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Shadowpaw's wounds can't be patched up:
"W-well, I...deserved these wounds for failing to catch prey, so I'm not allowed to get them patched up."
... When Mistythroat was preparing to apply the poultice to his wounds, he felt the instinctive urge to speak up in response. "W-wait, I have to suffer my w-"
Shadowpaw warns Larchleap of the danger of his father: "Y-you don't...I have to go...or y-you'll be in danger...Your clan." ... "No! I have to go back!" "My father isn't ever going to let me remain here! I have to go back to him before...before he gets..."
Larchleap tries to convince Shadowpaw he must eat: LL: "Shadowpaw, it's okay to eat. You're supposed to eat," she mewed softly. "Especially when you're hungry and when Rainstar asks you to. Being starved is not okay."
SP: "Then...why am I? When a cat doesn't contribute, he doesn't get to steal other cats' contribution to the clan."
The 'false code:' "My father, he said other cats followed a...a false code. W...was he talking about you?" He looked in between the two Thunderclan warriors.
Dawnstar went out of her way to make sure Shadowpaw ate: "...She took me out to catch me prey, sometimes to bring back, and sometimes to eat because...well...My father wouldn't train me to hunt. I'm not fast enough and I'm too stupid to get it. So she caught food for me."