[littlelove]

A shadow of disheveled fur made it's way across Riverclan's clearing and into the leader's den as dawn was just barely beginning to crack across the sky. Her pawsteps wobbled, uncertain - almost as if the very ground beneath her would cave in and fall away. Part of Morninglily longed for the void that she was sure lay beneath her paws. For the same void that had consumed all she loved this far to reduce her into bits and bobs as well, though she knew she deserved the crimson skies and metallic-tasting mud of the Dark Forest much more.

"S-- Skystar," The warrior rasped, forcing herself upright. "I've... come to report a desertion." The sick feeling in her belly seemed to only weigh heavier as she spoke of the situation she'd found herself in just a few hours before. "I caught Streampelt on the border with a Thunderclan cat. They- they were mates, I guess. I don't know how... how long it'd been going on for, but... They both left. For Windclan. We won't be seeing them again."

Her final words were spoken with a disraught confidence. It seemed like finality had made it's weight known upon her shoulders and pinned her to the ground. Morninglily had been defeated.

@marshall