This is a birthday gift for my friend, Shadow (currently, her username is A Whispering Shadow). It's about her RP character, Whispershadow, and how she ended up in the Chasm of the Dark Hearts (basically, the Dark Forest).


Pitch Perfect

It's not like I'm Honeyblossom's shadow.

No, I'm not. I'm not even a shadow. Breezefrost's asked me if I ever felt jealous of my sister, and I always said no. It's not like I was ever bitter about it. That's the emotion of a less perfect being. Jealousy's for bad cats, and then they end up turning evil at the end.

I know, right? It's all in the elders' stories. No, I'm content with what I have, Honeyblossom's just more likable and more attractive and smarter and stronger and happier and perfect-er.

Right.

Can I drop the act now?

Good.


Honeyblossom feels sorry for me, honestly, so she tries to be nice. Giving me the fattest squirrel she caught and always taking the blame for whatever bad thing I did, intentional or not. I was actually starting to hate her a little less when suddenly, she died and everything went wrong.

Greencough, of course it was. I would have been much sadder if my mom didn't spend all her time grieving, or shooing me away, or randomly strangling me at random moments and sobbing that she can't lose me too. It seemed that everyone was talking about it, although no one cared when I chased away a fox by myself.

'Cause she's pitch perfect.


No one else to take the blame for me.

No one else to cover up my faults.

No one else to be nice to me.

(I wanted to bring Honeyblossom back to life and smack her on the head repeatedly with a stick, yelling, "How dare you die? How dare you!" until she actually died again, when I could reincarnate her and everything would be back to normal.)


The heroes are always the ones that survive the longest, I noticed. They have unnaturally good luck. StarClan follows them around like an obedient puppy. Their clanmates despise them at first, and then that hero gradually earns their respect.

Honeyblossom's not the hero, because she died.

I'm her polar opposite.

So I have to be the hero somehow.

ThunderClan hasn't had one in a while.


The heroes in elder stories do seemingly terrible things sometimes, but it's always for the greater good.

Here's a question: if you 'accidentally murdered' someone who must be a villain because he never stops droning on about an annoying dead sister while never paying attention to his crush... that's what all heroes do sometimes, right?


The first moment I opened my eyes after death, I smiled as I looked upon my new home: StarClan.

I just

don't know

why

StarClan

seems

so

lonely.

Depressing.

Dark.