Something she had known to be true before but had yet to actually experience was what every queen she'd spoken to often liked to say: motherhood is exhausting. Most of her days are spent laying in her nest and nursing her three kits. They don't do much besides eat and sleep, as young as they are. She doesn't quite get the whole exhaustion thing, but she's not running around after kits three moons old yet, so there's still time, the queen supposes.

She's asleep when Primroseadder enters the nursery, her soft voice making the tired queen crack an eye open and twitch her whiskers in question. She does not miss the pitiful bundle placed on the ground beside her nest, and her sharp brain is quick to guess what the question about to be asked is. Still... she does not go ahead and say so. That is for the new warrior to say, not her.

"Go ahead," she prompts, tail moving to protectively cover Houndkit, Faithkit and Fernkit. It's instinct more than anything else to do so, to protect her own.

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The request comes as she suspected it would, and Larkwing... isn't sure how to respond at first. Part of her - perhaps the part of her that used to be leader of this Clan - finds herself agreeing with Stormstar's apparent displeasure. It's leafbare, prey is going to be harder to find now more than ever. RiverClan may have a river at their disposal, but they are not at the strength they once were, and if that river freezes? Then prey will not come as easily and they will all go hungry. Taking in an outsider kit, especially one this young, is foolish.

Larkwing is not a cruel cat, however, and even if this scenario had happened a season cycle ago when she had held Stormstar's position, she likely would not have been able to turn the kit away then, either. And so, against what is probably her better judgement, Larkwing purses her lips and nods slowly.

"Okay," she says simply, not commenting on anything else, not falling for the obvious bait to say something about the matter of unburying the bodies of those two dead kits. This is not a conversation she wants to have with a cat as inexperienced as Primroseadder. "I'll feed him, keep him warm. Don't worry about keeping him entertained, the nursery is plenty full of kittens who'd like a playmate."

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