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Chapter 10-I can't do this

Splitstar

There's only so much one cat can handle. Loosing my daughter and mate in the same day put me at the end of the rope.

I had to temporarily resign.

There's no way I could lead my clan and grieve for my family all at once. It was way too much for me. My deputy- Novasky was to take my place for these few weeks or moons I would need to recover.

I didn't know what to do.

I can't do this.

"Splitstar." My deputy approaches me from behind, speaking and standing in a loyal professional posture and tone.

I turn to her, gaining the bit of my composure that wasn't scattered throughout the camp.

"Yes? What do you need?" I ask.

"I've just come to deliver my report. I suspect, however, that you will not be pleased...." Novasky murmurs.

The fur along my spine stands on end "What happened?"

"Angelwing is very sick. Sakurabloom and Vixenpaw give her a moon to live. There's nothing they can do without harming her kits. Not only that, but Bluekit is dying. With upcoming leaf-bare, herbs are going scarce to the frosts. It's too cold here. Sakurabloom is-"
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"Sakurabloom  is crying!" Shrieked Vixenpaw.

I had no idea when she had gotten there.

"What happened?" NovaSky hissed to the med cat apprentice.

"She had a vision. That's all she told me before she broke down into tears..." vixenpaw replied to the deputy obediently.

She didn't speak to me that way. She always spoke casually to me like I had told her to.

She lead us to the medicine den. There, sakurabloom  was then  huddled into a corner, rolled up into a ball of fur.

I slowly approached her.

I nudged her head to look at me. She was a weak and thin she-cat and didn't know how to fight even though she was short-tempered.

"What did you see? "

"An Eclipse. Starclan told me " sun and moon will collide and create stars, depart and fall. " the starclan ancestor then asked " Is the love in cats hearts stronger than their hate or their mate?"  Then, she was gone"

By the time the poor thing finished,  she was calmer.

I felt lost until I noticed Novasky tense up.

"What's wrong?" As soon as I ask this, cats rush in, all in a frenzied panic, most unable to calm down enough to speak so we just followed them to the nursery where Angelwing has begun her kitting.

No kits are being had yet, but her body is preparing.

I just stayed back quietly to watch sakueabloom  work. She was also a cat in a frenzied panic almost.

She got the job done though...

Sakurabloom helped the she-cat birth two kittens.