WindClan

No, it's not, Feathertail flashes back.

Jayfeather and Lionblaze are half WindClan, Crowfeather's sons.

She cares what happens to them.

She has to watch over them.

But he had an apprentice.

Yes.

He did, but we did spend some time with him in WindClan recently, didn't we? As an apprentice, as a kid.

Oh my god, he went through it as an apprentice.

Then he noticed that both cats had strong muscular back legs.

Jumping must have been SkyClan's special skill, just as RiverClan cats could swim well and WindClan cats could run fast after rapids.

Okay, so their their special skill is jumping.

That's kinda cool, but the only image coming into my mind is of a kangaroo.

Sandstorm agrees and still wonders if maybe they don't remember who they are anymore.

Looking ahead, he sees the jagged tops of a range of hills.

They don't look as sharp as Highstones, but they're higher than WindClan's moorland.

From a clan cat's perspective, it looks like a refuge from cats who want to be away from other cats and twolegs.

So I'm sure somewhere, they're so inbred, somewhere in Sandstorm's lineage, I'm sure them broad shoulders came from, that, that was a ThunderClan thing.

Something, I-

...

This just serves to make Firestar even more determined to go on this quest because it's his, not Star Clan's, and he's very prepared to do it without any of his warrior ancestors.

He feels very exposed along the edge of the gorge, but they reach the RiverClan and WindClan border without being spotted by any patrols.

There's a strong breeze blowing from the moorland, and it makes Firestar feel like it'll blow him off his paws.

It brings along a strong, fresh scent of WindClan cats with it.

Quote, "There could be a patrol about," Sandstorm mewed.

Firestar tasted the air again.

Like, let's, let's relax.

[laughs] We're not even out of the forest yet.

Let's go see them.

And then we got WindClan.

They're like hippie nomad cats.

Cause cats usually have this, their den and it's like set up like this.

They were following a river.

The familiar tang of water in the air told him this was the forest river he knew, though here, beyond WindClan territory, it flowed more swiftly through the hills.

'Wait,' Firestar called to them.

'Cats of SkyClan, wait for me.

Right.

You have ThunderClan, ShadowClan, WindClan, and RiverClan.

And there's a fifth one too, right?

Yeah.

It is.

Following that, in 2021, we got Winds of Change.

If RiverClan was about trauma, Winds of Change is a straight up political thriller about a stolen election in WindClan.

The political mechanics in this one are fascinating.