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"You would have been proud of your kits, my love. Strange that none of them have your ginger fur... But I see your spirit in them just the same."

— Quince about Jake in The Rise of Scourge, page 13

Quince



Affiliations
Current:	Kittypet^[1]
Names
Kittypet:	Quince^[1]
Family
Mate: Daughter: Sons:	Jake Ruby Socks, Scourge
Book Appearances
Living:	The Rise of Scourge

Quince is a light coloured she-cat.^[1]

Spoiler Warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

HistoryEdit

In the Stand-Alone MangaEdit

The Rise of Scourge Edit

She is first seen as the mother of Tiny, Ruby, and Socks. She constantly makes Socks and Ruby be nice to Tiny, because they pick on his size.

Quince takes her kits outside for the first time, and calls back Tiny when he investigates a hole in the fence. When back inside, Tiny asks his mother about the forest, and she explains that she knows a little bit, saying their father had gone there a couple of times. She tells Tiny that they won't be going to the forest when he asks, saying they have fleas. Quince warns Tiny to stay away from the forest, explaining that the cats who live there are savages and that they are a scourge on the name of good cats. While her kits are asleep, she looks at a photo of Jake, saying he would have been proud of them, and that it was strange that they didn't have his ginger fur.

Tiny thinks that she secretly likes Ruby and Socks more than him, as he watches Quince while she watches Ruby and Socks playing in the garden. When Tiny asks his brother and sister if he can play with them, they say no and run into the bush, causing Quince to tell them to come out straight away. She tells her kits to be nice to Tiny.

After Tiny's adventure into the forest, she is heard calling for him, and is sitting on the porch outside with Ruby and Socks. Though he explains what he was doing, he can tell they don't believe him. She carries him inside, and tells him she thinks he's a very brave cat when she sets him back inside their basket.

Quince cuts off Socks and Ruby's taunting of Tiny, saying she needed to talk to them. She explains that people will come and take them to their new homes if they learn to behave themselves. Ruby protests, asking if they had to go, and she says that they will have a new backyard to play in and new housefolk to take care of them. She watches Ruby and Socks playing as the Twolegs watch.

Later, Tiny shows remorse at leaving his mother, which is later hardened by the fact that he uses the word "Scourge" as his name, which his mother had quoted before.