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He remembers the night he’d told Little Wolf goodbye. The moon had floated, full and solid and judgmental, behind the skeletal leafbare-stripped trees. Thin and bony shadows had sliced through the emptied clearing—but her eyes had been bright as stars, filmy with her tears. “My heart will always belong to you, no matter what,” she’d whispered, her head buried under his chin. He’d ached, both with the pain of impending loss and with the knowledge that the rest of his life would be without her.
“Could we spend one last night together,” she’d asked, and he’d not been able to refuse her. Against his better judgment, they’d ended their relationship beneath that ever-watchful eye of StarClan, and she had returned to ThunderClan, to her siblings, her mother, to Burnstorm and Moonwhisper, then barely out of the nursery.
And she had carried kits inside of her, kits with heavy names and burdened legacies. Blazestar has listened to Howlingstar speak of them at Gatherings since their birth, but the first time he’d touched his son was when his teeth had shorn his throat.
He’s cleaned the blood from his fur the best he’s able to, but his eyes are shadowed. Every step is a limp. When he stumbles back into camp, it’s clear something awful has happened. He’d broken the warrior code one cycle of seasons ago, and his weakness has stripped two of the lives StarClan had given him away from his body.
“There’s a… a fox, by the ThunderClan border,” he rasps, sinking to paws that tremble. “I… I was attacked.” His blue eyes are dark and haunted—and he searches his Clanmates’ faces, wondering where and why he took the paths he’d taken to end up here.
I’m sorry, my kits. But I will not betray you. I will not abandon you, and I will not hurt you again.
[ mate tag @bobbie and medicine cat tags @DAWNGLARE @Fireflypaw but otherwise this is open to anyone in camp ^^ ]
“Could we spend one last night together,” she’d asked, and he’d not been able to refuse her. Against his better judgment, they’d ended their relationship beneath that ever-watchful eye of StarClan, and she had returned to ThunderClan, to her siblings, her mother, to Burnstorm and Moonwhisper, then barely out of the nursery.
And she had carried kits inside of her, kits with heavy names and burdened legacies. Blazestar has listened to Howlingstar speak of them at Gatherings since their birth, but the first time he’d touched his son was when his teeth had shorn his throat.
He’s cleaned the blood from his fur the best he’s able to, but his eyes are shadowed. Every step is a limp. When he stumbles back into camp, it’s clear something awful has happened. He’d broken the warrior code one cycle of seasons ago, and his weakness has stripped two of the lives StarClan had given him away from his body.
“There’s a… a fox, by the ThunderClan border,” he rasps, sinking to paws that tremble. “I… I was attacked.” His blue eyes are dark and haunted—and he searches his Clanmates’ faces, wondering where and why he took the paths he’d taken to end up here.
I’m sorry, my kits. But I will not betray you. I will not abandon you, and I will not hurt you again.
[ mate tag @bobbie and medicine cat tags @DAWNGLARE @Fireflypaw but otherwise this is open to anyone in camp ^^ ]
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