[Moxie Foxy]

Originally Posted by littlelove

Why was it the sickeningly sweet that held such ability to kill? The inconspicuous berry that had killed Acornkit the second she swallowed it wouldn't have stood out to anyone, after all, if it didn't have such deadly consequences. Cinderpaw still wondered if she would ever be able to take the world at face value again, and this sure wasn't helping.

Her ears rung as she walked into the clearing's chaos. Her mind scrambled, fought for anything to point at, for something to blame, but a scapegoat never came. All that the eldest apprentice had to analyze the situation was a dead kit, symptoms of poisoning all too familiar -- she'd seen many of her clanmates die to it so many moons ago. What did deaths mean when there was nobody or nothing to blame? Were they just meaningless? Did those who die just not matter enough to be given a reason to die? If there had been nothing else for her to do, Cinderpaw would have found herself locked to her spot forever.

But she had no such luck. There were things still alive, things to take care of, and she needed to be the one to do it. Strangled cries of kittens, her kittens, reached her ears and the she-cat sparked back to life. It was easy for her to zero in on Fireflykit and Zyon amongst the crowd, Cinderpaw reaching down to grab the tortoiseshell by the scruff and guiding the other kitten with a paw. "Let's get outta here, yeah?"

[ @jupiter @Guardian Fox ]

Zyon startled but shakily meowed "o-okay" and followed at a wobbly pace