With the way I want to rewrite PineStar's Choice, I want people to understand why PineStar has such a difficult time making a choice in the first place. Chelford is so kind to him, they're so sweet and patient and defensive of any cat, but, he grew up in the clans, it was hammered into his head that he was nothing without his clan. They were his family, and to the clans, your family defined you, your family is you.

He can't "just leave" because to him, in his mind, that was something that was absolutely unforgivable, he would be dead to his clan-his family- if he did that. The environment that he finds himself in is hostile, abusive, manipulative, exhausting, but it's the only life he knew, the only life he was taught to cherish and defend with his own body and blood. But it isn't his fault, it was never his fault. He's scared to leave.