(Sketch-ish because my back hurts and I should rest, might add extra art later)

@rooted-clangen

“Oh geez- look, kit. You’re going to stay right here while I deal with this. Just- don’t look, alright?”

The cat whispers to Rootkit, quickly rushing to help their mate. Soon after, RootKit is found by PearlClan’s leader, HalfStar, who is about to lose his first life but still quickly takes her back to his newly-founded clan. She’s raised under queen apprentice PodPaw, even if the clan isn’t too fond of accepting so many new orphaned kits in a single moon. She becomes friends with her denmates quite quickly, especially SpearKit (one of the kits of the cat that originally found her!) due to both of them being the weirdos of the clan. While RootKit becomes a healer apprentice under BasilStripe, she never quite gets to communicate with her family when visiting the moonpearl or during visions/signs due to how far away she’s from that territory. BasilStripe does her best to comfort her- the whole clan does their best to comfort her, but they distance themselves from her when she reveals what happened back at hymnClan… except SpearPaw, who’s the mediator apprentice under KiteScar. Sure, that’s a weird backstory to have, but that’s their friend right there!! They can’t abandon her!! Their clanmates start ignoring SpearPaw when they try mediating their fights, and even one of their own siblings, GustPaw, starts bullying them. SpearPaw and RootPaw- now SpearQuake and RootLeaf- decide to act defiantly one night, leaving the clan for a few days… which turn into weeks and moons when they both get lost in a weird place far from the wastelands, doing what they can to survive against unknown creatures. This place is dangerous, but they’ll be fine as long as they stay together! Right?

… right? (PearlClan/SpearQuake talking under cut!)