Night squirmed.
"Mama?" She squeaks. The tiny black kit was all alone. She missed the warmth of her mother and her sibling. Night thought back to the last thing she remembered.
"Good night, sweet things." Night's mother rasped her tongue over her two kits. The kits squeaked and buried themselves further into their mother's soft fur. "I love you."
"All right! Give me the kits!" Voices, strange voices, snarled.
"Rory, they're not old enough! They're not even eating solid food!" Night's mother hisses.
"Leaf you fool!" Rory sneers. "They're rightfully mine! My mate agreed to nurse them!"
"Her." Leaf stammers. "There's only one."
"Are there? Are there really?" Rory snarls. "Let me see!"
Night felt the warmth become suffocating.
"Smewe." The muffled voice of Leaf spoke again. Night couldn't squeak, but right now... she didn't want to.
"Gwood." Rory's muffled voice speaks. Night hears squeaking as her sister is taken away. Then she hears screaming.
"What!" Leaf 's voice becomes clear. "What are you doing!?"
"Killing you!" A snarl, then a slashing sound, and finally coldness. "Bye Leaf." Rory's footsteps sound leaving the den.
"Night, you're name is Night." Leaf's tongue rasps over her again. "No matter what... never... give up...I... love... you..."
Finally Leaf falls silent.
Night opens her eyes, and the first thing she will ever see... is her mother's dead face.
"Eek!" Night squeaks. "Mama?" Night takes a tiny paw and pokes it in her mother's face. No answer. Night soon realizes, her mother isn't coming back, and will never see her again. Night bows her head.
"May you find swift hunting, and safety wherever you are." Night blinks.
Where did that come from? She wonders. Night looks at her mother and sighs, they were in an abandoned fox den, so Night could just collapse it to bury her mother. Night walks out and starts digging around the entrance to the warren until it collapses. She bows her head in respect to the dead.
Night soon gets that she can't stay here.
After all, she's just a little kit, she'd be an easy target for foxes or something else. Night growls, not enjoying life so far. Night starts her journey, but before she does, she looks back at the collapsed warren.
"I promise, Mother, I will find father and avenge you, and I will rescue sister." Night vows. The vow that would lead her life, forever.
