C5 Frost and Flame: A Tail of Two Sisters

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Long chapter alert! After the gathering, the sisters went back home to their clans. Flamepaw to FireClan, and Frostpaw to IceClan. Meeting each other had made their loneliness even worse. The two sisters couldn’t stop thinking about each other. The day after the gathering, Flamepaw went out training with Mistheart, they practiced hunting crouches and stalking, but Flamepaw couldn’t concentrate. When she messed up her hunting crouch for the third time that day, Mistheart told her to take a break. “What’s the matter, Flamepaw? You’ve been distracted all day! Are you not feeling well?” asked her mentor. “I’m fine Mistheart, I just can’t stop thinking about my sister. I feel so lonely all the time, and I keep having these weird dreams that I think mean something, but I can’t figure out what. I’m sorry for being distracted. I’m trying to focus, I really am, I just… can’t.” said Flamepaw. Mistheart took a step towards her, flicked the tip of her tail to Flamepaw’s mouth to silence her (Not in a mean way) and started licking Flamepaw’s head, just like a queen would do to soothe her fussing kit. “It’s alright Flamepaw, really, it is. Perhaps we should go talk to Wildfire and ask her what she thinks? She might be able to help you figure out what your dream means. Just remember, no matter what, I will always love you as if you were my kit.” she said. Flamepaw was relieved. She nuzzled Mistheart’s cheek, and whispered into her ear. “Thank you. I’ll always love you as if you were my mother.” After their training session, Flamepaw and Mistheart went to ask Wildfire about Flamepaw’s strange dreams. When Flamepaw told Wildfire about her dreams, of running through a dark forest chasing after a light on the horizon, Wildfire shook her head. “I have no clue, I think you’re just having bad dreams. Tonight before you go to bed, I’ll give you some poppy seeds to see if that helps. Just try to forget about it, ok?” Flamepaw nodded. She was more than happy to forget that horrid nightmare, and was relieved that Wildfire didn’t think that it was an omen. After training and talking with Wildfire, Flamepaw was starving. She headed over to the freshkill pile with Mistheart, and picked out a fat and juicy vole. Later that evening, before she went to her nest, she stopped by Wildfire’s den to get some poppy seeds. “Be careful,” said Wildfire, “Too many poppy seeds can be dangerous, only take one or two.” Flamepaw nodded her head to show she understood, and licked up one of the poppy seeds Wildfire had set out for her. She showed her thanks by bringing the medicine cat a mouse, then headed to the apprentice’s den to fall asleep. That night, all she dreamed about was running through the forest in greenleaf, and trying to catch a bird.