Hailbreeze

Appearance
Hailbreeze is a soft-furred, pale gray she-cat. She has white speckles like snow across her back and deep blue eyes.

Personality
Hailbreeze is sweet and gentle. She is empathetic and loves her Clan. Basically, she fits in the same category as Skyflower and Cedarpoppy, the stereotypical queen archetype. She is also rather headstrong and self-assured. She is strong and independent and really good at holding a grudge.

Backstory
Hailkit was born in OasisClan to Carnationdust and Dewfur. She had two siblings, Snowkit and Dawnkit.

There were two other kits born around the same time as her, Chestnutkit and Reedkit. Hailkit befriended Chestnutkit, along with Cranekit, a kit who was one moon older than her.

The three of them got up to some serious shenanigans, like bothering the older kits. They didn't like that much. Cranekit, Hailkit, and Chestnutkit found it pretty hilarious though.

You know what she didn't find amusing? Cranekit's crush on Dawnkit. In fact, she was kind of jealous of her sister, though she didn't really know why.

Anyways, Cranekit moved to the apprentice den shortly after that. Hailkit and Chestnutkit were pretty sad about that.

Apprenticeship
Hailpaw was apprenticed to Fuzzywhisker.

She really liked Cranepaw. Hoo boy, did she like him. She also hated Dawnpaw because Cranepaw liked Dawnpaw. Cranepaw was also completely oblivious to Hailpaw's affections.

When they were nine moons old (and Crane was ten), Hailpaw started to notice Chestnutpaw's crush on her. She also noticed Cranepaw noticing. This kind of excited her, because that meant that Cranepaw cared at least a little bit.

Anyways, things remained in that love triangle until Craneberry became a warrior. Fun.

Warrior Life
Hailbreeze became a warrior alongside her siblings, Dawnflurry and Snowstem, and Chestnutwing. She immediately started pursuing Craneberry more fiercely. She would go on patrols with him, drop hints, flirt, whatever she thought he might notice as her being interested. Her efforts were rewarded when she was sixteen moons old and Craneberry asked her to be his mate. She said yes, of course.

She was very happy for her sister when Dawnflurry and Chestnutwing became mates.

Anyways, shortly after becoming mates with Craneberry, Hailbreeze moved to the nursery, expecting his kits. She was very excited about the kits and waved away Craneberry's concerns.

She was right, of course, and at nineteen moons old, she had three beautiful daughters: Cloverkit, Silverkit, and Cloudkit. Shortly afterward, she was joined in the nursery by her sister, Dawnflurry, who was expecting Chestnutwing's kits.

Three moons later, Cloudkit went missing. While Craneberry was frantically searching the woods for her, Dawnflurry had her kits. Except not. Dawnflurry died and one of the kits was also lost. Everyone's day got worse when Craneberry returned home with Cloudkit's tiny body. He had found her in one of the deeper streams near the outer border. How she had gotten so far from camp was a mystery to everyone.

Hailbreeze offered to take care of Chestnutwing's daughter, Hopekit. He said yes and was constantly fussing over both Hopekit and Hailbreeze.

A bad bout of greencough one leaf-bare claimed Silverkit's life and an owl scooped up Cloverkit not long after. Hailbreeze and Craneberry had a huge fight over that. Hailbreeze thought it was Craneberry's fault, because he'd taken Cloverkit and Hopekit out of camp for a bit when the owl took her, but Craneberry told her repeatedly that it hadn't been his fault. In fact, he'd tried to fight off the owl, but he'd barely saved Hopekit and himself. The fact that only one cat died was a miracle.

In the end, Hailbreeze and Craneberry broke up. Hailbreeze was upset about that, but she was more upset about the loss of her kits and the fact that two of them had died while Craneberry was in charge of them. Wrapped in her grief and anger, she ended their relationship rather quickly.

She continued to care for Hopekit, though, and was very proud of her when she became an apprentice. She was not happy about Craneberry being her mentor, but there wasn't much she could do about it.

When she was 27, Hopepaw died and Hailbreeze had to decide whether or not it was her former mate's fault.