"It seems likely they cannot."

"But they also can't walk around with with us or anything.  It's not quite the same."

"Yeah. I'm sorry."

"It's not so bad.

I still speak with Spottedleaf, our twice-former medicine cat, fairly often in dreams."

"Oh? What does Spottedleaf usually have to say? - also what does twice-former mean."

"Yellowfang was before Cinderpelt, and Spottedleaf was before Yellowfang.  She usually gives me advice or prophecies.  Minor ones."

"About what?"

"One time she told me to beware a cat I could not trust and then Tigerstar - he was Tigerclaw then, of course, and still in ThunderClan - almost let me die in a battle against RiverClan.  Short term things like that."

"She didn't know his name?"

"Of course she did."

"Then why put it that way?"

"Well, I already didn't trust him."

"I guess that would narrow it down. Still seems a bit odd."

"I don't think prophecies are usually very specific like that."

"Why not?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe you can ask Spottedleaf next time you see her."

". . . Maybe."

"Just a thought."

"No one has ever appeared in my dreams," says Cricket.

"I don't think it's very usual."

"Well, then what makes you so special? You don't seem very special."

"I don't know."

"Hmph."

Walk walk walk walk.

"Thank you for not talking while we were in RiverClan."