Chapt 17

Dovepelt padded to the fresh kill pile, still pondering what to do about what Foxleap and Yellowfang told her. She knew she had to tell the leaders, but would she belive her. She was only a warrior, not a medidcine cat. Maybe if she told Jayfeather about it, he could tell Bramblestar. She deciceded she would tell him when he came back from the moon pool with Willowshine.
     "Twigkit! Stop pushing Duskkit! She's not big enough to play so rough!" Dovepelt heard Whitewing's mew come from the nursery. She picked up a few mice for her and the other queens. Her 6 kits had made the nursery crowded and needed to be expanded. Heathertail and Bumblestripe were busy weaving more brambles and twigs into the walls of the camp.
      "Thanks for watching them, I've been so tired these past few days." Doveplt murmured her thanks to Whitewing. The white queen looked over all the kits in the nursery as if they were her own, especially Twigkit, Leafkit, Maplekit, and Rainkit.  Doveplt wondered once the clans seperated where the kits would go, with their birth clan or with their adopted mother? Squirrelflight looked up as Dovepelt placed a mouse by her side.
     "Where are Firekit and Sandkit?" Dovepelt knew her kits never left their mother's side.
     "They went to the elder's den to hear stories. Those elders better not scare them with stories about dogs and foxes. That's all we need kits that won't sleep because their afraid an animal is going to get them!" She snorted as she heaved her self to her paws and padded to the elder's den. Dovepelt wandered over to Whitewing again.
     "Are my kits with the elders too?" Dovepelt sighed.
    "No, I think their with Maplekit, playing catch the feather with Leafpool near the medicine clearing." Whitewing nodded to the medicine den. Dovepelt got to her paws and walked out of the nursery as Whitewing added,"If you see Twigkit and Leafkit, tell them to come to the nursery, they need to eat!" Dovepelt twitched her ears to show she had heard. She padded across the clearing and entered the medidcine clearing.
      "Dovepelt!" Six voices yelled. Her kits scampered to her, and tackled her over.
      "Leafpool gave us some honey! It was so good!" Gingerkit purred.
      "Yeah, and she showed us some herbs and told us what they do!" Hedgekit mewed excitedly.
      "I only showed them some sweet smelling herbs, poppy seeds, and like they said, I gave them honey." Leafpool padded up to the 7 cats.
      "Well they certainly sound like they had a good time!" Dovepelt purred.
      "I wanna' play with Leafpool everyday!" Stonekit purred.
      "Me too!" Honeykit jumped on her brother.
      "Thanks for watching them, I hope they weren't too much of a hassle." Dovepelt murmured to Leafpool while trying to untangle her self from the mass of kits.
      "No problem at all, Honeykit is good at remembering the herbs." Leafpool commented.
      Dovepelt nodded contently at her kits scuffling in the grass, and wished life could always be like this. She knew that life wasn't like this, somewhere out there the Dark Forest was planning to attack again. She knew for the sake of her kits that she had to tell Bramblestar.