Coal (TNP)

Coal is a black tom.

Dawn

 * Coal is one of the rogues the Twolegs capture during the destruction of the forest. They put him into a cage beside a kittypet named Cody. Despite the fact that Coal was aloof and isolated himself from the other caged cats, she tries to befriend him, but he doesn't reply to anything she says, only telling her his name before completely ignoring her. He doesn't show much interest in what the other cats do, crouching in his nest while Cody talks to the newest cat, Sasha. Cody says it was hard not to get involved with the other cats in the nest because it was so small, though she gives Coal a pointed look.


 * One of the Twolegs opens up Coal's cage to give him food, but when he reaches inside, Coal hisses and scratches his paw. The Twoleg angrily shoves Coal back, unintentionally pushing his leg against something sharp inside his cage. Coal curses the Twoleg, and Leafpaw says his wound looks bad, seeing blood on the floor of the cage. Leafpaw asks a WindClan warrior, Gorsetail, to pass her some cobwebs to press onto Coal's leg. Another rogue in the cage below calls out that Coal's blood was dripping from the top of his cage. He begins to panic because he's losing so much blood, whimpering that the bleeding wouldn't stop. Leafpaw then tells him to place the cobwebs on the wound to staunch the bleeding. He gasps that it was already soaked with blood, but Leafpaw assures him it would work. The bleeding finally stops, and with a relieved sigh, he comments that the cobwebs didn't even sting.


 * When Cody tells Leafpaw that she could sometimes get her housefolk to do what she wanted them to, Sasha asks her if she could train "the mongrel" that hurt Coal to be gentler. He escaped the Twolegs with the other cats when a ThunderClan patrol comes to free them.