Chapters 14-15 Summary and Analysis

Firestar calls a Clan Meeting and tells the troops that Brambleclaw will be deputy instead of Graystripe. A wave of disappointment goes through the assembled cats; many of them are loyal to Graystripe. But Graystripe takes the news well. He wants what's best for the clan.

Brambleclaw takes Jaypaw out hunting, along with Lionpaw, Berrypaw, Ashfur and Brightheart. Youngsters Lionpaw and Berrypaw get into a scrap, but Hollypaw, who has ventured into the forest to collect some herbs, breaks it up. She and Graystripe join the patrol and they wind their way deep into the forest following the old Thunderpath.

As some of the apprentice warriors are pursuing a mouse, Birchfall bursts out of the undergrowth and announces that the ShadowClan cats have moved the border, and that they've put a new line of scent markings inside ThunderClan territory...