The Sun Trail/Chapter 21

Chapter Summary
 Gray Wing's PoV 


 * Gray Wing can't understand how one day can make such a difference. The four great oaks stand the same as they always had but the leaves were limp and still and there is not a breath of wind. The forest is gloomy, with no sun breaking through the clouds. Worst of all, there's no sign of Storm. Hope springs up in him as he hears a rustle and sees fronds of fern shaking as a cat approached the bottom of the hollow. But his tail droops in disappointment as Turtle Tail emerges into the open. She bounds towards him and greets him, then asks if he wants to join her hunting. Gray Wing shakes his head, saying he's waiting for Storm. She asks if he's doing it again, and he says he is, slightly annoyed at the hint of disapproval in Turtle Tail's voice. Then as all his hopes and doubts surge through him, he knows that he had to confide in some cat. He confesses that he really likes Storm and wants her to come and live in the hollow with them.


 * Turtle Tail's eyes widen and Gray Wing is surprised to see sadness in their green depths. She mews that she'll be off and spins around, racing away swiftly in the direction of the Twolegplace. Gray Wing thinks about how she said she was hunting, then begins to search for Storm. At one point he picks up her scent, then realizes its stale, probably from when he met her the day before. A voice says his name and it isn't the voice Gray Wing has been longing to hear - he turns and spots Tall Shadow beckoning to him from halfway up the slope. She invites him to walk with her, saying she needs to talk to him.


 * Tall Shadow leads the way through the forest and along the edge of the more. She asks him to tell her more about the new cats living with Clear Sky and Moon Shadow and Gray Wing shrugs, peering through the trees in case Storm appears, then replies he told her all he knows and they seem to have settled in well, as far as he could see.



References and Citations
Der Sonnenpfad/Kapitel 21