when will the light come back [open]

Even as leafbare had drawn to a close, leaving newleaf in its wake, there was a chill in the air. Real or imagined, it was clearly felt, and the cause easy enough to determine - the Dark Forest cats, who were cloaked in shadow and chilling in nature. Despite the atmosphere, Flurrypaw managed to keep herself in high spirits - it was hard to say whether she was genuinely oblivious to the happenings around her or willful ignorance of a harsh reality, but she acted like nothing was out of the ordinary.

It wasn't too hard for her, at least compared to the older cats. She hadn't known a world before the Dark Forest occupied the clans, knew of StarClan and Silverpelt only from hushed whispers and nursery tales. And while she believed they would be saved, and the sky would shine again as she'd been told it once had, it was hard to imagine what that world would look like.

She laid on her side at the edge of RiverClan's island camp, batting a moss ball back and forth as she watched the water for the glimmering scales of passing fish.