No cat knows why the meadow got that name. It's unnatural, causing to several questions and sometimes fear. Queens tell their kits that the black meadow is haunted, because there had been a fire moons ago and still the ground is black. ThunderClan decided not to claim these lands for once they sent a loner there and, when she returned, she was ill and kept speaking about how the grass was growing black. Many cats who tread here never return or, when they do, are sicker than a Clan in leaf-bare.