"It's short for Campbell and doesn't mean anything in my native language."

"Hm.

I also had two other kits.  They were stillborn, while we were in exile."

"Oh no, I'm sorry. Does that happen a lot?"

"A dirty Twoleg cave under some Thunderpaths without access to any prey but occasional rats isn't really the best environment for a kitting.  I believe it happens less under more usual circumstances."

"Are rats bad to eat in some way? This is the second time I've heard them mentioned disparagingly and I think I would have expected them to taste about like mice."

"WindClan mostly doesn't eat mice either.  But rats sometimes have Carrionplace disease, and they're big enough that colonies of them have killed cats before."

"Carrionplace disease?"

"It killed half of ShadowClan a little bit ago."

"...yikes. What are its - symptoms, any other ways it can be caught besides from rats -?"

"I'm not a medicine cat.  And it's usually only ShadowClan that gets it, because they're the ones with the Carrionplace."

"What manner of location is the Carrionplace?"

"It's where Twolegs dump enormous heaps of crowfood."

"Ah, yeah, that seems like a likely disease reservoir."

"Yes.  It serves them right, anyway."

"...for... exiling you?"

"Well yes."

"Is the Carrionplace new since then?"

"No, but the outbreak was."

"Huh. Why did they exile you?"

"There isn't a better reason than that they were greedy and wanted to hunt in our territory and claim it as their own.  WindClan is an honorable Clan."

"...'kay." Are they almost there.

No, the territories are pretty expansive when traveling through them at Cam-safe walking speeds.

"I have some concerns about what might happen if the Clans could all talk to each other at any time.  You seem - well-intentioned . . ."

"I try! What might go wrong if the clans can all talk to each other at any time?"

"I expect it to get used for minor helpful things, and then for at least one dire harmful thing.  Other Clans have conspired together against us before."

"I acknowledge it would make a conspiracy easier, but it would also make it pretty easy for someone to tip you off, or for you to build better relationships with the other clans so they wouldn't feel like conspiring against you in the first place."