Broken Wings & Broken Hearts[Open]

Subject: Broken Wings & Broken Hearts[Open] Sat 6 Jan 2024 - 19:53

Rome wasn’t built in one day. But it was burned in one.

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Quillpaw took the long route home, reaching the border first before doubling back. Blood stained the snow behind them, creating a path of crimson wherever they went. He moved sluggishly, dragging Crowspirit's body until it was cold and stiff. It was like his heart had turned off, and let his logical side take full control of his body. All the while, the same, horrible thoughts kept circulating through his mind: he had killed someone. He had killed someone. Oh Stars, he's gonna puke. It had all happened so fast, it was almost as if just a few heartbeats ago Crowspirit was lunging for him, and fear swept over him like a flood. The moment when the blood had come pouring down like rain, and the stench of fear that lingered even now... Quillpaw wanted to cry. By some stroke of luck, his eyes remained dry, and he managed to make his way back to camp on shaky legs.

The wounds scattered across him had been bleeding for a long time, to the point that his head felt even lighter than usual. He only made it three steps into camp before crowspirit's scruff slipped out of his grip and he collapsed onto the snow. He tried to push himself back up, to explain that it was all a mistake, that it wasn't his fault, but his legs no longer seemed to work. He choked out half of his explanation before the world faded to black, praying that someone had heard him.

"Crowspirit... rogues... attacked... I didn't..."

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Swiftheart was still sick. It seemed this sickness was never giving up. She put her head on her front paws in a sigh. She was half asleep when the all too familiar scent of blood hit her nose and she was immediately sitting up blinking the sleep away. Moments later she saw the movement come into their camp. Her breath quickened as she ran over to see what in earth had happened. When close enough she saw her bloodied adopted son carrying a limp and bloodied crowspirit in.

She let out a shocked scream of pain as she rushed closer to their side.

[color=pink] “oh stars no” [\color] she whimpered dropping to crows side. With shaky paws she pawed at her daughter gently trying to get her up. But the bloody throat was clear and the cooling body that crow was gone. Swiftheart felt a lump grow in her throat as she took this in. Her eyes unfocused and clouded over.

She also like her daughter was not one to cuss much but this was an unbearable amount of pure pain and loss that she felt right now.
“stars nooo I HATE THIS FOXDUNG PLACE!” she sobbed resting her forehead on crow spirits side.

“I’m so sorry my kit…” she meowed shakily. Crowspirt deserved such a better life… a life that she hadn’t been able to give to her or protect her in.

Her whole body quivered and she felt sick to her tummy with grief.

Her attention and gaze slowly shifted to quill paw. He was also bloodied up but was still standing.

Loners? He had said.

“Heather! Burdock! Come quickly” she called for her med cats. She would not lose two of her kits in one day if she had any say in the matter.

“Quillpaw… how badly are you hurt?” She meowed stumbling over towards him wanting to inspect and try and heal his wounds from all his blood.

She looked at the bloody trail of snow that her daughter had left behind. Thoughts of tracking down those dark forest loners and ending them once and for all were present in her mind, very present. Her claws dug out down into the snowy earth as she thought about her poor kit getting her throat ripped apart by loners.

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