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Username: Kiffell
Cat Name: Dolphincloud
Clan: https://toyhou.se/kiffell/characters/folder:798470
Rank: Warrior

Gender: tom
Age: 23 moons

Prompt:

"Water...The water is alive. Once you dive in, it will immediately bare its fangs and attack. But, there's nothing to fear. Don't resist the water. Thrust your paws into the surface and carve an opening. Then you slide your body through that opening..."

His place is the water. The place where he can think, but not feel. He can close his eyes and let the substance surround his body in a whisper. He doesn't breathe, he doesn't feel, he doesn't move, he just thinks. He thinks about the day, the troubles, his friends, family...
He's floating now. Not on top, not deep down, but just in the middle. He feels like he's in the clouds, in the void, in the stars..He opens his eyes, and sees the fish. They swerve, barrel, swim..Just like himself. He turns his head, watching the scaled creatures bubble past his eyes, his body, his mind. His tail flicks, and he moves. He sighs under the water..under himself. His mind clouded, his eyes closing, his lungs deflating.
Then he feels a tug.
His mind, eyes, lungs shoot to life once again.
He feels it again..that tug..
And he looks up, pulled up, from the fangs of himself.
"Dolphincloud! C'mon, you've been in there long enough. Let's go back to camp."
He sees his friends, his home, his relaxation, reaching out to pull him from his mind.
Droplets splashed as he shook his fur, raising his head with a single breathe, taking in the oxygen.
The water wasn't his home, the water was himself.
He wasn't his friends, but his friends are his home.

[Birchii]

Username: Birchii
Cat Name: Hailsky
Clan: GealachClan
Rank: Warrior

Gender: Tom
Age: 44 Moons

Prompt:

Hailsky is an extrovert through and through; he thrives from the energy of others, and can't stand silence in most scenarios. That's why, when he needs to be alone in those rare cases, he chooses to head to the Moonlit Cascade. With the rapid and constant movement of water, accompanied by the harmony of drips and roaring falls, it's the only place Hailsky can contently be alone without feeling lonely. He watches as fish pick and flit about in the pool that gathers at the bottom, imagining a life where he too was river-bound and could breathe beneath the clear surface. Imaginations of the water flowing backwards, heading up and into the hills rather than rushing from them fills him with glee, providing funny stories to tell any curious kits. He appreciates the power of the falls but dares not ever tread too closely, lest the spirits guarding the moon ward him away. They say the less favourable spirits hide behind the fall itself, peering through the white foams and ever-spraying waters for a vulnerable feline to do their bidding.

The Moonlit Cascade is home to thousands of stories, and Hailsky wholly enjoys imagining and learning them all.

[Neah]

Username: opti-mism
Cat Name: Ospreystone
Clan: Saltclan
Rank: Warrior

Gender: Tom
Age: 42 moons

Prompt: Ospreystone stalked through camp with a vengeance. Scalestripe had, once again, gotten on him for avoiding patrol duty. His long claws left divots in the ground where the dug, and every cat in his path moved out of his way in a hurry. They had seen him angry before, and if he didn't reach the beach quick, he would blow up on the first apprentice he saw.

Darting.... even leaping down the steep ledges towards the crashing waves. He wasted no time as he plunged into the ocean spray. He took to the water like a fish, diving beneath the crashing waves and away from the cliffs. It was only a short swim to a place only few places he could escape to.

When the waves finally calmed, and the there was nothing ahead of him but endless sea. That is when his paws touched something solid. The lonely sandbar, where only his paws reached, was isolated nearly a thirty yards out. The beach was far in the distance, but he stood tall, only his paws submerged in the water. Here he could catch his breath. There was no doubt about it, the fire in him died as quickly as it had appeared. The quiet rush of the smaller waves and the sand dollars scattered across the sandbar, even small fish skittering around his feet. The isolation was kind.

Everyone liked the contrast in this one, from the anger at the start to the relaxation at the end. Congrats!

I'll also be giving out an hm to Surgefire. Your form was a close second.

[opti-mism]

Aaaah thank you!!! oh heck I'm so excited, he's going to be a great addition to my clan!

[Goner.]

congrats! i loved your entry!

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