note: I am planning on continuing this but I only have about 2 1/2 chapters done right now and I wont be able to work on it a ton during summer prolouge: Ternwhisper hunched over her herbs in the dim light of the medicine den, herbs pooled around her paws. The familiar scent of catmint filled her nose. She had wanted to be a medicine cat since she was a small kit, regularly visiting the den to help out the old medicine cat. Ternwhisper sat up, falling out of her thoughts, looking over her herbs. ‘These all look in order’ she thought. She picked up a small clump of catmint and placed it gently among the rocks near the borage, as the shuffle of paws broke her train of thought. Owlpaw walked in, looking at her brown paws, her large tuft of light brown fur covering her eyes. “Have you got the marigold?” Ternwhisper asked, looking over at her apprentice. Owlpaw was still staring down at her paws, her back shining with patches of golden light. “Owl?” Ternwhisper said, slipping a paw under Owlpaw’s white and brown chin, lifting it to look into her eyes. She slid her paw under her eyes, feeling Owlpaw’s wet fur, she paused, pulling her paw back. It was unusual for the cream-brown tabby cat to be somber. Ternwhisper thought for a moment, giving her a quick look-over to see if she was injured. She only saw the light pink scars she had had since she was a kit, which she had acquired from the owl that had tried to take her. Ternwhisper stepped closer, and wrapped her paws around Owlpaw, hoping to comfort her. Ternwhisper sat there, her paws on Owlpaw’s back, as Owlpaw reached up to hug her back. As they sat there, Ternwhisper whispered in Owlpaw’s ear. “What happened?” she asked, pushing Owlpaw back slightly to see her face. “Starclan visited me.” she said, tears pouring from her eyes. She shivered, and pushed back into Ternwhisper, pulling her into a hug again. Ternwhisper hugged her tighter, thinking of all the things that Starclan could have prophesied to “Can you tell me what they said?” she whispered, giving Owlpaw a gentle lick. Owlpaw sat back, looking down. She hesitated, then looked up and said, “they told me that i have to find the starclan blessed kit.” she said, pausing to wipe her eyes. “They said that if I don't find the kit, the clans will be doomed to a future with no stars. The clans will be a place with no guidance, and we will all fade into the stars to keep them alive, until all the clans have faded.” she said, panic in her eyes. “They showed how we would fade,” she said, tears forming in her cloudy eyes “cats faded like mist, and they cried out as the stars swallowed them.” “Hey,” Ternwhisper said, holding Owlpaw’s head up, looking into her glittering tear-filled eyes. “What did you see?” she asked. Owlpaw looked up into her eyes. “Pain. Cats screaming.” she said, her eyes seeming to flash with all the things she had seen. “I saw me fading” she said, glancing into Ternwhisper’s eyes with so much pain that she couldn’t face Owlpaw any longer. She wrapped Owlpaw into a fierce hug. “Whatever starclan showed you, You just have to face your destiny. You won't be alone” she whispered, tears forming in her eyes.
