What is different in the au? Does maple's kits drown or is it a different sinerio?
There are a few notable differences that are mostly because of the setting.
Maple is kicked out of her religious community. She is emotional and not driving safely in a terrible rainstorm. She ends up driving into a river with her kids in the car, Maple is able to escape, but her kids unfortunately can't.
Two other pretty big differences that I feel like pointing out:
1. Birch(face) and Maple are married before his death. How he died, I'm not entirely sure at the moment, I'm thinking a workplace accident of some kind.
2. Reed(shine) is the one who kills Maple rather than Perch(paw). The reason being that I really like Reed :]. Perch isn't really part of the main story here since apprentice roles aren't a thing (maybe outside of med cat apprentices who would be like, pastors in training)
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