Chapter Thirty

"Smokepaw! How'd your first day of training go?" Snowpaw asked as Smokepaw limped towards the apprentice's den. Smokepaw shot her a look that said everything about how it went. Smokepaw just rolled her eyes and sat down beside the older apprentice, feeling a bit annoyed and uneasy with what was happening all around her.

"It could have gone better if my mentor wasn't so distracted," she muttered crossly. Snowpaw only looked at her sympathetically.

"Well, not everyone is like that. Briarheart probably just has a lot on her mind," she meowed.

She was ready to say something in response when Smokepaw overheard something Briarheart was saying to her fellow Clanmates. Her mentor was situated between a pale tabby tom known as Talonclaw and a gray and white she-cat known as Sageleaf.

"... she hardly ever pays attention to anything I say!" Briarheart complained. Smokepaw's fur bristled with annoyance at the whining tone in her voice. "To make matters worse, Russetstar expects me to mold her int