Jaded View: Chapter nineteen

## Chapter nineteen

The
setting sun made the sky orange, and the trees hid away the strangely coloured
sky, most cats were in the clearing, chatting or eating, some were out hunting or
guarding, or some, like Picklekit, were in their dens. “Mum, are you ever going
to have a second litter?” Lilykit mewed, “I doubt it, but I did, I would name
on after something lovely, like the sky right now.”
“What about nature? Like leaves or flowers?”
“I already have a kit named after a flower, and one named after food, I don’t
think I should do anything green in colour now.” Snowflight chucked, “now, what
do you two want, would you some food, or do you want to go to bed early?”
“Food!” Picklekit mewed, “I want to sleep.” Lilykit mewed, “fine, Lilykit you
can sleep, me and Picklekit will get some prey to eat.” The white she left the
den, followed by Picklekit. “When you two are napping, I might take the time to
build a second den, just for you Picklekit, since Lilykit’s is done, it just
needs a few touch ups and some moss.”
“What if I want to stay with you?”
“You silly pigeon, all trainings have to grow up someday, that’s why you’ll get
your own den, and when you get a mate, you can move to his, or stay at yours.
If a den is left, a kit can take it, and right now there aren’t many available
dens left.”
“But where is Tigerkit sleeping?”
“In his father’s old den.” Snowflight flicked her tail to a den made of rocks, “his
den is also one of the better, rain doesn’t drip in much, so his den is nice
and dry.” They reached the prey hole, as Picklekit grabbed the mouse she caught
earlier, she saw something in the sky, flying over camp, “eagle!” Greystar yowled,
causing the whole clan to panic and frantically run into their dens, one kit,
who was running from the leaders’ den, stared upwards, and then froze in
terror, the giant bird flew down towards him, screeching, Picklekit watched in
terror, as the bird was about to grab the kit, white she ran at the bird, jumping
at it with unsheathed claws, as she drove her claws and teeth into the bird, it
lost it’s target, and decided to take the white she anyway. “Blossomfur! Let go
of the eagle! It’s going to kill you!” Firetuft cried from his den, though the
she heard him, she didn’t stop her assault, as she was dragged higher and
higher in the air, then the eagle threw her off, then quickly grabbed her with
it’s talons, then flew away, as Blossomfur struggled to get freed. The bird
flew higher and further from camp, soon disappearing, “Blossomfur no!” Cried
Firetuft staring at were the bird went. Moonlight came out of her den, “looks
like the eagles decided to come by, once more. Looks like Blossomfur’s stupid
decision killed her.” Silentfrost came from behind her, padding over to the
ginger tom, “it’ll be okay, she’s with them now.” She mewed. Picklekit shook
her head, while Lilykit started to cry, “is that going to happen to us mum?”
The white she mewed, “will we get carried away by eagles?” Snowflight wrapped
her tail around the sorrowful kit, “it won’t happen, if you know what you’re
doing, you’ll be able to not get taken.”
“But what if it does happen? And no cat comes to help us?” Picklekit turned to
her mother, “if you were getting carried away, either of you, I would come to
save you, no matter how hard that eagle tries. Even if we all die, I’d be happy
that I did something no other cat wanted to do.” She meowed softly, “that’s how
much I love you two. There’s a thing my mother told me; it was something to
test what my personality was. She would ask me this; there are two kittens in a
camp, and the camp is on fire. One kitten is on the left side, the other is on
the right, and I was asked which one I would save.”
“Which kitten would you save though?” Lilykit mewed, trying to wipe away her
tears with her tail, “I would always say this, that I would save both kittens,
even if one of those kittens is one of my enemies, I would save them, because kittens
are the future of the clans, and I would rather both of them to live, then for
myself.”
“So if you had to choose between me and Picklekit, you would save us both.”
Lilykit mewed softly, “of course I would, even if Picklekit isn’t my biological
daughter, I love her dearly, like she was my own kit.”
“So the lesson is that we should try to save people from death? Even if we hate
them?” Picklekit mewed, “exactly, remember this you two, in battle, don’t kill
the opponent, you can fight them, but don’t kill them. You don’t know if they
have a family or loved ones, and you don’t want to make cats upset by killing
that cat off.”

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