Prologue
The brown and ginger she-cat crouched in fear as the dark tom padded towards her. "You took a crow-food eating loner as your mate!" The dark tom snarled as the brown she-cat stared at the ground and whispered a reply. "Y-yes I did, I didn't mean for it to happen! But please don't hurt the k-kits Snake." The tom twitched his tail and mewed, "But my dear Russet, that is the best way to punish you." Russet bowed her head as Snake padded to two of his loyal servers. "Take the two kits and leave them somewhere in the forest. I do not care where." With that Snake left them to do as he said. One of the two cats Snake spoke to flicked his tail and padded to the tree nursery where two kits were currently sleeping. He gently picked up a amber she-kit and left the other tom to grab the black tom. Once both cats had a kit they traveled off into the night, making sure not to wake the kits.
At the camp, Russet was curled up into a tight ball sunken with sadness. "I'm so sorry my kits, so sorry."
The two toms and kits were finally deep into the forest, away from everyone. "This will be good enough, they probably won't last long. Just set them down and lets go." With that said they set down the kits and left them there to die.