Dammit. Stars
damn it all! Every hair on Bumblestar's body stood on end as she scoured the clearing alongside her Clanmates. They found nothing. All she came across was a blood trail that ended in a flurry of feathers and scraps of multicolored fur.
No signs of Springlight. No signs of life. Not even a body to take home.
She was gone.
A snarl rumbled in Bumblestar's throat, frustrated and
angry and filled with grief all at once.
"There's some," she rasped in response to Spiderthroat. Under the old camp, at least the one Jaystride had led she and Wolfpaw out of.
"But I don't think she fell in any of 'em. This wasn't a fall, this is just- it was an attack. Owl. All those feathers..." The herbs weren't even salvageable, having been trampled and shredded.
She would have found a way to twist this whole thing around and pin it on RiverClan if they were still lurking near the borders, but she couldn't even do that to have an excuse to wreck them again and make herself feel better. This wasn't planned, or done with purpose. It was a stupid freak accident with an
owl, of all things, and now Springlight was gone, leaving ThunderClan at square one for healers again.
She rolled her shoulders and clenched her jaw.
"She's gone." The words rasped in the back of her throat.
"Let's go back to camp. Keep a lookout for anything on the way back just in case, but don't get your hopes up."
Drizzlecloud wasn't fit for the rank any longer. Springlight was gone. She'd have to find replacements quickly so that ThunderClan wasn't left to scramble for purchase if disaster struck.
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