Lapis blue eyes scanned the unknown territory before her, gentle white paws slowly traversing forward, head bent low and body aching with bitter unease. Swiftpaw knew very well she shouldn't have gone here unsupervised, but she had to make sure that Shatteredvoice's death wasn't for nothing; and because she owed this to Murkywaters and the rest of Riverclan. Timberpaw, she believed his name was, had single handedly murdered their Medicine cat, and Swiftpaw wasn't going to ignore the inevitable - not when there was something she could do about it. Besides, he was trained in the arts of herblore, not how to use his claws. Looking at it that way, perhaps Swiftpaw had a better chance, even though she was nothing more then a seven month old apprentice with a big ego.
Slowly padding through the upturned soil, the younger sister of Bearstar slowly retraced her steps from only a month ago when she had taken this road to Stormclan with Murkywaters, keeping her cold nose high, aware of the sounds of the forest around her.
