CHAPTER27
The rest of the day passedin a haze1 of pain, and when Hollyleaf finally curled up in her nest, her dreams were full of darkness. Thick undergrowth surrounded her, leaving scarcely a glimpse of the sky. She heard cats yowling at a distance, but however fast she ran toward them, she never managed to catch up with them.
When she woke to see dawn light filtering through the branches of the den2, she still felt exhausted3, as though she had really been running through that dark forest. She staggered to her paws and prodded4 Lionblaze.
“What are we going to do?” she demanded in an urgent whisper as her brother blinked up at her. “I can’t go on like this!”
“I don’t know.” Lionblaze gave a quick glance around the den, as if he was afraid that some cat would overhear. “We’ll talk later.” He pushed his way out through the branches; convinced that he was trying to avoid her, Hollyleaf followed hard on his paws.
“Hollyleaf! Lionblaze!” Brambleclaw spotted5 them as soon as they emerged from the warriors7’ den. “Sandstorm is taking out a hunting patrol. Can you go with her?”
“Sure,” Lionblaze meowed, swerving8 across the clearing to where Sandstorm waited beside the deputy with Berrynose and Hazeltail.
Hollyleaf was still dazed as she followed, as if her paws belonged to some other cat. How could she fit into the Clan9’s everyday routine, now that she knew the terrible secret of her birth? She felt as if the sky should have cracked open or the moon fallen down into the hollow.
“Don’t forget, it’s the Gathering10 tonight,” Brambleclaw reminded them. “The Clan needs to eat well before the journey.”
“We will—don’t worry,” Sandstorm promised, her whiskers twitching11 as she signaled to her patrol with her tail and headed for the camp entrance.
Hollyleaf followed, but she couldn’t concentrate on hunting. Pain dazzled her mind like lightning splitting the sky. She had built her life on the warrior6 code, and now it had failed her. It didn’t matter anymore; it had been broken too many times. Squirrelflight had broken it by lying; Crowfeather, by falling in love with a medicine cat; but most of all, Leafpool had shattered the code and trampled12 it into dust. She had betrayed her Clan, her duty as a medicine cat, and her kits13.
A mouse darted14 out in front of Hollyleaf’s paws and instinctively15 she leaped on it, her claws sinking into the soft body. A picture of Leafpool flashed in front of her eyes in a pulsing red haze, and she tore at the prey16, imagining that she was clawing the life out of the cat she hated so much.
“Hollyleaf, stop!” Hazeltail’s voice was shocked. “What are you doing?”
Hollyleaf’s vision cleared. She saw her paws dripping with scarlet17: The prey she had caught was reduced to a red pulp18. There was nothing left to take back to the fresh-kill pile.
Fury surging through her, she rounded on Hazeltail. “Stay out of my fur!”
Hazeltail backed away, her eyes wide and scared, then whipped around and plunged19 away into the bracken.
After the hunting patrol returned, Hollyleaf was too disturbed to stay in the camp. She didn’t want to talk anymore, especially not to Lionblaze or Jayfeather. Instead she headed out alone, down to the lake and then along the WindClan border until she reached the ridge21 and could look out across the rolling moorland.
Somewhere out there was the WindClan camp and the cat who was her father. His WindClan blood ran in her veins22. But I don’t feel half-WindClan!
Hollyleaf knew her home was under the trees, hunting mice and squirrels. The WindClan rabbits looked scrawny and tasteless from running across the hills. She hated the open spaces and the unrelenting wind.
Gazing out across her father’s territory, she yowled silently, No! No! No!
As shadows fell across the stone hollow, Firestar called together the cats who were going to the Gathering. Hollyleaf padded up to join Jayfeather and Lionblaze, deliberately23 not looking at Squirrelflight and Leafpool a few paces away. Graystripe, Brambleclaw, and Sandstorm bounded up, followed by Cinderheart, Poppyfrost, and Berrynose.
“Let’s go,” Firestar meowed. “And the less we say about Sol, the better, okay?”
He led them down to the lake and along the edge of the water, splashing through the border stream. Hollyleaf felt every hair on her pelt24 prickle with disgust as she set paw on WindClan territory. I don’t belong here! I want nothing to do with WindClan!
More rain had fallen earlier in the day, but now the clouds had cleared away, leaving the full moon to shine brightly. Hollyleaf stopped and stared up at it. Do you approve of what I’m going to do, StarClan?
With every paw step she was alert for the sight or scent25 of WindClan cats. She wondered if Crowfeather had been chosen to go to the Gathering. Why should it matter?she thought fiercely. He’s nothing to me. Nothing!
Just ahead of her, Firestar was flanked by Graystripe and Sandstorm. “You know, I still miss Fourtrees,” Sandstorm murmured. “The moon seemed brighter there, somehow.”
Firestar gave her an affectionate nudge. “You sound like an elder!”
Sandstorm swatted at him with her tail. “You wait. I’ll be the crankiest elder the Clans27 have ever seen. Mousefur will seem sweet and gentle next to me!”
“And hedgehogs will fly,” Graystripe meowed. “But I miss the old forest, too,” he added. “It’s the place we were born. These younger cats will feel just the same about the lake. Isn’t that right?” He glanced over his shoulder at Lionblaze and Hollyleaf.
Lionblaze managed a brief nod, but Hollyleaf couldn’t reply at all. Sheer envy surged over her, jealousy28 of these cats who knew where they belonged, who had good memories of living by the warrior code, season after season.
They don’t know it’s all a lie!
The horseplace was dark and silent when the ThunderClan cats padded past. There was still no sign of WindClan; Hollyleaf assumed they had already made their way to the island.
When they reached the tree-bridge, they found RiverClan in the middle of crossing; Firestar held back his warriors with a polite nod to Leopardstar. While she waited, Hollyleaf flexed29 her claws in and out, her belly30 churning.
This will be a Gathering none of them will ever forget!
Leaping from the roots at the other end of the tree-bridge, she paused to taste the mingled31 scents32 of the other three Clans.
“We’re the last,” Cinderheart meowed, landing beside her. “We’d better be quick.”
Hollyleaf followed her Clanmate across the strip of pebbles33 and into the undergrowth. There was no need to hurry. She had set her paws on the path she had chosen, and the time for her to act would come as surely as one season gave way to the next.
When she pushed through the bushes and into the clearing around the Great Oak, she hesitated, awed34 in spite of herself by the mass of cats in front of her. Clan mixed with Clan as the cats found themselves places around the tree. Then Hollyleaf’s paws carried her forward, weaving a path through the crowd. She was scarcely aware of Tawnypelt greeting her, or of the ShadowClan queen’s affronted35 look as she brushed past. She ignored the snatches of gossip that she picked up as she padded past. What has all that got to do with me now?
She found a place to sit, close to the Great Oak, where she could look up and see the Clan leaders crouched36 among the branches: Onestar, comfortably settled in the fork of a branch; Blackstar, crouched on the lowest branch with his tail hanging down; Leopardstar, standing37 a tail-length higher, impatiently scratching at the bark. Firestar leaped up to join them, scattering38 a few late acorns39 as the branch he chose swayed under him.
Lionblaze had followed Hollyleaf across the clearing, and sat down next to her. “Crowfeather’s here,” he muttered.
“I know.” Hollyleaf had already spotted the WindClan warrior, but he hadn’t seemed to notice her. Now she glanced to where Lionblaze was pointing with his tail, and she saw her father sitting close to Nightcloud and Breezepelt. His head was turned away, but Hollyleaf guessed that he knew exactly where she and her brothers were. All his kits together at once. How nice for him.
A shrill40 yowl sounded from the branches of the tree, and Leopardstar stepped forward. The noise in the clearing stilled as the cats fell silent and turned to look up at her.
“The Gathering has begun,” she announced. “RiverClan will report first. Prey is running well. Mistyfoot, Reedwhisker, and Rainstorm drove a fox out of our territory.” She stepped back with a curt41 nod to Blackstar.
The ShadowClan leader rose, while below him Hollyleaf drove her claws into the ground, her whole body quivering with tension. Suddenly she wasn’t sure she would know when her time to act had come. StarClan, give me a sign! If you’re even watching….
“ShadowClan is thriving,” Blackstar reported. “Littlecloud has taken Flamepaw as his apprentice42, and introduced him to StarClan at the Moonpool.”
A murmur26 of congratulation rose from the assembled cats, with a few yowls of “Flamepaw! Flamepaw!” Hollyleaf spotted the young cat sitting with Littlecloud and the other medicine cats, his eyes shining with pride. Claws tore at her heart. I felt like that once.
Onestar followed Blackstar, but he had nothing to tell them about except a dead sheep in the border stream, which his warriors had dragged out to keep the water clean.
Then it was Firestar’s turn. Rising to his paws, he balanced on his branch and looked down into the clearing with his green eyes glowing in the moonlight. “Sol has left the forest,” he began. “We—”
“About time, too,” Blackstar growled43.
Leopardstar dipped her head to Firestar with cold courtesy. “I’m glad you saw sense at last, Firestar.”
Firestar returned the nod equally politely, though Hollyleaf could see his claws tighten44 on his branch. “Besides that—”
Now!
“Wait!” Hollyleaf leaped to her paws. “There’s something that I have to say that all the Clans should hear.”
“What?” Lionblaze reached up and dragged at her with one paw, trying to get her to sit down again. “Are you mouse-brained? Warriors don’t speak here!”
“This one does,” Hollyleaf hissed45, shaking him off. She spotted Jayfeather among the other medicine cats, his expression utterly46 horrified47, but she ignored him.
“You think you—” she began.
“Hollyleaf!” Firestar’s voice rang out from the branch where he stood looking down at her; his eyes smoldered48 with green fire. “If you have anything important to say here, it should have been discussed with me first. Be silent now, and whatever’s troubling you, I’ll talk to you about it tomorrow.”
Moons spent following the warrior code almost forced Hollyleaf to clamp her jaws49 shut and sit down. I have to obey my Clan leader!Then she braced50 herself. The warrior code is dead! There’s no point in trying to follow it anymore.
“No!” she meowed, ignoring the gasps51 of shock from the cats around her. “I willspeak now!”
“Yes, let her speak.” Leopardstar stepped forward again, looking down curiously52 at Hollyleaf. “I’d like to hear what she has to say.”
“So would I,” Onestar growled.
“Or has ThunderClan got secrets that they’re too scared to reveal?” Blackstar taunted53, flicking54 his tail contemptuously at Firestar.
Yowling broke out all around the clearing as the cats from the other three Clans challenged ThunderClan. Hollyleaf stood in the middle of the uproar55, feeling strangely calm; she knew she needed to wait only a few heartbeats more.
At last Firestar raised his tail for silence. “Very well, Hollyleaf,” he mewed when the noise had died down. “Say what you have to. And StarClan grant you don’t regret it.”
Now the clearing was so quiet that Hollyleaf could hear a mouse scuttering among the dead leaves under the Great Oak. “You think you know me,” she began again. “And my brothers, Lionblaze and Jayfeather of ThunderClan. You think you know us, but everything you have been told about us is a lie! We are not the kits of Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight.”
“What?” Brambleclaw shot to his paws from where he sat with the other deputies among the roots of the Great Oak. His amber56 eyes flamed. “Squirrelflight, why is she talking such nonsense?”
Squirrelflight stood up. The flare57 of panic in her eyes faded and was replaced with—what? Regret? Guilt58? Or the sorrow of a mother who was about to lose her kits forever…?
“I’m sorry, Brambleclaw, but it’s true. I’m not their mother, and you are not their father.”
The Clan deputy stared at her. “Then who is?”
Squirrelflight turned her sad green gaze on the cat she had always claimed as her daughter. “Tell them, Hollyleaf. I kept the secret for seasons; I’m not going to reveal it now.”
“Coward!” Hollyleaf flashed at her. Her gaze swept around the clearing, seeing the eyes of every single cat trained on her. “I’m not afraid of the truth! Leafpool is our mother, and Crowfeather—yes, Crowfeather of WindClan—is our father.”
Yowls of shock greeted her words, but Hollyleaf shouted over them. “These cats were so ashamed of us that they gave us away and lied to every single one of you to hide the fact that they had broken the warrior code. It’s all herfault.” She whipped her tail around to point at Leafpool. “How can the Clans survive when there are cowards and liars59 at the very heart of them?”
The screeches60 and gasps of horror grew so loud that Hollyleaf couldn’t make herself heard anymore. But there was no need. She had said what she had come to say. Her legs trembled as if she had run all the way across the territory, and she had to sit down. Inside she felt a curious peace, as if she had lanced a festering sore and was watching the poison drain away
Crowfeather’s voice rose above the rest in a furious yowl. “It’s not true!” He had sprung to his paws, his dark gray fur bristling61. Beside him, Nightcloud and Breezepelt looked bewildered and angry. “She’s the one who’s lying!”
Then Leafpool stood up. The crowd of cats fell silent, their eyes turned toward her.
“It’s true, Crowfeather,” she meowed. “I’m sorry. I wanted to tell you, but there was never a right time.”
Her amber eyes were seared with grief. Pity stirred in Hollyleaf, but she choked it down. I hate her! She lied and betrayed us all!
“You mean nothing to me, Leafpool.” Crowfeather’s voice was cold. “That moon has passed. My loyalty62 is only to WindClan, and I have no kits other than Breezepelt.” He glanced to where Nightcloud and Breezepelt stood beside him; the black she-cat had her ears flattened63 to her head, while Breezepelt’s teeth were bared in a snarl64.
Leafpool dipped her head as if she wasn’t going to argue; then she looked up at Firestar, who was crouched on his branch, as still as a cat made out of stone. “I know that I cannot be ThunderClan’s medicine cat any longer,” she meowed. “I’m so very sorry to you, Firestar, and to all my Clanmates. Please know that I tried my best, and regretted what I had done with every single breath.” Her voice cracked on the last word, and she paused, swallowing, before she continued. “But I couldn’t regret having my kits. They are fine cats, and I will always be proud of them.”
She gave Crowfeather one last glance, then padded across the clearing with her head bowed. Cats scrambled65 out of her way as she made for the bushes and pushed her way through, out of sight. Every cat stared after her, still shocked into silence
Brambleclaw was the first to move, padding forward until he stood face to face with Squirrelflight. “Why?” he meowed.
Squirrelflight’s voice was desperate. “I had to! She’s my sister!”
“And you couldn’t trust me?” Brambleclaw’s voice was shaking, and Hollyleaf saw a deep shudder66 pass through his body. For a heartbeat, she was sorry for what she had done. This was a noble cat, and he had not been responsible for any of the lies. I was so proud when I thought he was my father.
Squirrelflight did not reply, just held his gaze without flinching67.
“You couldn’t trust me,” he repeated. “Don’t you think I would have helped you, if you’d told me the truth? But it’s too late now.”
He turned away, shouldering a path through the crowd.
“Brambleclaw—” Squirrelflight took a pace after him, then halted, her head hanging and her tail drooping68 in despair.
Hollyleaf turned her back. Let her suffer. She deserves it!
A cat nudged her from behind. It was Cinderheart. “What have you done?” she cried.
Hollyleaf blinked in surprise. “I did the right thing.”
The gray she-cat shook her head. “There is no right thing. Everything to do with this leads to more pain.” The wisdom in her voice seemed to come from a much older and more experienced cat. Hollyleaf waited for her to say something else, something to show how sorry she felt for Hollyleaf and her littermates. But Cinderheart just turned and padded away.
Hollyleaf stared after her. Why didn’t she understand? Surely any cat could see that they couldn’t have carried on living a lie? Besides, StarClan hadn’t sent clouds to cover the moon. Her warrior ancestors must be pleased that the secrets were out and the deceit was at an end.
But none of the cats here seemed pleased. Not even her own Clanmates. Sandstorm was staring at her, bewilderment and sorrow in her green gaze. Graystripe’s amber eyes were blank with disbelief. Poppyfrost and Berrynose had their heads close together, talking urgently and shooting hostile glances at her.
Suddenly Hollyleaf couldn’t bear to be stared at for another heartbeat. Blundering through the crowd, she thrust through the bushes, ignoring the thorns that tore her pelt, and fled across the strip of pebbles and over the tree-bridge. Racing69 past the horseplace, she began to climb the ridge, skirting the WindClan border until she reached the very top and could look out over the lake.
A silver path of moonlight stretched across the surface of the water. The reflections of countless70 warriors of StarClan glittered around it.
“Was it all worth it?” Hollyleaf wailed71 to them. “Being an apprentice, working hard to learn the warrior code? What could any of us have done to make things different?”
The flickering72 stars gave her no answer.
Hollyleaf padded along the ridge until she reached her own territory and could plunge20 back into the trees. When she arrived in the stone hollow, everything was quiet. The Gathering patrol had not yet returned, and the other cats were asleep, except for Brightheart, on watch beside the entrance. Hollyleaf brushed past her, ignoring the she-cat’s greeting.
She stalked across the clearing in the bright wash of moonlight and entered the medicine cats’ den. Her heartbeat quickened when she saw there was no sign of Leafpool. I know what I’m going to do. All this is Leafpool’s fault.
Crawling right to the back of the storage cave, she found the leaf wrap with the deathberries and drew it out carefully. She placed it on the floor of the den and unfolded the leaf so the glossy73 red berries were exposed. They had begun to shrivel, but she knew they still held their deadly poison.
Hollyleaf sat beside the berries, wrapped her tail over her paws, and waited. Soon she heard a slow paw step outside, and Leafpool brushed past the bramble screen and stood in front of her.
“Hollyleaf.” She didn’t sound surprised to find her daughter there. Her eyes were full of weariness and sorrow. “It’s all right,” she mewed. “I forgive you.”
“What!” Hollyleaf sprang to her paws. “Youforgive me? You’re the one who needs forgiveness! You abandoned your kits! You let us grow up in a web of lies, and now the warrior code might be broken forever because of your stupid, selfish actions.”
“Do you think you need to tell me that?” Leafpool asked, still with the same exhausted calm. “I can only tell you how much I love you. I’m so sorry for what I did.”
“And you expect me to forgive you?” Hollyleaf snarled74. “Well, I don’t. I never will.” Fur bristling, she padded around Leafpool until she blocked the entrance to the den. “See those deathberries? You’re going to eat them—or I’ll make you!”
“What?” Leafpool sounded bewildered.
“Eat them! You deserve to die.” Hollyleaf crouched, ready to spring, when the medicine cat made no move toward the deadly berries. “I’ve killed once,” she snarled. “And I can do it again.”
A gleam of some emotion that Hollyleaf couldn’t read woke in her mother’s eyes. “Hollyleaf,” Leafpool meowed. “I have lost my kits, the one cat I loved, and my calling as a medicine cat. Which do you think would be easier for me, to die or to go on living?”
There was only one answer to that question. Silently Hollyleaf stood aside, and Leafpool padded past her and out of the den.
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