Why Is The Sky?

== Chapter 1 ==
The whole of SkyClan was tired. Orchidpaw especially longed to go to sleep after the hunting patrol she had been on. The Clan was having to send out more and more hunting patrols as the weather grew worse and prey became scarcer. It was worst in SkyClan: while the other Clans could hunt prey from the ground, SkyClan's bones were weary from all the jumping and stretching, and it was harder to find and reach prey in a hollow tree trunk than it was to sniff out a mouse nest or a rabbit burrow before forcing it into the open.
Orchidpaw had already been on three patrols that day, and she was so tired she was almost falling asleep on her paws. Her mentor, Diamondeye, was incredibly strict and always made sure she had at the very least three pieces of prey before she could return to camp. This made Orchidpaw stressed and angry, because none of the other apprentices had to do so.
"Hey, Orchidpaw! Come play with us," whined Wavekit, one of Raspberrywhisker's kits. Her littermates, Limekit and Poolkit, looked up at her with wide, pleading eyes. "Please," added Wavekit. Orchidpaw sighed. Because she was the youngest apprentice, it was always her who had to play with the kits, and whatever she did, she got told off. When she did play with them, they complained that she was being too rough, and then Raspberrywhisker would be cross with her. Then when she didn't, she got told off for being mean to the "innocent little kits".
Heaving a sigh, Orchidpaw walked wearily over to the three kits. "Okay, okay," she sighed. "What do you want to do, then?" 
"I wanna play moss ball!" Poolkit yelled, wagging his stumpy little tail in the air. "Moss ball is fun and it means we get to destroy Orchidpaw's nest so we get some moss!"
"No, let's do battle training! Orchidpaw, you have to teach us what Diamondeye taught you today. He's so cool, so you have to know great moves too," insisted Wavekit.
Then Limekit moaned, "No way! That's so boring. I know - we'll playfight! Orchidpaw, you have to be a ShadowClan warrior, and we will be the brave SkyClan cats who have to fight you off." The other kits cheered, showing that they supported the idea. Orchidpaw just sighed. Playfight was her least favourite game: it involved so much activeness and running around, then almost always nearly being suffocated by kit fluff.
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