She nodded. Lowering her voice, she added, “I think part of it might be guilt. I remember with.... with Starkit,” she mewed, voice trembling slightly at her lost kit’s name, “I felt like it was something I had done. Maybe Snowfrost feels that if she had tried to take better care of herself while kidnapped, Flykit wouldn’t be deaf.”
“Then why can’t we tell her she can try being an apprentice? Why do they have to take her out of camp when she’s still a kit to see if she’d do alright? We’d know how she’d do if she was just apprenticed normally!” Her tail lashed.