fernsong had given her sister, ravenwing, a ball of moss that was dripping with water, when her apprentice, sproutpaw, had told her that nightheart wanted them on patrol with him. mudclan and tideclan had been having trouble with the border, and tideclan kept trying to push it back so border partols on that side had to be more frequent. the patrol left for the border with nightheart in the lead and fernsong and sproutpaw were taking the rear with pipperheart in the middle. they approched the usuall border but found a new border thurther back, with fresh scents of a tideclan patrol. pebblefur raced from where he was placing a marker to where the mudclan cats stood, followed by two cats. a red she-cat called crabdust and a yellow she-cat named finpettal. ''nightheart, i advise you to stay on your side of the border'' said pebblefur in a soft but harsh tone. nightheart gave a snort then said, ''pebblefur, telling us to stay on our side whilst he is the one crossing it,'' finpattal gave a snarl at them but fernsong dissmissed it, turning back to her deputy and her sister's mate ''why do you need so much land if your camp hardly takes any? pebblefur asked, ''why not share some with us and prevent a battle'' ''as deputy's son, i expected that you would stick to the warriors code''pipperheart retorted. nightheart lifted his tail as if to silence the warrior and turned back to the tideclan cats, ''we need our non-underground land as much as you need yours. during the creation of the clans, mudclan took the smallest part of the island. you have the largest. what more could you want?'' ''you are just trying to be smart like weak mountainclan'' sneered crabdust. nightheart ignored this and continued, ''all tideclan likes is sand and sea. you barely need the forest'' pebblefur turned around and said, ''tell dawnstar that unless she gives up the border, there will be battle'' and the other patrol walked back in the direction of the tideclan camp. fernsong was shocked to hear that pebblefur was ready to fight his mate's clan when she had kitted only a few days ago just for a few tail-lengths of territory. sproutpaw looked up at fernsong, ''that would be my first battle'' he said but then saw worry in his mentor's eyes, ''whats wrong fernsong?'' he asked the she-cat just looked ahead and replied, ''oh... nothing. just worried about my sister'' she said as they walked back to their camp.
whats happening- tideclan want more territory. they say that there will be battle for it if they had to. fernsong is worried about her sister, who had just kitted a few days ago.
