Warriors - Erin Hunter
it doesn't pay to be a good son
by acaciapines
Hawk learns about seers, who speak to the stars in exchange for losing everyone they love, and so he watches his sister pounce after guppies and makes his choice. That night he leaves Moth to sleep and he creeps outside, where he finds the hawk’s feather he snagged drifting in the river. He doesn’t know what omen means but he knows sign, a direction to go, and he thinks this works. He also knows where the Seer den is, and Spottedleaf is asleep, and so he takes his feather and he nudges it in front of her den and before he goes he looks up at Tadpole’s little star. A firefly flits past his nose, and glows, once-twice. I love you.