Silverstream

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

Crookedstar's Promise

 * Silverkit is born to Willowbreeze and Crookedstar along with her littermates, Willowkit and Minnowkit. Later, her mother and both her sisters lose their lives to greencough, a deadly sickness, because of her father's promise to Mapleshade; however, Silverkit survives. Her father, Crookedstar, is shaken by their deaths and tries to avoid Silverkit at first, as he doesn't want to lose her like his mate and other daughters. Oakheart insists that Crookedstar should be more fatherly and tells him he is acting like Rainflower when she ignored Crookedstar. They get in a fight, which frightens Silverkit. Her father sees her like this and calms her down, assuring her that the fight was not for real. He then formally introduces himself to Silverkit.


 * In the manga after the book, she is seen sneaking off to see Graystripe. Crookedstar tells her he doesn't want her going out of camp alone, and she reluctantly agrees and returns to camp. When he sees her with Graystripe, Crookedstar confronts her about it. Silverstream tells him that he is obsessed with Clan loyalty, and that if her relationship with Graystripe is against the Warrior Code, then the Code should be changed. She tells him that he needs to let her choose her own future.


 * Crookedstar sees her in a dream, at the border between StarClan and the Dark Forest. Silverstream tells him to take care of her kits and walks into StarClan. Mapleshade is satisfied that she has taken everybody that he loves (which is not true, because Silverstream's kits still survive), but Crookedstar coolly says that now, everybody he loves is protected in StarClan. When Crookedstar wakes up, a cat tells him Mistyfoot has bad news about Silverstream.


 * While watching her kits play, Crookedstar thinks to himself that she lives on in them. When Crookedstar goes to join StarClan, Silverstream is seen with her mother, Willowbreeze, and her father's friends and family.

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 Bluestar tells him that SkyClan is none of his business, Silverstream tells Firestar he needs to do what is right and Firestar knows that is, helping the lost Clan.

Fire and Ice

 * Silverstream is the only daughter of Crookedstar, the RiverClan leader, and Willowbreeze, a RiverClan queen. She first appears when she saves Graystripe from drowning in the freezing river. She asks him what he's doing in her territory, to which Graystripe answers he is drowning. On the way back to ThunderClan, it is said that Fireheart notices Graystripe looks back at his rescuer multiple times and Cinderpaw teases him by saying, "What a pretty RiverClan cat she was!"


 * After that she starts to secretly see Graystripe. During those meetings, she falls in love with him, despite warnings from Fireheart, and Silverstream's best friend and cousin, Mistyfoot. Fireheart sees Silverstream and Graystripe meeting once more, and Silverstream goes back to her own territory. 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 claw 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 following 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. Mistyfoot asks Silverstream to help her find her kits that were carried away with the flood. Graystripe and Fireheart find the kits and return them to Mistyfoot.


 * 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 kitting and no medicine cat is there to help her. Tigerclaw sees Fireheart and asks him what is happening. When Fireheart brings Cinderpaw she tells Fireheart and Tigerclaw to lick the kits and warm them up while she works on Silverstream. Cinderpaw then manages to save the two kits, named Featherkit and Stormkit, but Silverstream dies from loss of blood, telling Graystripe good-bye, and that she loves him and he should take care of their kits. Graystripe is depressed beyond belief, and doesn't know that his kits are still alive. He asks Fireheart to bury the kits with Silverstream, but when Fireheart tells him they are alive, he is overjoyed, momentarily. Silverstream is buried near the river; Graystripe says she would have liked that, as she loved the river.

The Darkest Hour

 * Silverstream gives 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 has 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 it 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.


 * Along in this book, Firestar has a dream about a she-cat with faded eyes and a swollen belly. He notices that this she-cat in his dream was Silverstream. This reminds him about her death and her remaining kits.

Moonrise

 * She appears 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 soon 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. After her daughter, Feathertail, dies saving Crowpaw from Sharptooth, Stormfur thinks he can see her silhouette in the waterfall as well as Feathertail's.

Dawn

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

The Lost Warrior

 * She appears from StarClan to encourage Graystripe not to give up, and that Stormfur is still alive. She has a companion with her- their deceased daughter, Feathertail. Graystripe also reveals he has been visited in dreams by Silverstream before by saying, "When I see that silver tabby, part of me never wants to wake up." Silverstream visits Graystripe again with 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 deceased mate's name. When Millie asks about who Silverstream is, 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 and that he loved her very much. While the gray warrior waits outside the nursery, Jaypaw asks him if he knows 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 Silverstream to care.

Fading Echoes

 * When Jayfeather and Yellowfang head towards the Place of No Stars, they cross some of StarClan's territory. Silverstream runs up to meet them, and she asks if Yellowfang had seen Feathertail anywhere, to which Yellowfang replies that she saw Feathertail at Warm-rocks earlier. Silverstream quickly thanks her and runs off to go find her.

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 is suddenly splashed into water. In her confusion, she thinks that she might have wandered off the island and into the river, but then realizes 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 later.


 * The next day, when Leopardfur and her patrol go 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, who called Silverstream to help her get her kits out of the nursery. 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 Mistyfoot. The story ends with Silverstream looking at Graystripe, feeling very proud of him.

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 while she kitted, not living to raise her kits with Graystripe. Even if she had lived, she would always swim in the river while Graystripe was as rooted to the forest as the oaks.

Trivia

 * On Vicky's facebook page, it was revealed that Silverstream's mother is Willowbreeze.
 * It is also revealed that Silverstream is part WindClan, because she has a WindClan grandfather, Reedfeather, thus four types of Clan blood thrived in her kits, Stormfur and Feathertail (ThunderClan, RiverClan, WindClan and SkyClan).
 * She has been mentioned to have green eyes.
 * She has been mistakenly described as pale gray.
 * She has also been mistakenly described with a black-and-silver coat.

Members
Mate:
 * Graystripe: (formerly)

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

Son:
 * Stormfur:

Grandson:
 * Pine That Clings to Rock living as of Sign of the Moon

Granddaughter:
 * Lark That Sings at Dawn Living as of Sign of the Moon

Mother:
 * Willowbreeze: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Father:
 * Crookedstar: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Siblings:
 * Willowkit: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Minnowkit Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Grandmothers:
 * Rainflower: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Fallowtail: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Grandfathers:
 * Shellheart: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member
 * Reedfeather: Deceased, Suspected StarClan member

Uncle:
 * Oakheart: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Aunt:
 * Graypool: Deceased, Verified StarClan member

Cousins:
 * Unnamed tabby kit: Status Unknown
 * Unidentified kits: Deceased, Suspected StarClan members
 * Mistystar:
 * Stonefur: Deceased, Verified StarClan member
 * Mosskit: Deceased, Verified StarClan member
 * Reedwhisker:
 * Three Unknown kits of Mistystar's: Status Unknown