"You don't talk to outsiders, Fleet, you chase them " No longer a kitten, Fleet finally escapes into the garden for the first time. Strongclaw, older and supposedly wiser, has taught him what to expect - stupid dogs, mad squirrels, feline plotters - and his instructions are to chase them all. But as Fleet explores, the animals he meets don't quite fit into Strongclaw's menagerie of menace, and when he gives away some precious food the two cats are set on a collision course. With Strongclaw's advantage in experience, weight and practiced belligerence, Fleet must trust in his convictions if he is going to help his new friends, and then in his friends if he is going to help Strongclaw