❁ Oakclan ❁ *Open and Accepting*

[fletch]

Kestreldive

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Kestreldive, the fluffy brown and white she-cat, blinked her pale blue eyes into the weak, morning light. She was in a lying down position with her fluffy white paws tucked under her belly and ears pricked to the sounds of cheerful singing birds. When Frozenpaw approached she lifted her head and started rather blankly at him. Her pelt was un groomed at the moment--matted on one side with a variety of grass bits, dirt, leaves. It was almost if she had already been out, though she seemed awake and alert now. Mostly.
"Good morning. She does, does she? Well I don't want to disappoint her." With that, she picked her lithe frame off the ground and parted her jaws in a massive yawn, exposing her pink tongue and white teeth. Her eyes gleamed. "Beautiful morning for a patrol, anywho." She gently tapped her apprentice's shoulder with the tip of her silky tail and looked sideways to Shadeheart for further instruction.

[shade.]

┌-----Shadeheart------┐
♣ She-cat
♣ Deputy
♣ Crush: -
♣ With: Frozenpaw,
Kestreldive
“Am I who I am at the desolate heart
or who I must be for a position?
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My gaze turns to the she-cat Kestreldive as she speaks of the beauty of the morning. I nodded, breathing in and out before responding. She seemed awfully tired, and it quite worried me, but I couldn't do much at this point. Maybe she had just been out, or she hadn't slept well. Any way, she was going on a partol with her apprentice. I internally shake myself, I needed to focus. "Yes, it quite is a beautiful morning. I'm having you, Frozenpaw, Featherpaw, and Fuzzyclaw do the dawn patrol. I feel like that might be a good training experience as well as a sturdy patrol." I nod curtly, my mind falling back to when she said she wouldn't want to disappoint me. The attitude made sense, but I just didn't find pleasure in it. After a moment of pondering things, I claw myself interally. Focus! I turned my mind to the evening patrol, and who was going to be left in camp. Well I could have Blazeclaw, maybe even Pinestar or myself.......

[Writing 4 Eva!]

name; blazeclaw
rank: warrior
tags; shadeheart
crush: none

Blazeclaw's ears twitched a little as the clearing began to be filled in with cats coming out from different dens around the camp. As Shadeheart sent some of them into patrols, he watched, with his pale gray eyes, how his sister came out of the medicine cat's den and started interacting with OakClan's medicine cat, Nightfrost. He felt incredibly over protective when it was about Hollypaw. Both her parents had died, as well as Blazeclaw's, obviously. He needed to protect her from the other cats, or so was what he felt. However, instead of going to see what was she doing, the golden tabby tom turned to Shadeheart once again. The deputy, ordering patrols, was a bit furhter than where he was standing. "Do you think I should go on a patrol? I'm feeling as if there won't be enough cats here to defend the camp." he meowed, tail twitching, and blinked.

name; hollypaw
tags: nightfrost
rank: med. cat apprentice
crush: none

Hollypaw blinked a few times to adjust her green eyes to the brightness of the outside. In the medicine cat den, it was warm and with shadows to cover from the sun. Out there, not so much. She watched the Clan, and saw as her older brother spoke to the clan deputy. She looked around and saw the other apprentices playing and talking, and once again she felt a little lonely. Most of them were training together, and she trained alone. Of course, being a medicine cat was a very important task. Hollypaw scolded herself for thinking like that, and then turned to face Nighfrost, her mentor, and nodded slightly. "Good morning, Nightfrost." She greeted him with a smile, excited. "I saw we were low in horsetail. There is a few by the river, I could go and get it if you want?" She asked.

[fletch]

Pinestar

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Though it was already quite some time into the morning the Clan leader had not yet awoken. He lay, curled up, in his den. Fresh moss bedding under his flank felt like sleeping upon a cloud. The slightest ray of sunshine shone through, disturbing the tabby and rousing him. He lifted one heavy eyelid. Dawn.
Pinestar's breathing suddenly quickened. How long had he slept? Slightly panicked he lifted his head. He felt all fuzzy-like and sleepy; he shouldn't have slept in this long. After slowly giving a small stretch and rising to his paws the tom gave his scrappy light brown tabby pelt a shake. Scraps of green moss bits and debris rained upon his bedding. He would have to change it once again later tonight--but that was not an issue at the moment. The tom, passing his tongue over his jaws, brushed aside the fronds covering his den entrance and stepped into the weak, morning light, hazel eyes gleaming.

[shade.]

┌-----Shadeheart------┐
♣ She-cat
♣ Deputy
♣ Crush: -
♣ With: Frozenpaw,
Kestreldive
“Am I who I am at the desolate heart
or who I must be for a position?
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I turn my head again to Blazeclaw, taking in his comment about warriors. I twitch my tail thoughtfully. "That's a good point.." I paused, thinking about both safety and the need-ance of prey. "I want you to take a hunting party out fairly close to camp. I'll stay here with the remaining cats, and go out when the morning patrol returns." I blinked, pondering if I needed to do anything else. I decided to go consult Pinestar on how to deal with the looming sickness.

{I'm going to set up a poll for what people want to happen next.}

[fletch]

Pinestar

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The cat scanned the clearing; it already looked as though Shadeheart, his deputy, had organized some patrols. Good, but he wished he had been awake to participate. Once again he cursed himself for having slept in. Must have been the lack of sun streaming in due to the overgrowth hanging from his den. He would deal with that later.
"Good morning, Shadeheart." Pinestar called in a greeting as the deputy looked to him. His brown paws kneaded into the soft, earthy soil. Grass did not tend to grow near his den as the shade often prevented the ground from getting any sun. "Any news?" His long, tabby tail whisked over his back as he spoke. He tried to not appear as tired as he felt; it would be silly for a Clan leader to go about the day, yawning and looking as groggy as he felt. A cloud had passed over the sun momentarily--casting its shadow about the camp before moving on, allowing the sun's rays to illuminate the Clan's camp.

[JourneyMaster]

Nightfrost smiled at his apprentice "you are quite observent Hollypaw" he praised "a good trait for a medicine cat. Yes, horsetail needs to be collected today. If you know where it is, you can fetch it yourself. After putting it away here, meet me near the large pine. I'd like to get some thyme and poppy seed collected as well"

(Lillystep is open. Also, let me know if you want to play one of her kits when she has them.)

[wander]

Doing: waking up Fuzzyclaw
Mood: normal
Available? no
Mentor: Fuzzyclaw

Featherpaw

I padded quickly towards the warrior's den. No need to waste more time. The sun had risen a fair amount already, and the shade from the oak trees surrounding our camp was breaking, sunlight lightly dappling the ground as I walked. I dipped my head in, conscious of the low opening. There was a musky scent, of old-but-not-too-old moss and bracken. "Fuzzyclaw?" I called softly, not wanting to disturb the other warriors who were sleeping inside.

Doing: talking to Rockpaw and about to go training
Mood: normal
Available? not really
Mentor: Buckthorn

Falconpaw

"That's alright, we're all learning together." I quickly groomed my back with a couple of licks, then padded out of the den, blinking a bit as the golden morning light hit me. "Should we go ask our mentors for permission?"

[shade.]

┌-----Shadeheart------┐
♣ She-cat
♣ Deputy
♣ Crush: -
♣ With: Pinestar,

“Am I who I am at the desolate heart
or who I must be for a position?
└--------------------------------------┘

I turned my head to Pinestar, whiskers twitching. It seemed as though he was newly awaken, which was odd for the leader, but not altogether a bad thing. I actually enjoyed setting up the patrols without him hovering there to help. No need to mention that or let it fog my opinion of him, though. "Morning Pinestar," I purred, dipping my head politely. In response to his next question, I continue, "Not much. I sent Featherpaw, Frozenpaw, and their mentors out to patrol, and was going to have Blazeclaw set up a hunting party fairly near camp. I figure that should leave us pretty well-protected, but also supplying food for the clan. I was going to take a afternoon patrol, or you could. I just would want one of us here."

[size=150]┌[/size]-----Rockpaw------┐
♣ Tom
♣ Apprentice
♣ Blind
♣ Crush: -
♣ With: Falconpaw
“Why am I treated with such blind distaste
When I get through every case?
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I nod, hearing the faint whisper of leaves to signal that Falconpaw had left the den. My tail twitched in surprise, following him to quickly hear him ask if we should ask our mentors for permission. I contemplated that for a moment. "I don't think so." I said softly, finally opening my eyes so I would look normal. "I wouldn't want to wake them if they had a late night or anything." I murmured whistfully. I knew a lot of cats liked to stay up and watch the stars. "Plus I kinda want to train alone... But we should probably tell someone so we can be found."

┌-----Fuzzyclaw------┐
♣ Tom
♣ Warrior
♣ Crush: To be Featherpaw
♣ With: Featherpaw



“Life should be lived for fun
To check out everything and everyone
Not to be mad because of a bad pun
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My name is Fuzzyclaw. This world is great. I should wake up and check out everything. This sleep thing is overrated. I mean, I'm comfortable and happy here, but being dirty and exhausted from work is a lot more fun, right? I let out a gigantic sigh when I heard Featherpaw's meow. I liked the she-cat, I really did, but I didn't like training an apprentice. Someone else should raise the crop, so I can have fun with it. That's how Fuzzyclaw does it! Until the leader gave me a apprentice. Now that's how Fuzzyclaw did it. I groggily got to my paws, not even bothering to wash my pelt. Pealing my heavy eyes open, I blunder out of the den. In fact, I almost ran into Featherpaw. I turn my weary and fuzzy gaze to her. "What are we doing this morning? I mean, did Shadeheart assign us something again?" I was really quite a sight to see. My normally puffy coat wasn't groomed and stuck all over the place, and I was heavy on my paws. My eyes were also quite droopy. Not the model warrior there. But then again, I never was. And I never wanted to be.

{On IPad. It might take me longer to respond. Sorry.}[/size]

[fletch]

Pinestar

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Pinestar examined her eyes with his own hazel coloured ones and, by the time she was finished, immediately responded with a flick of his tabby striped tail. "I'll take the patrol. You seem stressed enough already and I need to get out of camp. It might be nice for just a day inside the camp--for a change. You should enjoy it. You are right about leaving the camp fairly guarded, however." At the sudden sounds of birds chirping Pinestar lifted his large head. How pleasant. That also meant that prey was about and that was never a bad sign. The tabby kneaded his claws into the soft soil. "Before I forget, we should also have the camp entrance reinforced. I'm afraid if there's anymore rain it may collapse altogether." The tom cast his glance upon the camp and the patrolling cats. It was good to know everything was in proper order around here. At least, for now.