Hi, everyone! Did you know that I published the first chapters of Moth Rising a year ago (May 12, 2020)? I can't believe it's already been that long (and it's only been that long)! I was originally going to do a little animation meme as an anniversary gift, but then I got the idea, rather impulsively, to do some revisions, so here we are, one revised story later! I rewrote a few scenes to flow better and completely overhauled the last four chapters, but the story being told is still the same.

If you have time and want to read the whole story through again, I already love you and am forever indebted to you. If you're interested just in seeing what's new, I recommend checking out chapter 2 (the first "real" chapter; The Hunt) and chapters 20-epilogue. If you don't want to read through the story at all, that's totally fine! For those who want to know what's different but don't want to reread the story, the changes I made are, roughly:

- Established Mothfall as a poor fighter, Ferntooth as an aggressive fighter, and Shortleg as an unappreciated senior warrior due to their disability.

- Berrystar and Briarstreak chose not to believe Mothfall and Creekfur's claims against Ratpelt, so he became deputy and attempted to kill Berrystar so he can become leader. Mothfall stopped him with the help of Ferntooth.

- Added more FunClan scenes because they are too good for this world.

- Changed Snailwhisper's name to Newtfur (I meant to do this the first time around, but forgot until I was already several chapters in).

- Made Ferntooth's eyes green instead of dark yellow - this was a logical choice, considering her name. In case it wasn't already obvious nabbed her description, along with just about every other character in this story, from apawineachworld's allegiances creator.

- Nixed Pebblestripe because he had all of two lines and moved Silverleaf from SkyClan to ThunderClan to keep FunClan's Clan ratio even.

- Sprinkled in a bit of my own lore and worldbuilding, just for fun.

I could talk for hours about why I decided to change some things and not others. I won't bore y'all with all the gritty details, but just be aware that I tried to improve the pacing without radically changing any characters. This story is certainly not mistake-free, but I hope it reads a bit nicer, and that the message of the story hits a bit better – I do admit the first time it felt a bit out of left wing, but hopefully not as much now.

Thanks again for all of your support, whether you've commented or been a silent lurker! I really appreciate everyone getting this story I started on a whim to over 3k hits. Here's to more murdercat stories, hopefully for a while to come!