Warriors: Leafpool's Wish (Warriors Novella) by Erin Hunter

Author:Erin Hunter [Hunter, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-04-22T07:00:00+00:00

Firestar was less easy to convince. “Is StarClan sure that we need this herb?”

“Completely.” Leafpool felt her pelt crawl. She hated lying to any of her Clanmates but especially her father, who trusted her to interpret the signs from their ancestors. She wondered if StarClan would forgive her for using them falsely.

“Then you’ll have to go, of course,” Firestar meowed. “Did StarClan say how long it might take to find this plant?”

Leafpool swallowed. “I might be away for more than a moon.”

The ginger tom blinked. “A moon? This herb must be very important.”

Sandstorm entered the leader’s den in time to overhear. “Do you have to go, Leafpool? Couldn’t it wait until after leaf-bare?” Her voice was gentle, but the words burned into Leafpool’s fur. Does she know why I have to leave?

“No, it can’t wait,” she insisted. She gazed at her father. “StarClan wouldn’t send me away if there was any danger to my Clanmates. I promise I will come back as soon as I can.”

Firestar twitched his tail. “And you have to go alone, do you?”

Leafpool nodded, but at that moment Squirrelflight burst into the den. “No, she doesn’t! I’m going with her!”

Leafpool stared at her sister. Squirrelflight continued, “Is it true, what Brightheart said? That you’re leaving ThunderClan?”

“Only for a while,” Leafpool whispered.

“Then I’ll come with you,” Squirrelflight meowed.

“I’d be happier if you weren’t alone,” Firestar admitted.

“So would I,” Sandstorm murmured.

“You may go if you take Squirrelflight with you,” Firestar meowed, as if that was his final decision.

Leafpool glanced at her sister, whose jaw jutted in determination, and nodded. “Very well. Thank you, Firestar.”

He rested his muzzle briefly on top of her head, then watched her walk out of the den. At the bottom of the stones, Leafpool turned to Squirrelflight. “You know why I’m going, don’t you?”

Squirrelflight nodded. “Yes, and I am keeping my promise to help you however I can.”

“Have you told Brambleclaw?”

“That I’m going away with you for a while? Yes.” Squirrelflight curled her lip. “He tried to persuade me to stay here and let Thornclaw or Rainwhisker go instead, but I said that you had asked for me.”

Leafpool suddenly felt exhausted by the lies, the half-truths, the weight of the secret that dragged in her belly. “I’m glad you are coming,” she murmured.

Squirrelflight touched Leafpool’s ear with the tip of her tail. “I could never let you go through this alone.”

They left just before sunhigh, not that the sun was visible through the dense yellow clouds that hung above the tops of the trees. Brambleclaw curled his tail with Squirrelflight’s and seemed to be trying to persuade her to change her mind. But Squirrelflight shrugged him off.

“I’m sure you can organize the patrols without me,” she teased. But her voice was high-pitched with tension, and Leafpool knew that her sister was frightened of what lay ahead. There was nothing she could say to reassure Squirrelflight. The future yawned before her like a bottomless chasm. The path ahead of her led straight into the dark.

They

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