Smallpaw's Journey

Smallkit has always had a mostly carefree and amazing life, growing up with a somewhat strict but loving mother, a strong and kind father, and three fun -but sometimes annoying- older brothers.
But there's one thing that's always made her special.
Not a prophecy, or some great destiny written in the stars.

No.

Smallkit has always been the, well, the *smallest* of her siblings.
The runt, as it were.
Her legs and body are simply, smaller and shorter than average, and she's always been...okay with that.

But the time has come for Smallkit to grow up, and she doesn't know how to do that...
The time has come for Smallkit -and her "older by two minutes" brother, Coalkit- to become apprentices!
Unprepared for the expectations that seem to come out of nowhere as she gets older and older, and the weight of the responsibilities that she finds now being thrust upon her by her mother and older brothers, all of a sudden, Smallkit's life has been turned upside down!

Between bigger and bigger problems slowly arising within her family, fights with her brother becoming more and more frequent, and the new responsibilities and expectations that come with being an apprentice *and* growing up at the same time, Smallpaw finds herself on a rollercoaster of emotions, and doesn't quite know how to feel about everything she's all of a sudden expected to be.

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Join me, Smallfire, for an ultimately lighthearted but emotional tale about the challenges of training to be a good person, warrior, and someone your family will be proud of. Follow my story as we take a look into the mind and life of an often emotionally troubled young cat(aka me), and how hard it can be to deal with emotions, family, expectations, responsibility, and life.
In a story with ups and downs, sad and silly, a bully (who might have a lot more to him than meets the eye), a hypocritical and often hard to deal with mother, and a young girl simply trying to figure out what life really is and how it works.