"I think the StarClanners who wanted to stop me from telling you things would just keep waking you up!  Or prevent this kind of dream in the first place."

"Why do they want to stop you from telling me things??"

"Because they're the wooooorst.  - Obviously not all of them; lots of StarClan cats are on my team or on the one to make medicine more effective.  But some of them just only care at all about their former Clan and wreck anything that would hurt it, even if it's only a little and it would help someone else enough to be worth it.  So be careful about doing that sort of thing in general otherwise you might have a harder time working with the Clans at all."

"...gosh. So that means you can't tell me whether Bluestar is nuts but I guess it does make sense of the range of possible truth values of her assertion that StarClan is at war with ThunderClan."

"Hmmmmm no comment.  Do you want to hear a story?  I'm pretty sure I can tell you true stories that are just facts everyone agrees on that aren't secrets."

"Please do."

" - Actually I'm not going to risk telling you most of the parts that would make it a good story.  But once there was a Clan leader who, for whatever unsayable reasons, left his Clan to finish out his days as a kittypet.  Unlike in cases where a Clan drives out its leader, his successor did still receive lives, though not the full nine, because he retired and - well he didn't go to the Moonstone to surrender all his lives but one but that didn't really matter because he only had one left in the first place.  Anyways his name is Pinestar, and he was the leader before the leader before Bluestar, and also Tigerstar's father.  He's why there's that rule about kittypets in the warrior code."

"...huh. Is Pinestar alive?"

"No."

"Can you and human-stars talk to each other?"

"No.  Somebody might be working on it, I don't know, but we can't right now at least."

"Is being asleep the only way for a living person to talk to you?"

"Well, I can spy, and also give cats words."

"I suppose that's not zero communication. Do you guys in fact send rain and whatnot?"

"Not my department but yes."

"Does anybody from other departments want to talk to me or is it just you?"

"I've got dibs."

"Does that mean they don't get to talk to me or just that they don't until you're done?"

"The second one.  But transferring is inconvenient and I'm one of the least controversial options; other people are more likely to get blocked."

"Lot of infighting, I see."

"Yes, that's why they have to do so many prophecies and omens instead of just speaking frankly like you and I are doing.  So please do be particularly careful about showing any favoritism between Clans, otherwise I'll have to stop."

"I will make sure I get computers to the remaining two Clans, is there anything else in that department I'm forgetting?"

"I don't think so."

"Do you want me to tell the humanstars anything, since you can't talk to them yet?"

"I bet there are an awful lot of kittypets who want to talk to their dead humans but I don't have any specific messages."