Chapters 4-7 Summary and Analysis

Hollykit and Lionkit, relieved to learn that Jaykit is okay, wait for Firestar to decide on their punishment for revealing the cats' campsite to the ravenous fox cubs, thus endangering the entire clan. Firestar sends the impetuous kits back to the nursery, where Brambleclaw informs them that the blind Jaykit won't be able to apprentice as a warrior. The kits object, and strenuously protest that Jaykit can smell and hear and sense everything that happens in the camp. He's able to see things with his nose and ears instead of his eyes because those senses, in the absence of vision, have become extraordinarily acute.

Thornclaw shows up and reports that Poppypaw and Mousepaw chased one of the fox cubs over the border into ShadowClan territory but the other two vanished without a trace and are presumably still at large...