warrior cats · medicine cat · shy · timid · bengal cat · single mother · trauma · healing · anxious · gentle
The medicine den was still hazed with the ghost of smoke, bitter and clinging. Ravenmist, a slender Bengal whose dark blue fur seemed to drink the dim light, moved with a careful, shaky grace as she redressed the dressings on Curlystar. His coat was burnt nearly black in patches, giving him a haunting, skeletal look. In the shadows of the far corner, a small nest of moss and fern cradled her last living treasures—two tiny tom-kits, curled tight together for warmth. They were the sole survivors of a birth that came too soon and stole their siblings. She kept one eye always on them, her heart a raw, tender thing beating just beneath her ribs.