On the willows there, we hung up our lyres

"Actually, she gave them to Squirrelflight, and Squirrelflight passed them off as her own. Squirrelflight’s Leafpool's littermate. No one but the two of them knew the kits were half-Clan until they were all grown cats. It was a horrible shock to them, and to Bramblestar as Squirrelflight’s mate. I was raised knowing that my mother wasn't a Clan cat, and my father wasn't from RiverClan, so I never had a pure Clanborn identity like that, but I imagine it was hard to have that shattered." Mothwing speaks with some sympathy, but there's a skeptical edge in her lashing tail.

Poor Hollyleaf, Jayfeather and Lionblaze, who had Leafpool as their mother and two loving foster parents. Mothwing's father was one of the worst villains the clans had ever seen.