[Empress Of Evil]

The ebony she-cat renewed the last scent-marker before suddenly shooting forward and bounding up into a tall oak tree in the way that a squirrel might. She pulled herself up onto a sturdy branch that was a few foxlengths above the ground. She sat comfortably on the branch, leaning against the tree trunk and not at all looking afraid of the distance between her and the ground. It must be the SkyClan blood in her.

Auroraflame had come out early this morning to remark a border by herself. She’d already sorted out all the other patrols and duties that her clanmates would have to tend to later so she had decided to help them out a little by giving them one less border to mark. Sure, it was hard work for one cat to take care of but Auroraflame didn’t really mind. She’d woken up much earlier than she would’ve liked and so she had decided to use this extra time to do something usual.

Dawn had already passed and the sun had risen above the line that the land beyond created. Auroraflame gazed out calmly into the distance. It was at times like this that she knew why SkyClan had moved here. A lot of the time her mind was occupied by the rivalries between all the other clans and although SkyClan had come here to save them from war, the clans still fought and SkyClan was getting dragged into it. She couldn’t understand why they wanted to fight. Sure, they wanted to defend their clan and avenge the death of a warrior, but the death of the warrior wouldn’t even had occurred had everyone been kinder to the other clans. Why did they have to be hostile? Why did Fallenstar have to be so rude? Why did Blazingstar think that he had the right to drag an innocent clan into this? Auroraflame didn’t understand and a tiny flame of anger danced in her gaze as she thought about all of this. Sometimes she wished that StarClan would come down and knock some sense into everyone. They were fighting over nothing but pride. Auroraflame felt powerless to do anything but she still wanted to do something.

@Celestial