Hi! It's Dawn! Sorry about the pause in the roleplay- School was interrupting my roleplaying time :c But anyways, let's get on to the roleplay!!

The pale-ginger she-cat trodded along the path. She felt sick with grief for the fallen clanmates. With her blue eyes, she scanned her surroundings. Two kits, both ginger, and gold followed her sleepily. 

"I don't like it here..."  She murmured. She looked at the two kits sorrowfully. The two kits stared at her with vast blue pools in their eyes. They seemed so small, and fragile... One wrong move could snap their spine, and their lives would be over. But she had made it her life's goal to keep these two safe until they grew into large, strong warriors.

But there was a killer loose in their Clan.

They had tried to save themselves. Voted out cats.  But however, they failed. And tonight, the killer would take someone.

But could the 'someone' be me?

She shook off the dread in her mind and marched to the den. "Kits, we have nowhere else to run. We have to stay in the camp, with the Clan. It's the safest option."

"But... is the Clan safe with a killer in it?" The gold kit asked, worry in its gaze. "But the wild is also dangerous... We could be next!"

"The killer only kills one cat each night..." The pale-ginger she-cat whispered. "Just hope that it isn't us."

The moonlight shone on their nests as they parted the fern curtains to their den. "Let's hope that we will survive..." 

They curled up and tried to sleep. The continuous breathing of the two kits always woke her up, but she felt safer with them. 

She was about to fall asleep when the curtains parted. A she-cat stepped in. She stopped in front of the ginger she-cat and sneered, "well?"

"Um... What? Me?" The she-cat gasped. "Me??"

"Yes, you. Come with me." The killer rasped. She turned out of the den. "I'll spare you for a few more seconds, or I'll have to force you to come."

"Okay... Coming!" The ginger she-cat yelped. She scrambled out of the nest and faced the killer.

"I know what it is like to be defensive," the killer started, in a quiet tone. "I have faced much worse than what you are facing now."

Hope flared in the ginger she-cat's chest. Maybe the killer would spare her!

"But however..." The ginger she-cat suddenly found herself on the ground and the killer on top of her, claws next to her neck. "I choose to be stronger. More powerful than you. Why didn't you protect your kin? Why?" The she-cat suddenly felt a drop of water on her cheek. The killer was... crying? 

"I tried to!" The ginger she-cat tried to yowl, but the killer was on top of her, pressing the air out of her lungs. "I wanted to protect-"

"You didn't!" The killer spat. "That's what I hate! This is why I decided to come after you! Any last words?" The killer's icy cold eyes stared into the ginger she-cat's soul.

"But... But... Please-"

The killer sliced her claws into the ginger she-cat's neck. 

Gone.

Deceased: Flareshade 

Oh no Flareshade :(((((