[duckie]

Sootstar
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Again, the connections clicked. 'Only Lionstorm and Fawnsqueak knew the truth.' Memories flooded back of a conversation moons ago, nearly forgotten. A conversation with Fawnsqueak, as a matter of fact. Strangled words pouring out of the tom's mouth all at once, as if to expel them and never have to think of them again. Buried under the bitter interactions that followed, Sootstar hadn't even considered it important.

"I'm afraid... that's not entirely accurate." he interjected. See, his ceremony was not the first time he had heard Willowrose's name, though it was the first time they had met face-to-face. One moonlit walk back from a gathering in the heat of Greenleaf...

"Fawnsqueak told me about what happened. What you... did to yourself. He was rather distraught about it. I can't say how that pair-" He meant Lionstorm and Fawnsqueak of course, "-will receive your return. Whatever it is that drove you to those lengths, I'm not sure I can comfortably allow you back into my clan on good conscious, lest it happens again."

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