Silverstream

Silverstream is a beautiful, slender, silver-gray tabby she-cat with a finely shaped head and bright blue eyes.

Fire and Ice

 * Silverstream is the only daughter of Crookedstar, the RiverClan leader. She first appeared when she saved Graystripe from drowning in the freezing river. She asks him what he's doing in her territory, to which Graystripe answers "Drowning?" On the way back to ThunderClan it is noted that Fireheart notices Graystripe looking back at his rescuer more than one time and Cinderpaw teases him by saying, "What a pretty RiverClan cat she was!"


 * After that she continued to secretly see Graystripe, during those meetings she falls in love with him, despite warnings from Graystripe's friend Fireheart and her cousin and best friend Mistyfoot. At the battle with WindClan, she is there, and attacks Fireheart without realizing who he is. She stops after Graystripe calls out, "Silverstream! No!" Fireheart is about to take a forepaw and smack Silverstream but then he sees Graystripe staring at him in horror and lets her go. She runs off with Graystripe following her. Darkstripe notices and reports it to Tigerclaw. Tigerclaw says that he noticed Graystripe followng her and it is clear the dark tabby suspects something going on between Graystripe and Silverstream.

Forest of Secrets

 * Silverstream convinces Mistyfoot and Graypool to talk to Fireheart about the battle at Sunningrocks, so he can find out how Oakheart died. When the RiverClan camp is flooded and Graystripe and Fireheart are taking prey to RiverClan, Silverstream reveals to Graystripe that she is going to have his kits. They are both overjoyed, yet nervous as well.


 * When Silverstream goes to meet Graystripe at Sunningrocks a moon later she begins having Graystripe's kits shortly after reaching him. However, complications occur in the birthing and no medicine cat is there to help her. When Fireheart brings Cinderpaw she manages to save the two kits, named Featherkit and Stormkit, but Silverstream dies from loss of blood, saying to Graystripe, "Good-bye, Graystripe. I love you. Take care of our kits." Graystripe is depressed beyond belief, and doesn't know his kits are still alive. When Fireheart tells him, he is overjoyed– momentarily. Silverstream is buried near the river, as Graystripe says she would have liked that, as she loved the river.

The Darkest Hour

 * Silverstream gave Firestar his third life during the leadership ceremony, along with the gift of loyalty to what he knows to be right. Firestar asks the she-cat if she had a message for Graystripe, but Silverstream just looks back with her eyes filled with more pain and love than a message could have described. Silverstream is described as looking just as she did in life. Firestar does not tell Graystripe of his encounter with Silverstream, as he is forbidden to by the warrior code. Later she, along with the other cats that gave Firestar lives, runs alongside the ThunderClan leader to help him defeat Scourge.

Firestar's Quest

 * She appears briefly in a dream, to tell Firestar to do what he thinks is right concerning SkyClan by reminding him of the life she gave to him in his leadership ceremony. She also catches a fish for him, which, as he eats it, gives him a warm feeling. While Blustar told him that SkyClan was none of his buisness Silverstream tells Firestar he needs to do what is right and Firestar knows that is helping the lost Clan.

Moonrise

 * She appeared to her son, Stormfur, in a dream, telling him to return to the Tribe of Rushing Water to help them get rid of a mountain lion known as Sharptooth. At first Stormfur does not recognize her, as he never knew her in life but he realizes who she is. She tells him that a prophecy can mean many things but a cat must know what path to choose. Based on this Stormfur decides to go back. When Feathertail died saving Crowpaw from Sharptooth, Silverstream appeared briefly to guide her to StarClan. Before this however Stormfur sees his mother and sister sitting near the waterfall watching the shattered remnants of the questing cats. Silverstream then vanishes with her daughter to join StarClan.

Dawn

 * Though Silverstream didn't formally appear, Leafpaw saw her and Feathertail in the waterfall while the Clans were staying with the Tribe of Rushing Water, specifically during Crowfeather's warrior ceremony.

The Lost Warrior

 * In The Lost Warrior, she appeared from StarClan to tell Graystripe not to give up, to search for ThunderClan, and that Stormfur is still alive. She had a companion with her - Graystripe's daughter, Feathertail. Graystripe also revealed he has been visited in dreams by Silverstream before by saying "but when I see that silver tabby part of me never wants to wake up." Silverstream visits Graystripe again with their daughter, Feathertail, telling him to find ThunderClan and that he already knows to ask Millie to come with him. When Graystripe is delirious, he calls out his mate's name. When Millie asks about it Graystripe simply tells her Silverstream was his mate and she died bearing his kits.

Eclipse

 * She is seen by Jaypaw in a vision while Millie is kitting. Jaypaw does not know who she is but he senses she is attached to Graystripe. While the gray warrior is waiting outside the nursery Jaypaw asks him if he knew the cat. Graystripe is happy that Silverstream cares for his new mate and he tells Jaypaw how Silverstream died during kitting and that he is worried for Millie.

Long Shadows

 * Silverstream appears briefly in one of Jaypaw's visions right before he meets Brightspirit, worrying about how Graystripe doesn't deserve to have his heart broken again when Millie is dangerously sick from greencough and is close to joining StarClan. Jaypaw tells Graystripe about it and Graystripe says it is just like his deceased mate to care.

Fading Echoes

 * When Jayfeather and Yellowfang are heading towards the Place of No Stars, they cross some of StarClan's territory. Silverstream run sup to meet them, and she asks if Yellowfang had seen Feathertail anywhere. Yellowfang replied that she saw Feathertail at Warm-rocks earlier.

Cats of the Clans

 * Rock explains how Silverstream was respected from birth because her father Crookedstar was such a good leader. However, from the moment she met Graystripe she loved him and couldn't stop seeing him, even though it stabbed her heart with guilt when she returned to camp after a stolen moment with him. It is admitted she saved him because she thought he would clog the river, not because she was in love. In the end, she paid the highest price of all, bleeding to death at Sunningrocks when she kitted, not living to raise her kits with Graystripe. Even if she had lived she was always destined for RiverClan while Graystripe was as rooted to the forest as the oaks.

Secrets of the Clans

 * Silverstream is seen in this book in the section about the flooding of RiverClan. She is seen as a young warrior on night watch. She goes to patrol the boundary when she suddenly splashes into water. In her confusion, she thinks that she might have wandered off the island and into the river, but then realized that the river must have risen. She wakes Crookedstar and leads him to see the rising river, and asks him if they should evacuate the island, just to be safe, but Crookedstar gruffly says that it may go down. The next day, when Leopardfur and her patrol goes to check how high the water has risen, two apprentices give warning that the river has risen so high that the water is breaking into the camp. Once it does, Silverstream goes to help her friend Mistyfoot to get her kits. Out of all four kits of Mistyfoot's litter, only two are found, but Silverstream and Mistyfoot take the kits to safety anyway. When RiverClan shelter in the bushes, Silverstream is the first to scent Graystripe and Fireheart. She realizes that they have Mistyfoot's missing kits, and goes to tell her friend. The story ends with Silverstream looking at Graystripe, feeling very proud of him.

Members
Mate:
 * Graystripe: Living (As of The Fourth Apprentice)

Daughter:
 * Feathertail: Deceased, Verified Tribe of Endless Hunting and StarClan member

Son:
 * Stormfur: Living (As of Eclipse)

Father:
 * Crookedstar: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Grandmother:
 * Lilystem: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Uncle:
 * Oakheart: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Cousins:
 * Mistyfoot: Living (As of The Fourth Apprentice)
 * Stonefur: Deceased, Verified StarClan member
 * Mosskit: Deceased, Verified StarClan member
 * Reedwhisker: Living (As of The Fourth Apprentice)
 * Three Unknown kits of Mistyfoot's: Status Unknown