The sun won't come out tomorrow in my world (Read)

[Littlefeather]

Sadness was pricking at Littlefeather's heart. She lay outside the medicine cat den, tears in her eyes and cheeks stained with tears. She lay her head on her paws as she blinked away tears. She just found out that Stripedkit, Darkkit, and Leopardkit just died. She didn't look at anyone she fixed her eyes on the ground not wanting to talk. No one knew of their deaths but she would tell them but the scar was still fresh.
(Only Skycloud, Echostar, Birdflame, Orangepaw and Shadowheart in this thread)

[Birdflame]

Birdflame walked over to Littlefeather and put her tail on the queen's shoulder. "I'm sorry Littlefeather. StarClan will look after them now. You'll see them again." She said softly. Then she looked up at the sky not doubting that StarClan was there. Littlefeather's kits were probably playing.

[Skycloud]

"I'm so sorry, Littlefeather." Skycloud said, sad because she had just heard the news. "Like Birdflame said, StarClan will take good care of them."

[Shadowheart]

Shadowheart watched them with sadness in her eyes. I'm sorry for your loss. She said, and frowned. Starclan will always be with them, and with you, forever. Not sure if she should have said that, she shifted uneasily.

[Echostar]

It was a quite merry day for him, with the sun sending out golden rays to everywhere that the shade from the willow tree wasn't touching, and with a few birds chirping out a happy song. At least, it would've been, if he hadn't seen Littlefeather with a rather sorrow look on her face, with Birdflame and the other two queens crowded around her as if trying to comfort her.

Something definitely wasn't right, that much was obvious. Panic started to flood his brain, keeping out all the reasonable and sensible thinking. What if Two-legs had invaded camp and taken yet another litter of her kits? What if they had disappeared? What if ... he forced himself to think better. It was possible that it dealt with her kits, who he had agreed to father, and the fact that she was directly outside of the medicine cat den worried him.

They could've possibly been injured, or perhaps sick. Was it still possible to get greencough? He knew at the young age of Littlefeather's kits, such a disease could kill them in a few days. What if that had happened? But wouldn't he have at least noticed the sound of coughing in his camp? Echostar tried reasoning and shook off the thought of greencough. Maybe it was another illness, less severe.

But that wouldn't make Littlefeather cry. She would've known that there wasn't an immense danger of death. Something much more serious must've done this. The more he thought about it, the more the prospect of her kits were making sense out of all of them. In the few chances he had gotten to see her kits, only two of them had looked exceptionally healthy.

The other three - Stripedkit, Leopardkit, and Darkkit, right? - had looked positively horrible. Maybe this had something to do with the trio of them. With a deep-seated worry in the pit of his stomach, the ghost-like tom finally made his way to the gathering of she-cats. He sat down next to Littlefeather, or as close as he could get through the bunch of others.

Worried, he sat in silence for a while, a bit lost in his thoughts. At long last, he finally forced himself to speak. " what's wrong? " Two single words could bring a great tragedy known to him. Two single words had enough power to perhaps overwhelm him so much that- The unthinkable. But he had asked him, and now he wanted the answer. He wanted to know what had happened.

[Littlefeather]

Littlefeather looked up at Birdflame first tears forming in her eyes again and then looked at Skycloud and Shadowheart as they approached her. She layed her head back on her paws as she felt tears sliding down her face. She heard more pawsteps and she knew who it was. It was Echostar. The tom that agreed to father her kit's. She lifted her head again when he sat down right next to her. She pressed hard against him. They're gone, she whispered as more tears started sliding down her face. Leopardkit, Stripedkit, and Darkkit are all dead, she yelled and buried her face in Echostar's pelt and cried.

[Birdflame]

Birdflame knew that no comforting words could really help Littlefeather and some words might just make it worse. But Birdflame decided to talk. "Littlefeaher, you don't need to cry. You will see your kits again."

[Littlefeather]

Littlefeather did have a hard time believing in Starclan when they weren't her ancestors. What makes you think that? They aren't their ancestors and they aren't mine so why would they take me there along with you Echostar and others, she cried with her ears flattened and claws dug in the soil as her lips formed into a snarl.

[Birdflame]

Uh oh. Birdflame had just made it worst. Why couldn't she just keep her big blabber mouth shut? She didn't even have anything to say back to the queen. "I believe StarClan would take them in. The kits were born in the clan. And if they're not in StarClan, you might have dreams about them in their own world. you don't really need ancestors to see ones you love."