Shadowpaw - WillowClan - tags: Opalinejester
- Shadowpaw backed away, her amber eyes huge and terrified. She could only watch, her body paralyzed with horror and paws rooted to the ground as Opalinejester leaped at the dog, tearing at its face with her claws. Only when the dog smashed her mentor down and shook her in her jaws did Shadowpaw break out of her trance, shrieking at the top of her lungs, "Opalinejester! NO!"
All sense of rationality fled Shadowpaw as the small-framed apprentice hurled herself at the wild dog's jaws, raking her thorn-sharp claws over the canine's nose, trying to get it to release her mentor. The dog simply snarled and threw Shadowpaw with a huge, heavy paw, and the apprentice skidded back a few feet, landing on her muzzle.
She couldn't think... breathe... all that she knew was pain. She struggled to her paws once the world righted itself, one of her eyes swollen shut and her right front claws torn. Breathing hurt; she might have bruised her ribs, or worse. She could only stumble away as the dog busied itself with Opalinejester, and only then did she register her mentor's words: "Shadowpaw! Get a patrol!"
"I'll fetch help, Opalinejester, I promise!" she wailed, though she was unsure if her mentor had heard her. She turned away and staggered off into the forest vaguely towards the direction of the camp, her breath catching in her throat with sobs.







