(Midnight POV)

I felt a small paw prodding my side. Jerking awake, I saw my sister, her green eyes filled with worry and discomfort. "You were twitching in your sleep. You woke me up from my dream."You had a dream too?! I thought. "What was it about?!" I asked her aloud. She looked at me, obviously confused.

"Why do you need to know?!" She snapped at me "You woke me up! That's all I care about!"

"Sorry" I said, wondering why her mood had changed so quickly. "Was it about a cat? Or a few cats?" I asked quietly.

Popcorn looked at me shocked. "How did you-"

Before she could finish her sentence, I added onto what I had said. "What did they say?"

Once again, she looked shocked, like she was almost run over by a monster. "They.. Uh.... Well.. They said... Uhh....." She mumbled. My sister was looking down at her paws, trying to recall the memory. "Well..." She started. "They said something about midnight ruling the clouds..."

I stood where I was. Did they tell her the same thing as they told me? My fur fluffed up as I told my sister, "When the Sun falls, and Twilight has passed, Midnight will rule the clouds."

We looked at each other, fur fluffed, and eyes wide. Despite Popcorn's small structure and short fur, she looked huge when she fluffed up. We stood with our paws planted on the soft ground of our box, not moving a muscle as if we would be attacked and killed if we did. Finally, after a while, Popcorn spoke.

"W-What do you think it means?" She said, her voice quivering and her beautiful jade green eyes filling with fear as they burned through my long fur.

"I don't know." I answered after only a heartbeat's hesitation. I tried smoothing my fur before I changed the subject of thought. "But let's see if we can get out of here before we do anything else. I'm mean. We need to eat sometime, right?"

"Yeah...." Popcorn trailed "But how do you think we are supposed to get out smart one?"

"I don't know.... Maybe we could try jumping out?"

I scooted to one side of the box, gathered my hunches, and jumped. I soared upward, my fur flattening against my flank and my tiny body stretching long. When I got to the topmost peak of my jump, my front paws barely touched the top to the enclosure. I outstretched my claws as far out as I could, clawing at the box with my back claws, while clinging onto the top with my front claws, I forgot about my sister until I heard her yowl.

"OWW!!" Popcorn cringed. "THAT WAS MY FACE YOU JUST CLAWED AT!!!"

I gave up on what I was trying to do and jumped down. When I touched the soft bottom of what seemed like a trap, I turned around to see my sister with her paw over her muzzle. I padded softly over to her, making sure she wasn't mad enough to attack me. "Are you okay?" I asked softly, licking the top of her head.

Jerking away, she hissed, "Leave me alone!" She looked at me and for a moment I thought I saw fear in her jade green eyes. But it was quickly replaced by anger and pain.

"S-Sorry." I said, looking down at my paws so that she couldn't see how embarrassed and frightened I was. "I-I didn't mean to scratch you. I. Um. I didn't realize that you were behind me..." I stopped talking, seeing if she would look up at me.

Please! I silently pleaded. Please don't be mad!