Shadowed Caves

The shadowed caves sit at the very edge of ShadowClan territory, and mark the point where their border ends and the 'outside world' begins. Etched along the base of the rocks that eventually end up forming Highstones, creating a ‘cliff-like’ feel, the shadowed caves are actually a series of seven main spaces all linked together by crevices and then a good deal of smaller ones, some of them (supposedly) inaccessible. Covered by moss and bare brush, the dark and forbidding atmosphere tend to keep away cats, and even members of ShadowClan feel unnerved or refuse entirely to hang around them. However, that doesn’t stop them from preparing some of the caves as a back up camp, the knowledge of which is carefully kept hidden from prying others – and excuses are always made to others for the cats who die chasing out nesting badgers, foxes, and the like from the would-be camp. It’s a secret refuge that is the best kept secret of ShadowClan, and they’d like to keep it that way.