Hailbreeze

Name - Hailbreeze

Gender - She-cat

Clan - OasisClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Craneberry (ex-mate)

Friends - Craneberry, Chestnutwing

Enemies - N/A

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Hailbreeze is a pale gray she-cat with flecks of white on her pelt. Her eyes are blue.

#### Personality

Hailbreeze is sweet and gentle. She is empathetic and loves her Clan. Basically, she fits in the same category as Skyflower and Cedarpoppy, the stereotypical queen archetype.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Hailkit was born in OasisClan to Carnationdust and Dewfur. She had two siblings, Snowkit and Dawnkit.

There were two other kits born around the same time as her, Chestnutkit and Reedkit. Hailkit befriended Chestnutkit, along with Cranekit, a kit who was one moon older than her.

The three of them got up to some serious shenanigans, like bothering two of the older kits, Songkit and Moonkit. They didn't like that much. Cranekit, Hailkit, and Chestnutkit found it pretty hilarious though.

You know what she didn't find amusing? Cranekit's crush on Dawnkit. In fact, she was kind of jealous of her sister, though she didn't really know why.

Anyways, Cranekit moved to the apprentice den shortly after that. Hailkit and Chestnutkit were pretty sad about that.

#### Apprenticeship

Hailpaw was apprenticed to Fuzzywhisker.

She really liked Cranepaw. Hoo boy, did she like him. She also hated Dawnpaw because Cranepaw liked Dawnpaw. Cranepaw was also completely oblivious to Hailpaw's affections.

When they were nine moons old (and Crane was ten), Hailpaw started to notice Chestnutpaw's crush on her. She also noticed Cranepaw noticing. This kind of excited her.

Anyways, things remained in that love triangle until Craneberry became a warrior.

#### Warrior Life

Hailbreeze became a warrior alongside her siblings, Dawnflurry and Snowstem, and Chestnutwing. She immediately started pursuing Craneberry more fiercely. Her efforts were rewarded when she was sixteen moons old and Craneberry asked her to be his mate. She said yes, of course.

She was very happy for her sister when Dawnflurry and Chestnutwing became mates.

Anyways, shortly after becoming mates with Craneberry, Hailbreeze moved to the nursery, expecting his kits. She was very excited about the kits and waved away Craneberry's concerns.

She was right, of course, and at nineteen moons old, she had three beautiful daughters: Cloverkit, Silverkit, and Cloudkit. Shortly afterward, she was joined in the nursery by her sister, Dawnflurry, who was pregnant with Chestnutwing's kits.

Three moons later, Cloudkit went missing. While Craneberry was frantically searching the woods for her, Dawnflurry had her kits. Except not. Dawnflurry died and one of the kits was also lost. Everyone's day got worse when Craneberry returned home with Cloudkit's tiny body. He had found her in one of the deeper streams near the outer border. How she had gotten so far from camp was a mystery to everyone.

Hailbreeze offered to take care of Chestnutwing's daughter, Hopekit. He said yes and was constantly fussing over both Hopekit and Hailbreeze.

A bad bout of greencough one leaf-bare claimed Silverkit's life and an owl scooped up Cloverkit not long after. Hailbreeze and Craneberry had a huge fight over that. Hailbreeze thought it was Craneberry's fault, because he'd taken Cloverkit and Hopekit out of camp for a bit when the owl took her, but Craneberry told her repeatedly that it hadn't been his fault. In fact, he'd tried to fight off the owl, but he'd barely saved Hopekit and himself. The fact that only one cat died was a miracle.

In the end, Hailbreeze and Craneberry broke up. Hailbreeze was upset about that, but she was more upset about the loss of her kits and the fact that two of them had died while Craneberry was in charge of them. Wrapped in her grief and anger, she ended their relationship rather quickly.

She continued to care for Hopekit, though, and was very proud of her when she became an apprentice. She was not happy about Craneberry being her mentor, but there wasn't much she could do about it.

When Hopepaw was eight moons old, she ran into a fox on a hunting patrol. She was killed and for the first time since Dawnflurry, Hailbreeze and her former best friends were drawn together in their grief.

Hailbreeze approached Craneberry after Hopepaw's funeral and asked him if he wanted to start over. Not as mates, but just as friends. She really missed him and losing Hopepaw had convinced her to try and forgive him. He accepted.

And that's how it's been ever since. Hailbreeze, Craneberry, and Chestnutwing have remained close friends to this day.

## Other

#### Trivia

* To clear things up: Craneberry liked Dawnflurry from late kithood to mid-apprenticeship, Hailbreeze liked Craneberry from early apprenticeship to their break-up as warriors, Chestnutwing liked Hailbreeze from mid-apprenticeship to Hailbreeze and Craneberry becoming mates, Dawnflurry liked Chestnutwing from mid-apprenticeship to her death, and Snowstem stayed out of it because the girls in question were his sisters.