Thunder and Shadow/Chapter 16

==Chapter description==
:Twigpaw and Ivypool are preparing to leave. Twigpaw, in her excitement, is reminiscing about how Ivypool had offered to search for her mother on the way back home from the Gathering. She is glad to be finally able to focus on what is important to her. Squirrelflight assigns Fernsong to come on the journey as well, even when Cloudtail doubts the point of this mission. Alderpaw ends up tagging along as well, as he knows where the nest is, and they all set out immediately after eating the traveling herbs.
:Twigpaw is tired by the time they reach the spot; Alderpaw declares they found her in the tunnel underneath the Thunderpath. The sight of rats makes Twigpaw uneasy, and she wonders why her mother had picked such a dreary place for a nursery. Alderpaw does not end up finding the nest—the journeying cats believe it must have gotten washed away, and Twigpaw realizes the cold and the hunger must have been primary reasons for abandoning her kits here. She rushes forward in desperation, but Ivypool stops her, reminding her that it has been moons. The chances of finding her mother is extremely slim.
:The group spots a white cat sitting on the Thunderpath. Twigpaw attempts to save it, believing it to be her mother, but she gets dragged back to safety. Ivypool and Fernsong scold her for putting herself in danger like that. They witness a monster nearing the strange cat; it does not move from the danger, and when the monster goes past it, it vanishes. Twigpaw stares in disbelief, saying the cat was not even real.
:Fernsong urges them all to go home. Twigpaw decides that her mother could not be possibly alive at this point, and she must have gotten hit by a monster ages ago; that must be why she never returned to her kits.
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==Important events==
*Twigpaw, Ivypool, Fernsong, and Alderpaw leave on a quest to discover what happened to Twigpaw's mother, with the gray apprentice concluding that her mother must have been hit by a monster.
==Notes and references==
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