A/N: Before you ask, no I am not abandoning my other stories. But I'm having troubles in my life and don't really feel like writing. What Is Heartbreak, Truly? is told in Sandstorm's POV. Theme song: J. Cole, Nothing Lasts Forever. I thought about Sandstorm saying heartbreak was having your den next to the dirtplace, but didn't. Briarlight is in the elder's den because she actually can't do jack, as much as I love her. Sorreltail is because I said so. Brackenfur? Badger got him.

Flashback

"Just you wait, I'll be the crankiest elder since the dawn of the Clans," I purred, nuzzling Fireheart after a comment about Mousefur.

Ends

Well, I was an elder now, and Mousefur was dead. Firestar was dead. My life was nothing but a shadow of what it once was. I now shared the elders den with Graystripe, Dustpelt, Briarlight, and Sorreltail. It was a nice new green spring to a young warrior's eye, but to me it was a damp, musty, den, conveniently placed next to the dirtplace. I was known as a relationship advisor. I liked to think of it as a pool of lovey-dovey wealth. I knew every trick in the book. But what most cats came to me about was heartbreak. Once, Lilypaw came up to me asking what it was like to be heartbroken. She must have seen the broken look on my face because she quickly took it back. But I wanted to torture myself. It was the only way I would remember him. I answered as she was about to go. I'll never forget what I said, because I was right. It was the closest I could get to describing it without going crazy with the pain. This is what I answered many, many moons ago:

"Heartbreak is when your heart is taken, and stomped on by fate, or bad people .It's the crack you hear when your mate dies a painful death. It's the slow shredding that dawns on you when your kit left you. It's the tear you feel when it was of their free will. It's the shadow you become after seasons of grieving. It hurts. But some people don't see it. Be kind to them. But wait, most of all heartbreak is the feeling you have when you realise they will never come back, it will never go away. It is also the feeling that you, and I, will get when we are about to die and we will wonder how we ever lived without them, as we are about to see them in StarClan."

But little did I know Lilykit would never go to StarClan. I was with her when she had her Trial, as she tossed her creamy white head and declared herself guilty. I was the one who sentenced her to walk the Dark Forest.

Do you, Lilystar of ThunderClan, once Lilyeyes, mother of Shimmerpelt, Sootkit, and Smokefoot, mate Stone, once Hollowflight of ShadowClan, admit to the murders of Stone, Sootkit, Squirrelstar, Sandstorm, others unknown from Clans Shadow, Wind, Thunder, River and Star, and your mother Daisy?

I am.

Do you repent?

Maybe there's a snowball's chance in HellClan?

Her Trial ended with her stalking proudly to the Dark Forest.

A/N: This actually became more than I had planned it would. I'm going to try and write another chappie for Reflection on the Lakefront.