From the moment I was born, I felt something…wrong. And then, I was able to open my eyes. But when I did open them, I only saw…darkness. I was blind. But something else was wrong. My name is Silver Whiskers, and my mom is Starlight’s Hope. I think. Is she? I’m so confused, being blind.

A few days later, my littermate, Ripple Heron, was poking me and teasing me about being blind. I just sat there, annoyed, as he pounced on me and tumbled along the ground with me. I raked his belly as I did so, and he shrieked like a dying animal. I laughed. I was a natural fighter.

But I was also good with herbs. When I became an apprentice, a decided to take the path of a medicine cat apprentice. That was when the dreams came.

That first night, sleeping with my mentor, Lily Pad the medicine cat, I had just dozed off when something happened. A cat appeared in my dreams.

He didn’t say anything, but somehow I could hear his words in my mind. He told me to feed holly berries to the medicine cat. I don’t know why, but I suddenly thought of what that would do. Holly berries were poisonous.