[poppy]

Dovefluff

As a cat approached her, the young queen had a tiny flash of self awareness and clamped her jaws shut to forcefully stop herself from wailing aloud any longer, sobs shaking her shoulders as she kept her eyes locked on her dead kit, not even able to tear her gaze away to look at Crowpaw or open her mouth to answer him, for fear that she'd fall to pieces when attempting to speak. So she just nodded, tears pouring down her face as she reluctantly released her kitten, letting him gently pick her up and start to lead her to the clearing. Like a kit who didn't know how to walk, the Russian Blue mix padded out beside him, eyes still locked on her last kit.

Four kits, she had carried four kits in her on her way here from ShadowClan. For a fresh start, away from where their toxic father could find them, away from where he could reach her or hurt them. And now she had no kits. Three had vanished, one had died young. Far too young. Dovefluff showed no physical sign of hearing Lavendarkit's apathetic response, just padding out with Crowpaw, her entire body slumped and shaking with sobs. How did this happen?! Echokit wasn't sick, she wasn't hurt, she was perfectly healthy. Echokit was stolen from her. Heronkit, Skykit and Hollowkit were stolen from her. And she had a feeling that some idiot in the clearing would accuse her of killing her kit, just like they had done with Darkpetal. Because of where she came from.

Dove would stumble a few times as she made her way out of the clearing, tunnel vision on the body of her child obscuring her view of anyone around.

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