Sycamore asks
when they'll meet her, and SIltcloud cannot hide the flash of pain that burns across her face and heart.
" Soon, " she lies, and it feels like poison spilling past her lips.
" She's just... busy. Shadowclan is very far, and she can't come here right now, " she doesn't know anymore if she lies to spare their feelings or her own - all of it hurts a little too much, feels a little to
real, and she hates it.
" You see how we have stripes Marblekit? Well Lilacfur has spots just like Sycamorekit's - and she has soft fluffy fur too, " she says - and really, her son looks so much like a blend of them both that it
hurts.
" And you - you're paler than me because she's soft and silver and shiny - like moonlight, or the stars, " she says warmly.
" Someday... in shadowclan, there's many more mouths to feed... but the warrior code says kits eat first, so you'll always have full bellies when shs around, " food - it's all thats on any of their minds, isn't it? If only she'd known, if only she'd-
She almost misses the last of her daughters words lost in thought as she is, but she catches it in the end. Bittersweet smile upon her lips and a choked up laugh - a
good cat. Silt has never been good - no, she's always been a monster, a serpent in the nest waiting to swallow the hatchlings whole. She has never been a good cat - and never will be.
" Mhm... but you're mommy is great - you'll never meet another cat as hard working as her, " she says, lips twitching. Poppypaw might've burned bright and fast, a fire to wild to be contained; and Loampelt might've been a shadow, ice cold and sharp-tongued to boot - but
Lilacfur, stars how she had shined. Siltcloud could never compare, as broken and crooked a thing she's always been.
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