#aspen leaf

A Brief Moment of Aspen

DiamondClan's founders, who embarked on a great journey from a faraway place (the Great Lakes area) to the abandoned gemplace (in central WA), following Weststar's light and StarClan's guidance. Basically journey to the west but cat. Also Diamond Seeker was a purebred Persian show cat before receiving the sign from StarClan

Also bonus: Aspen Leaf meets another cat with a strong StarClan connection, Shadowed Grove (this guy)

And their encounter later ends up with Aspen Leaf pregnant, which of course causes him a lot of grief like "No!!! I'm a healer! I've devoted my entire life to StarClan! Why did I fall for Shadowed Grove?? I can't have kits!!" and later after he has his kits StarClan just tells him "it literally does not matter" and so after they find the abandoned gemplace and make DiamondClan, Aspen Leaf takes Boar Tusk as his mate and has kits with him

Both litters under the cut

“Have you seen the dead leaves fall in the sad autumn twilight? So fall souls each day into eternity. One day, the falling leaf will be you.” 

-  St. Josemaria Escriva, “Last Things” from The Way

Darling little pika carrying an aspen leaf in Big Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah.