Eagleleap

Story
Eaglekit was a very bright and happy kit who brought joy to her Clan and mother. She always knew that she was a halfClan, bur her mother never told her which Clan, if any, her father was from, which plagued her for many moons. Cedarstream gave her enough love for the two of them, but Eaglekit still pestered for information about her father. Apprenticeship distracted her for a few moons, but after her warrior ceremony at 12 moons old she began to think about her father again.

Eagleleap pressed her mother for more, or any, information for moons, trying again and again, but little surfaced other than that her father was a proud, strong tom who was proud of her. The idea that he was proud of her simply encouraged her to struggle for more information.

At the age of 40 moons, her mother finally revealed the identity of her father: Runningbreeze, a warrior of ShadowClan who had five kits from one litter in his own Clan, who were 12 moons old and about to become warriors. It took her nine moons to summon the courage to confront her father about being kin. The meeting went badly, with Runningbreeze shunning her for almost disrupting his family. He did not want his kits to have any reason to distrust or ignore him, and her existence threatened that.

Eagleleap went running to her mother in distress, and accused her of lying to her that Runningbreeze was proud of her. She spent moons in agony, fretting over who to trust, and fell briefly in love with a rogue, partially to spite her parents. However, she realised she was expecting kits, and eventually birthed a single kit, Mudkit, named for her muddy brown fur. Mudkit was her reason to love again, and she reconciled with Cedarstream shortly before she passed away.

Wishing Mudpaw had a father like she had never had, Eagleleap kept the secret of her father out of fear of her father rejecting her, or worse, harming her. She hated and regretted keeping it a secret from her as she knew how her daughter must feel, but she felt that there was little choice.