A snow white kit with a ginger diamond on her head, lay by the entrance to the Thunderclan nursery looking out with a longing in her eyes. Mothflower her mother looks over from her nest with disgust in her piercing glance. Mothflower acknowledging her kits unwanted presence wasn't a sight to behold. Other queens in the nursery look at her kit with a soft motherly gaze of uncertainty and affection. The kit had never understood why the other queen was so uncertain of Mothflowers actions, but she loved Mothflower nonetheless.
The Nursery itself was a better mother than Mothflower. Moth flower was a pale fawn long furred queen, the kits father was a light cream grey. Her father barely saw the kits his name was Marshfoot, The kit wanted more than anything to be an apprentice and meet her father. Night fell again and the cycle continued. She was only Three moons old but already had a nest that she made on her own. Her mother never let her into her nest with Palekit Mintkit and Minnowkit, nor would she ever meet her littermates.
Mothflower never liked the kit she hated her the first time they met. Mothflower believed that Tiger pelt slipped one of her many kits into her nest. The kit didn't look like her mother, or father so she was abandoned by them. Her father hadn't abandoned her but he never saw them, met them, or played with them like the other kit fathers in the nursery.
The kit spent most her time on the edge of the nursery and other kits would avoid her. She didn't appeal to the kits as a playmate only a small apprentice. Her other siblings never noticed her nor even knew they were kin, though the little ginger spotted kit did. The ginger patched kit knew they were kin, and it stung to see them. See them without a friendly greeting, or invitations to games.
They all knew she was only a shadow cast on the ground by the nursery. Queens in the nursery could see through that shadow and find the kit who desperately needed love and affection. They knew all about her life but never said a thing, and It wasn't until she was four moons old she had her first interaction with another nursery kit.
A dark ginger kit who looked a little younger then she was, came playfully bounding over. His fur was dark and had tabby markings. His eyes were a friendly green colour. She never knew this kit or ever seen him, he probably had a nest at the back of the nursery. As the kit came over she dipped her head to respect the kit.
" Hey, do you want to come to play moss ball?" The dark ginger kit asked
"I'm Duskkit what's your name?" Duskkit asked tripping over his paws and stumbled onto the ground.
"Um… sure I would like to play" the ginger patched she-kit stammered.
"What's your name?" Duskkit asked again.
"I'm not sure" The she-kit responded honestly
Duskkit stared blankly for a long while. A black and white spotted she-kit plowed over Duskkit and smiled at him friendly. She whispered something in his ear Duskkits eyes widened and he covered his mouth. What had the spotted black she-kit said? Duskkit looked up at her and asked if it was really true. The Spotted kit fallowed Duskkits green gaze, the she-kits eyes were a soft yellow.
"Is what true?" Ginger spot kit asked, looking a the two worry in her eyes. What did they know?
"You're the Shadow? You don't have a name you just watch kits?" The other She-kit responded.
"I'm an actual kit, and yes… I've never had a name" The un-named kit mumbled
"Let us name you I'm Lilykit you should be Mumblekit" Lilykit shouted joyfully, Duskkit shot her a deadly stare. The queens looked over at Lilykit she was known as a pest in the nursery. Always having her nose in their conversations, there was no quiet when she was around.
"How about Dawnkit, you ginger patch looks like the sun rising at dawn." Duskkit mewed charmingly Lilly kit rolled her eyes at him.
"Yeah sure Dawnkit I like that" Dawnkit smiled and the three kits played moss ball together. Dawnkit loved hearing her named said out loud. She
knew it was her name now, it was no longer a shadow of the nursery.
Hope you like it. Show little Dawnkit some love she needs it :3