lightfall's vigil

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Dawnbriar padded slowly into camp, carrying lightfall on her back along with rowansky and willowpaw. Tears streamed down her face, she glanced around camp. "I have an announcement to make, iceclan!" She yowled. She stared at lightfalls body and then back at camp, "Lightfall... Lightfalls dead!"

[Fallowpaw]

Fallowkit was across the clearing, batting innocently at a moss-ball. She hadn't seen her mother in awhile, though she was too busy playing games and such to dwell too much on her sadness. And when she heard Lightfall's name from across the clearing, her ears perked. "Mama?" Was her mother back from patrol? Scampering on stubby paws, the silver kit made her way towards the slowly gathering cats. She slipped through legs of various colors, before coming to a halt before the head of the patrol.

Blue eyes drifted to Rowansky, her second favorite queen-aside from her mother-in the patrol. And then to two cats she hadn't seen. And then the limp body of her mother.

Mouth agape and tail slowly drooping to the ground, Fallowkit leaped forward. "Mama! She's hurt! Nooo!"

[Coalfoot]

Coalpaw crept out of the apprentice den. She saw Lightfall's limp body in the middle of the camp. A kit, Rowansky, Willowpaw, and Dawnbriar crowded around her mother.

"Lightfall!" She shouted with agony. The black cat ran to the dead body and pressed her head into Lightfall's cold fur. "Wh-what happened?"

[Robinstar]

[just a note: this isn't the vigil. or an announcement. that will be made on friday. the group has taken the body back to the clan, but the vigil and announcement will be held on friday. thank you - carry on c:]

[Fallowpaw]

((Kay))

Fallowkit pressed her muzzle into Lightfall's nose, breathing in what was left of her mother's scent. Though, she didn't smell entirely like the nursery. She smelled of blood... and bird... and something much darker and horrid that made her taste buds water in preparing of hurling. Yet the tiny kit did not.

"Mama? Mama, don't leave me!" Fallowkit wailed, nudging pitifully at Lightfall's head and whimpering when it simple slid back limply on the ground at her paws. She cast pleading eyes onto the other cats. "Can't someone save her...? She's hurt, right? Where's the medicine cat? M-Mama can't die!" her voice ended in a weak sob.

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Dawnbriar stared at the kit, she closed her eyes and explained to her sister coalpaw, "An eagle got her, we weren't able to save her, but cloudclan says it was her time to die." She stared at the kit once more, then at coalpaw. They both were too young to lose their mother, they don't understand that it was her time to die, how could cloudclan be so cruel right now.. She Nuzzled the kit, "Don't worry, the whole clan is here for you.." She glanced at lightfalls body, "She was my mother too, so I'm depressed too.."

[Fallowpaw]

An eagle? An eagle had stolen her mother? Staring at the limp body of Lightfall, Fallowkit traced the gashes from it's talons along her wounds and could almost hear the shrilled scream of the predatory bird. CloudClan, you can't....

Stumbling forth on shaky paws, she felt one of the warriors nuzzle her cheek and she pulled away. "I don't want the Clan! I don't want you! I want Mama!" she wailed, running to Lightfall's flank and nudging her mother once more. "Wake up! CloudClan doesn't need you! Come back! Mama, wake up! Wake up, Mama! Wake up!" she pleaded, sitting down and pressing small paws on Lightfall's chin to shake her. "Wake up. You don't have to be dead-you can come back. So wake up... wake up, Mama... You can't die!" Her actions growing fainter, she soon stopped altogether and just was numb grief. Her eyes strayed to her mother's lifeless gaze, and a raspy cry escaped her throat before she buried her muzzle into the cold fur of Lightfall's flank and shook with sobs.

CloudClan doesn't need you... I need you.

[Coalfoot]

"I didn't know Li-Lightfall," she choked back a sob. "was your mother too, Dawnbriar. I guess that means we're half-sisters."

Coalpaw looked away, eyes closed, as the kit wailed for the queen to come back. Each cry tore into the apprentice's body like the eagle must've done to Lightfall. When she couldn't take it anymore, she ran off to the apprentice den and curled up in a dark corner, mourning the loss of her mother.

[Willowfall]

Willowpaw's eyes were full of deep sadness. She had tears streaming down her face, and she still felt numb. The sight of the young kit... Willowpaw wanted to curl around the kit, to sooth her, but she knew it wouldn't help. Padding forward again, she sat next to her dead mother. 

She soon took no notice to anything around her. She was sitting, but was numb. The other cats mourned beside her, but she wasn't sure what she was doing. Everything felt blank and empty. A piece of her was gone. All she wanted to do was to go back, but she couldn't. Blank. Nothing. That was all she was at this moment.