Daddy whats grass?

On Laughingkit was excited, so terribly excited. The kits were being allowed outside of camp again! She was nearly an apprentice now and the urge to go outside of the camp was stronger now than ever.  The fur on her while body was sticking out in her excitement. Best of all, she was getting to go out with her daddy this time. He was not going to be part of the outer ring of warriors keeping an eye on the kits, he was going to be with her.
  “Are you all ready Laughingkit?” Purred her father peeking into what he knew was her favorite hidey hole.
  “Yes, yes! I am.” She chirped squirming out of the tiny rock cave as fast as she could. If he was here that meant it was time to go, time to go outside! She was practically quivering with contained energy. She hopped up to rub her head on her father’s chin before dropping to her feet to prance alongside him.  She wondered if this was what it would feel like when she was an apprentice, just her and her mentor heading out of camp into the great open spaces of SnowClans territory.
  Rushingwaters footsteps slowed as they reached the entrance to SnowClans camp. “Are you you’re ready?” he asked his daughter a mischievous smile on his face.
  “I am! Stop stalling daddy.” She meowed laughing.
  “Okay, if your sure then.” His eyes twinkling he lead his daughter out of the camp.
  Laughingkit gapped and came to a full stop as they left the camp. She had known there was less snow in front of the camp because of the passage of all the warriors and apprentices but this was something she had not expected.  The snow was almost completely gone in places, and in its place was a strange green material.  It stuck up all over the place, even out of the snow. It felt very strange under Laughingkits paws and she lifted them high not really wanting to touch the strange stuff.
  “What is this stuff daddy?” she meowed in a high pitched plaintive voice. “I don’t like it, why is it eating the snow.”  She was more than a little disappointed. She had been expecting nice crunchy snow, solid under her paws and good for playing in. Not, this, this STUFF!
  Rushingwaters sighed, it had not occurred to the tom that his daughter was too young to have seen grass before.
  “It’s called grass dear. It’s a plant like the ones Saplingtail uses. It hides under the snow in Leafbare and then when it warms up the snow melts and.”
  “The snow melts!” interrupted Laughingkit in astonished surprise. She had always thought of snow as a constant thing, sure it fell from the sky, and sure the stuff that came into the camp turned into water, but SnowClans lands were almost entirely made up of snow weren’t they? What would happen if it all melted. Would they be stranded in a sea of grass!
  Rushingwaters nodded “It does melt, it melts a little bit every year or we would be buried in snow. And when it melts things living underneath it like this grass grows.”
  “SnowClan won’t all melt away will it?” Laughingkit asked feeling slightly horrified by the thought.
  “No, of course not. We have never been entirely without snow I think and even if we were we can hunt on the grass too.”
  “Are you sure daddy?”
  “Yes, I promise SnowClan will be safe even if the snow melts.”
  “Okay daddy, can we go home now?” Her desire to go outside of camp had abruptly vanished. She needed time to think about this strange new world that lay out beyond the den.