Shadowpaw notices that the prey was scrawny and small despite the number of cats who had hunted. The apprentice watches as Cloverfoot walked ahead, followed by Strikestone, Yarrowleaf, and Blazefire, all carrying prey. Shadowpaw states that his littermates were full warriors already, but, he knows that his parents would want him to respect Cloverfoot regardless. Shadowpaw tries to hide his irritation at her comment, noting that he was an apprentice, but he was an older one due to his medicine cat training. She snorts and leaves after making a remark about apprentices. She tells him off, and Shadowpaw dips his head in apology. He comes to a halt only to avoid knocking into Cloverfoot, ShadowClan's deputy. Focused on his task at hand, he doesn't notice a patrol returning to camp with fresh-kill.
After a moment to himself, the tom bounds across camp to see what is keeping his mentor. To Shadowpaw's relief, Tigerstar nudges Dovewing and the pair leave towards the leader's den. The tom glances toward the medicine cat's den hoping to see his mentor, Puddleshine, but sees no sign of him. Shadowpaw promises her that he will, and silently hopes that none of his Clanmates were listening. Dovewing tells him that the snow on the moors would be deep and that he should watch where he puts his paws. He notes internally that they are hoping with more training that he'd be able to control the visions for good and be normal. Shadowpaw knows that his parents still worry about him due to them, despite it being a while since his last vision. He believes that it is due to his future as a medicine cat or the seizures he'd had since he was a kit.
Shadowpaw reflects that his parents didn't fuss this much when his littermates, Pouncestep and Lightleap, had been apprentices. Shadowpaw is embarrassed by this notion and mentally notes that he'd been to the Moonpool before and that his parents were treating him as if he were still a kit. His parents approach him with pride and joy in their eyes to see him off for his journey to the Moonpool. Chapter description Shadowpaw sits in camp trying to groom himself, and whilst doing so he is approached by his father and mother, Tigerstar and Dovewing.
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