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"Hm." Shinepaw snorted. "Well, Lionheart doesn't seem to want me as his apprentice. But I'm going to show him what I can do today." Looking at Teardrop they seemed to exchange a hidden message.

"Come back again tonight and I will help you." Teardrop said as she turned back into her den.

Shinepaw dipped his head and glanced at Silverpaw. "Maybe." He turned around and headed out of the medicine cats clearing.

Teardrop smiled and sat by the den. "He will come."

Shinepaw went to the apprentices den, thinking. If his dream were really Starclan giving him a quest would he bear to leave Silverpaw. Shinepaw shook his head knowing he couldn't do it.

Shinepaw turned his sightless gaze on Shadepaw. "Everything is fine." Turning back around he licked his chest and ignored Shadepaw. Closing his eyes he fell asleep. Opening his eyes he found he could see. But what he saw was terrible. Blood flowed from Highrock and his paws could sense tremors beneath the earth. Where was Silverpaw? Looking behind him he saw Silverpaw hiding in a den her delicate form wrapped around a nest of kits. She was beautiful. Shinepaw had never seen her before and now that he did it was as if he had seen the world. "But this is a dream....soon, I will be sightless again." Sighing he closed his eyes. Waking up he realized the dream had taken awhile more than he thought. "I have to get to Teardrop's den and tell her what I saw!" Leaping up he scurried away.

Teardrop looked down at Silverpaw and saw that she was in the throws of a nightmare. She called upon Starclan and tears formed in her eyes like another eyelid. As the film covered her eye she could see threads around her. The thread from Silverpaw was wrapped with the ones from both Shinepaw and Shadepaw. "But which will she choose?" Teardrop could see the answer waver in the delicate threadline of destiny. "Thank you Starclan, I know what I must to insure the little ones safety." Starclan medicine cats of old sat beside her in a circle and offered strength and guidance. Silverpaw awoke and Teardrop let the thread sight fade away.

Shinepaw ran into the medicine cat's clearing and skidded to a halt before Teardrop. "You won't believe what I saw! I had another of those dreams except I could see!" Feeling through his paws he stopped talking as he realized Silverpaw was awake.

Shinepaw could feel through his paws that Silverpaw was wobbling but all he could see was the beautiful shecat from his dream. "Hi." He began purring.

Shinepaw lowered his head. "Um...." how was he to explain it to her? How he had seen her protecting a litter of kits while carnage insued around her. How she had glowed with a special light and that he....was nothing. He couldn't help her that was the future which was not the same.

Teardrop could feel hesitation to speak. "She is trustworthy. Speak your heart because those that do not eventually lose what they love."

Shinepaw looked Teardrop in the eye and turned back to Silverpaw. "There was chaos, confusion, pain. Fire...." he shivered in fear and recalled the whole dream as if he was still there. He saw everything as if he was no longer blind. "It had started out so peacefully then the fire started raging. You were stuck in the den with a litter of kits. I know how you got your name. The silver pelt as if our warrior ancestors had touched you themselves.....Windclan came and was struck by disease. Riverclan came and their leader went mad. Shadowclan came and shrunk against the light which blinded them." The whole time shudders wracked Shinepaws body and the crescent moon on his forhead started to glow.

Teardrop touched her muzzle to Shinepaw's forhead. Opening her eyes she saw the threadsof life winding their way into the woven taprestry. "I see it. Do not fear little one."