The Great Hunger is a starvation epidemic that took place in Goosefeather's Curse, killing several ThunderClan cats.
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| - The Great Hunger is a starvation epidemic that took place in Goosefeather's Curse, killing several ThunderClan cats.
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| speaker b
| - Goosefeather
- Houndstar
- Pineheart
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| speaker c
| - Cloudberry
- Doestar
- Pineheart
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| - We'll have to find a different source of prey. Should we expand the territory? Send cats into Twolegplace?
- Whose idea was it to dig up half the clearing? If it keeps raining, we'll all sink up to our necks!
- I am proud to announce three new litters of kits in ThunderClan.
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| - Pineheart! The fresh-kill will be ruined! We have to dig it up and take it somewhere dry!
- So close to leaf-bare? Those warriors won't like having to catch prey for so many hungry mouths!
- I can't see our warriors being happy about that. But perhaps we coud set borders around the terrcutplace. I don't think we'd be challeneged if we wanted to hunt there.
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| - But we’ve only just buried it! Where else can we put it? The ground will be soaked everywhere in the forest.
- ThunderClan is well prepared for leaf-bare. My Clan will grow strong through the coldest moons, and I will bring you our new apprentices when the warm weather returns!
- There is something we could try. I remember a very cold leaf-bare when I was a kit in RiverClan. The river froze, tarrping all the fish. Some warriors broke off a piece of ice at the edge of the river and brought it back to the camp. It contained a fish, stone-cold and dead. But when the warmth of the dens melted the ice around it, the fish was perfect fresh-kill. Somehow the ice had kept it fresh.
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| - If we send out extra hunting patrols for the next moon, we could store enough food to last until newleaf!
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| - Maybe not. But what if the same thing happens in the ground? We know the earth freezes when it gets very cold. If we buried the fresh-kill, wouldn't it freeze too? Then we could dig it up when we need it.
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| - We can’t waste time thinking about that. We have to dig it up before it rots!
- Are you saying we should wait for the river to freeze, and eat fish?
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| quote e
| - No. I think we should find a way to keep our own prey fresh for when we have nothing else to eat.
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| - Doestar to Goosefeather
- Goosefeather thinking about the dug-up camp
- Goosefeather thinking about the ruined prey
- Goosefeather's vision of the Great Hunger
- Narrator about the end of the Great Hunger
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| Description
| - Doestar and Houndstar at a Gathering
- Doestar, Pineheart, Goosefeather, and Cloudberry coming up with a plan to prevent the Great Hunger
- Pineheart and Goosefeather when it rains
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| - The greatest risk is starving to death, wouldn’t you say?
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| - Goosefeather, tell no one else about your vision. I don’t want any cat to panic. We can say that we are preparing for the chance of a hard leaf-bare, but no cat must know what you have foreseen.
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| - chapter 8
- chapter 10
- chapter 9
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| - "Goosefeather, tell no one else about your vision. I don’t want any cat to panic. We can say that we are preparing for the chance of a hard leaf-bare, but no cat must know what you have foreseen."
- Within three sunrises, the camp had been transformed. The clearing was dotted with large holes, each a full fox-length across, dug by the cats with sharpest claws and strongest front legs.
- All around them, warriors were digging up more rotten prey. Soaked, maggoty, and wasted away to nothing, their precious stores were useless. Goosefeather looked up and saw Doestar standing below Highrock, her eyes dark with fear. Pineheart was standing beside her, his tail lashing as he promised to send out more patrols, restock the stores. But there was a weight in Goosefeather's belly like cold stone. His vision was going to come true. There was nothing he could do to save his Clanmates from starvation.
- The snow did not last forever. The days lengthened, and the biting chill left the air. The forest echoed with the sound of dripping water, and tiny green buds appeared on the trees. The ThunderClan cats emerged, weak and blinking, from the moons of darkness and horror.
- [Goosefeather] ran into the clearing and stopped dead in horror. His Clanmates staggered around him, ribs sticking out of scabby pelts, eyes bulging from sharp-edged faces. The air was thick with wails of pain and the low, steady keening of a cat lost in grief. Two cats, Squirrelwhisker and Rooktail, clawed at the place where the fresh-kill pile had been; it was nothing now but a few scraps of fur and a scattering of tiny bones. A ginger shape lay slumped in the middle of the clearing, eyes open and clouded. To Goosefeather's dismay, none of the other cats paid any attention to it. Instead they stepped over the dead cat's crumpled legs, blinded and numb from hunger.
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| - Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 8
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| quote j
| - We don’t want to risk the strength of our Clan in battle.
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| quote f
| - But we don’t have enough water on our territory.
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| quote i
| - I’ll split the dawn patrol and send half out to hunt. And the apprentices can hunt instead of battle training later on.
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| abstract
| - The Great Hunger is a starvation epidemic that took place in Goosefeather's Curse, killing several ThunderClan cats.
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