[Derpple and Ashie]

Burdockpool was trapped in nightmarish dream in which his long passed sister taunted and jeered at him from behind shadowy trees. He tried to swipe at her, but she vanished in plumes of smoke and reappeared elsewhere to sneer at him. He spun around rapidly, raking his claws at where her glowing yellow eyes were, only for his paw to break before his eyes once more. He collapsed in pain, and a spotted brown tom crept forward to step onto his other paw and slowly apply more force. Jasmine leaned down from a tree, smiling with dark pleasure, as the spotted tom twisted and shifted into a vague image of Blazingnight, Burdockpool unable to stop the love of his life from breaking his other paw. He yowled with agony, and the vision of his mate disappeared in a trail of smoke. He stared up at the sky, dark trees blocking the stars from view, and gave a low moan. "Why?" He asked softly.

"Why not?" Came a simple response.

Just as Jasmine surged forward to bite his throat, something in the waking world jabbed into him, bringing Burdockpool safely into reality just before he'd had met a ghostly death. Hazel eyes snapped open to take in the panicked expression of his mate and the way she curled in pain. Mind snapping forward to forget the terror making his heart race or the renewed pain in his paws, he simply nodded in understanding. "Is it happening?" He asked for confirmation.