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Blizzard followed Comet out and back down the slope. They entered the crowd of cats.
“Hello!” a she-cat warmly greeted.
“Hi! Blizzard, this is Ivy,” Comet said.
“Hi there!” the gray she-cat smiled.
Blizzard smiled back. They continued walking.
“Over there is my friend Ignis,” Comet said, motioning to a russet tom. “Hey Ignis!”
The tom’s ears pricked up and he turned around. He walked over.
“Oh! Hi!” Ignis said. “Is this the cat they found?”
Comet nodded. “This is Blizzard.”
“Nice to meet you!” Ignis said, and then he walked away.
Comet and Blizzard continued on.
“Over there is Basil,” Comet continued. Blizzard saw the old she-cat leaning against the wall. She was weary and fragile.
“And the cream colored cat over there is Keto,” Comet said. Blizzard saw Keto licking her paws clean. Blood stained her teeth. “She was an outsider and she tried attacking us. We barely managed to pin her down, due to her extraordinary skills. We offered her a place in our camp. We needed her battle skills. She accepted our offer and is now with us.”
“Why doesn’t she have a Garland of-?”
“That’s not really any of our business…” Comet muttered.
“I don’t care. Tell her.”
Keto walked up to them. Comet’s fur prickled. Keto turned to face Blizzard.
“When I came, there wasn’t one for me. Almost like the spirits didn’t know if I should be here or not. But, I’m a member,” Keto explained. She then grinned, showing her blood stained teeth, and walked away. Shivers went up Blizzard’s spine.
“Come on,” Comet said. They began to walk again.
“Intruders!”
The yell came from a cat on top of a stone watch tower. It pierced the air, and commotion began to rise. Comet began running with some of the other cats to a slope that led up to the surface, and Blizzard followed him.
“No!” Comet said, pushing her back. “Go with the others!”
Blizzard turned around and saw another group going the opposite direction. She ran after them and followed the group. She saw a entrance into a small cave in the ground. Two strong looking toms waited at the entrance as the group descended into the cave. Blizzard walked cautiously down into the cave. She was surrounded by kits, mothers, sickly, and elderly. They didn’t look too worried, as if this was routine.
Blizzard cringed as she heard a deafening scraping sound from above. The two cats above were pushing a large rock over the small entrance. Soon the entrance was completely sealed off and the cave was pitch black.
“What’s going-?” Blizzard began.
“Shh!”
Everyone in the room silenced her. Blizzard quickly shut her mouth.
They sat in silence for a long time. The only sound was their breathing and sometimes the quiet coughing of the ill.
Then, she could hear many footsteps from above padding around the hidden cave. Blizzard felt the fur of one of the mother’s next to her prickle. She heard some deep inhaling from around.
This can’t be good, she thought. She heard claws scrape against the stone. Blizzard held her breath. She heard sniffing at the edge off the entrance.
Please no, please no! she begged silently.
Then the sound of paws hitting the ground began to get softer and softer until it was gone.
Blizzard sighed in relief. Many of the others did too. The continued to wait in silence.
After a long while, the large rock began to scratch as the entrance as it was pushed out of the way. The light blinded Blizzard as she blinked furiously. She got up to her paws and began to walk up into the open.
“Hey!”
Blizzard looked behind her as one of the mothers padded up to her.
“What’s your name?” the silver she-cat asked.
“Blizzard,” she answered.
“I’m Silver,” she greeted. “You were asking what was going on?”
“Uh, yeah,” Blizzard said.
“Sun’s group, that’s what we call the other group, invaded our territory, probably trying to attack us. Everyone goes out to fight except for the kits, mothers, elderly, and the ill. They hide us down in the cave so that Sun’s soldiers can’t find us if they get into camp. They usually don’t come near us. Today they almost found us,” Silver explained.
“Mom!”
Three small cats stood behind Silver.
“What?” Silver asked.
“I’m hungry!” the gray she-cat whined.
“Patience,” Silver scolded. “Blizzard, these are my three children. The brown tom is Jaku, the silver she-cat is Sheeah, and the the gray pestering one is Lyra.”
“I’m hungry!” Lyra shouted.
“Shush! You’ll get food when you get it!” Silver yelled. She turned to Blizzard. “I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay,” Blizzard said.
“Well, I better get going,” Silver said. She walked away.
Blizzard walked around as the soldiers came back from the battle. Many came in injured. They settled down and tended to their wounds the best they could.
She saw Comet walk in. Blood tattered his pelt, but no wounds were to be seen.
“Hi, Blizzard,” Comet said.
“Are you okay?” Blizzard asked.
“Yeah. You can go meet everyone. I have to get myself cleaned,” Comet said as he started licking his pelt.
Blizzard walked away and looked at the group of cats. The soldiers looked busy.
Guess I’ll go meet the other mothers, Blizzard thought. She headed toward a group of them.
“Oh, hi Blizzard!” Silver smiled.
“Hi!” Blizzard said.
“Hello, there!” a ginger she-cat greeted. “I’m Kisha!”
“Hi!” Blizzard said.
“How- Fox! Get off my tail!”
A kit that looked like a fox was clamped to Kisha’s tail.
“Go find something to do!” Kisha demanded.
Fox grumbled and walked away.
“Nice to meet you!” Blizzard said.
“You too!” Kisha said with a smile.
Blizzard walked away and saw Basil again. She looked lonely. Blizzard started to walk to her. Then Basil looked up at her.
“You must be the one they call for,” Basil murmured, “but then, he wasn’t, so you might not be.”
“Hello?” Blizzard said. “You’re Basil, right?”
Basil nodded. “Yes. And you are Blizzard?”
Blizzard nodded back.
Basil’s eyes were clouded and gray fur hung limply at her skinny frame. Her voice was ragged, but behind it was a young voice, much like herself. Blizzard didn’t understand. Age and wisdom didn’t belong to this young voice.
“Blizzard!”
Ivy hopped over to her.
“Oh, hi Ivy!” Blizzard said.
“Do you mind if I take you around and show you some stuff?” Ivy asked. “Comet’s busy right now and wanted me to show you around, so...”
“Okay then,” Blizzard said.
“Follow me.”
Ivy sprang ahead will Blizzard trotting behind her. They reached the resting army and they twisted and squirmed around the cats.
“Oops! Sorry!” Ivy apologized as she accidentally stepped on a tom’s tail. The strong cat gave her a hard stare as they continued through.
“This is the way out,” Ivy said as they reached a slope going upwards to the surface. The width of the slope was huge!
“How can you defend such a big entrance?” Blizzard asked.
“We don’t,” she replied. “No need to.”
“What do you mean?” Blizzard asked, puzzled.
“Every warrior is out there fighting. The only ones staying behind are the mothers, kits, elderly, and sick,” Ivy explained. “And they hide away.”
“Yeah, I know, but why is there no one guarding the cave there?”
“If someone did, it would obviously give the spot away. If no one’s there, they won’t notice it.”
They soon reached the top of the slope, facing the forest.
“We often stay down in the ravine, but we go up here to hunt, to train sometimes, and such,” Ivy said. “Only soldiers are allowed up here. It’s too dangerous with Sun’s group roaming around. Though most of us are soldiers.”
“So, wait,” Blizzard said. “Couldn’t soldiers from their group sneak in through the unguarded entrance?”
“Well, it’s kind of guarded. We have watch people who switch of every so often. If they see them, they sound the alarm.”
“Like today?”
Ivy nodded.
They sat outside in silence, not knowing what to say. The sun gradually sank beneath the clouds and painted the sky pink and orange.
“We better get back now,” Ivy said.
Ivy bounded down the slope back into the camp with Blizzard behind her. Ivy continued on as Blizzard looked around for Comet. She found him stretched out on the ground with other soldiers. Ivy settled next to them and began to close her eyes. Blizzard hesitated. She didn’t necessarily greet the idea of sleeping on the cold, hard rock warmly.
“Is this where we sleep?” Blizzard questioned.
“Yep,” Ivy slurred through her partial slumber,
Blizzard slowly and cautiously lowered herself down onto the ground. She winced as the freezing stone bit at her skin. She curled up in a ball and closed her eyes.
Where are you Pebble, Arya?