Willowshine

Willowshine is a small, sleek, gray tabby she-cat with blue eyes.

Dawn

 * Willowkit makes a minor appearance in this book. She is first seen when when Leafpaw is asked by a Queen to check over her and Dawnflower's kits by Squirrelpaw, after the Clans cross a Thunderpath. She does not appear after this.

Twilight

 * Willowkit is Mothwing's helper when many cats are infected by a strange toxic liquid left behind by Twolegs. When Beechpaw is choking on a clump of chewed-up yarrow, Mothwing is unable to retrieve the yarrow out of his mouth, so Willowkit sticks her tiny paw into his throat, and pulls it out. She asks Mothwing if this is what being a medicine cat is like, saying it is the best feeling ever.


 * Later, Leafpool tells her to go back to the nursery and tell her mother, Mosspelt, how well she did. Then Mothwing mentions to Leafpool that Willowkit is always helping out in the medicine den, and that she will take Willowkit as an apprentice as soon as she is old enough.

Sunset

 * Willowpaw becomes Mothwing's apprentice, training to be a medicine cat. As Mothwing does not believe in StarClan, Leafpool begins visiting Willowpaw in dreams to give her advice and training, as requested by Feathertail. When there is an outbreak of greencough in the RiverClan camp, Leafpool and Feathertail visit Willowpaw in her dream to reveal to her the location of catmint on the edge of the RiverClan territory.


 * When Willowpaw visits the Moonpool for the first time to be officially received by StarClan as Mothwing's apprentice, she and Leafpool share a dream that suggests that Hawkfrost will do something bad.

The Sight

 * She is mentioned to be a good friend of Hollypaw, though she does not get along with Jaypaw very well once he becomes Leafpool's apprentice.


 * When she and Mothwing come to the ThunderClan camp, Willowpaw has a conversation with Hollykit and tells her how she became Mothwing's apprentice. She asks Hollykit if she became an apprentice, and Hollykit tells her no. When she first sees Jaypaw at the Moonpool, she asks where Hollypaw is, and Jaypaw tells her that Hollypaw got sick of being a medicine cat and let him do it instead. Later on, Willowpaw pulls Jaypaw away from a rabbit hole in front of him. Jaypaw already knew it was there, and gets angry at her. Hurt, she tells him that she was only trying to help him, and when he says that he doesn't need help, she angrily tells him that she won't help him next time.

Dark River

 * Jaypaw went into her dream when Mudfur, a former medicine cat of RiverClan, who was Mothwing's mentor, and now a member of StarClan, came to Willowpaw's dream. He told Willowpaw that RiverClan should escape from the disaster, caused by a bunch of Twoleg kits messing around the camp. Hollypaw is worried about her. When Hollypaw comes to the camp she is surprised and angry that Hollypaw came. Later, she shows Hollypaw what is happening in her old camp when Hollypaw visits RiverClan's new camp on the Island to find out what was wrong.

Outcast

 * She appears only once, at the Moonpool gathering at the half-moon. She came alone, because her mentor, Mothwing, stayed at the RiverClan camp to treat an infected bee sting.

Eclipse

 * Before the medicine cats share tongues with StarClan, Mothwing grants Willowpaw her formal medicine cat name, Willowshine.

Long Shadows

 * When Jaypaw comes to the Moonpool alone, Willowshine is slightly jealous and annoyed that she had to wait to receive her full medicine cat name before Mothwing allowed her to come to the Moonpool alone. When the other medicine cats notice that Littlecloud isn't present, she murmurs that maybe he can share tongues with StarClan from his own territory. After meeting with StarClan, she starts being nicer towards Jaypaw, but there is always an edge to her voice.


 * She visits the Moonpool and watches Jayfeather receive his medicine cat name. Jayfeather mentions she doesn't have anything to act superior about now, as she has always liked Hollyleaf more than Jayfeather.

Sunrise

 * On the night when the medicine cats go to the Moonpool, Willowshine and her mentor, Mothwing, are late due to a thorn that got stuck in Petalkit's eye. It is mentioned that they licked the thorn to get it out of the kit's eye. Littlecloud tells her that celandine is also good for repairing damaged eyes. Mothwing asks Willowshine if there is any in their stack, and she replies that there is not much, but it should be good enough.

Night Whispers

 * Willowshine is seen with Mudfur and Graypool in StarClan, while they try to persuade her to break ties with the other medicine cats, saying RiverClan must stand alone.

Sign of the Moon

 * Willowshine is seen with Mothwing at the Gathering, staying away from the other Medicine Cats.

Cats of the Clans

 * Rock reveals that StarClan found that Willowpaw could be a better solution to Mothwing's inability to communicate with them. It is also said that Willowpaw respects Mothwing's lack of belief in StarClan because she respects her mentor in every other way; she had wanted to be a medicine cat even as a kit, when she saw the great healing that Mothwing could do.

Trivia

 * She was originally described as dark gray.
 * She was also mistakenly described as pale gray.
 * She has been described with bright green eyes.

Members
Mother:
 * Mosspelt: