Terra Feles 64: Memory 118
Moonlit trees, bushes and leaves merge into a silver-green blur as the warrior rushes through the forest. She leaps over roots and fallen branches, ignoring the nightingales that flutter away from her presence. When a log blocks her path, her claws unsheathe and dig into the bark before she can even think of going around. Only once she clambers atop the obstacle and finds herself at a good vantage point does the warrior take a moment to catch her panting breath.
Her head swivels in every direction, rising and falling to the rhythm of her pounding heart. There's nobody to be seen nearby, but she knows that she's being followed. Deep down, she also knows that as fast as she runs and as far as she gets from ThunderClan, the knowledge of what she has done cannot be escaped. It will haunt her every step for as long as she lives.
You have broken the warrior code.
She folds her ears back, but the accusations come from within her own mind. There is no way to block them out. She can't even remember the moment when the voice of her conscience had turned itself against her, but she desperately wants it back on her side. After everything that she has done wrong, she can't trust herself to ever do the right thing again.
You do not deserve redemption. That is why you must leave and never come back.
"Sister, where are you?"
The warrior's ears jerk up, recognizing the voice of one of her brothers. She wants to answer the call, but her words get caught up in exhausted gasps.
Do not even bother. There is nothing left for you to say. Nothing that will grant you their forgiveness.
She knows that her conscience is right, but still, she chooses to stay in her place so that she can see one of her pursuers burst out of the undergrowth as a golden flurry of fur and leaves. He brusquely shakes twigs off his mane as his eyes dart in every direction, struggling to spot anyone hiding in the dark. A second, grey cat soon slithers out of a patch of ferns and brushes past his companion to sense the area. Unburdened by the shadows of the night, he scents his surroundings only for a second before fixating his gaze on where his sister is standing as if he could peer right into her wicked soul.
When she sees her brother's glassy eyes widen in shock, the warrior instantly regrets having lingered in wait.
There. Now he knows what you truly are.
She turns around and leaps back to the ground as the golden cat hollers behind her.
"Wait- Hollyleaf, please come back!"
Even when she doesn't know where to go next, the warrior breaks into a sprint, leaving her brothers to resume the chase.