed as Hollyleaf struggled up the last fox-length to join her. “Sometimes I come just to look.”
You come up here even if you don’t have to?Hollyleaf felt as if her claws had been worn away in the desperate climb. A sharp ridge49 stretched away in both directions; it felt far too narrow to balance on. Wind buffeted50 her fur and plastered her whiskers to the side of her face.
Not wanting to let Jingo know how uneasy she was, she forced herself to look up from her clinging claws. Instantly she forgot to be scared. She could see forever! All the way across the tumbled roofs of the Twolegplace, to the flat stretch of rough grass that covered the cliffs above the sun-drown-place. And beyond that, over the gray, heaving waves as far as the horizon.
“Look!” Lionblaze yowled, dragging himself up to balance on the ridge beside Hollyleaf. “You can see the mountains!”
Hollyleaf twisted around to stare in the opposite direction. After the edge of the forest, the mountains lay like a smudge of cloud on the horizon. She could make out gray slopes and cliffs, and peaks tipped with snow reaching up to the sky.
“Do you think we’re as high as we were in the mountains?” she asked wonderingly.
“Of course not.” There was a hint of scorn in Lionblaze’s voice. “It took us ages to climb up to the waterfall.”
Hollyleaf realized he was right, and yet the mountains seemed so close she could almost imagine leaping off the roof and landing on the ledge that led behind the waterfall to the cave where the Tribe of Rushing Water lived.
“I wonder what they’re doing,” she murmured, half to herself. “Will we ever see Stormfur and Brook51 again?”
No cat answered her. As soon as the rest of the patrol had reached the roof ridge, Jingo rose to her paws. “For this next bit, you have to be extra careful,” she warned. “Going down is far harder than going up. If you slip…well, just don’t slip, that’s all.”
Cautiously, in a half-crouch, Jingo led the way down the other side of the roof. Hollyleaf’s paws skidded52 on the smooth stone of the roof; there was nothing to hold on to, and the downward slope seemed to end in empty air. When she was halfway53 down, a big white bird swooped54 past her, letting out a raucous55 cry and filling the air with the beating of its wings. Hollyleaf froze, trying to dig her claws into the stone, until it was gone.
“I’m neverdoing this again!” Birchfall hissed56 behind her.
Hollyleaf was shaking by the time they reached the edge of the roof and perched on a narrow channel half choked with leaves and other debris57. A couple of fox-lengths below was a flat roof, and just beyond that, a narrow Thunderpath.
“Is that another monster nest?” Hazeltail asked.
Jingo nodded. “We’ll have to come down to the ground here,” she meowed, “because we have to cross that Thunderpath. But I think we’re safe now. The wild dogs don’t often come this far.”
When she reached the grass beside the Thunderpath, Hollyleaf tasted the air. She could pick out the mingled58 scents59 of several dogs, but none of them were close by. And no monsters appeared as Jingo paused to listen, then waved her tail for the Clan cats to cross.
Once on the other side, Jingo jumped up onto another wall, this one built of gray stone. Padding along it, Hollyleaf saw that the Twoleg nests here were smaller, with narrower strips of grassy60 territory behind them. A couple of tiny Twoleg kits were playing on one of the patches of grass, but they didn’t notice the cats as they padded past.
“Is it much farther to Purdy’s nest?” Brackenfur asked. “I think every cat is getting tired and hungry.”
Hollyleaf muttered agreement. Every muscle in her body was aching, and her belly felt like a giant hole. The sky was covered with cloud, but she sensed it was long past sun-high, and no cat had eaten since the fresh-kill in the abandoned Twoleg nest the night before.
“Not far now,” Jingo responded. “We can—”
She broke off as a gust of wind swept across them, bringing with it a slap of icy rain. Birchfall let out a yowl of alarm. Hollyleaf flattened61 herself to the top of the wall, terrified that the wind would blow her off.
“This way!” Jingo ordered.
She ran along the top of the wall to the fence dividing the Twoleg territories. A bushy pine tree grew close to the wall; Jingo sprang up onto the nearest branch and forced her way in among the needles. Peering out, she called, “Come on! We need to shelter.”
Unbalanced by the buffeting62 wind, the Clan cats stumbled along the wall and climbed into the tree. Hollyleaf’s pelt was soaked by the time she reached it. The pine needles raked through her fur as she plunged63 into the branches, clawing for paw holds so she could climb higher.
“What does she think we are, squirrels?” Lionblaze gasped as he struggled upward. The branches dipped and swung under his greater weight, and Hollyleaf suddenly felt the whole tree spinning around. She drove her claws hard into the branch and closed her eyes until the dizzy sensation faded.
“I thought you came from a forest,” Jingo meowed, a tail-length above where Hollyleaf was clinging. “Aren’t you used to trees?”
“We don’t climb that often,” Brambleclaw replied. He had stayed lower down in the tree, just above the spot where it overhung the wall. “If we’re caught in the rain in the forest, we’d rather shelter among the roots of a tree, or under a bush.”
“Well, you learn something new every day,” Jingo responded, sounding amused.
By the time the rainstorm was over, Hollyleaf could tell that the daylight was beginning to fade. I hope we reach Purdy’s den before nightfall. I don’t want to be wandering around this Twolegplace in the dark.Scrambling out of the tree after her Clanmates, she tried to groom64 the pine needles from her fur, but the whole of her pelt was clumped65 and messy. I might as well be a rogue,she thought crossly, not a Clan cat at all.
Then a deeper pang66 shook her. Maybe that’s what I am.
The patrol followed Jingo along more walls and fences, and over the roofs of another set of monster nests, until twilight67 began to spill from the shadows. Eventually Jingo halted at the corner of a wall.
“See that holly1 bush?” she meowed, waving her tail in the direction of a dark, bushy mass poking68 over a fence on the other side of a small Thunderpath. “Purdy’s den is just beyond it.”
“Thank you, Jingo,” Brambleclaw meowed. “We would never have found it without you.”
“You’re welcome,” the she-cat replied. “You’ll be able to hunt and spend the night there. But be careful,” she added more seriously. “Sol has a way of making cats believe in him. I know, because I believed in him, too. Enough to leave my housefolk, where I was happy.” In the gathering69 dusk, her eyes shone with sadness.
“Why don’t you go back to your housefolk?” Birchfall asked
“Because the other cats need me,” Jingo replied. “Every cat needs a leader—someone to follow, someone to make the hard decisions. That’s why we listened to Sol. But it’s my job now. I can’t leave them.”
Loneliness throbbed70 in her voice. Hollyleaf felt desperately71 sorry for her. A Clan leader was chosen through the warrior code and given nine lives by StarClan. It was a huge honor, and the leader had the support of the Clan deputy, the medicine cat, and the senior warriors. But Jingo had no one.
The tabby she-cat gave herself a shake, as if getting rid of useless regrets. She touched noses with each of the Clan cats. “Good-bye and good luck,” she meowed. “Come and see us if you ever pass our nest again.”
“We will,” Brackenfur promised. “Good-bye and good luck to you, too.”
Jingo dipped her head as the other cats added their good-byes, and turned to pad along the wall, back the way she had come. Her head and her tail were lifted high.
“Good-bye, Jingostar,” Brambleclaw whispered, too softly for the retreating she-cat to hear him. “May StarClan light your path.”
Hollyleaf crouched72 just behind Brambleclaw in the shadows underneath73 the holly bush. The Twoleg den beyond looked even more abandoned than the one where Jingo and the others lived. Dark holes gaped74 in the walls and roof.
“Remember when we met Purdy on the way to the mountains?” Lionblaze murmured into his sister’s ear. “He said his Upwalker had died.”
“Maybe Purdy won’t be here at all,” Hollyleaf suggested. She wasn’t sure whether she would be glad or sorry. She looked forward to meeting the cranky old cat again, but she was afraid of what the encounter with Sol would bring.
“There’s only one way to find out,” Brambleclaw meowed. He began to pick his way through the straggling bushes that surrounded the nest. Hollyleaf’s jaws flooded as she picked up a strong smell of mouse.
“Prey!” Hazeltail’s voice was sharp with hunger. “Brambleclaw, may we hunt?”
The Clan deputy hesitated for a heartbeat. “Okay,” he mewed. “But let’s make it quick. And don’t leave this bit of territory.”
The patrol scattered75 among the bushes. Hollyleaf soon pinpointed76 a mouse scurrying77 through dead leaves, and killed it with a swift blow. “Thanks, StarClan,” she mumbled78 through the first delicious mouthful. It felt as if she hadn’t eaten for a moon. She had just finished gulping79 down her fresh-kill when she heard Brambleclaw calling the patrol together. As she slipped through the bushes, another mouse practically ran across her paws. She held it down and bit its throat, then carried the limp body back to her Clanmates.
The others were waiting for her. Lionblaze was swallowing the last of his prey while Birchfall swiped his tongue around his jaws with a satisfied expression.
“Everyone fed?” Brambleclaw asked. “Hollyleaf, are you going to eat that?”
Hollyleaf shook her head. “I already ate,” she explained around the mouse. “I thought we could give this to Purdy.”
Brambleclaw nodded approvingly. “Good idea. Let’s go, then.”
Cautiously, stopping every few paw steps to listen and to taste the air, he led the way up to the Twoleg nest and through the dark, gaping80 entrance hole. Hollyleaf shivered as she stepped inside. It was even colder here than outside: a raw cold that struck upward from the damp stone floor. Brambles grew through the gaps in the walls, as if the territory outside was invading the nest. There was a musty smell made up of stale prey, rotting leaves, and mold. But there was a smell of cats, too, stronger and fresher than the other scents.
“Purdy?” Brambleclaw called.
There was no reply. The deputy padded forward, with the patrol clustered tightly together behind him. Every hair on Hollyleaf’s pelt prickled. There was something strange about this place, something chilly81 and unwelcoming.
Then a new voice spoke82 behind them. “Are you looking for me?”
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