Lightningfoot stood awkwardly where
Stormpaw directed. She closed her
eyes. "This is for my mother,
Foxcloud."
"Moving along,
At a pace unknown to cats,
Go, go, go, go, go, go,
Go, go, go, go, go...
And you thought the foxes were bad,
Well they tried to kill my brothers,
And for every leader that died
Oh, they would name another,
And it's harder than you think,
Telling dreams from one another,
And you thought the lions were bad,
Well they went to kill my brothers..."
Had her eyes been open, you would've
seen the deep pain and sorrow in them.
"And felled, in the night,
By the ones you think you love,
They will come for you-
And felled, in the night,
By the ones you think you love,
They will come for you..."
Emberheart pressed close to Birchfeather
as she listened to Lightningfoot. "Brindle,"
she whispered, the words reminding
herself so much of her sister.
"Dreaming along, at a pace you'll understand,
Go, go, go, go, go, go,
No, no, no, no, no,
And you thought the foxes were bad,
Well they tried to kill my brothers,
And for every leader that died.
Oh, they would name another,
And it's harder than you think,
Telling dreams from one another,
And you thought the lions were bad,
Well they tried to kill my brothers....
And felled, in the night,
By the ones you think you love,
They will come for you-
And felled, in the night,
By the ones you think you love,
They will come for you..."
Lightningfoot's eyes flashed open.
AshClan will survive!
"Oh, to see, what it means to be free,
Of the shackles, and the dreams,
That you claim to see...
And felled, in the night,
By the ones you think you love,
They will come for you...
And felled, in the night,
By the ones you think you love,
They will come for you...
Felled, by the ones you think you love, love..."
She finished with tears streaming down her muzzle.
Doe nodded. "That is I."