Erin Hunter

SUNSET


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DEPUTY RUSSETFUR—dark ginger she-cat MEDICINE CAT LITTLECLOUD—very small tabby tom WARRIORS (toms, and she-cats without kits) OAKFUR—small brown tom APPRENTICE, SMOKEPAW CEDARHEART—dark grey tom ROWANCLAW—ginger tom TAWNYPELT—tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes QUEENS (she-cats expecting or nursing kits) TALLPOPPY—long-legged light brown tabby she-cat ELDERS (former warriors and queens, now retired) BOULDER—skinny grey tom WINDCLAN LEADER ONESTAR—brown tabby tom DEPUTY ASHFOOT—grey she-cat MEDICINE CAT BARKFACE—short-tailed brown tom WARRIORS (toms, and she-cats without kits) TORNEAR—tabby tom WEBFOOT—dark grey tabby tom CROWFEATHER—dark grey tom OWLWHISKER—light brown tabby tom NIGHTCLOUD—black she-cat WEASELFUR—ginger tom with white paws QUEENS (she-cats expecting or nursing kits) WHITETAIL—small white she-cat ELDERS (former warriors and queens, now retired) MORNINGFLOWER—tortoiseshell queen RUSHTAIL—light brown tom RIVERCLAN LEADER LEOPARDSTAR—unusually spotted golden tabby she-cat DEPUTY MISTYFOOT—grey she-cat with blue eyes MEDICINE CAT MOTHWING—dappled golden she-cat APPRENTICE, WILLOWPAW WARRIORS (toms, and she-cats without kits) BLACKCLAW—smoky black tom APPRENTICE, BEECHPAW HAWKFROST—dark brown tom with a white underbelly and ice-blue eyes VOLETOOTH—small brown tabby tom SWALLOWTAIL—dark tabby she-cat STONESTREAM—grey tom REEDWHISKER—black tom APPRENTICE, RIPPLEPAW QUEENS (she-cats expecting or nursing kits) MOSSPELT—tortoiseshell she-cat with blue eyes DAWNFLOWER—pale grey she-cat ELDERS (former warriors and queens, now retired) HEAVYSTEP—thickset tabby tom THE TRIBE OF RUSHING WATER BROOK WHERE SMALL FISH SWIM (BROOK)—brown tabby she-cat STORMFUR—dark grey tom with amber eyes OTHER ANIMALS SMOKY—muscular grey and white tom who lives in a barn at the horseplace FLOSS—small grey and white she-cat who lives at the horseplace PIP—black and white terrier who lives with Twolegs near the horseplace MIDNIGHT—a stargazing badger who lives by the sea

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      Night lay heavily over the forest. No wind stirred the long grass at the edge of the path where a massive tabby cat stalked through the shadows. He paused, ears pricked, amber eyes narrowed. No moon or stars shone in the sky above his head but tree trunks thick with fungus shed an eerie glow on the bare earth beneath his paws.

      The huge tom opened his jaws to draw in air, though he did not expect to taste the scent of prey. He knew that the twitching of the ferns meant nothing, and the flickering scraps of darkness that he could see from the corner of his eye would vanish like mist if he pounced on them. There was no hunger in this place, but he longed for the sensation of claws sinking into prey and the first warm bite of fresh-kill after a successful hunt.

      The fur on his neck and shoulders rose as a new scent drifted towards him: the scent of cat, but not the two he had met here before. This was a different cat, a cat he knew from long ago. He stalked forward, following the scent, until the trees thinned out and he stood at the edge of a clearing washed by sickly light. The other cat came bounding