i've posted about this before but i think a lot about how dandelionkit died when she was two moons old.
dandelionkit isn't like her siblings. sparkkit has so much energy squirrelflight often sends her to help briarlight, just so she can sleep at nap time. alderkit is calmer, but that doesn't mean he can't keep up.
no one thinks she'll be a warrior. (if she were a little older, she would know: no one expects her to live that long.) the elders don't complain if she chases their tail, and the warriors never chastise her for playing too close to them. squirrelflight pulls her closest at night, and bramblestar takes her into the forest once, tucked tight under his paws, just so she can see.
she's just a kit. she doesn't know she's going to die, doesn't know every day she doesn't get stronger is a day she gets weaker. squirrelflight starts telling alderkit and sparkkit to be gentler with her. jayfeather and leafpool talk to squirrelflight and bramblestar outside the nursery, as they wait with cinderheart. she thinks it's getting harder to breathe, but maybe it's just the weather.
dandelionkit sits with briarlight, wondering if she could help in the medicine den when she's older. briarlight purrs, nuzzling the top of her head, and says nothing. jayfeather chases her out, telling her to stop getting under their feet and to go bother her littermates instead, with none of his usual bite. she watches sparkkit and alderkit wrestle and decides to nap on bramblestar instead.
