Sure, Brightfire loved Bumblebee. Everyone in Needleclan and probably many outside it loved Bumblebee, but no one had known him, had loved him like Cedarstride. Cedarstride who felt more empty now without him than he had done when Thorn had disappeared and left him to care for Stagkit and Thrushkit alone because Bumblebee had been there.
Bumblebee had been there when he went from being Berrystride to Cedarstride, Bumblebee had helped him deliver Stagkit and Thrushkit, Bumblebee had been there to support him cutting Thorn out of his life, Bumblebee had been there in the long greenleaf nights when the sun would never truly set and when the air was alive and it felt like life would never end.
Bumblebee had been there.
And now he wasn’t anymore.
— Cedarstride to Brightfire when delivering the news of Bumblebee's death
