Echoflight

Echoflight's picture from the 'Apprentices' image.

**Echoflight** is a self-conscious, strong spirited, and mentally disabled she-cat in FireClan's Journey. She is one of the semi-main characters.

## **Life**

### Kithood

Heather was born as a kittypet with her brother, Teak. Her mother, Gneiss, was glad that Teak was a strong, handsome tom. Gneiss was appalled though, that Heather wasn't beautiful and was having a hard time learning, couldn't take being punished, and would echo words that Gneiss, Alex, and Teak would say. She couldn't really speak herself. She also had a short attention span, if anything 'interesting' caught her eye she would drop everything and focus on it. Heather would also break down if anyone got angry or frustrated at her. Gneiss couldn't take it anymore, so she put down Heather any time she could, poor Heather hating herself because of it. Her mom yelling at her *did* teach her new words, though. One day, Alex had an idea for his mate. How about you just change her name to Echo? Gneiss **loved** the idea, so she renamed poor Heather to Echo. Gneiss still teased and put-down Echo, now mainly talking about her appearance. Teak told Echo one night, that if they were to have a great future, they must run away and live in the wild. One night when Gneiss and Alex were asleep, the two kits ran towards a window, prying it open when Alex woke up. He asked them what they were doing, Teak had to tell the plan. Alex knew it was what had to happen for their future, so he escorted them to the forest edge, and wished them well. Alex asked them to come back one day to visit him and their mother. Echo and Teak were found in the FireClan forest, took off their collars, and took the names Echokit and Teakkit. Fennelswoop and Hawktalon accepted the two as their children, and Echokit made four new friends, Applekit, Fernkit, Foxkit, and Heatherkit, who sadly died. She became an apprentice, Echopaw and was apprenticed to her adopted mother, Fennelswoop, as she needed extra help.

### Apprenticeship

Echopaw was often teased and made fun of, even by her own brother. Few supported her. Then one day, Embershadow and Teakpaw took it too far, causing her to run away to the tribe. She was doing fine on her own, but Applepaw followed her. They got separated after a tumble into a river. Echopaw went along a path to the mountains. Applepaw got there first, and had the Ice Queen find Echopaw and bring her to the Tribe. When she got there, an apprentice named Goosepaw fell head-over-heels for Echopaw. Echopaw liked all the attention he gave her, but she still had a crush on Twigkit back home. Who would she chose? Well, she didn't really have a chance to. Applepaw got into a fight with the Ice Queen on the Waterfall, and it was flooding the Tribe's camp. Echopaw ran to help her friend. She noticed that a huge chunk of ice was breaking of to hit Lavenderstar, Swallownettle, and Cloudedstar below. Echopaw jumped onto the chunk which broke in half. Lavenderstar and Swallownettle went into a gully and were saved, but the chunk hit Cloudedstar. He fell into the water, and Echopaw attempted to save him, but she couldn't swim. WIP

## **About Echoflight**

### Appearance

Golden with a darker chest that has a cream diamond-shape on it, darker paws, and a darker tail tip. She is extremely fluffy. Her ears tend to point inwards, maybe to help block from loud noises. She is small, but not abnormally. Her eyes are a beautiful purple, and she has a heart-shaped nose.

### Trivia

* She is described as sweet-smelling by Twigleg and others
* Her old design was a pale brown with brown stripes and blue eyes.
	+ Her kittypet name, Heather, was a tribute to this design, as she used to look like Heathertail from Warriors.