Username: honeybunchesofoats
Cat Name: Siren
Clan:The Order of the Yokai Rank: leader
Gender:female
Age: 30 moons
Prompt:The first time Siren heard a kit telling this story around the glowing warmth of a campfire, she couldn't help but stop dead in her tracks and gawk.
"Nobody knows where she came from, isn't that strange? My papa says it is, but she smells different from us too, like salt, or at least that's what mama calls it. They said that it's because of...um...the Smock Nurse Monster! ...maybe I'm not sure how to say it but they said that she fought off the monster that drug her down to the bottom of the sea and tried to kill her! She thrashed around and used her razor sharp claws and teeth the safe herself from him. I think that's pretty neat!"
The rest of the kits started to ooh and aah at the tale, not realizing that the she-cat in mention was standing within ear shot, completely shocked. While it was true that she had kept her previous location a secret, to everyone but her deputy Hollow, she had no clue that this had caused some of the clan members to speculate she had fought the Loch Ness Monster. While she did know she was strong, this powerful and dangerous beast was not her burden to carry. The reality was that she had been banished from her previous clan after standing up to a harsh and unjust ruler and when she had run, she found herself at sea. She lived there for so long, of course she smelled of the salty air.
She snapped back to reality when she noticed the kits had moved on to another story, this one about Firehawk, the clan's fiercest warrior. She shook her head, though not in anger or disappointment, and even let out a small chuckle. Kits will be kits, she thought to herself, and rumors will be spread whether intentional or not. Some day, when she felt that her clan had gained more confidence in her, she would sit them down and tell the the truth, but for now she decided to leave Nessie up to them. (345)