The Darkness Around You

The Darkness Around You

Pain racked through her body. I’m going to die. Bracken thought wistfully. If only. Her life had been a circle of lies, pain, horror. Her father killing her mother when she was just a kit, seeing her brother kill her father, Grass lying that he would always be there for her, Grass leaving her after finding out she was expecting kits.

“Why StarClan? Why would you do this to me?” She wailed, more pain engulfing her. The snowy, rocky ground she lay on stabbed her, the rocks digging into her pelt. Sharp coldness stabbed through her. She flashed back to a couple moons before.

Grass was snuggled into her, purring. “I’ll never leave you.” He had whispered.

When she had told him she was expecting kits. Him looking horrified. Her waking up to him gone, never to come back.

Bracken was alone, cold, hungry, about to die. She wanted Grass to feel her pain, fury filled her. “Why did you leave me?” She cried out to nothing. Hot fiery pain rocked through her. She was getting weaker by the second. She grinded her teeth as a small kit slid out onto the cold, hard ground. It wriggled around, looking for it’s mother. Bracken was too weak to help it and just fell back onto the hard ground, panting. She wanted to die. But there were still more kits to come. She groaned softly as another kit slid out. Both kits wriggled around, trying to find their mother.

After a very long time, finally, the last kit slid out. “Be safe my babies.” Bracken whispered before closing her eyes, gone from her kits grasp forever.