"Wake up, Robinkit!" was what the little ginger she-kit woke up to. She carefully opened one eye to look up at Tigerkit, her brother. Behind her she heard her mother's kind voice. "Tigerkit, leave your poor sister alone, She's sleeping" Opening her other eye, the tiny kit stood up and stretched her wings. "Mama, what's wrong with her wings?" asked Lionkit, her other brother. What is wrong with my wings? she thought trying to get a good look at them. She looked up at her mother, Lightdancer. The look on her mother's face scared her. Her mother looked horrified, and when Robinkit went to make eye-contact with her, she turned her head away. "Mama? Mama, what's wrong with me?" poor little Robinkit asked. Her mother never answered that question, only padding out of the den, with Tigerkit and Lionkit following.
When mother finally returned she had Petalwing, the medicine cat following. "Mama is someone sick?" she asked bouncing up to her mother. "No darling, she's come to look at your wings." Robinkit was very confused. "Why mama?" she asked. "Because they need to be looked at" was her mother's answer. She watched as her mother nudged her brothers outside. "We'll give you some space" her mother told Petalwing, who sighed and turned to me. "Ok, Robinkit. Your wings are a little bent so I need to fix them." was all the kit remembered.
When Robinkit woke up she was lying in a feathery nest. Her mother was staring at her, horrified, and her father had a grim look on his face. She went to stand up, but an aching pain in her right wing stopped her. She carefully tried to extend her wings. The left one extended perfectly, and was no longer bent, but the right wing could hardly open up without sharp pinpricks of pain shooting from the tip of her wing to the base. When she closed them both back, her parents left. Her brothers though didn't seem to care that her wing was crippled. "Come on Robinkit! We'll show you the camp!" The two black and white kits lead her into the clearing where all she got were the horrified and confused looks of her clanmates. Cats were huddled together, mummering among themselves. When she looked up, Crowstar, the leader was gazing coldly down at her. "Why hello, Cripplekit"