Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 8

The clan cats tried to fight back but they couldn't keep it up and they were soon surrounded by the house cats. Mossfur signaled to Birchtail who got the message and sped towards the safety of the forest. Rivera turned and nodded to her patrol, they all raced after Birchtail leaving Mossfur's patrol unguarded. They raced after Birchtail and found all the house cats surrounded by clan cats. "What do you want from Birchtail?" Thistlestar was asking Rivera. "What do I, I want from Birchtail? I want him to be loyal," said Rivera. "He is loyal, that is why he came back to the clan." said Thistlestar slowly. "No, No, I want him to be loyal to his human. She has done him a huge favor she has saved him, from a great danger. He could have been left in the shelter for a long time until he was gone forever. Until he had entered the dark." snapped Rivera. "Entered the dark?" questioned Thistlestar. "At the shelter, there is one room that is almost never entered. No cat knows what is in there, because every cat that goes in never comes out. Well actually that is incorrect I was saved by my human when I was going to enter the room. If you are at the shelter for a very long time, or if you are keeping other cats from being adopted because you are scaring the humans the shelter humans take you into the other room. The dark room. In the dark room it is dim, and to clean and quiet. Then the cat or animal brought in starts to fade from everyones memory so no one sees the  at again. But we know something bad happened to them because they returned to watch over the shelter as their spirit. Would you like Birchtail to have come back to the clan as a ghost a memory of what he was?" questioned Rivera. "I guess not," said Thistlestar. "Then Birchtail should be thankful and grateful to my human. She could have left in the shelter's mercy. Cats become spirits and ghosts at that shelter."