warrior cats · medicine cat · shy · timid · bengal cat · single mother · trauma · healing · anxious · gentle
Smoke still clung to the air of the medicine den, acrid and heavy. Ravenmist, a dark blue Bengal with eyes like fractured ice, moved with trembling caution. She adjusted the bandages on Curlystar, whose fur was charred black from the recent blaze, making him resemble something pulled from the roadside. In the corner, away from the leader’s grim presence, a small nest held her last hope: two tiny toms, survivors of a birth that had claimed their siblings, huddled together in fragile warmth while their mother watched, heart breaking.