Username(s): TeraNosaerys
Clan link(s): Thorn Thicket Clan
Last accepted breeding form: Here!
Cat one: Stormstrike
Last bred: never
Cat two: Intrepid
Last bred: never
Appearance or genetics based: Either
Items being used: None!
Roll for random chance at legendary edit: yes please!
Prompt: (370 words)
It has been too long since she has been home. The sensible thing would have been to stop and rest in the mountains, even as close as she is, but she couldn’t. It’s been too long, and she is too tired, and she just wants to be home. Her body aches, but she keeps walking. Once she reaches the camp, she can collapse and sleep for the next moon if she wants. She just has to get there.
She is so focused on putting one paw in front of the other, in keeping her head up and her eyes open, that she misses the patch of mud lingering in the shadows between a cluster of evergreens. She slips- her front paws go wide and her back legs just sort of give out on her and she is flopped in the mud. For a few heartbeats she just... stays there. She is exhausted, truly, and she was further from home than she thought when she felt it creeping up on her. She gives herself a moment, just a moment to rest before she makes it the rest of the way, she is so close...
“Intrepid!” Her eyes fly open and her body jerks slightly as someone calls her name. She can’t have been asleep for long, but it’s been long enough that she feels cool and she shivers slightly as she struggles to lift herself out of the tacky mud. “Stars, what happened?!” And then he is there alongside her, tucking his muzzle under her neck, kicking at the gloop trying to cling to her belly and hefting her out of the mud onto dry, sunny ground mere tail-lengths away.
She purrs faintly as the sun begins to warm her and he begins to groom her fiercely. “Hello, Stormstrike,” she mumbles. “I’m home.”
“Not yet you aren’t,” he gripes back. “You hold still for a moment while I get some of this mud off you and then we’ll get you the rest of the way, alright?”
Her tail twitches faintly in agreement and she submits to his ministrations without an argument. Regardless of what he says or where in the territory they actually are, she is home.
She is with him.






