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Title reads MOON 9 part 4
There is a symbol that resembles 4 fish with their noses touching and 4 smaller ones between them, indicating it is currently Autumn/Fall

Page 1:
Burnet narrating. Nothing like a bear attack and some dying to shake you from a downward spiral.
(A panel of Burnet's paws standing the the purplish darkness of the afterlife she visited in moon 3, there are ripples around her paws where they touch the water(?) )
Snakespots wasn't there. I had sorta expected them to be, but I guess that was dumb seeing it had only happened once. Looking around, there was nothing but a swirly, motley darkness like fog at night.
It was creepy. A tiny noise caught my ear. Voices?
As I turned to look I caught just a glimpse of two far-off shapes before the water (water?) under my paws began to ripple.
(Burnet falling through the 'floor' of the afterlife, which has shattered into shards. In the background the tiny orange shape of Snakespots can be seen, sitting next to a white figure. )
Like ice too thin to hold my weight, it shattered.

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I shrieked as the darkness swallowed me, expecting the biting chill, but
I felt strangely warm instead. More than that, my chest was
burning hot, in the "really need to breathe" way. But I couldn't.
I tried, but it felt like someone had clamped their jaws around-
Oh, right.
(Panel of Burnet, eyes wide and jaws agape as Lilac pins her. His sabers are sunk into her throat and his eyes are blank. Blood is pouring from the wound- sabercats have a haemorrhagic bite rather than using asphyxiation, so there is a lot of blood. )
I ached with the need to breathe, and I still couldn't see.
There was a voice, but not the one I'd heard in the shadow place. This one was deeper, but sounded... wrong, choked maybe. Slowly the words came into focus.
(Panel of Lilac in a pose that mimics his above one, but now rather than killing Burnet he is sobbing into her bloodied fur.
Lilac: "Ancestors no no no I'm so sorry, not again, I didn't mean- Shit, oh fuck Burnet I'm so- what am I going to do...")
Lilac? It must have been, but I'd never heard him sound so... like that. To be fair, I'd also never had him to kill me, so this was a day of firsts.

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Without warning, the crushed feeling in my throat righted with a sickening *sssscrunch* and I gasped a breath. The warmth that had surrounded me suddenly left and my head bumped the ground with a tooth-rattling thump.
(Lilac leaping back from Burnet, whose head drops to the ground causing her to grimace. )
"Oww," I hissed, though what came out was mostly hot, wet and sticky, not words. I coughed feebly, trying to clear my airway.
"Burnet? Not possible, it can't be, you died, you were dead!"
(Lilac's face gaping in shock, his face is bloodied and his eyes are tear-filled.)
He was behind me, and I managed to shuffle my head and forepaws around to look at him. Blood streaked the usually pale grey fur, and his eyes were wide with disbelief.
I gave a tiny, wary smile, "not... dead-"

Page 4:
No thanks to you, what was that?! Lilac wasn't violent... or I guess maybe he was. He seemed relieved, I think. So I guess killing me wasn't the plan? I wouldn't find out now, his face changed from shock to worried-thoughtful.

"Your neck has scarred-"
I touched it gingerly, he was right.
Lilac's grey eyes narrowed, "I thought... but no..."
His expression darkened, "this isn't the first time, is it? "You didn't survive the snake bite. All this time-"
(Burnet, trembling and propped up on one forepaw as she uses the other to investigate her throat, which has indeed scarred, despite the coating of dried blood. )

Suddenly he looked... what? Angry, sad? I couldn't tell, he was shaking his head.

"All this time... Burnet do you realise how many sleepless nights I've been tortured by nightmares where we buried you alive!? How long we had no healer because I thought I was so useless I couldn't tell a deep sleep from death!?
"That any of us could have died of sickness and Pounce wouldn't have a mentor? I killed you! But you can come back from the dead?
(Lilac looking away from Burnet, his face scrunched in pain. He is reaching for his face where the bear lacerated his cheek, touching it lightly but it clearly hurts too much to do more.)
"How could you keep something like this from us!?"

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Stupid stupid idiot! Of course they were going to find out! Why didn't you tell Lilac when it first happened? Why can't you do anything right.
"I-"
Hot, embarrassing tears started, which was even stupider because I shouldn't have had any left. They choked what was left of my throat and I sniffed, trying to find words. As if they'd come to me now, after months of agony.
The silence stretched, and stretched, until finally Lilac broke it.
"'It's unforgivable'." He echoed my earlier words. "Burnet... what did you do?"
(Lilac's face as he turns back to Burnet to ask that question. His ears are uneven, showing he is uncertain, and he looks distraught.)
I was so tired.
He killed me and he wasn't even denying it. I touched my freshly scarred throat. What was wrong with all of us?
Maybe this was why Snakespots made me a 'Reviving Warrior'; to let me die and come back as many times as I should. I was owed death.
(Burnet, looking back at Lilac with a lank eyed, defeated expression. She looks haggard, with dried blood clumping her fur and her pupils dulled.)
Burnet, the letters are red, as is the rest of the page: "I killed everyone." "It's my fault the Ice Fangs found our camp."

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He was silent as I stood up, shakily at first, but I could feel the strength returning as whatever Snakespots had done worked around my body. Drying blood stuck to my chest and neck fur, pulling uncomfortably. I barely felt it as I walked into the pines. I didn't look back.
Half of me hoped to hear Lilac's uneven footsteps as he followed me. The other half was ready to run if it did.
(A splash page of Burnet walking into the pines. She has her eyes closed and her face is between distraught and slack with defeat. Lilac is in the background behind a tree on the shore, his head hanging low. A pair of Bohemian waxwings are watching Burnet from a pine branch.)
But the only noise was the sound of the river, and the wind in the trees.

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That's all folks, this hellish moon is over! I thiiiiiink I may take a break from updating so I can get by buffer looking a bit healthier (and take part in Febroary mayhaps)

Idk if it's clear but just stating for clarity that Burnet was actually out for A While, not 3-5 seconds like page 1 may suggest ugh c'x

Also Burnet actually stayed pretty on model this page set, yaaaay. That's probably the only good thing that happened to her this moon though :'D

i love waxwings, aren't they cute? c:

Kindred of the Mammoth is on Comicfury as well!

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