A glimpse of what happened to the old medicine cat BirchRoot before he was discovered dead by his apprentice GroundPaw, after he didn't return from the woods while they visited the moonshine.
GroundPaw found the grizzly scene just as the sun began to rise after waking up alone next to the moonshine, her dreams that night had been oddly peaceful despite having been plagued by nightmares for the days leading up to the meeting with Starclan, she explained to ScreechStar that her mentor had told her to not worry and to go ahead without him while he went to investigate an unusual sound she heard from the woods when they exited the tunnels. She did so, grateful she wouldn't have to go into the dark woods. She told the clan that she fell asleep almost immediately after making it to the moonshine, and assumed that BirchRoot was sleeping beside her, she explained she had no idea what happened to her mentor but that upon finding the body StarClan sent a vision of a tall creature with a face like a full moon that she believes is what killed BirchRoot.
BirchRoot was buried in the clearing by the camp and ScreechStar mourned the loss of his last brother and declared that no one was to enter the woods on a full moon until they figured out what happened.
(art and text by @danybugs)
