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CHAPTER 5
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CHAPTER 5
Stormfur’s paws scrabbled on smooth grayrock. Heaving himself upward, he reached the top of the boulder1 and turned to look down at his friends, his fur buffeted2 by the icy breeze.
“Come on,” he meowed. “It’s not so bad if you take a leap at it.”
Following the rising sun, he and the other cats had left the moorland behind and begun to climb. Now, as sunhigh approached on the second day of their homeward journey, the mountains they had seen from a distance stretched up in front of them even bigger than they had imagined, their sheer slopes black and forbidding, with wisps of cloud floating around their peaks. The soil beneath the cats’ paws was rough with pebbles4, and little grew there except sparse5 grass and twisted thorn trees. There was no clear path; instead they followed winding6 narrow clefts8 and often had to turn back when they came up against rock walls with no way through. Thinking wistfully of the river sliding through deep, cool grasses at home, Stormfur half wished they had decided9 to return through Twolegplace instead.
Squirrelpaw bunched her hind3 legs and launched herself in a massive leap, following Stormfur up the boulder that blocked their path. “Mouse dung!” she gasped10 as she missed the top and began to slide back. Stormfur leaned over and sank his teeth into her neck fur, steadying her until her scraping claws propelled her up the last tail-length to sit beside him.
“Thanks!” Her green eyes glowed at him. “I know my name’s Squirrelpaw, but I never thought I’d wish that I wasa squirrel!”
Stormfur let out a mrrowof laughter. “We’ll all wish we were squirrels if we get much more of this.”
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carrion
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clans
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rivalry
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swirling
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confrontation
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growling
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