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Time for a lore drop! And Oriolepaw is getting more curious about her clan's past

This chapter was really important to me to develop the culture of my clans. I'm not the first person to point this out but it is so boring a lame that the canon clans don't have any kind of holidays or celebrations and they don't sing or have festivals??? BORING ITS SO BORING!!

So here are our Duskclan cats having a festival of their own and we learn a little more about that day a year ago... Also, who is that stranger on the last page...?

Chapter title is a reference to the Cats song yes

And here we meet Nightstar's mother and Duskstar's mate, Starlingblaze

Also, I wonder who that Pantherpelt is in the flashback 👀

I apologize for how long it's been between updates. But I'm really excited to get back into this story and share all the things I've worked on it.

Nightstar experiences a manifestation of her guilt, what else is new?

Since Duskclan split off, they've been disconnected from Starclan. In the lore of this world that I have, you can only communicate with Starclan when going to the Moonfalls. No calling Starclan at 3am challenges when you can just talk to your dead relatives. So Nightstar thinking she's seeing a Starclan cat is a pretty big deal.

Damn it sounds like living in Mapleclan kinda sucked, I wonder if anybody should do anything about that

The boys finally get to have some proper introductions and Chanterelleclaw is here! He made a brief cameo in the prologue but now he gets to speak. He and Nightstar have a lot of history and it seems like Nightstar has a things she still has yet to let go of.

Also, it's been a year since I uploaded the prologue! I wish I could have gotten more chapters out in that time, but I'm determined to stick with this project for as long as I can. And thank you all for supporting me thus far :)

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows

And Here is Chapter two! It should be obvious but Oriolepaw and Nightstar are our duo protagonists and every chapter will switch between their POV. In this chapter we explore Nightstar's feelings about leading a clan after her father's passing. She is a bit of a failwoman and I adore her so much.

Also, for future reference, the term "first light" means dawn and "second light" is dusk. First sleep is during noon and second sleep is during the night. That might be a bit obvious, but I wanted to be clear. The cats here behave more like actual cats do where they are crepuscular, active mainly at dawn and dusk.

The flowers bordering this page are moonflowers

As always, feel free to send any questions my way. No Promises on any straightforward spoilerly answer however! :)

Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again

Mary Oliver Morning Poem

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Here is the prologue! I am so very excited to get to posting and sharing this story. Though to note, the prologue will be very much not like the rest of the comic. I decided to do a fully illustrated set of traditional pages to contrast with the half illustrated style the main comic will be drawn in.