"I think they probably won't talk to you but if they did I'd expect them to do it during your normal sleep.  I'm not sure I've ever had a dream from StarClan while the sun was up."

"I will take a nap at night, then."

" - Okay.

Cloudpaw is my apprentice, and he . . . hasn't always been certain that he wanted to walk the path of a Clan cat.  He lived with us, but sometimes he would sneak into Twolegplace and go into one of their nests and they'd give him food.  And after a while some other Twolegs captured him and took him away in a monster."

"- have you seen him since?"

"Yes, we rescued him."

"Oh good. I know this doesn't, like, help, but the Twolegs presumably thought they were doing him a favor."

"If a kittypet lost their collar and was taken away to a different family I don't think they'd be very happy about that either."

"Well, no, that's why the collars. I don't know if they've invented them here yet but it's possible to insert little things under the skin of a pet that can serve the same function and can't be lost."

"Under the skin?"

"Yup. I have a similar thing in my head, so I can use my computer."

"Do Twolegs mind pain?"

"...yes? I can't feel the one in my brain. Brains don't actually have pain sensation. Probably inserting a chip under the skin would hurt, but not, like, that much."

"If it stays there all the time forever that still sounds pretty bad."

"I don't think it's supposed to be noticeable but I admit that on my planet it was never possible to ask the cats."

"Alright.

Then there was the fire.

We evacuated the camp but realized that Halftail, Patchpelt, and Bramblekit - Tigerclaw's son - were missing.  Yellowfang and I went back for them, and - she - found Halftail, and - a tree was falling.  I grabbed Bramblekit instead of her.  And she was trapped in the camp."

Nod.

"And like I said I dragged Patchpelt all the way to the river but he died anyways.  Bramblekit was fine."

"I'm glad Bramblekit's okay."

"So am I."

"And that brings us to now, I guess?"

"Nearly.  RiverClan also let us spend the night outside their camp, and gave us medicine and caught prey for us.  And at the most recent Gathering, when we found out about Tigerstar, Bluestar was still slightly sick from smoke inhalation so I led ThunderClan.  But that's everything I can think of to mention."

"Okay. Thanks for the history rundown."

"You're welcome.  It's strange to talk about all that; mostly everybody already knows or it's not their business."

"I guess you could argue it's also not my business."

"It's less not your business than the other Clans'.  There were things which were not your business which I did not tell you."