Shadepaw stared at her paws. "Fine." She meowed. "Nightshadow told me to kill another cat." She meowed, and she looked at Sandyfern, Sparrowsong and Hawkfang. "I've been trying to escape Nightshadow and the dark forest when I go there in my dreams but I can't." She murmured. "I don't want to kill a cat...but if I don't kill the cat I get told to kill...Nightshadow sometimes control me and make me do it without remembering." She meowed. "Who did Nightshadow tell you to kill?" Sparrowsong meowed. "He told me to kill Moonheart...then Emberheart - or star, depends if he has his nine lives left - before he choses a new deputy." Shadepaw meowed quietly. "I don't know what to do..."
Skypaw flicked an ear before he pelted after Emberstar.
Smallfrost woke and the black and white she-cat purred before she licked Gremlinstorm on the ear.


