Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27492740-20160919015619/@comment-27492740-20161009215108

Silverflight put her nose to the ground and started following the trail. "I think they went this way."

Birchkit rolled onto her back, watching Fernkit and Fawnstar. The fun expedition that she was excluded from now seemed like a lucky miss. Silverpaw was dead. How could that happen?

She rolled over. Her birth had been marked by the death of her mother and brother. No queen had ever taken her and Wingkit in, but no cat was outright mean to them. There had been so much death in the fire, and cats were still recovering. She shuddered, remembering how Dovecloud had to take Rainlight's place in the patrol to fetch Silverpaw's body because her sister wasn't fit yet. Will Wingkit and I be like that someday?

But then something else occurred to her.

Fernkit, Sunkit, and Silverpaw had snuck out of camp. Fernkit came back saying Silverpaw was dead. She had said nothing about Sunkit.

She would say if the other kit was dead, right? Fernkit had no problem saying Silverpaw was dead. So why Sunkit?

And where was Sunkit, anyway?

She glanced at Appledust, curled peacefully around Tigerkit. She had been asleep when Fernkit arrived (?). Did she know Sunkit was missing? Did anyone?

Birchkit did.

Quietly, as to not disturb Wingkit, she slipped out of the nest and nursery. One of the syndicate queens (Cherry) rolled over as she passed, but no one woke up.

Outside, a few cats were milling around. Frostheart sat in one of the nests for recovering cats outside of the medicine den with Blackkit, no doubt waiting for Dovecloud. Leafpaw was sitting sleepily outside the entrance to the apprentices'/novices' den. Fawnstar and Fernkit were in a corner of camp, talking. A few Dusk Syndicate cats milled around and filed into their dens after the burial of their healer who had died that day.

No one was watching Birchkit. No one noticed her.

She crept along the side of camp and slipped out into the forest.

No one followed her. No one noticed she was gone.

Birchkit set off to find Sunkit.