[Sapphireshine]

Two days later, Sapphirekit is bugging her mother again. " But Mo-o-o-o-o-om, I want to go outside noooow!" She heard her mother sigh. "You need to be ready for your apprentice ceremony. I can't have my only remaining daughter looking like that during her ceremony!" Sapphirekit shivered as she remembered her littermates. Emeraldkit had been born dead, and Crystalkit died of Greencough at 2 moons old. Goldkit was taken by an eagle two moons later. Silverkit would have made it to her apprentice ceremony if a rogue hadn't broken into camp and killed her along with Sapphirekit's father, Rockfur. "Now, I need to check with Sparrowstar if you can become an apprentice today," meowed Rubypelt as she left the nursery.