(Star is not scrawny)"The tom has the right idea," Ice purred. "But don't call me that! I am your elder! Don't talk back like that!"
Her paws clenched as she decided this scrawny brown cat was even more intolerable than that Tanglepelt.
"Now, follow!" Ice walked ahead. "If you have any more complaints, blame your incompetence!"
“I’ll follow when you lead.” Star mewed calmly, let Ice’s apparently old brain figure out what that meant.