After the Flood/Part 3

Chapter Summary
Leafstar's PoV
 * Shrewtooth yowls and stretches by the river, and Leafstar, from her den, asks if he was hurt in the battle last night. Shrewtooth has a gray leaf-like pattern on his haunch, and as Leafstar approaches him, he says that he is fine, but that Sol kept him up last night, rolling in something that smells. Shrewtooth turns and looks at his leg, realizing why his eyes were watering, and he exclaims that Sol must have tracked the stinky leaves by his nest. Shrewtooth announces that he will swim to get rid of the scent, and he umps into the river. Leafstar asks a small group of cats if they have seen Sol that morning, but none of them have. Waspwhisker grumbles that he would be fine with Sol being gone, but Leafstar chides him that Sol is very committed to finding her kits. Waspwhisker snorts that he is probably interested in finding an easy source of food.


 * Throughout the day, search parties are sent, and Leafstar is thankful that at least no buzzards were seen. She believes that her kit are alive, but that she must find them. She spots Sol walking, and asks if he was out searching again. Sol responds that he was trying to catch squirrels, but that he was unsuccesful, and Leafstar can still smell some of the foul-smelling leaves Shrewtooth had complained about. As she walks by the river, head down, she decides that she will ask him where they are at some time to avoid them herself. Billystorm comes up to Leafstar and asks if she is going out again. Leafstar sadly responds that the last party was unsuccessful, and she has no other choice, but Billysotrm tells her that she fought a hard battle yesterday, and must not have rested for days. He reassures her that their kits have enough sense to seek shelter in the night, wherever they are, and promises that they will be found more easily in daylight.