Mousekit Comes Home.

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<sub>Mousekit tiredly walked. His dusty brown paws were hurting. He had been walking from Eternal's cave to RiverClan camp. Maybe he should go back. What if Rosepaw forgot all about him? He collapsed tiredly. Could he possibly go on? Exspecially from all that walking and running? He quickly fell asleep with tiredness on the forest floor. The leaves crunched under him as he breathed.

Kestrelpaw sniffed the air. She was on a patrol with a few other cats. She had herd that Mousekit had gone missing a few days ago and though most of the cats gave up, the blind apprentice thought and knew that she could find him. Maybe others would think better of her. She smelled the air. The forest smells filled her nostrels when suddenly she smelled something new. The scent of Rougues and the faint smell of RiverClan came in the direction of the ferns in front of her. She called back to the rest of the patrol. 'I smell a cat on the other side of those ferns.' she meowed.

Little did she, or any other cat know that it was really Mousekit.</sub>

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Mistshine, who was leading the patrol, flicked her tail as a sign to show that she had heard, but then remembeed that Kestrelpaw was blind and gave a little mew of consent. She called up the other cats on the patrol and rushed towards the clmp of ferns, going through them. THe new deputy gasped. Mousekit! It was Mousekit! She ran up to him and licked the seven-moon-old kit all over, whispering words of comfort.

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'M-Mom?' Mousekit meowed, frightened. He yamned and passed out again tiredly.

Kestrelpaw padded over to Mistshine. She was glad that they had found Mousekit and she tried to hold back a purr of happiness, to show that she wasn't going to take all the credit of finding him. Her black tail lashed back and forth and her paws itched. 'We should take him back to camp.' she meowed. 'Cloudedsoul should take a look at him.' she meowed, out of both concern and happiness.

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Mistshine nodded, still unable to speak. She nudged Mousekit as if to try to make him wake up.

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Mistshine looked around. What could they do? She glanced in panic at the other cats, and finally she spoke.

How are we going to get him back?

They could leave him there, with someone next to him and food and water, until he was strong enough to go himself...

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[/i] Kestrelpaw meowed. She was going to sggest that they drag him back to camp or something gentle, but she didn't want to sound barbaric. When I get back, someone can go out and get Cloudedsoul. she finished. She wanted to be resonsible and help the Deputy in anyway that she could, even though she was blind. Without an answer she hurried off into the bushes to find something.[/ul]

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Mistshine called, Thanks, Kestrelpaw, that's really kind of you! Then she turned back to Mousekit. I hope he'll be all right, she murmured.

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Kestrelpaw came back a few minutes later, a sparrow in her jaws. She layed it next to Mousekit and then went back. She came back then with some wet moss.

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Mistshine nudged her son, hoping he'd wake up to eat his sparrow. Mousekit. Wake up! The tip of her fluffy white tail brushed against his pink nose. Mousekit! She glanced at his brown chest. It was barely rising and falling.

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Mousekit, still tired and weak, pricked his ears up. The calling of his mother, her sweat scent, Kestrelpaw's scent and another. Sparrow and water! His eyes shot open and he looked at the dead sparrow hungerly. Though he was tired, he quickly got up. Pain shot through his bodie, but he managed to walk over to the prey. Sinking his teeth into it, he ate the mouse hungerly. Inbetween bites, he lapped up some water from the soaked piece of moss. Gulping down the last few bites of his sparrow and looked up at his mother. He was no longer tired, but he was still in pain. 'M-Mom, what happened?' he meowed.