Sorry it's been a while! I have a name for Fallenkit already (Fallenangel) but I need a name for Ashkit and for some of Willow-wind's kits which you will meet in the story.

Names of Willow-wind's kits: Rock-kit, Firekit; and Tigerkit

Thank you for listening!

Here it is:

Fallenkit's eyelids flickered open and she yawned. She stretched out her arching limbs, accidentally bumping Jayfrost.

"Huh...? Wh-what is it...?" Jayfrost yawned, groggy with sleepiness.

"Sorry... It was an accident..." Fallenkit mewed submissively.

"Oh. It's okay, my dear Fallenkit," Jayfrost mewed; nuzzling Fallenkit.

Fallenkit smiled.

"I think you're just hetting too big for this cramped den. Soon you'll be in the apprentices' den!" Jayfrost purred.

Ashkit blinked open her blue eyes, dark gray pelt all askew.

Jayfrost purred with amusement and licked flat her pelt so that you could see she was flecked white. Her black ear-tips were flickering as they always did when she felt she was being tickled.

The little she-cat giggled and gently batted her mother's snout away.

"Shh! Ashkit; you'll wake the whole camp!" Fallenkit whispered.

"Yes, you better quiet down, Ashkit," Jayfrost mewed calmly.

Ashkit panted a little and skittered outside. Jayfrost sat up and gently pushed Fallenkit out of the nursery with her nose. "Go play and let us get some sleep. Why don't you go say hello to your father? I think he just returned from the dawn patrol."

"Thanks! Bye Mom!" Fallenkit whispered with excitement. She grabbed Ashkit's tail in her jaws and dragged her over to the camp entrance where a gray tabby tom was sitting.

"I caught you a floppy ball of fur!" Fallenkit mewed to Wolfspirit.

"Fallenkit! Put me down!" Ashkit yowled.

Wolfspirit purred with amusement and picked up Ashkit by her scruff. "Ahh! This will be delicious!"

"No Daddy! It's me! Ashkit giggled.

"Oh! Dear me!" Wolfspirit mewed with fake surprise.

Fallenkit rolled her eyes and padded after them. But before she could pad over to them, Willow-wind's kits padded in front of her, and she stumbled into a Dark ginger tabby tom with a white underbelly and a white tail-tip.

"Oof!" The tom puffed.

"Tigerkit! I'm so sorry!" Fallenkit mewed, white pelt spiking.

The tom smiled. "It's okay. It was an accident."

A ginger she-cat with white spots hissed at Fallenkit and Tigerkit. "No! She's a moron!"

Fallenkit stared at the she-cat in suprise. is she talking to me?

"No she's not, Firekit! We got in her way. She was just-"

"No, Tigerkit! Let's just go! I don't want to be in the presence of such a monster."

The she-kit trotted off without looking back.

"She's just a little... protective. Uh... will you get off me now?" Tigerkit mewed.

"Oops! Sorry!" Fallenkit scrabbled off of him, heart dancing.

She watched as he smiled and padded off. Something inside her glowed, but she didn't kno what it was. Maybe... No. It couldn't be that... and even if it was, why should he love her back?

TO BE CONTINUED...