It is to highstones that the leaders journey when it is time to receive their nine lives, or perhaps just commune with their ancestors, while medicine cats come every half-moon. Named highstones because of the large, wind-sanded stones that lie in front of the tunnel which leads to the moonstone, the area is backed up against a small, mostly rocky hill. It's likely it was the site of an old quarry, now long gone, but the earth remains mostly sparse and bare around the area, broken only by the humping shape of boulders.


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Where the leaders get their lives and medicine cats share dreams with StarClan. Set into the hillside, the stone tunnel leading to the moonstone gives you an odd feeling, but once you trek inside, it's not as ominous. Lit by the light from above - often only moonlight, as nighttime is when the visits are typically made - the stone glows when the cats touch their noses to it. A cold sensation will fill you if StarClan responds to your call, and when you drift off to sleep, you will dream - and hopefully, it will have the answer or assurance you are seeking, rather than more questions and warnings.

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Jun 1, 2024 6:51:12 GMT -8

If you travel past the forest, past highstones and then even farther still, until you are not sure whether you walk in dreams or in reality, you will eventually stumble across a stream cutting through the empty landscape, its waters silver-white and flowing backwards. Follow this stream to where it disappears among a whispering grove of birch trees, then trace it farther still, until the thin trunks open before you and reveal the grove’s center. At its heart stands an oak, old and twisted, bare black branches reaching up to the stars, the silver stream flowing into a cleft in its trunk. There are no other animals around you, no life in sight except for the trees. It should be a frightening place, and it is; but there is also a sense of peace that settles over you, and you understand suddenly, clear and quiet and certain, that whatever closure you are seeking, you will find it here.

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Jul 17, 2023 15:09:26 GMT -8