"It's supposed to be another place cats go to when they die, if they didn't follow the warrior code, where it's always night and there aren't any stars, or prey, and living cats can go there in their dreams to learn to fight better, only they'll still have any injuries they got there when they wake up, and the dead cats there can die again and then they aren't anywhere at all."

"Well, that sounds pretty weird but lots of things about this universe are pretty weird. I don't know if anyone literally believes that one."

"I hope not!  It sounds awful.  Although if they're really warring on us then I guess StarClan isn't that great either."

"Seems a lot to read into a hawk attack."

"Do you think?  It was pretty weird; if you're already imagining StarClan exists it's not too far off from the other things they're claimed to do."

"Are they often claimed to control animals?"

"Prey, I guess, and how well it's running?"

"It's possible they do some things attributed to them and not all of them, also."

"I guess!"

"I'm planning to actually go to sleep, which I normally don't, to see if they'll talk to me, but I'm not super optimistic."

"Yeah, I wouldn't count on that; as far as I understand it - which is apparently about a kitstep - you've pretty much got to go to the Moonstone?  Or, hm, you're a medicine cat, aren't you; maybe that's enough."

"I am a medicine Twoleg and presumably normally doctors on this planet don't get dreams from dead cats but maybe the combination of that and speaking cat language will do it."

"Well, I'd be interested to hear if it works.  Or if it doesn't but in a way where it seems like I was right."

"I'm not sure what would constitute it not working in that way!"

"It just kind of seems like Twolegs can do more sorts of things?  Maybe learning stuff like that isn't one of them; I don't know."

"I suppose I'll let you know whatever happens next time I see you, at any rate."

"Yeah.  - I have kind of a lot of questions about Twolegs, dunno if you're up for those."

"Go right ahead, though I can't promise my answers will be locally accurate, I'm from another universe."

"Sure.  Dogs: why."

"Dogs were domesticated from wolves - I don't know if you know anything about wolves. They're easy to train, which makes them suitable for some kinds of work - smelling things twolegs can't smell and want to find, herding sheep, pulling heavy stuff, hunting, guard duty. Twolegs also just like them, and like that it's easy to get a dog to really like their Twolegs."

"I don't know anything about wolves.  Do Twolegs not mind noise or do they just want all the other things about dogs more than they don't want that?"

"Second thing. And not all dogs bark very much."

"I've met a lot of dogs and they all barked very much."

"Maybe they bark especially at cats? They don't all bark very much when cats aren't around."

"Why do Twolegs like cats, for that matter?  I mean, I know cats are great, and I have guesses about why Twolegs agree, but, you know, they're only guesses."