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Started July 26, 2020 by @Spring group

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(Oki!)
~ "I did meet her." Hailflight mewed, "Her name was Crescentshine. I only talked to her a few times, but she was a wonderful cat." She looked at Hickorykit with a smile. "You look a lot like her. Her fur was lighter than yours, and her eyes were blue, but you look very similar."

"Really?" Hickorykit looked up at Hailflight weakly, sniffling a bit. "If she was nice, how did she end up with my dad, then? He's really mean…" He shuffled his paws around a bit.

o m g gggggg sa d bb y!! it makes my heart ache qwq ))

~ "I don't know kiddo." The she-cat replied. "I guess maybe Larchclaw wasn't that bad when they got together. Maybe he became the way he is over time." She glanced over her shoulder into the den. "Still gets on my nerves though."

"Why doesn't anybody here talk about her?" Hickorykit asked weakly. "Nobody ever wants to tell me anything about her… they always come up with some excuse to leave. Did she do something bad?"

~ Hailflight sighed. "A lot of cats think so. I don't really see the problem with it though." She looked up at the sky, then looked back at Hickorykit. "Crescentshine was a ShadowClan cat. She and Larchclaw had you, and when everyone found out, they decided you belonged in ThunderClan." She explained, remembering the look on Crescentshine's face as Whitestar took her kit away from her. "She asked me to take care of you, and of course, I promised her I would. Eventually, I began to think of you as my kit. When your mother died, I promised myself I'd never let anything bad happen to you."

"Oh… how… how did she die?" Hickorykit asked weakly. He clearly didn't know the whole story. No one had ever told him that his mother died giving birth to him since they knew it would probably upset him. "Shadowclan's medicine cat couldn't save her?"

~ "I- uh, well…" Hailflight stared at her paws. "You really want to know?" She asked, not looking at him. She knew what Hickorykit was about to say, but she wanted to protect him. She knew how he would react to the truth. She didn't want him to feel like it was his fault. "It'll just make you feel worse." Hailflight had been there when Crescentshine died, and she felt guilty that she couldn't have done anything to save her friend.

"Yeah, I… I wanna know. She was my mom, and nobody else will tell me…" Hickorykit stared down at his paws with his ears turned back. "I-I feel like I deserve to know, don't I?" He asked weakly.

~ Hailflight nodded. "Alright." She took a breath. Come on Hailflight, it's not that hard to talk about. "I was there when she died. Larchclaw was there too. I had found them at the border between ThunderClan and ShadowClan. All of a sudden, you were born. A tiny little kit." She closed her eyes and continued. "Crescentshine told me to come closer, and she said, 'Promise me you'll take care of him,' I told her I would. She smiled, said 'Thank you,' and then…. She was gone." Hailflight opened her green eyes and looked at Hickorykit. "My friend was dead, and… I wasn't able to help her. Then Whitestar showed up, and Larchclaw told him what happened. Whitestar decided to bring you back to ThunderClan, and Fawnstar convinced him to let me take care of you. Of course, I had to leave you in the nursery with the queens."

Hickorykit listened in silence for most of the story, but he was sniffling and trembling by the end. He kept quiet as he curled up into a tight ball, his face buried in his small paws. "S-So… in a way… I was the one who killed her…?" He asked weakly, his voice muffled.

~ "No." Hailflight answered, curling her tail around the kit. "No no no. You didn't kill her. It's not your fault." She sighed and laid her head on her paws. "It's not anyone's fault that things turned out the way they did." She looked up at the sky, with tears in her eyes. "Bad things happen, and all we can do is move forward. We can't change the past."
(Pulling some Lion King over there, Hailflight!)

(Lmao)
"I-I guess you're right…" Hickorykit whispered. He was feeling really overwhelmed with emotion right now and he hated it. He'd always tried his best to not show much emotion, but he was really struggling to pull himself together at the moment. It was a lot for him to take in.

(Hi!)

~ Hailflight didn't know what else to do, so she just cuddled closer to Hickorykit, hoping that what she said had helped. "I love you, Kitten." She whispered, closing her eyes.

Hickorykit kept quiet, curling up tighter next to Hailflight. He clearly wasn't quite ready to talk yet. He kept his face hidden for more while he trembled and sniffled.

don'tcrydon'tcrydon'tcryyyy ))

y'all making me feel smthnnnn and my heart HURTs– ))

IKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK QWQ ))

:000 yesssss I love to see your arttttt ))

im just sneak back to ShadowClan– ))

Gingerflake watched the kits with a smile. she remembered when she was like that. small and energetic. She was brought back when a snowball hit her muzzle, shaking away the snow on her muzzle, she looked down to see… Bluebellkit! the young molly was running away from her. the other kits following behind her in a chorus of giggles. "you won't get away that easily!" she called after them as she balled up her own small pile of snow. Gingerflake tossed the snowball and it hit Bluebellkit and the small kit fell over and into the snow. Gingerflake ran over to Bluebellkit who was stumbling up to her paws, "A-are you okay?! StarClan! i'm sorry!" a small crowd had gathered around them and Bluebellkit just sneezed and then looked up at Gingerflake, a wide smile on her face.

I'm leaving it up to chu what baby Bluebell says lol– also cliffhanger? ))