PROLOGUE
"ARRGHH!" The queen screamed in pain.
"It's all right. Shhhh." Ruddertail soothed, stroking Ravenwing's shoulder.
Ravenwing screamed again, and pushed. A furry, blue gray bundle slid out onto the ground.
"She's beautiful, Ravenwing," a brown tabby murmured.
"Thank you Fernwhi-OWW!" she cried, as a little black bundle slipped out.
"Shhh. Shh…" Ruddertail whispered, coming over to help Fernwhisker dry the kits. She was an old cat-experienced when it came to kits.
Fernwhisker felt the queen's stomach. "It's looks like you have two beautiful kits." he mewed.
"Fograin… Where's Fograin?" Ravenwing asked in a thin, ghostlike mew.
"Fograin?" the two onlookers asked in unison. They looked at each other. No cat seen him for three sunrises. But Ravenwing wouldn't know that. She had been in labor for two days. She had seen him exit on a one-cat patrol, not knowing he would never return.
"He… He… Ravenwing, I'm so sorry! He died." Yellowridge meowed, bursting into the den with the news. He had found his body drifting down the river, lifeless as a rock.
"NOO!!" Ravenwing yowled, doubling over, her heart and face twisting in pain. The hard birth of her kits had left her very weak and vulnerable to death, but Fograin… Dead? Her eyes misted over, whispering, "I can't… take it… Take care… Of Jaykit… And…" Her head dropped into a deep slumber, one she would never wake from.
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I know it's short. But it's the set up page. PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW! I know. I may never finish this for five years. But so what.
