petals that could wither so easily
from her small, fragile, energetic kit hood, wisteria grew more and more fragile. after the death of "rat-mom" and her litter, wisteria couldn't handle all the pressure. her mother, halfstep, was breaking with every day, and eventually halfstep passed away too.
her only siblings left happened to be her two brothers, who she despised unhealthily due to them carrying more flesh and blood from shadowclan than she did. she learned to slowly despise the clan.
her emotional structure broke, and soon enough she was as weak as a newborn bird. she cried easily, and nightmares kept her up at night.
at her eighth moon of being an apprentice, wisteria was at the riverclan border and she saw a tom-apprentice, chatting with his mentor. the apprentice waved at her, but was tugged away by his mentor. a few days later, wisteria met the apprentice again.
day after day, they ran away from camp and met each other. one day, though, the apprentice was fed up with wisteria and how soft she was, how weak she was.
the apprentice slammed wisteria's head onto a rock, giving her a severe concussion and major amnesia. a patrol found the apprentice and took wisteria back to camp, where she was then cured and treated, despite not knowing anything.
she was retaught the basics, and all the names of every cat in the clan.
she forgot everything, until she heard her clanmates whispering about her.
"i can't believe she doesn't remember."
"i wouldn't want to remember if i was from a nasty clan."
"i bet wisteriapaw was talking to a shadowclanner."
the giggles and whispering sent her running, and from that day on she was sensitive and broken and torn apart by the community around her.
her only siblings left happened to be her two brothers, who she despised unhealthily due to them carrying more flesh and blood from shadowclan than she did. she learned to slowly despise the clan.
her emotional structure broke, and soon enough she was as weak as a newborn bird. she cried easily, and nightmares kept her up at night.
at her eighth moon of being an apprentice, wisteria was at the riverclan border and she saw a tom-apprentice, chatting with his mentor. the apprentice waved at her, but was tugged away by his mentor. a few days later, wisteria met the apprentice again.
day after day, they ran away from camp and met each other. one day, though, the apprentice was fed up with wisteria and how soft she was, how weak she was.
the apprentice slammed wisteria's head onto a rock, giving her a severe concussion and major amnesia. a patrol found the apprentice and took wisteria back to camp, where she was then cured and treated, despite not knowing anything.
she was retaught the basics, and all the names of every cat in the clan.
she forgot everything, until she heard her clanmates whispering about her.
"i can't believe she doesn't remember."
"i wouldn't want to remember if i was from a nasty clan."
"i bet wisteriapaw was talking to a shadowclanner."
the giggles and whispering sent her running, and from that day on she was sensitive and broken and torn apart by the community around her.