Gorsetail (TNP)

Gorsetail is a tawny tom.

Dawn

 * Despite appearing in this book, Gorsetail is not listed in the allegiances. He is a WindClan warrior, and is one of the Clan cats who is kidnapped by the Twolegs.


 * When Leafpaw is trying to identify the other trapped cats, Mistyfoot tells her in disgust that she wouldn't have been caught if she hadn't been chasing a WindClan theif off RiverClan territory, supposedly referring to Gorsetail. His voice quivering, Gorsetail responds that he didn't know it was a trap when he hid in it. He tells Leafpaw his name and Clan.


 * Gorsetail meows a greeting to Sasha with Cloudtail and Brightheart when Mistyfoot tells her there were Clan cats in the cages as well as rogues and kittypets.


 * Later, a Twoleg shoves Coal, one of the captured rogues, against something sharp inside his cage, cutting him. As Coal's wound bleeds, dripping down into the cage below his, he begins to panic. Leafpaw remembers her mentor, Cinderpelt, using cobwebs to stop bleeding, and Gorsetail says he saw some near his cage. He reaches toward them, snags the cobwebs on his paw, and reaches up as far as he can toward Leafpaw's cage. She grasps them, and passes them to the kittypet named Cody, who gives them to Coal. Leafpaw instructs him to stuff the cobwebs into the wound. As the bleeding slows, Coal calms down.


 * While trying to think of a way to escape, Leafpaw remembers how Gorsetail reached through the cage to pass her the cobwebs.