nightshade's paws shifted as their yellow eyes darted from cat to cat. half of these cats present... wanted her gone?

"n-no... i want to live...!" nightshade bunched up her haunches, wildly swinging her head. baring her fangs, she added, "so lazy, and then so quick to turn on me... maybe i should support tansyheart fully... after all...!"

"as if you don't already!" orchidflight lunged at nightshade, clawing wildly at the black cat's pelt. "you killed azaleasong!"

"you're really flattering her, if you think her a traitor, yet only had one victim," harethistle growled. "there's many more names to be named!"

"stop!" nightshade screeched. her claws tried to slash orchidflight's eyes, legs, chest, anything she could reach, but she couldn't match orchidflight's mania- the tom was driven by anger, by hate.

orchidflight only stopped when nightshade's movements reduced to lame twitches.

tansyheart turned her back on the clan she had terrorized for so long. or at least, it had felt like a long time... when in reality, not even a week had passed.

but in less than a week, how many cats had had to die? so many cats slain for greed... and their only memorials felt like taunts.

"i'm beginning to regret giving you a chance, fieldclan..." tansyheart growled. "you needed me to taunt you and push you and scare you, just for you to give me the votes that i should've gotten the day before!"

tansyheart turned back around.

"you really don't deserve to live after all."

tansyheart threw herself at one warrior and sliced away at their pelt. the cat hissed and fought back, but tansyheart quickly subdued them with an uppercut, throwing the cat away.

"you, always the last to respond, always too late to arrive, and never saying anything of worth. how about this: you were late on the fourth night, and completely absent in the daytime... so no one can complain if i kill you now!"

tansyheart pounced, landing squarely on the cat's body. the cat's last breath was robbed from their lungs; they coughed as tansyheart's weight flattened their lungs, and when tansyheart reared and pushed down again, the cat's dying scream was swiftly cut short.

"cats of fieldclan..." tansyheart licked the blood off her paws. "if i had my way, i would break my own rules just to kill you all now." tansyheart looked up, and her stormy blue glare seemed to paralyze all in her range of sight.

"i don't know why i gave you that fighting chance. the traitors still deserve to win- which means you all need to die."

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nightshade was eliminated by the vote.

pasquedash was killed by tansyheart in a fit of rage [ inactivity ].

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