Dead of Night by Erin Hunter

Author:Erin Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

Storm’s paws ached with the cold, and for a moment she stared down at the water rushing by, thinking she was still dreaming. She had run to the stream, Whisper’s blood still on her muzzle. Mickey would come and fetch her and perhaps she would kill him, too. . . .

But the ground under her paws was mud and sand, not hard stones, and she wasn’t back in the foxes’ territory. She was at the river, and she was awake now.

Storm recoiled, bounding back to the riverbank, trailing droplets after her. She shivered, looking around. She had wandered a long way. She was half-relieved that at least she’d left the camp and the other dogs far behind her, but even so, she felt disappointed with herself. How could she have let herself sleep deeply enough to dream? She’d thought she was getting so good at jerking herself awake before the darkness could take her. . . .

In fact, when had she gone to sleep at all? She stood and watched the river running by, trying not to let herself panic. She found herself listening out for howls of fear and grief, for a sign she might have done something terrible while the dream-Storm had been battling the foxes . . . and poor Whisper. . . .

She shook herself, flinging away drops of river water, and tried to focus. When had she last been in the den? What was the last thing a dog—a real dog—had said to her? It was something about a hunt. . . .

“There you are!”

Storm turned, almost tripping over her own paws in her surprise. It was Arrow. He pricked his pointed ears when he saw her wet fur.

“You must be eager to get going,” he said, without any hint of fear in his voice. “But you can’t hunt by yourself, you know. You have to wait for the rest of us.”

That’s right! Storm remembered in a flash. I agreed to go on a hunt in the woods by the river—I just wanted to rest my eyes first. I must have remembered where I was supposed to go, despite myself.

“I just wanted to wash my leg in some cool water,” she said. It wasn’t totally a lie—her wound was definitely feeling better than it had when she lay down.

Her relief redoubled when the dogs who joined Arrow at the top of the bank turned out to be Bella, Mickey, and Daisy—dogs who trusted her, who looked at her without that terrible unease in their eyes. They waited for her to scramble up to join them, but said nothing more about her journey to the river by herself, or any trouble back at camp.

It still wasn’t a good sign that she had been sleepwalking, but at least she had walked to somewhere that she knew and had not hurt any dog along the way.

Bella was leading the hunting patrol, and Storm and the others followed her to a place where the trees stretched right down to the edge of the river, crowding thickly together.

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