✦⁺₊✩☽⋆chapter 3⋆☾✩⁺₊✦ "So, what is this 'better explanation' that you have for why I'm supposed to be DEAD right now?" Echopaw meowed. "Give me your paw, sweetie." Ashstar mewed. Echopaw reluctantly held out a paw. Ashstar licked it, touched it with the tip of her paw, and closed her eyes. Suddenly, Ashstar's fur started glowing with a soft white glow under her gray fur. The glow from inside her slowly dispersed into starlike dots on her fur, like glowing freckles. The starry spots flew around the clearing, making it look like the entire clearing was covered in glitter. Echopaw looked down at her paw. The paw that Echopaw was holding out started to glow with the same stars. She felt calm, almost peaceful, but then her paw started to glow with a faint red. "Oh no," Ashstar meowed, "This is bad." And in that moment, Echopaw panicked and let go. She jolted back up into wakefulness and looked around the apprentice den. Badgerpaw was sleeping soundly on the mossbed next to her. Adderpaw was laying sprawled out on top of Foxpaw and Creampaw. They were all peaceful. Echopaw looked out at the moon and the stars. *Mouse dung!* she thought. *It's still only moonhigh!* She laid back down on her mossbed and drifted back into thought. *Maybe it was just a dream.* She thought. *I need the sleep for my warrior's assessment tomorrow.* She rested her head on Badgerpaw's side, smiled, and sleep crashed over her mind like a black wave.
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