Big blue eyes peer up at the new cat in front of you. She appeared practically out of no where and gave you quite the start. The fur across your back shoots to attention and you puff up like a little cotton ball. Deep humiliation rises from the pit of your stomach, this isn’t what mother would have done.
You do your best to make up for your embarrassment by building up a ferocious growl. You’d scare this she-cat away just like mother would! But the pitiful squeak that ruptures from your chest is anything but fearsome.
Your eyes grow wide as the she-cat suppresses her laugh. You want to curl up and die.
“I-I just wanted to be brave like brother and mother…”
As the kit puffs up and squeaks you do everything to not laugh, laughing would possibly break the kit’s confidence. She sniffs him, Thistleruff’s kit, the other brother.
“Like them, huh? I think you’re brave who dared to get out of the nursery this early! You’re Blackkit’s brother, right?”
You get on his level, though not quite laying down, and smile at him.
“I’m Zed. Or, ehm, firefly, as your mother calls me now. What’s your name?”
He is so cute, and he kinda reminds you of Thistleruff. Though he was her kit, after all.
You nod once at your brothers name. ears laying flat against your skull. It isn’t until the she-cat says her name do you start to loosen up. The firefly? Mother mentions a beautiful firefly coming to visit all the time. So...this is a firefly?
“I-I’m Stonekit. Mother says my name will give me strength...”
He pauses to give the she-cat a look over.
“You don’t...glow? Mother says you’re supposed to glow?”
