Rise of a new morning (OPEN)

A fluffy, tall kitten came crawling out of the nursery. Tail flicking, she snuck around the camp, pretending to be on a secret mission. In all honesty, it was a secret mission, because she didn’t tell her sleeping mother she was leaving the den. Regardless she stayed focus with one thing on her mind: she wanted to try a mouse.

Dawnkit was a fairly young kitten but her teeth had started growing in by now. She had been eating mushed up food from her mother but now it was time she tried to eat real freshkill. The smell beckoned her closer and closer to the freshkill pile and she soon found her belly growling. A perfect opportunity.

She knew sneaking wasn’t the way of a ThunderClan warrior, at least one who was still inside the camp, but if her mother caught her eating a mouse without her permission she’d be sentenced to the nursery for another moon! Plus, she was definitely old enough to eat a mouse on her own. She had watched her mother prepare it before by taking off the fur and skin to expose the soft meat that lay beneath.

With her tiny legs, she slowly crept closer and closer to a soft gray mouse lying on the pile. So close…