Alive & Dead
Life, it's unfair, grueling, and full of hatred and pain. You'd be lying to yourself if you said it was not true. But then again, that's part of life, there must be night before there is day.
How fast does it take a StarClan cat who has accomplished nothing to fade? That's something many StarClan cats have asked. The cats who only lived and died. With no volume in their lives. They never thought of making it past being a warrior, only the mundane drag of their lives. But at least they contributed to their clan. At least they lived through the plentiful greenleaf to the barren leafbare season upon season. At least they had a choice to live better.
But the stillborns never could. The kits who never reached their apprentice ceremonies. The ones who never saw anything of the forest besides the nursery they weren't able to leave. What do they do? This OneShot is about a StarClan cat called Juniperkit. How long will it take for him to be forgotten?
How much had Juniperkit lived? The answer is briefly. He was there, and then he wasn't. Some say the kit barely took his first breath before joining StarClan.
What had he done with his life? Nothing really, unless struggling to fill your lungs is accountable to felt at peace in StarClan - most of the time at least. For Juniperkit, life had come and went, like a candle, quickly extinguished. Wax still towering high.
AN: Sorry for the short chapter, just trying to get things into motion.