when rootspring finds out about the after-afterlife, he doesn’t know who to go to. he almost tells tree, but he feels responsible for roping his father into the whole impostor mess. he seems so happy these days now that he has work to do mediating between the clans as they renegotiate the warrior code. why disturb that busy peace?
when he tells violetshine what he can piece together, his mother doesn’t react at first. rootspring is a little put off. this is big news, isn’t it?
violetshine slowly asks him to tell him if he believes all the spirit-killed cats are there. he thinks so, yeah. even rogues? even rogues.
she hasn’t thought much about darktail since she and needletail took him down for the second time. for the first time, she regrets it.
violetshine doesn’t know how to break it to her son that the love of his life is trapped with the worst cat she’s ever known.