[-Ash-]

Originally Posted by TheNyanCatMinecart

Ashfeather felt a pang of sympathy for the silver tabby queen. She hadn’t known that she’d lost a kit, too. However, seeing her smile fade sent a sliver of a chill slithering down her spine. What’s wrong? she wondered silently, seeing how the she-cat seemed to be choking on her words. Wait... Slowly, the pieces of the words made sense. “H-he what?” she asked, although it was coming together slowly. Had something bad happened? Obviously. What? Did... did he leave the Clan? Get together with another she-cat? Or... or die? He couldn’t have died, right? She would’ve known if that had happened. But from the way Echowind was talking...
Her legs began to shake and she forced them to stay still. Nothing bad’s happened, she told herself firmly. However, everything was shaking now. She forced herself to stand still, tried to tell herself that she was being overdramatic.
“Wh-what?” she repeated. She needed to hear it. Make sure that she wasn’t going crazy.

Oh StarClan, now I have to tell her. Echowind touched her tail tip to the queen's shoulder, in a comforting way. She couldn't imagine how she would feel if Whisperbreeze died. "I'm sorry," she said softly, gently. "Flameclaw's dead." She smiled in a clearly unhappy but sympathetic way. "I'm sorry," she repeated, as if it was her fault. She wished she hadn't been the one to tell Ashfeather, but who else would do it? Twilightstar? Or maybe the stupid medicine cat and her passive apprentice? She wasn't quite sure, but at least these were cats the queen actually knew, and hopefully trusted. Echowind had only interacted with her once, at the camp expansion thing, as far as she could remember. Not my problem, not my problem... Great, now it's my problem. "He collapsed in the clearing... This morning, I think. I don't know where he is now." Her amber eyes were sympathetic, and it was clear she felt bad. "Maybe... Maybe he's alive?" The molly seriously doubted it, but maybe it would give Ashfeather hope or something.