Crowfeather

And you know what? It does take two to tango.

Crowfeather, like, it's not, like, everyone else knows who did it.

Yeah.

And if they're doing the math that we're doing, even though the errands keep messing it up, that he probably then immediately, immediately gets with Nightflower.

This is ThunderClan business, Feathertail, Yellowfang points out with a hint of a snarl.

No, it's not, Feathertail flashes back.

Jayfeather and Lionblaze are half WindClan, Crowfeather's sons.

She cares what happens to them.

Yeah.

And so she goes, guess what, everybody? Leafpool's my mom and Crowfeather's my dad.

I forgot she did that.

Yeah, she did that at a gathering.

Firestar is probably freaking out because that prophecy is short one or we got an extra now.

And I know that's semi-resolved, but...

I want to say Holly was so broken about the truth of her parentage, how out of place she felt after the conversation with Crowfeather.

And rather than leaning into that discomfort and following and exploring a cat who goes through this grand change of their self and what they fundamentally believe in.

She's, no."

She's not gonna be Crowkit, that's gonna be a little obvious.

Yeah.

Everybody knows you ran away with him.

They disappear for two days and she goes-

[laughs]

... just like, "Here's Crowkit," and they're like, "Does she hate her? Do you think she was gonna kill her in the woods? Do you, what the, what happened?"

Ugh.

Has she come to see Leafpool's kits? Isn't it amazing-

I came to see Crowfeather's kits.

Ha ha.

They better, are they about to ruin her? 'Cause she was ...

Feathertail's eyes brim with love.

"They're perfect," she says.

"Crowfeather would be so proud." And with a jolt, Leafpool remembers that Feathertail had kind of been Crowfeather's mate first, remember? Um-

Mm-hmm

What if...

What if Nightcloud... gets pregnant and that's when her and Crowfeather get together.

Like they were just kind of like a thing, but then they're not, you know, like there's no formal becoming mates situation.

Yeah, I mean, there isn't really in Warrior Cats.

And, like, it's been described, like, in the worst, we've talked about this before, in, like, I don't know if it's, like, Secrets of the Clans or Codes of the Clans or something, Cats of the Clans, whatever.

It's, like...

Becoming her mate was Crowfeather's punishment.

And it's like,