Heretrix/Notes


 * Ivy and her siblings, June and Cotton, are waiting for their mother to return home from a hunt.
 * Ivy scents something strange and the three follow it.
 * They find their mothers body bleeding out. She tells her kits to be strong before dying.
 * The siblings grieve until just before sunhigh, when a ginger cat confronts them.
 * She tells the three they are not welcome in that part of the mountain and gives her cats the body of Ivy's mother, where they dismember her.
 * She then claws Ivy's ear and strikes June across the muzzle.
 * June gives in and he and his siblings split up.


 * One moon after Ivy's mother is killed, Ivy isn't doing too well for herself.
 * Ivy isn't great and hunting and starving.
 * She's also very sad about her mom.
 * Ivy recalls that, on the same day her mother died, yowls rang out from the scarp she died under and lasted from sunhigh to half-set.
 * When she looked back over, the scarp was red with blood. The sky and moon were both red or pink after that night.
 * Ivy spots a redtail hawk and goes over the river and on top of the scarp that the battle took place to catch it.
 * Proving that Ivy isn't a very good hunter, she gets caught in the redtail's talons. The hawk, however, cannot seem to take off with her.
 * Three cats come running down the slope and two of them leap into Ivy, successfully knocking her out of the redtail's talons. The cats kill the hawk, and the third cat compliments them.
 * The ginger tom points out that Ivy is harmed and begs his leader, Frosty Night, to let her come home with them to get healed. Ivy isn't very sure about the arrangement, though goes along with the cats anyway.
 * The tom introduces himself as Flaming Dawn, and Ivy thinks it is a strange name.
 * Ivy is confined to one wall, though she learns many things about the Glare anyway.