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CHAPTER 18
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CHAPTER 18
All night the Clan1 had keptvigil for Dappletail, and now, in the pale dawn light, the elders were bearing her body out of the camp to be buried. The clearing was wreathed in mist and the leafless branches of the trees dripped rain from a sharp shower during the night. Leafpaw watched in silence. The old cat had been part of her life, and with her passing it seemed as if everything else she had known would slip away too.
As the elders departed through the gorse tunnel, the other cats gathered together in little groups, mewing urgently and casting anxious glances at one another. Leafpaw could not hear what they were saying, but she didn’t need to. She knew they would be discussing the disappearance2 of Cloudtail and Brightheart. That made four cats that were missing from ThunderClan, but Leafpaw could not believe that StarClan had summoned Cloudtail and Brightheart away too—unless the others had already failed on their quest, and would never return. If you can’t help us, StarClan, she thought desperately3, why are you taking our cats away?
Cinderpelt broke into her thoughts, pushing her nose into Leafpaw’s fur in wordless comfort, then limped forward a pace or two to meet Firestar and Graystripe. Leafpaw spotted5 Mousefur loping across the clearing after them with Thornclaw and Ashfur just behind her.
“I’m taking out the dawn patrol,” Mousefur announced as she came up. “Do you still want us to look for Cloudtail and Brightheart?”
“Not that there’s much point, if they left on purpose,” Ashfur added darkly.
Leafpaw’s heart sank even further as she remembered the Clan’s efforts the day before to find the two cats. Patrols had covered the entire territory, picking up a scent6 trail leading toward the place where the Twolegs had destroyed the forest. It had broken off abruptly7 near one of the huge tree-cutting monsters, and after that there was nothing.
“Keep your eyes open,” Firestar replied. “That’s all you can do.”
“I wouldn’t put it past Cloudtail to have gone back to the Twolegs,” Mousefur
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disappearance
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desperately
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