(✦ — the mountaintop ✦ warriors o & a)

[star star.]

xxxxxECHOLIGHT.
xxxxxxx✦ ⋯ med cat ⋯ she-cat ⋯ tagged: coyoteheart, bumblepaw, mistpaw, goosefeather ⋯ mentions: mountainstar, willowstep, rosedapple
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For some reason, Echolight feels herself soften as Coyoteheart agrees. She barely notices that Bumblepaw has finally awoken, only noticing the apprentice after she dips her head down to pick up the vole Coyoteheart had left for her. She watches as he takes the rosemary to their stocks, and she feels a small wave of relief wash over her. Good, she thinks instead of mumbling, simply because she has prey in her mouth and she doesn't want to drop it. Bumblepaw will put the rosemary up. One less thing to be worried about. Briefly, she wonders how the young tom is doing today - she didn't see much of him, so she isn't sure how well of a day today will be for him, but she isn't worried about him. She has no doubt he'd let someone know if he was having an issue.

Echolight slips out of the den, careful to not bump into Goosefeather or Mistpaw. She pauses by the front of it, glancing left and right before finally spotting Coyoteheart nearby the den. He looks nervous, constantly scanning the camp, and she feels something in her heart tug. It's only been a moon - logistically, she knows it will take seasons for Coyoteheart to heal from everything Brackenstar had done. She's not even sure if he can ever fully heal from it, knowing how far deep some of those emotional scars run. The worst part is that she doesn't even know the full story; only whatever he was comfortable sharing.

Taking her chance, she pads in front of him so as to not startle Coyoteheart and sits next to him. Her back isn't to the wall like Coyoteheart's is, but she's close enough to him to try and act as some sort of mock-barrier. "Thank you again," she says warmly, casting a glance at him before looking around camp. She spots Mountainstar and Willowstep chatting, and assumes that Rosedapple has probably made her way to the nursery. (though she mumbles this assessment as well; a quiet "Rosedapple must be with the queens," under her breath.) Echolight leans down and takes a bite of her vole, mind running both in circles and not at all. She has half the mind to think about what conversation she may want to have with Coyoteheart, but the vole is still fresh and she hadn't realized how hungry she was, so it almost immediately takes up her attention.

xxxxxTHUNDERCLASH.
xxxxxxx✦ ⋯ warrior ⋯ tom ⋯ tagged: stormpaw, wolfbite, leafpaw ⋯ mentions: willowstep ⋯ a/n: two seconds away from merging leaf+thunder's responses.
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Thunderclash's whiskers twitch in response to Stormpaw's comment. "I appreciate it," he says. He glances up, slightly confused as he sees Wolfbite and Leafpaw heading his way. He listens to Wolfbite as they speak, and he hums as he lets the thought roll around in his head. It wasn't in his initial plans for today, but as he mulls it over he figures it's pretty much the same as Willowstep assigning them to a patrol, and depending on how their own little patrol does can determine what he and Stormpaw do later. "That's fine," Thunderclash finally concedes, just as Stormpaw trots back with prey. The sight is vaguely amusing - his apprentice carrying a large bird and two voles. He can appreciate the determination, though. "After we've eaten is fine," he adds on, after a moment of consideration.

To Stormpaw, Thunderclash dips his head in silent thanks and settles down. He tears into the vole, mechanically chewing as he thinks. They would need to get a move-on soon, and hopefully Willowstep wouldn't mind them heading off on their own for their own border patrol. He doesn't think she should, but if the deputy has an issue with it then she can get over it. Thunderclash isn't very keen on changing his plans again. Briefly, he entertains the thought of asking what area along the border Wolfbite wanted to have them patrol, but for now he's content to eat the vole Stormpaw brought over for him. If his fellow warrior brings anything up, he may ask - otherwise, he's content to sit in silence (or as silent as it can with the apprentices likely going to turn into chattering starlings) until they leave.

xxxxxLEAFPAW.
xxxxxxx✦ ⋯ warrior apprentice ⋯ she-cat ⋯ tagged: wolfbite, stormpaw, thunderclash ⋯ mentions: tagged
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At Wolfbite's suggestion, Leafpaw feels herself grin. Patrols and training tend to be more fun when she has another apprentice with her, especially when it's her best friend. (there has been the occasional time where she feels like she has more to prove, that she's as good as the other apprentices, but she's gotten better about that.) Though, she thinks as she watches as Stormpaw pounces on Thunderclash with an amused snort, his mentor is a little hard to understand. And maybe that's mean, but it's honestly not like it matters. Stormpaw seems to respect him, so maybe it's just a her thing.

When Wolfbite beckons her to follow, she shakes her head clear of her thoughts and pads a tail-length behind them. She responds to Stormpaw's silent greeting with a small dip of her head. Leafpaw turns her head to watch as Stormpaw pads over to the prey pile, listening as their mentors spoke with a twitch of her whiskers. She watches as Thunderclash thanks Stormpaw, and turns her full attention back to him as he asks her something. She glances down at the bird - definitely big enough for them to share, especially considering she never has much of an appetite first thing in the mornings - and nods at him. "Sure," Leafpaw says, moving closer to him so it's less awkward for them to share the bird. "Thank you."

xxxxxMOTHKIT.
xxxxxxx✦ ⋯ kit ⋯ she-cat ⋯ tagged: tinyleaf, creamflower, rosedapple, siblings ⋯ mentions: ivyscorch, lightningjaw
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Mothkit glances over at the nest she had just abandoned. Cinderkit and Lilykit seem to finally be waking up, but they always take forever to wake up and it feels like they never want to explore in the same way she does. She eyes Cinderkit - okay, maybe she's wrong about him. He does like to sleep in more than her or Lilykit.

With that thought in mind, Mothkit has the brief idea to run out of the den past Rosedapple to find Ivyscorch and pounce on her tail and demand her to let her out so she can explore. That idea, however, is immediately banished the second that she feels Tinyleaf's tongue between her ears. Mothkit melts instantly, closing her eyes as she purrs. She blinks up at Tinyleaf as the queen responds to Rosedapple, purr still a quiet rumble in her chest. Personally, she likes Tinyleaf a lot. Not near as much as Ivyscorch, but, still! She doesn't seem to care when Mothkit gets under her paws and is just super, super nice.

Across the den, Creamflower finishes her fish and stands to her paws. The movement causes Mothkit's attention to snap over to her, and she listens with half an ear as she announces she's going to find one of the warriors. As she leaves, Mothkit tilts her head in thought.

[senua]

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𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭 | 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞
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rank - medicine cat | gender - she-cat | location - camp
tags - n/a | mentions - n/a━━━━━━━━━━━━∙⋆⋅⋆∙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Rosedapple let out a small purr, happy to hear everyone is doing well. "Great." She spoke gently, watching as the kits scurried around. She perked her ears in surprise when Mothkit went bolting past her to jump on Ivyscorch's tail, then she contemplated Tinyleaf reminding her to eat, "I nearly forgot, thank you Tinyleaf. I shall go do that now, and check up on everyone else afterwards! Bye bye, let me know if you need anything." She bids a happy farewell to them as she turns around and exits the nursery. In the meantime, she needed to eat, if she wanted to be her best at checking everyone over she needed to properly caring for herself. Hunger is a distraction, and she cannot afford distractions on her work.

Rosedapple trotted up to the freshkill pile and plucked a mouse from it, before setting up in a sunny patch, her best attempt at keeping warm up in these mountains, and beginning to eat. Meanwhile, she began to examine for her next 'victim' to interrogate about their health.

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𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 | 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥
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rank - warrior | gender - tom | location - camp
tags - honeypaw, willowstep, mountainstar | mentions - mistpaw━━━━━━━━━━━━∙⋆⋅⋆∙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Ravenfall nodded slowly at Honeypaw's response, "Very well." Though the idea of approaching the leader did make him a little anxious. He was intimidated by Mountainstar - not to be confused with anything negative. Mountainstar had done nothing wrong, but as a socially anxious cat it was not easy talking to those in higher ranks, much less ones who have taken a life in the process. Death was.. touchy for him. Regardless, he remembered his duties and emotions cannot get in the way of that. If Honeypaw wanted Mistpaw along then Ravenfall would do his best to accommodate it.

Initially he was a bit curious if Mountainstar would notice them, considering she was speaking with the deputy Willowstep. He thought it best to approach her first about it all, "Uh, hello," He awkwardly made his appearance, glancing between the two, "Hopefully I, uh- I am not interrupting anything," His voice was low, gentle, "But I was going to take Honeypaw out for warrior training, and was wondering if Mistpaw and you, Mountainstar, would like to join us?" Ravenfall asked, tilting his head a bit, "Unless, of course, there are other plans for everyone..." Ravenfall trailed off, his eyes flickering to the ground. After all, it was entirely possible for them or the others to be assigned to a patrol or some other duty.

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𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 | 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞
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rank - warrior | gender - nonbinary [they/he] | location - camp
tags - tinyleaf | mentions - n/a━━━━━━━━━━━━∙⋆⋅⋆∙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Wolfbite nodded at their responses. He really should eat as well, although truthfully they did sometimes have a hard time understanding when they were hungry, until it developed into a headache or such. Best to be at the height of it all when it came to his duties, "I am going to check up on Tinyleaf. I will return afterwards." Wolfbite had no idea if Tinyleaf had ate yet or not, but perhaps they could share. And if not, well, no bother. Wolfbite was a rather large cat, and there was no denying they had to eat quite a bit to maintain themselves properly.

As such, he picked up a couple pieces of prey - a vole and a rather plump mouse.

After a short walk, Wolfbite made it to the nursery and looked in, glad to see everyone seemed well. "Tinyleaf," They greeted bluntly with a dip of their head, dropping the prey in front of her, "I wasn't sure if you had ate yet. I need to eat, and as such wondered if you'd like the company." He wasn't the best at being social, but he certainly tried their best.

[tauriel.]

Willowstep - female - 28 moons - deputy - apprentice: Vulturepaw - tagged: Mountainstar, Ravenfall, Honeypaw, open

Willowstep gave her a sympathetic glance, feeling for the leader. She could imagine how strange it must be, switching from sharing a den with the warriors into a den all alone. A teasing gleam flickered in the deputy's gaze, and she glanced over the clan before her gaze rested on Mountainstar. "Well perhaps we could have one of the apprentices line your nest with extra moss and feathers?" She suggested, her gaze resting on the apprentices den. She hadn't seen her apprentice yet this morning but hopefully, once she began assigning patrols, he'd make his appearance. She nodded, making a mental note that Mountainstar wanted to go on patrol. "I'm alright, it's odd being deputy. It's a lot more responsibility as deputy. I feel more responsible for the clan than I did as a warrior." Willowstep tilted her head, studying Mountainstar thoughtfully. If Willowstep felt a stronger sense of responsibility for the clan's safety, that feeling must have felt so much bigger for Mountainstar. "It was a little overwhelming the first few days," Willowstep admitted, adding, "I'm learning to adjust, please don't worry. I just want to make sure you aren't too overwhelmed. Being leader must not be easy." The tabby fell quiet, greeting Ravenfall and Honeypaw with a friendly smile as they approached. With a glance at Mountainstar, she indicated with a nod that their conversation could continue later, she shook her head at Ravenfall. "Don't worry, I was just about ready to announce this morning's patrols," She assured him, studying the tom for a moment. Ravenfall was Rosedapple's brother and a very quiet, isolated cat. Willowstep admired the tom's dedication to the clan but his isolated, gloomy energy worried her. It wasn't easy trying to check on a cat who so seemed so willing to keep himself closed off from the clan. She hummed quietly to herself, a smile flashing over her face as she thought for a moment. "Actually Ravenfall, if Mountainstar doesn't mind of course, I was hoping to patrol with the two of you and our apprentices." Willowstep glanced to Mountainstar, waiting for the leader's response before raising her voice to be heard by the entire clan. "If everyone is ready, I'll list off all of our morning patrols." The molly waited patiently for a few moments, watching her clanmates gather. "Mountainstar will lead a hunting patrol north of camp consisting of myself, Ravenfall, Stormcaller, and our apprentices. Wolfbite will lead a second patrol south of camp consisting of Fawnwhisper, Fangfrost, Fairystep, and Leafpaw. Finally, Icestrike will lead a border patrol east of camp consisting of Lightningjaw, Sageblossom, Whitedaisy, Thunderclash, and their apprentices. I will assign a second border patrol towards dusk to cover our territory west of camp."

Cougarsight - male - 36 moons - warrior - tagged: Ivyscorch, open

Cougarsight followed the queen's glance back towards the nursery, fond amusement flickering in his eyes. Ivyscorch really loved her kits, even if they did wake her up throughout the night. "I'm sure they are," Cougarsight agreed, picturing the three snuggled contentedly next to their mother. "I'd love that," He replied, Cougarsight's own eyes brightening with excitement. Ivyscorch occasionally joined him on his explorations and her company seemed to make things so much more exciting. "There's a mountain north of camp that I've been wanting to explore. I've noticed a few interesting rock patterns and I bet we can probably find all sorts of things!" The rocks might pose a little bit of risk with the possibility of snakes or other predators, but he had never shied away from the risk, the adrenaline just fueling him. "I can never get enough of how beautiful our home is." He told her, eyes shining.

Mistpaw - female - 7 moons - apprenticed to Mountainstar - tagged: Goosefeather, Bumblepaw, Wolfbite and Leafpaw(both mentions), open

"Hi,” Mistpaw gently nudged her friend affectionately, happy to see Bumblepaw this morning. “The medicine den's popular this morning,” she responded, amused. “See you later!” Bumblepaw hadn’t talked to her for long but Mistpaw didn’t mind too much. He was busy, taking advantage of his ability to escape the crowd, and she'd be busy soon enough as well. At any moment, Willowstep would be announcing patrols and Mountainstar would want her training if she wasn’t assigned to a patrol. With Goosefeather’s friendly greeting, Mistpaw’s earlier anxiety began to melt away, softened by his warm welcome. "Of course," Mistpaw answered respectfully, delighted that Goosefeather seemed pleased by the mouse she'd brought him. "I hope you like it." His question had her hesitating a moment, thinking of her anxiety over her late start that morning. Goosefeather wouldn't be one to scold her though and wouldn't be angry. With a deep breath, Mistpaw mewed, "It's okay, not great. I couldn't manage to wake up early enough and I'd probably still be sleeping in Wolfbite hadn't popped into the den to get Leafpaw." She scowled, frustrated with herself. "I don't understand why I wasn't able to wake up earlier. I'm seven moons, I should be better about waking up before the mentors start coming in."

[broken*]

☾. ── ❝ FAIRYSTEP ❞
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( 16 moons ) ( molly ) ( warrior ) ( interest: fangfrost )( location: camp ) ( tags: fangfrost / mentions: willowstep, wolfbite )
☾. ── ❝ shorthair fawn calico tabby oriental w/ soft-green eyes. ❞


before her friend had a chance to respond to her, however, she heard the deputy's voice calling out to the clan. turning her attention away from the white tom at her side and towards the white and tabby molly before, she perked her ears up to listen for her name. a wide grin found its way onto her face as she heard her close friend's name called for the same hunting patrol that she was to be a part of, and once the deputy finished speaking, she turned towards him once again. "looks like you won't be getting rid of me very easily this morning fangfrost." she teased playfully, standing up and stretching out her long legs before bumping her hip against his. her keen eyes glanced around the camp, and she saw the older tom's form poking his head into the nursery. "come on, i see wolfbite over there. best get with the rest of our patrol so we can get going. you know me, i love stretching my legs around the territory."

✿. ── ❝ LUNA ❞
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( 31 moons ) ( molly ) ( outsider - kittypet ) ( location: forest near border ) ( tags: open )
✿. ── ❝ shorthair solid white scottish fold w/ ice-blue eyes. ❞


the pure white cat was not the best huntress, not that she had to hunt to feed herself, what with her two-leg always leaving food out for her. most of the time it was something fresh that he had caught for himself, but with him being gone for a few days, he had left out the dry kibble that wasn't her favorite by any means. she had been trying to practice her hunting skills outside of the clan's territory, not wanting to take away from her friends prey supplies. she truly wasn't very good at it though, and it you asked her, she would comment that she thought it was because of her folded ears; she could still hear normally just fine, but she still felt like she struggled to hear smaller or farther sounds that other cats could hear. she sighed softly, wondering if perhaps one of her friends would be near the border and could maybe try to help her hunting skills.

✭. ── ❝ HONEYPAW ❞
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( 9 moons ) ( tom ) ( apprentice ) ( mentor: ravenfall ) ( location: camp ) ( tags: ravenfall, mistpaw, goosefeather / mentions: willowstep, mountainstar )
✭. ── ❝ longhair cream tabby kurilian bobtail w/ mud-brown eyes. ❞


the large apprentice wasn't sure if he should follow behind his mentor or not, but decided that he didn't want to just sit around by himself waiting, so he silently followed after the older tom, keeping his mouth quiet as the three adult cats spoke, waiting patiently for the result of the conversation. he heard it mentioned by the deputy that they were going to go on patrol with her and the leader, which caused his ears to perk up in curiosity; two of the highest ranking cats in the clan, plus the leader's son, on the same patrol as him. he hoped that his skills were up to par with those mollies expectations... shaking his head lightly, he respectfully looked at willowstep as she officially listed off the patrols for the clan. once she was done, honeypaw turned towards his mentor with wide eyes that he tried his best to dampen. "i saw mistpaw going into the medicine cat den to talk to goosefeather; i'm going to go get her. i'll be right back!" he didn't really ask for permission, something he only realized after his paws started moving, and hoped that his mentor wouldn't be upset with him over it. peaking his own head into the medicine cats den, he gave a friendly smile to goosefeather as he made his steps a bit louder so that mistpaw would hear him coming before he stopped by her side. "good morning goosefeather. mistpaw, willowstep just announced patrols. you're on the same hunting patrol as me and vulturepaw."

❅. ── ❝ COYOTEHEART ❞
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( 45 moons ) ( tom ) ( warrior ) ( apprentice: n/a )( location: camp ) ( tags: echolight / mentions: tinyleaf )
❅. ── ❝ longhair classic tabby maine coon w/ green-yellow eyes. ❞


the large tom couldn't help the small smile of gratitude that he gave to his friend as she made her way towards him, making sure that he could see her coming without being overly obvious about him. logically, he knew that echolight didn't know the full truth of everything brackenstar had put him through since he was young, but she had seen enough of his injuries and his mental state, and was far smart enough to put two and two together. sometimes he wondered if he would ever feel comfortable fully opening up to anyone about the horrors of his past, but he knew that if ever there was a cat he would trust with such knowledge, it would be the grey and white molly currently before him.

he noticed how quickly she began to eat, and couldn't help the low chuckle that rumbled deep in his throat; she was well-known, well at least to him, to get so distracted in her work that she often forgot about things like eating to keep her own strength up. "did you have any plans for the day, echolight? if you need a warrior escort to go out herb gathering, i wouldn't mind asking mountainstar to exclude me from patrols to help you." he offered kindly to his friend. he much preferred the calmness of gathering herbs with the medicine cats or even going out hunting, where he could be fully by himself, rather than feeling crowded and uncertain of himself in border patrols. just then however the deputy stepped forward and called out patrols, and he didn't hear his name mentioned, so he turned back to echolight with a smile. "looks like i don't even have to ask."

hearing her muttered comment about the queens, his own green-yellow eyes looked over towards the entrance of the nursery before looking down at the second vole still at his own paws. he decided not to touch it, simply allowing echolight to eat her prey in peace. "do you think anyone has brought tinyleaf something to eat yet this morning? i should offer her this second vole before leaving camp, i think." really, he was just thinking out loud, but he knew his companion wouldn't mind. while it wasn't the most common knowledge who the father of tinyleaf's kits was, he had mentioned recently to echolight the truth of the unborn kits parentage, and how he wanted to help the queen out however she would allow; technically, he was the kits uncle after all.

[believe-hwu]

𝙼 𝙾 𝚄 𝙽 𝚃 𝙰 𝙸 𝙽 𝚂 𝚃 𝙰 𝚁 ! !
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xx[31 moons] [leader] [she-cat] [mentors; mistpaw] [interest; to be determined] [location; camp] [mood; neutral]
xx [mentions; willowstep, ravenfall, mistpaw] [tags; willowstep, ravenfall, mistpaw]
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She was reminded that her friend's apprentice was one of her kits and nodded, though she wondered if it would really help. "It's a lot to handle." Mountainstar agreed, having felt like she was in over her head more times than she could count already as leader. At Ravenfall's appearance, she recalled him being one of the more shocked cats over her actions . Waiting as Willowstep called out the patrols, she couldn't hide the proud expression on her face and didn't bother to, she was doing quite well. She had caught sight of her apprentice dropping prey off for Goosefeather, Mistpaw had still slept in a bit but that was a given. Out of most of the apprentices, she had been an apprentice for only a moon so far, unlike her own kits who'd been apprentices for four moons already due to Brackenstar's choices.

​𝙸 𝚅 𝚈 𝚂 𝙲 𝙾 𝚁 𝙲𝙷​ ! !
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xx[29 moons] [queen] [she-cat] [kits; n/a] [interest; cougarsight] [location; camp] [mood; content]
xx [mentions; cougarsight] [tags; cougarsight]
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Her affection for her crush/friend was evident in her gaze, letting out a soft laugh at his excitement. "I'd like that, though perhaps we should eat something before getting too ahead of ourselves." Ivyscorch offered, having set aside a robin for her kits to share now that they had been eating prey just fine.

𝙻 𝙸 𝙶 𝙷 𝚃 𝙽 𝙸 𝙽 𝙶 𝙹 𝙰 𝚆 ! !
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xx[23 moons] [warrior] [tom] [mentors; n/a] [interest; creamflower] [location; camp] [mood; neutral]
xx [mentions; icestrike, sageblossom, whitedaisy, thunderclash] [tags; icestrike, sageblossom, whitedaisy, thunderclash]
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The light-pelted tom had been merely waiting in the open cave where most warriors settled during the morning, and his ears perked upon hearing his name, looking around for the rest of the patrol he'd been assigned to.

𝙵 𝙰 𝙽 𝙶 𝙵 𝚁 𝙾 𝚂 𝚃 ! !
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xx[15 moons] [warrior] [tom] [mentors; n/a] [interest; fairystep] [location; camp] [mood; neutral]
xx [mentions; fairystep, wolfbite] [tags; fairystep, wolfbite]
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“It's strange, having been the two oldest cats in the apprentice's den and then being the youngest in the warriors.” He offered with a light tone, gently cuffing her ear with his paw in return. It'd be a lie to say he wasn't interested in his friend, the two had been close practically since she arrived. His attention was caught by the young deputy calling out their names, and flicked her pelt with his tail tip. "Good thing all the snow hasn't melted yet. I bet I'll catch more than you." At her joke, he let out a quite but dramatic groan before chuckling. "Oh, the horror! I get to spend more time with you and Wolfbite!" Fangfrost exclaimed, though any cat could tell he wasn't serious.

𝙷 𝙰 𝚆 𝙺 𝙿 𝙰 𝚆 ! !
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xx[8 moons] [apprentice] [she-cat] [mentor; whitedaisy] [interest; open] [location; camp] [mood; bored]
xx [mentions; vulturepaw] [tags; vulturepaw]
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Her gaze moved to follow her brother rustling out of his nest, letting the mossball drop to the stone floor. “Hm, no, I don’t think I will yet, and Willowstep won’t mind waiting for a bit longer. You know she’s probably talking with Mountainstar anyhow.” After being an apprentice for four moons already, she didn’t really see the appeal in it but it was probably going to get on Whitedaisy’s nerves later.

[lacke]

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𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫

location: campxx mood: content xx tags: mistpaw, honeypaw

tucking the mouse close to him, saving it for once the den was mostly clear of the normal visitors, goosefeather listened closely to mistpaw. she mentioned she had been a bit frustrated with herself, and goosefeather caught himself shaking his head in response to her. "mistpaw, you are only freshly an apprentice. it's been only a moon since you joined, and not only that, but only about a moon since mountainstar became leader." he paused, flicking his tail. "the clan is still adjusting to normal life - whatever that might be. once you get into a routine, waking up might come easier to you. there's no shame in mentors fetching their apprentices." he paused before allowing himself to chuckle. "take bumblepaw for example. he hadn't even woken up until our den was full!" while it might have seemed harsh, it was all in good fun. their morning wasn't busy, there was no use in his apprentices getting up early.

his ears swiveled towards the entrance to the medicine cat den, where he heard willowstep announce patrols to the clan. shortly after, another presence made himself known - honeypaw. he twitched his whiskers as the other apprentice came to fetch mistpaw, and goosefeather stood, shaking out his pelt. "all will be fine mistpaw, don't stress too much. you two have fun on patrol." he mewed, before bending down and grasping the mouse in his jaws, before turning tail and heading towards his nest in order to take his meal.

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𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐰

location: campxx mood: silly xx tags: thunderclash, wolfbite, leafpaw, willowstep

stormpaw nodded at leafpaws thanks, before turning his eyes towards her mentor, who mentioned they were going to check on tinyleaf. a purr rose in his chest, and once he was sure the warrior was out of earshot, he nudged leafpaw. "d'you think they're going to become a thing?" he suggested, chittering with light laughter before reaching down to take a bite of the bird. as he sat back up with his maw full of food, willowstep raised her voice in a yowl, causing stormpaw to swivel his head around. the deputy began listing off patrols, and unfortunately for him and leafpaw, they were on separate patrols. stormpaw swallowed before letting out a sigh. "well geez, that's unfortunate." he grumbled, before glancing towards stormclash, trying to guage his reaction.

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𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐟

location: nurseryxx mood: sleepy xx tags: kits, wolfbite

tinyleaf watched the other queen exit the den, before turning her attention towards mothkit, then to her siblings. tinyleaf glanced towards one of the edges of the den, sweeping her tail past it, gathering up a small ball of moss. she reached for it with her mouth, before 'accidentally' dropping it onto mothkits head. "oops!" she exclaimed, watching it roll in front of the kit. "why not take that moss ball and play with cinderkit and lilykit?" she asked, motioning towards mothkits siblings. just as she did so, a familiar face popped into the den, before they fully stepped in. "wolfbite!" she purred, watching as they set the prey down in front of her. "i hadn't eaten yet, so this is wonderful." she mewed, before slowly hoisting herself up into a sitting position, trying her best not to huff from the effort. she quickly glanced towards the kits before turning her attention to wolfbite. "how are things this morning?" she asked, reaching over and gently pressing her nose into their cheek.

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𝐝𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭

location: herexx mood: here xx tags: words

she's open for anything! (:

[Queen of flames]

Whitedaisy | female | warrior | apprentice - Hawkpaw | crush - open | tags - Sageblossom, Hawkpaw
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She looked at Sageblossom as she came her way, with Vole "...sure I can share that with you..." she meowed to her, but then looked in the direction of the deputy and leader there "Well we can eat it now, or share it later, we're both for a patrol and I need to get Hawkpaw..." she meowed to her with a flick of her tail "excuse me" she said to her then walked to the apprentice's den as she didn't see the young female at the camp "Hawkpaw, we're going on a patrol if you want to join us you better come now" she said to her.

Stormcaller | male | warrior | apprenitce - open | crush - Mountainstar, open | tags - open
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He rested there alone, his ears perking as the deputy called for the cats and started to name who was going where. He sighed as he stood up when he heard his name being on a Hunting patrol with the leader and the deputy, which he found rather weird as usually, they didn't go for the same patrols, but he didn't mind about it. He saw Ravenfall with the two as well there so he only waited for them to start moving to follow them, he didn't have an apprentice to look for and they could see him there.

Vulturepaw | male | apprentice | mentor - Willowstep | crush - Kestrelpaw & Stormpaw | tags - Hawkpaw
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He nodded to his sister giving a few licks to his front paws and chest "Yes, she will likely need to organize the patrols first, that's her job as a deputy I guess" he responded to her. He flicked his ears a bit as Whitedaisy got into the den to look for Hawkpaw "Oh well that's about the waiting then...I better get out too as I guess I am going for a hunting patrol" he said to Hawkpaw as he heard his mentors speak into the den.

Cinderkit | male | kit | mother - Ivyscorch | crush - open | tags - open
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He watched his mother talking with Cougarsight there, he didn't mind the tom, but he found them talking a little bit disgusting in a way, or maybe he just felt something between the two. He saw his other sister Mothkit looking their way as well, which was nothing new, of course, they had just woke up or he was at least. He kept his distance from Tinyleaf as he was not a big fan of the licking the queen liked to give, maybe because he was a male, he found it a little embarrassing.

Lilykit | female |kit | mother - Ivyscorch | crush - open | tags - Ivyscorch
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She looked at the conversation between her mother and Cougarsight then the other cats talking, her ears flicked a bit as she heard the deputy naming the cats for patrols. Many cats were going out so the camp was going to be silent for a moment. She looked at her mother "Mom, can I go to see Dovelight?" she asked her mother, wondering if the elder was in need of a friend or a listener.

[Animals65]

Creamflower hears Willowstep organizing patrols and that Lightningjaw was on one of them, her tail drooping at the realization that she will have to wait until he returns. What can I do while I wait? she thought, before an idea hits her. I know! I can go to Dovelight and ask for a story! Though I should probably get her something to eat first. She pads over to the fresh-kill pile and takes a peek to see what she can possibly give the elder. She picks up a mouse and then pads over to the elders' den before poking her head inside. "Dovelight?" she called. "Are you awake by any chance?"

[senua]

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𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭 | 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞
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rank - medicine cat | gender - she-cat | location - camp
tags - n/a | mentions - n/a━━━━━━━━━━━━∙⋆⋅⋆∙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

(vibing in camp, will write again for her later.)

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𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 | 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥
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rank - warrior | gender - tom | location - camp
tags - honeypaw, willowstep, mountainstar | mentions - mistpaw, stormcaller━━━━━━━━━━━━∙⋆⋅⋆∙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Ravenfall perked his ears in response to what Willowstep said - a patrol with all of them? Well, he suppose he got what he wanted. This is probably one of the safest patrols one could be on, considering the leader and deputy were both involved. At least he was reassured that Honeypaw would, indeed, be safe. Ravenfall kept his distance from the cats as he listened to Willowstep exclaim the patrols.

He was then quickly taken by surprise when his young apprentice went dashing off to find Mistpaw without permission. Ravenfall blinked slowly, processing the sudden disappearance of the energetic cat. If this was in the mountains, outside of camp, he certainly would've been furious. But he shrugged it off as no big deal in camp, after all the whole point of this was to involve Mistpaw and he clearly wasn't in harms way. Running to the medicine cat den is probably one of the more safer spots to dash to anyway.

Ravenfall remained silent, awaiting for Mistpaw and Honeypaw to regroup, along with Stormcaller. Should he get the other tom or are they going to get him as they leave, he wondered? In the meantime, he figured he would stay here for now, waiting further details.

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𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 | 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞
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rank - warrior | gender - nonbinary [they/he] | location - camp
tags - tinyleaf, fangfrost, fairystep, fawnwhisker| mentions - willowstep, leafpaw, thunderclash━━━━━━━━━━━━∙⋆⋅⋆∙━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Wolfbite laid down in front of her when she replied, they were quite glad to know their gift of prey was accepted by the molly. A small, soft purr, left them as she pressed her nose in greetings to him, "Everything is well, I was going to take Leafpaw out for a bit to show around the mountains." They said, before taking a bite of their prey, "Not too far. Just to test her familiarity with the territory." He shifted a bit, "Is everything going smoothly for you?" Wolfbite asked, glancing down at her belly, he knew being a queen is tiring, vulnerable and even a bit risky. While he certainly believed in Tinyleaf's strength, there was no denying his concern for her health and safety regardless.

Wolfbite felt drawn to protect the molly, and so he would. Making sure she could rest and have an easy time - partially why he brought her food as well, "If you have any specific prey you would like, a favorite, I can bring it for next time." Wolfbite added in, giving her the option to request if she had a favorite.

And then, Willowstep's voice rung out and Wolfbite heaved themselves up, "Hm, it seems a change of plans.." He mumbled to himself, but not at all out of disappointment, "Farewell for now, Tinyleaf. Glad to see you healthy." And with that the cat left the den and made their way to the clearing to hear the call out.

They would be leading a patrol it seems, unfortunately Thunderclash and Stormpaw would not be on it. While they did not mind, he wasn't sure that it was the same for the two apprentices.

In a rather quick response, it seemed Fangfrost and Fairystep were already headed their way to him, and he dipped his head in greetings and respect. The only one missing was Fawnwhisker. They decided to wait until everyone was properly grouped up and ready before proceeding.

[Catfrog]

𝙸𝙲𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴
[ male - 35 moons - warrior ] ✦ [ located in camp - tags: Lightningjaw, mentions rest of border patrol ]
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Icestrike's ears perked, and he rose from his stone as the deputy began to call out patrols. He purred as it was announced that he would be leading a border patrol, and began scanning the camp for the cats who would be joining him. He spotted Sageblossom and Whitedaisy together, before Whitedaisy got up, presumably to retrieve Hawkpaw. Back when he was an apprentice, he wouldn't be caught dead waking up so late, but he supposed it had been a rough moon. His gaze drifted to Thunderclash and then Stormpaw, and he decided he would let them finish eating before bothering them. With that decided, his eyes now landed on Lightningjaw, and he padded toward the tom.

"Morning, Lightningjaw!" He chirped, approaching with his tail held high "Great day for a border patrol, huh?" He didn't wait for an answer before continuing with his chatter. "We still have some time before we head out. If you haven't eaten, you should. Picking's are pretty slim on the pile, but I caught a few mice earlier that should still be there."
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𝙵𝙰𝚆𝙽𝚆𝙷𝙸𝚂𝙿𝙴𝚁
[ female - 19 moons - warrior ] ♡ [ located in camp - tags: Wolfbite, Fangfrost, Fairystep ]
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Fawnwhisper listened absently as Willowstep listed off the patrols, and came out not quite sure was kind of patrol she was going to be on. She thought about it for a moment, and in that same moment realized she was getting distracted and taking too long. No matter what kind of patrol it was, she should do her best. She rose to her paws then and made her way to Wolfbite. She dipped her head at them respectfully as she approached. Once close enough, she looked for the rest of the patrol, and greeted Fangfrost and Fairystep with another dip of the head.
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𝙺𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙿𝙰𝚆
[ male - 9 moons - medicine cat apprentice ] ★ [ located in camp - tags: Bumblepaw, Goosefeather, mentions Echolight & Coyoteheart ]
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Kestrelpaw's thinking was interrupted by the voices of Echolight and Coyoteheart, and without meaning to for once, he was eavesdropping. He lingered for a moment, keeping his ears perked as he licked and drew a paw over his face, even though he was clean. Once the guests left the medicine den for their patrol, he decided he had heard enough, and got up with a stretch. Eavesdropping was no good, anyways, so he made his way back inside. He brushed Goosefeather with his tail as a silent greeting, although he was sure the tom could sense him, then disappeared into the back of the den, where he spotted Bumblepaw storing away a bundle of rosemary. "Good morning." He said, half mumbled to Bumblepaw before turning to survey the stores. All was in order, and he realized there wasn't much for him to do. He felt a pang of hunger. Again, his gaze fell on Bumblepaw, and he sighed before he spoke. "Have you, um, eaten?" He asked, though he knew that the tom had just woken up. "If you haven't, do you, want to share something?"
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