Tree's Roots/Cliffnotes

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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.
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*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
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*Earth tries to hunt, but is distracted by the thought of wandering.
**Hawk scolds him.
*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.
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*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.
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*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.
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*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.
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*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.
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*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.
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*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.
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*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.
Category:Cliffnotes
Category:Tree's Roots
Category:Novellas
Category:A Warrior's Spirit
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