"Place where a bunch of different kinds of animals are kept so twolegs can go look at them."

"Oh.  Is that . . . less bad than it sounds?"

"Well, the animals can't talk. I think. I don't know how I'd check, I only know your language, not a definitively complete list of all animal languages, so. It's closer to being a kittypet than being out here, for the animals in question, but not exactly the same, most of the animals just do whatever they want in their enclosures and people look at them but don't pet them or anything."

"Some kittypets have to live with dogs, which is bad, and it sounds much worse if you add more sorts of animals to that.  Unless it's just cats and prey and Twolegs that don't bother you."

"- the animals are kept separated."

"Oh, alright."

"Yes, sorry, I should have specified. Do all of you guys dislike dogs or do some of you cope all right with them?"

"I think Cloudpaw's main complaint when he was locked up with one was that it was noisy, so I guess if there are any that are less noisy then maybe their cats wouldn't have a problem."

"Dogs vary quite a lot."

"The ones who come out here mostly stay with their Twolegs.  They scare off the prey but aren't really hard to avoid, except I guess for the one Princess saw.  Though I think she might have been exaggerating or confused since she doesn't really know anything about forest life."

"People usually walk dogs on leashes so they don't run off if they see a squirrel but they're not perfect about that."

"That makes sense.  Anyways, when the night of the Gathering came we of course still had to go, so we crossed into ShadowClan territory to get here.  They let us, and escorted us the rest of the way, but during the meeting they announced that we were sheltering Brokenstar.  StarClan had to cover the moon with clouds again, and ShadowClan said they'd attack us despite the truce if we used their territory to return home.  RiverClan let us use theirs, though."

"Awkward."

"I suppose that's one way to think of it.  ShadowClan and WindClan attacked our camp shortly after, trying to get to Brokenstar, but even though every ThunderClan warrior present was injured in some way we did hold them off."

"Seems like a lot to stake on protecting him."

"Yes.  Most of the Clan was unhappy about it."

"Why, then?"

"Bluestar said to.  And - I'm not sure I'd have made the same choice, if I were in her position with the information I have now, but there's something to be said for demanding you and your Clan be merciful even when that's very hard.  It's sort of the same reason that whether prey is bountiful or scarce, we take care of any elder or sick cat.  Because it's important."

"Cool."

"I want to see a zoo."

"I can probably take you to a zoo but they might want you on a leash."

"Acceptable."

"It honestly sounds unpleasant just to visit, even if I wanted to be leashed.  But I wish you the best."

"If it is unpleasant we will leave."

"Alright.

After that battle is when Silverstream died having her and Graystripe's kits."