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Lionblaze slid out of the campthrough the dirtplace tunnel and skirted the rim1 of the hollow until he came to the place where he and his littermates had nearly been burned alive on the night of the storm. The grass was still blackened, and debris2 from charred3 branches was scattered4 around. Lionblaze shuddered5 as he remembered the leaping flames and the mad glare in Ashfur’s eyes.
Above his head the moon floated in the indigo6 sky, waxing toward full and surrounded by the frosty glitter of stars. No clouds blurred7 their light. Does that mean you approve of what I’m doing, StarClan?Lionblaze silently addressed his warrior9 ancestors. He had made this plan as soon as he realized that he and his littermates were still part of the prophecy, but it had taken him another day to decide to put it into action. Whatever you think, I have to do this.
Looking down into the hollow, he could see the thornbush where Sol was a prisoner, and Birchfall, crouched10 on watch just beyond the outer branches. The thick, criss-crossing growth of the thorn hid Sol from Lionblaze’s sight, but Sol’s scent11 drifted up to him as he tasted the air.
“Right,” Lionblaze whispered. “Let’s go!”
Paw step by paw step, he crept down the cliff face, testing each foothold before he dared put his weight on it. He wasn’t just afraid of falling; if he dislodged a stone, or slipped and had to scrabble to save himself, he would alert Birchfall. He froze once as he brushed against a straggling bush growing from a crack, and once when a shower of grit12 spurted13 up from under his paws and pattered down into the camp. But Birchfall didn’t move.
Snoozing on watch?Lionblaze wondered.
Moons seemed to have passed before he leaped down the last fox-length to land lightly on the ground beside the bush. His legs trembled. With a swift glance toward the slumbering14 shape of Birchfall, he crawled underneath15 the branches of the thornbush.
In the dim light that filtered through the twigs16, he saw Sol curled up in a mossy nest, his tail wrapped over his nose and his sides heaving with the rhythmic18 breathing of sleep. Lionblaze crept over to him and prodded19 his shoulder. Sol’s eyes flew open, and for a heartbeat Lionblaze thought he saw surprise flicker20 in their amber21 depths. His jaws22 opened, but Lionblaze slapped his tail over the loner’s muzzle23 before he could utter a sound.
“Quiet!”
Sol nodded, and Lionblaze took his tail away.
“I’m sorry, Lionblaze. For a moment I thought you were that snake.” Sol was composed once more, his hushed voice barely reaching Lionblaze’s ears. “What can I do for you?”
“I…I need to talk to you.” Now that Lionblaze had succeeded in coming face-to-face with his Clan8’s prisoner, it was harder than he had expected to say what he had to say. “I’ve found out that my mother isn’t who I thought she was, and I need to figure out if it affects the prophecy.”
“Good,” Sol mewed softly. He sat up and began to groom24 moss17 out of his fur. “You can start by helping25 me get out of here.”
“I—I can’t do that!” Lionblaze only just remembered to keep his voice down.
“Of course you can. You must have climbed down the cliff to get here without Birchfall seeing you. You can show me the way to get back up. I didn’t kill Ashfur. You know I didn’t.”
“As far as ThunderClan is concerned, you’re the only cat it could have been,” Lionblaze retorted. He wasn’t sure what he thought himself. He couldn’t forget how Sol had promised to help him fulfill26 the prophecy—and how much he needed that help now—but he also shrank from betraying his Clan by letting the loner escape.
“Why should I help you if you won’t help me?” Sol gave Lionblaze a long look from glowing amber eyes, then calmly licked one paw and started to wash his face.
Lionblaze stared at him in frustration27. I can’t make him talk, but I can’t show him the way out, either!
“Okay,” he muttered. “I’m leaving. I can’t help you escape, it would cause too much trouble.”
“For my Clan,” Lionblaze hissed30. It was too easy to imagine what the other Clan leaders would think when they heard Sol was on the loose. They’d blame ThunderClan, that was for sure. He flattened31 himself to the ground so he could wriggle32 out under the thorn branches.
“Wait! Don’t you want to know who your father is?”
Lionblaze stopped and looked back over his shoulder. “You knowthat?”
“Of course.” Sol passed his paw over one ear.
“So who is he?” Lionblaze asked, his belly33 churning.
Sol’s eyes glinted with amusement. “Nothing for nothing, Lionblaze. I’ll tell you the truth when you get me out of here.”
“And how do I know I can trust you?” The words came out louder than Lionblaze had intended; he froze as a scuffling sound came from outside the den34.
“Sol?” Birchfall called. “Are you okay?”
Sol paused, his whiskers twitching35. Ants crawled through Lionblaze’s pelt36 and he held his breath as he waited to be discovered. Firestar will strip my pelt off and throw it out for the crows!
“Sol?” Birchfall’s voice came again, sounding more anxious
“I’m fine, Birchfall,” the loner replied. “Just talking to myself.”
“Okay, good night.”
Lionblaze relaxed as he heard Birchfall settling down again, though his pelt still felt hot with tension.
“How do you know you can trust me?” Sol went on. He sounded amused. “You don’t. But knowledge is power, Lionblaze, and right now I have more knowledge than any of the Clan cats.”
“All right,” Lionblaze mewed slowly. “I’ll show you how to get out. But you must promise to tell me about my father…and advise me about the prophecy.”
Sol dipped his head. “You have my word.”
Whatever that’s worth…“Okay, follow me,” Lionblaze whispered. “Put your paws where I put mine. It’s a tricky37 climb, and it’ll be ten times harder because we mustn’t be spotted38.”
He pushed his way out through the thorns with Sol hard on his paws and began to haul himself up. The cliff seemed to stretch above his head forever, and Lionblaze couldn’t believe that no cat would see them splayed out against the rock in the bright moonlight. But no accusing yowls came from the clearing, and at last he pulled himself up to the cliff top and turned to wait for Sol to join him.
The loner huffed out a breath as he hauled himself over the rim of the hollow, then gestured with his tail for Lionblaze to follow him away from the edge. He halted a few fox-lengths away.
“Well?” Lionblaze demanded. “You’re free. What about your part of the bargain?”
“Not here,” Sol replied. “It’s too dangerous. Besides, if you stay away too long, some cat might notice you’re missing. You should get back to the warriors39’ den.”
“But you promised!”
“And I’ll keep that promise.” Sol flicked40 his ears in the direction of ShadowClan territory. “I’ll go to that old Twoleg nest beyond the ShadowClan border, and wait for you there. Come with your littermates as soon as you can.”
“Okay.” Lionblaze’s belly churned with frustration. “But you’d better be there.”
Sol flicked his tail dismissively. “I will be.” Turning, he bounded off toward the ShadowClan border.
Lionblaze watched him until the undergrowth hid his blotched pelt from sight. Then he slipped down to the thorn barrier and back into the camp the same way he had left it. He hoped no cat would ask why it had taken him so long to make his dirt.
I did the right thing,he argued with himself. Hollyleaf said we have to find out who our father is. And even more important, Sol is the only cat who can help us fulfill the prophecy!
“Firestar! Firestar!” Birchfall’s yowl dragged Lionblaze from a deep sleep. All around him in the warriors’ den, his Clanmates were rousing.
“Is there an attack?” Brightheart’s fur bristled42. “Birchfall sounds terrified!” She scrambled43 out of her nest and pushed her way out into the open, with Cloudtail just behind her
“Firestar!” Birchfall’s screech44 sounded right outside the den.
“What’s got into him?” Dustpelt grumbled45, rising to his paws and shaking moss out of his fur. “Can’t a cat get a decent night’s sleep around here?”
More warriors were shouldering their way out, loudly demanding what was going on. Lionblaze knew exactly what was bothering Birchfall, but he realized he had to seem just as concerned as every cat. He sprang up and slid out through the branches into the gray dawn light. Shadows still lay deep around the edges of the clearing, and the ground was dusted with frost.
Firestar was bounding down the tumbled rocks. Birchfall raced across the clearing to meet him at the bottom.
“Firestar!” the young warrior gasped46. “Sol has escaped!”
Firestar’s ears flicked up. With Birchfall panting behind him, he raced over to the thornbush and thrust his head inside. More of the ThunderClan cats followed him, and Lionblaze crowded up with them, making sure that he left his fresh scent at the bottom of the cliff where he and Sol had begun their climb.
“He’s really gone?” Brambleclaw asked, rushing up to join his leader as Firestar backed away from the bush.
Firestar nodded.
“Hey, there are marks on the cliff!” Hazeltail stretched up with her paws to point at a spot where a couple of pebbles47 had been dislodged. “Sol must have escaped this way.”
“Good riddance, if you ask me,” Cloudtail growled48, giving a single lash49 of his tail. “It’s not like we could have kept him here forever.”
There was a murmur50 of agreement; Lionblaze saw relief in the eyes of more than one cat.
“You’re not going to track him down, are you, Firestar?” Sandstorm asked. “He’s caused us enough trouble, and we could never have punished him enough for killing51 Ashfur.”
“He’s obviously guilty,” Spiderleg put in. “He wouldn’t have risked his neck climbing the cliff to escape, otherwise.”
“That’s true,” Thornclaw meowed as Firestar looked thoughtful. “He must have been scared of what we would do to him. We sure taught him a lesson!”
Firestar took a couple of paces away from Sol’s den and gazed at the cats who stood around him. “You’re right,” he murmured at last. “Let’s hope that Sol has learned the Clans52 can’t be messed around with, and doesn’t try to cross any more borders. Brambleclaw, we’ll double the patrols for now, until we’re sure he’s not still in the territory.”
“Sure, Firestar,” the deputy meowed with a brisk nod.
“What will you tell the other Clans?” Graystripe asked, a worried look in his amber eyes. “If we say he escaped, they’ll think we were too weak to hold on to him. And they might blame us for letting him out to cause more trouble.”
Firestar twitched53 his ears. “I’ll tell him we banished54 him from our territories and made him promise never to set paw here again.”
“But that’s not true.” Sandstorm looked uneasy. “Should we really be lying to the other Clans?”
“Like they always tell us the truth!” Cloudtail snapped.
“I think Sandstorm’s right,” Brightheart put in, with a sharp glance at her mate. “What if Sol isstill around? What would the other Clans think of us then?”
Firestar hesitated, his gaze fixed55 on his paws, then raised his head again. “We’ll do as I said. It’s for the sake of ThunderClan,” he meowed. “We need to show that we’re strong and committed to the warrior code, and that we deal with our own Clan’s affairs in our own way. And we’ll make sure that Sol isn’tstill hanging about,” he finished.
As the cats began to move away, and Brambleclaw began to organize the patrols, Lionblaze spotted Hollyleaf standing56 at the edge of the clearing. Her eyes were like green flames, but it was impossible to tell what she was looking at.
Slipping between Sandstorm and Hazeltail, he padded to her side. “I have to tell you something,” he mewed softly.
Hollyleaf didn’t seem to hear him. “He escaped!” she hissed, her claws flexing57 in and out.
Lionblaze couldn’t tell if she sounded glad or sorry. He didn’t dare tell her what had really happened with so many of his Clanmates close by. “Where’s Jayfeather?” he asked.
Hollyleaf’s ears flicked. “How should I know?”
“I’ll find him,” Lionblaze meowed. “Go into the forest and meet us by the training clearing. Don’t argue!” he added as Hollyleaf opened her jaws. “Just do it. It’s important.”
His sister rolled her eyes, but she set off toward the camp entrance, staying in the shadows. Once he was sure she was on her way, Lionblaze headed for the medicine cats’ den, but before he reached it, Jayfeather emerged from the nursery. Lionblaze bounded over to him.
“What’s all the yowling about?” Jayfeather demanded.
“Sol has escaped.”
“Hashe?” Jayfeather’s eyes stretched wide with surprise. Then the young medicine cat sniffed58. “How convenient.”
“We have to talk,” Lionblaze muttered, glancing back to where his Clanmates were splitting up into patrols. “Come with me into the forest. We’re meeting Hollyleaf beside the training clearing.”
To his relief, Jayfeather didn’t argue. “I’ll tell Leafpool I’m going to look for yarrow. We’re running short, and Purdy’s pads are still giving him trouble.” He trotted59 off toward his den.
Lionblaze didn’t wait for him; it was best if all three of them left the camp separately. Hating the need for deception60, he tagged on to the end of a patrol that was just leaving, with Sandstorm at its head. Once out in the forest he dropped back; in case any cat had spotted him he pretended to have picked up a thorn in his pad. As soon as the patrol had vanished, he raced for the training clearing.
Hollyleaf was crouched in the hollow under a tree root. “Well?” she demanded as Lionblaze approached.
“Let’s wait for Jayfeather.”
Not many heartbeats had passed before Lionblaze heard a rustling61 in the undergrowth and picked up his brother’s scent. Jayfeather shouldered his way out of the long grass and joined them.
“Nowwill you tell us what all this is about?” Hollyleaf meowed.
As briefly62 as he could, Lionblaze told them how he had managed to get into Sol’s den to talk with him, and how he had shown him the way up the cliff. “He’s gone to hide in the old Twoleg nest where he stayed before,” he finished. “We have to go there so he can tell us who our father is—”
“Have you got bees in your brain?” Hollyleaf growled with a lash of her tail. “You let a ThunderClan prisoner escape? That’s completely against the warrior code! What do you think Firestar will do if he ever finds out?”
“There’s no reason why he should find out,” Lionblaze replied steadily63. “I thought you were the one who wanted to find out the truth about our father! Now we can. Are you coming with me or not?”
Jayfeather was looking uneasy, but he nodded. “We’ll come.” He nudged Hollyleaf. “There’s no sense in complaining about it. You know we’ve got no choice. We can’t live with only half the truth, and this looks like our only chance of finding out.”
The sun had risen above the treetops by the time they reached the end of ShadowClan territory and struck out into the unknown forest. It was so long since they had been there that Lionblaze wasn’t sure of the way, but Sol’s scent trail led them onward64.
It looks as if he headed straight for the Twoleg nest. So maybe hedoes mean to keep his part of the deal.
Eventually the crumbling65 walls of the old Twoleg nest came into sight, hardly visible among tall clumps66 of seeding willow-herb, bracken, and thistles. Sol’s scent was strong and fresh. Lionblaze led the way up to the entrance and peered inside. Weeds sprouted67 through cracks in the stone floor, and cobwebs stretched across the corners.
“Sol?” he called. “Are you there?”
“Greetings.” The voice came from above Lionblaze’s head. He looked up to see Sol sitting on top of one of the walls, half-hidden by the branches of a holly41 bush stretching in from outside.
The loner rose to his paws and jumped down beside Lionblaze and his littermates. “Greetings,” he repeated. “I see you came—”
“We came to find out the truth!” Hollyleaf shouldered her way past Lionblaze. “Tell us what you know.”
Sol blinked. “It won’t help you, you know. As long as you’re part of the prophecy, why does it matter who your father is?”
“It matters,” Hollyleaf growled.
“Wait.” Lionblaze stepped forward to stand alongside his sister. “I agree with Sol. I’d like to know the truth about my father, but it’s the prophecy that’s important.”
“But we need to know,” Jayfeather argued. “One name, that’s all we want.”
A gleam of cold amusement lit in Sol’s eyes. Lionblaze knew he was enjoying the power he held over them. Suddenly he wasn’t sure that Sol knew anything about their father. Perhaps he was just taunting68 them, knowing they couldn’t take him back to the Clan. But he had known who they were from the start, and had offered to help….
“This is our chance to fulfill the prophecy,” Lionblaze mewed desperately69, turning to his littermates. “Sol knows so much…he even knew when the sun was going to vanish!”
Neither of his littermates responded. Jayfeather just looked stubborn, while Hollyleaf had tensed her muscles as if she was about to pounce70 on Sol and force him to tell the truth.
No! If she lays a claw on him he’ll never tell us!
Sol’s amber gaze traveled slowly over Hollyleaf; her bristling71 hostility72 didn’t ruffle73 a single hair on his pelt. “Think about what I can offer you,” he meowed softly. “So much more than merely knowing your ancestors! Real power takes much more than that. Listen to me, and I’ll teach you how to truly hold the power of the stars in your paws.”
Hollyleaf let out a furious hiss29 and crouched to spring.
“No!” Lionblaze yowled. He leaped on his sister, gripped her by the scruff and dragged her outside, ignoring her flailing74 paws and her screeches75 of outrage76. “Are you mouse-brained?” he demanded, releasing her among the dead bracken outside. “If you make Sol angry, he’ll never help us.”
“Why do we need him?” Jayfeather padded out to join them; his voice was calm, his head tilted77 on one side. “The prophecy doesn’t say anything about needing help. How can Sol be more powerful than we are?”
“We don’t have the power of the stars yet, do we?” Lionblaze’s belly churned as he tried to make his littermates understand. “Let him teach us what he knows. What harm can it do? And then he’ll tell us who our father is.”
Frustrated78, he realized that there had been no point in coming to the Twoleg nest. Neither Hollyleaf nor Jayfeather was prepared to talk sensibly with Sol. They probably believed he killed Ashfur, like the rest of the Clan. They might as well go straight back to the hollow.
He looked back at the entrance to the nest to see Sol standing there; his glowing amber gaze swept across them. “You are not ready to listen to me yet,” he mewed. “When you are, come again. I’ll be here, waiting for you.”
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deception
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| n.欺骗，欺诈；骗局，诡计 | |
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| adj.向前的，前进的；adv.向前，前进，在先 | |
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| n.猛扑；v.猛扑，突然袭击，欣然同意 | |
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| v.鞭打( flail的现在分词 )；用连枷脱粒；（臂或腿）无法控制地乱动；扫雷坦克 | |
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outrage
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| n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒 | |
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