Duskslayer walked in with a shrew in his mouth, his pelt rubbed against Commander Shule's, soft as feathers in greeting. He settled down beside Unseenlights setting the shrew down between them. He licked her comfortingly across her face. Damek-tyke still wasn't doing too well, but he didn't worry... Too much. It did worry him that there weren't many experienced healers like there were in SunClan. But Renegade Regime still had plenty of healers.

To him this was a good life, but he wasn't settling for the Regime either. He wanted Unseenlight's to feel comfortable and he knew she could have had kits in SunClan with medical professionals she knew and family she loved. He was never going to forget for a minute the sacrifice she put for him by staying in the Regime for his comforts first before her own. But deep down he knew what he did was right, he was willing to devote his time, heart, and life to SunClan, but it wasn't right that SunClan forced cult members youth to follow the same path. That if the younger generations refused to be a part of it they would be forced to obey or be demolished the moment they reached warriorhood. He wanted their kits to have freedom, a moral code, and a chance to discover who they were without someone telling them what they were supposed to be. So although he put Unseenlight's in an uncomfortable position it was for his kits. Still he felt guilty inside, all of his friends were in SunClan, even Littlestar he considered to be a friend. He knew they would all love their kits, shower Unseenlight's with gifts, want to be a part of their lives. He was taking that from them... He wished they could see them without immediately wanting to steal them back to SunClan.

"I'm glad fate has brought you to this moment mumsy," Dusky purred to Commander Shule. Glowstar was mom, Innocentia was reluctantly called mother, which meant Shule had the title of mumsy. "Well all of us to this moment. I never saw myself being able to join the Regime with all of you and Kaisra because Lex was still in SunClan, but now that he's here everything feels complete. Sort of too complete like I'm a dad that's about to die in act one of the story because the dads kids are going to grow up super cool and can't have a trustworthy adult around to weigh on their story development," He said thoughtfully.

That's exactly how stories went, any kind hearted nurturing father was killed off so the child would have to face a magical quest on their own. Or taken out of the picture so the child could fulfill a life changing journey without parents giving them rules. In short parents being included in a child's perfect narrative made for a boring story. He wondered if that was why he couldn't have Sean and Shule in his life. Because he would have lived a peaceful, bland life. When he was younger he would always look at things in terms of how things would work in a story. There were plot devices, red herrings, foreshadowing, he would try to look for those things in real life. But Glowstar was always quick to dissuade him, that life was chaos, unpredictable, that he should depend on childish nonsense like fate to pacify the cruel reality that the world was wild. Whatever story his family had he wanted it to have a happy ending so maybe if it got a bit wild he would have to break some of the story rules.

"I think that's a good idea, not dying," He agreed.