Your Broken Mother

"When winter's come and all the flow'rs are dying,
And I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.
...
O Danny Boy, the stream flows cool and slowly;
And pipes still call and echo 'cross the glen.

Your broken mother sighs and feels so lowly,
For you have not returned to smile again.

So if you've died and crossed the stream before us,
We pray that angels met you on the shore;

And you'll look down, and gently you'll implore us
To live so we may see your smiling face once more."
—"Danny Boy" Irish folk song

Because I love to cry, here's Mapleshade going to the Starclan/Dark Forest border to see her kits—only Patchkit pictured—and they don't recognize her. God, I didn't realize how bad I felt for Mapleshade until recently. She had to deal with a lot of crap in her life, and it wasn't fair, and ended up driving her insane. This is sort of a sketchy type thing—I was experimenting with a slightly different style, so...let me know what you think?

Art (c) me
Characters (c) Erin Hunter