#redux-iterum

Little work in progress of a fancover for @redux-iterum of their third book, Charred Legacy. It may be some before I can finish, so thought I’d post a teaser ;3

been keeping up with @redux-iterum's Charred Legacy and my fucking god this chapter. The sheer sass.

Bluestar, surprisingly, was awake. She hadn’t even changed positions from when Fireheart had left earlier: her chin was on the edge of the nest, eyes dull and empty. She gave no indication that she’d heard either of them.

Or saw them.

…Or that she was breathing.

“Bluestar, we’re here to…” Dustpelt started, then trailed off. He sniffed, then froze.

Fireheart, already knowing and desperately hoping it wasn’t so, crouched in front of her still nose. “Bluestar?”

No response. He pawed at her ear. It didn’t twitch.

“…Bluestar?”

A kit’s safety and survival is prioritized over everything else. In times of great hunger, kits and their mothers eat first, and when a fight reaches a Clan’s camp, the kits are to be protected with a warrior’s life.

It is completely illegal to harm or kill a kitten, or knowingly neglect a kit in a way that brings harm to them. There is no exception to this rule.

Emotional and mental abuse will be punished similarly in severity to physical abuse.

Guardianship of half-Clan kits defaults to their birth-mother every time. Second place goes to the queen’s current Clan.

The queen may choose to send her kits to live with their father in his Clan. The queen’s Clan is not allowed to force her to retract this choice, or to prevent her from doing it. In this situation, once the kits are with their father, he becomes their default guardian, with his Clan as second place.

Guardianship of full-blooded kits defaults to their birth-mother, followed by their father.

The definition of “father” can be either “parent by blood” or “parent by adoption”, at the birth-mother’s discretion. If the queen dies, the father who she was mates with will be the default guardian.

Kits have the right to request to be named after an injury they sustained and survived before they become an apprentice. The leader may agree to either change their prefix at their first ceremony or keep their original prefix and change the name entirely when they become a warrior.

Queens are heavily encouraged to not name for injuries, disabilities or disfigurements when the kitten is born. This is not illegal, but if done can be considered harmful to the kit, and the father or mate may exercise the right to change the kitten’s name to something else, even if the queen doesn’t agree.