Frosted Sunlight

Prologue
Night lay heavily over the forest. A broad shouldered tabby stalked silently through the thick shadow that covered the clearing. He stopped to talk in urgent whispers to a black she-cat, who was on guard duty. She nodded, and the tabby tom swiftly vanished into the darker depths of the gorse tunnel leading out of the camp. The black she-cat's green eyes darkened with worry as he disappeared, as if she expected tomorrow to herald bad things for her Clan.

Sunpaw watched him go from the shade of the apprentices' den. She knew that Tigertalon had a habit for causing trouble whenever she left camp. So now she shared Nightwing's secret fear- that another problem would arise. She padded over to Nightwing, her eyes understanding, and sat beside the black she-cat, who was shaking.