"What are we doing today?" asked Snakepaw. 

"I will teach you the territory," replied Thornfang, padding out the camp entrance.

Snakepaw padded after her, staring at the thick bunch of pine trees. Wow! The territory is huge! So many trees...

"If we see a kittypet, give it a scratch or two and warn it off our territory," meowed Thornfang, "If they don't leave and you ask them to."

Snakepaw nodded, "Okay Thornfang," though he WAS considering chasing it off first. 

"That's the Twolegplace," Thornfang nodded to a big shacklike barn-thing.

Snakepaw breathed in the scent and wrinkled his nose, "It smells like crow-food and twolegs!"

"What do you expect? It's the Twolegplace," Thornfang answered, only half-joking.

They passed through lots of places.

"And that's the SkyClan border," Thornfang explained.

Snakepaw nodded.

"Rub your scent onto it. We need to refresh it," Thornfang meowed.

Shouldn't we be on the patrol though? Snakepaw thought. Still, he remarked the border.

"We will go to mark the RiverClan border next," Thornfang instructed.

Snakepaw nodded again, padding to a stream and doing the same process as he had remarked the border between ShadowClan and SkyClan.

He couldn't help but remark after marking the border, "They smell like fish!"

Thornfang chuckled, "That's RiverClan for you. They eat fish mostly. Well, we DO eat frogs and toads, but I bet any RiverClan cat a mouse that frogs and toads are yummier than fish."

Snakepaw laughed.

"Come on, we need to go back to camp. Or I'll just teach you to hunt first," Thornfang meowed.

"Hunt!" Snakepaw burst out.

Thornfang flicked his tail in acknowledgement and padded towards a marsh, Snakepaw on his tail.