Chapter 2
It wasn't that Moon didn't like her brother and sister, they didn't like her. Moon knew this was all her fault, she had never tried to get to know them, and she'd never tried to play with them. She just felt she wasn't like them. She somehow didn't belong here. She didn't chase beetles; she didn't play with her food. She never screeched. But she wasn't adult too. Her thoughts, her moves, all this was kit-like. Moon loved the nature. She didn't play with it. She watched it. She watched the grass grow, the river flow and the leaves dance at leaf-fall. She heard the mice and the rabbits better than her mother and she loved the smell of fresh forest air and the taste of clear water. Moon didn't care about her brother and sister; she cared about all the beautiful things around her. But most of all, she loved the stars. They reminded her of something, something far away and long ago. But she didn't know what. She often sat in front of the cage at night, while the others were sleeping, when there was no cloud and she could watch the glittering silver stars.
Time went by.
One night, when the feeling of not being in the right place was very strong, she decided to leave. Find out about stars. Find out about herself. She knew her mother loved her. So she decided to say goodbye. "Mom," she whispered, careful not to wake the others. "I feel like I don't belong here. I want to go and choose my own path. Explore. And learn."
"Dear," Twist said, "I was waiting for you to say that. Follow me!"
Twist lead the way through the forest and stopped at the clearing where she'd found Moon that one night.
"You're not my real kit. I found you here. You were all alone and so tiny-" she stopped. After a while she managed to go on. "After one of my three kits died on its first day, you fitted in perfectly. Sun and Lime don't even know. I decided to let you go whenever you wanted and now the time has come."
"I'll miss you, and you'll always be my mother, Twist." Was all Moon said. There was no more to say.
"I'll miss you, too." Twist replied. Then Moon turned and vanished into the deeper forest. Twist stared after her for a long while before returning to her two other kits.