[ just wanted to do a quick post to have Firefly react to this and for context later on, and so I can get Firefly involved I the Apprentices Den rp. No need to reply if you don't want to
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Something in Bumbles tone made Fireflykit want to close her ears up and run away, because she had a feeling that the answers she desired so strongly weren't going to be what she expected. Her yellow eyes widened, and she looked up at Goldenpaw for
moment and then back at the Bigcat who was speaking.
Goldenpaw was immobile, she didn't feel him cleaning the red off, but it was probably because he was scared. Or because he was listening to Bumble. Bumble had asked her a question, but the little tortie was please that the warrior didn't give her time to admit her ignorance on whatever dying and death was.
Leaving and not coming back? So did her parents also Death? Fireflykit didn't even remember her daddy and her mommy wasn't around either. Fireflykit had been alive for two whole moons and she hadn't had a parental figure. But hearing about cats coming back from Death gave her a light of hope in her chest. Maybe her parents would come back too. And maybe this also meant that they didn't leave because they wanted to, but we're forced to leave. At least now she wasn't under the impression that they left because they hated her.
She didn't think it was possible for kits to die, especially not little ones. Like the tiny, wet kitten that Fireflykit had crouched beside. And when Bumblebreak said that there were cats she could go to to talk about it, the kit shrugged.
"I only have you." She was surprised by how dejected her voice sounded. Hopefully Bumble wouldn't take it badly. Goldie either, because she meant them both. But just the thought of having no one else filled the kid with a strange feeling. Like there was a rock in her chest, weighing her down.
Did she have any questions? Only about a gazillion. But she didn't want to bomb the two cats. So she asked the biggest one.
"Does everyone have to die?" Looking back the kits and apprentices heading into the apprentices den, she started to shakily licked at the blood on her chest to try and make herself look presentable should she find her way in there. But then she saw cats crowded around the nursery, from peering over Goldie, and shuddered. Was
she going to die?
Would someone break her, too?
( @
Quasar @
dino. )