These notes reflect a bulleted list of major and minor events in Tree's Roots that can be easily navigated. They are intended to serve as a reference for those looking for specific events in re-reading and book discussions and include links to the relevant chapter subpages further detailing each chapter's events.
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Earth and Stream are trying to talk to the earth.
They don't seem to get the hold of it and get distracted.
Both try to meditate again.
Earth notes that Stream seems to have got it, frustrated at his own skill.
Earth's sisters tease him.
Moonlight performs the ceremony to send Snail and Chestnut away
Everyone goes to sleep before Moonlight wakes them up during the night.
To look for Moonlight, Stream runs off.
Moonlight calls the Sisters to her, before spotting Earth.
She calls the other kits out and leads them to a rock.
However Earth heads off to look for his friend.
He finds him in a valley.
Stream is struck by a lightning bolt and killed.
The Sisters mourn Haze.
Earth angrily asks his mother why they will not sing for Stream.
She answers that Stream was a tom and was destined to return to the earth. She insists that singing for him is unnecessary.
Moonlight also chastises him for disobeying her.
She then reassures him that she will still care for him.
The Sisters sing for Haze, and communicate with her ghost, along with Stream's.
They also communicate with Stream
Earth can't see his friend
Earth tries to hunt, but is distracted by the thought of wandering.
He protests that he's not ready to leave, but Hawk shuts him down.
They try to hunt in the tall grass but encounter rogues.
Earth freezes while Hawk fights.
Moonlight is angry with Earth for not being able to fight.
Later, Ice falls ill.
Earth tries to convince Moonlight that he can't leave.
His mother refuses and tells him the tale of a tom who was allowed to stay longer than usual. Supposedly as a result of this, misfortune struck the Sisters, and after the tom finally left, he stayed with Twopaws.
Again, Moonlight tells Earth that he will grow to be strong and capable.
Earth doubts it, wishing his mother loved him as much as his sisters did.
The ceremony is performed, and Earth is sent away.
He makes a nest under a bush, trying to communicate with his ancestors, but receives no answer.
Earth eavesdrops on the Sisters as they get ready to leave.
He feels hurt that they didn't wait longer to make sure he was all right.
He watches them until they pad out of sight.
Earth eats a shrew, imagining life back with the Sisters.
He thinks of Stream and suddenly his appetite is gone.
Resentment grows in him as he thinks of the Sisters' traditions.
He tries once more to see spirits, but fails.
Earth follows the Sisters' scent to their new camp.
Earth is afraid to meet the Sisters, which makes him angry.
he wonders why they send only toms away.
He meets Ice, who seems healthy again.
They converse for a short while, and Earth spits that the Sisters don't care about toms.
Ice tries to assure him that they do, but sending away toms is tradition.
She offers to help him, but he declines, knowing it won't help.
They part ways.
He suddenly is surrounded by dogs.
Before he can react another loner attacks the dogs and orders him to run.
Both of them run until they are out of range.
Earth gets a look at this newcomer , who is yellow just like him.
The newcomer introduces himself as Root.
Root walks off, but Earth follows him.
The loner asks him if he's lost.
Root agrees to let Earth stay with him for the night.
They make a nest in a tree.
Earth wakes up and tries to talk to Stream once more.
Root overhears him and asks if he knows of the Sisters.
He mentions that he was mated to Moonlight, but they left him.
They figure out that Earth is Root's son.
He agrees to let Earth stay with him for a moon.
Earth renames himself Tree.
Root is teaching Tree how to hunt.
His technique is pretending to be a bush before striking at the right moment.
He once again tries to talk to the earth.
Root reminds him that he is not a Sister and does not have to partake in their traditions.
Tree expresses his gratitude at being taught, but knows it'll come to an end soon.
His father stammers that they should stay together for a bit.
Tree realizes that they would miss each other.
A couple days later, they hunt rabbits.
They are about to eat one they caught when they scent fox.
They attack the fox.
Tree momentarily freezes.
Root saves him.
They chase off the fox.
Root dies.
Tree decides to wander alone.
Tree is wandering through Twolegplace.
A cat senses him and he emerges from his hiding spot.
He offers the cat food he was eating.
She refuses, before hunting for herself.
They eat together and she introduces herself as Pebbleshine .
She mentions her Clan, SkyClan , and talks about them.
Pebbleshine expresses her desire to rejoin her Clan as soon as possible.
She also asks if he wants to come with him, but he turns her down.
He lies about his past in response to a question.
Tree sleeps for a bit before Root wakes him up.
He asks his father how he's seeing his ghost.
Root impatiently orders him to get both himself and Pebbleshine out.
Tree obeys, shaking Pebbleshine awake and telling her they need to evacuate.
They both wonder where to go, before Tree catches the scent of fox.
Both of them decide to cross the Thunderpath.
The fox catches up with them, and Tree orders Pebbleshine to go.
She refuses, choosing to fight instead.
Tree falls, remembering how this happened last time.
Instead of freezing, he launches himself at the fox.
They successfully drive the fox off.
Pebbleshine thanks Tree for waking her.
She asks again if he wants to join SkyClan.
Again, Tree turns her down.
Tree talks with his father, apologizing for his death.
Root tells him not to feel guilty.
He tells his son that it's better to be with someone else.
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