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Poppypaw: Silver she-cat with black stripes and blue eyes

Gorsestar: White tom with pale brown patches

Prolouge
Poppypaw crouched to lap a few drops of water from the stream. The icy coolness felt good on her parched tongue, and unwound her tight muscles when she slid in. She paddled around for a while, sputtering out cold water as she did.

It was strangely quiet; the only sound was the splashing her paws made, and her spitting river water. The birds, which had been singing sweetly before, were now silent. The buzzing of bees had ceased. And the wind seemed to have stopped. She swam towards shore so she could stand, then tilted her head, trying to detect some sound.

A loud crash made Poppypaw jump. She whirled around, hackles raised, then sighed when she reconized the brown and white pelt of Gorsestar.

Poppypaw's relief turned to horror almost as quickly as her relief had appeared. Gorsestar lunged for her, claws outstretched. She tried to twist out of the way, and just barely managed to get a mouse-tail length away from his claws. He landed and ducked, so he was facing her. She was trapped; she had backed up against a pile of rocks. They were too high and slick for her to climb, and Gorsestar was too tall for her to leap over.

Poppypaw arched her back and hissed, but it was no use. His claws met in her throat before she could yowl for help.

Chapter One
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