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When she was first introduced to the world, all she had known as Mother. Mother offer security and milk in the nursery alongside her sibling. That was it, there was nothing else that mattered more than her and brother. It was her life, it was simple, it was perfect.

Suddenly, that was ripped away from her, and confusion and hurt had followed after that. What had happened? Well, it was obviously nothing good.

Mother had been replaced by other molly, who was definitely not her den-mother. The feeling against her fur was rough and contrast to Mother's. She didn't carry the sweet scent of milk that always filled her nose.

As she got older, the reality of it all settled in like a storm. Ivyflight was killed in cold blood for unknown reasons. Her imposter was Fernice, who was apparently her sister, making her kin. Whenever she and Stormkit played in the clearing, the distinguished looks she got was clear enough; you're different from us. It was those very words from an elder, Yarrowsnap, that flipped her world underside down. It would have never happened if she hadn't gone out the nursery in the first place.

"You'll never be good enough to become a true legionaries in the eyes of Star Kingdom."

It stuck her like lightning. She cried and cried for days, burying her face into her broad paws. That's when she stopped trying. She put on a mask of indifference to cover herself up, to blend into the shadows.

There was no point in trying to be anything else than what she was considered; a mistake.

  The fog had cleared from her blue eyes, this was the world in its cruelest state. Like a fire sweeping over a forest, it happens so quickly yet so damaging.