Gustclan
Number of Cats: 8 (2 of which are kits)
|3F|5M|
Food Consumption: 3
Visit to Moonpool: Not visited this week
Heronstar curled tight around her two tiny newborn kits. One a beautiful gingery-brown, the other a just-off-white colour. They were both boys, and they were both beautiful. She was sure that anyone who saw them would agree, and that that wasn’t motherly bias. They really were, with their still-shut eyes and (even she would admit) weirdly folded ears, still completely adorable.
Heronstar looked up as Chubtail entered her den, and she was sure he instantly realised the kits had arrived by the look of happiness he seemed to instantly adopt at seeing her.
“They’re all healthy? 18 toes, 2 eyes, a tail, everything in place?” Heronstar nodded hugely, and Chubtail bounded straight over to join his family, curling around his mate and kits. “They’re both beautiful!”
“Both beautiful toms. What are we going to call them?”
Chubtail got a proud look on his face. “I always liked sun-dews. They eat insects, even though they’re plants- a kit named after them would be so good at hunting that nothing could stop him, I feel.”
“We can’t call him sun-dewkit! But… There’s another name I heard for them before… Drosera?”
“I like Droserakit.” Heronstar beamed at her mate as he said that. She did too. “What about the other kit?”
“I like a few options. I was thinking of Saxifrage at some point, after those tiny white flowers, or Squill, but I don’t think either suits him. Maybe Mistletoe? Sheep? Shell? But if his brother has a meaning to his name, he should too.”
“Shell could have a meaning. Good at defending himself… at home in water… er…” Heronstar snorted at his attempts to come up with a similar level of meaning for it. She nodded.
“I like Shellkit.” Chubtail beamed wide and gave his mate a lick, followed by each of his sons.
Harrierpelt came in a second later. He raised his eyebrows at having walked in at such a scene of affection, not entirely comfortable. “Do they have names I can tell the others, then?”
“Shellkit and Droserakit.”
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Argusheart wasn’t sure what she made of the two tiny kits. She’d wanted to have children but she’d always thought kits looked a bit weird when they were so young. Wait until they were a few months old, old enough to actually do something other than just lie there, and she could much more appreciate them.
She loved the effects of clouds when she was a kit, and she looked forward to seeing how these two would react once they were big enough to leave their mother to the clouds outside.
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Boulderdash came in at one point to admire the kits. She played with them a little, watching the tiny ones. Heronstar was grateful at the opportunity to stretch her legs while Boulderdash kept them warm for a few minutes. They were blind and deaf and helpless, but they could smell it wasn’t their mother. They didn’t seem to mind for a few moments, and when they grew restless Boulderdash called for their mother, who came, almost in a panic of concern about what could be wrong.
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Myrtleclaw visited with Boulderdash a few times. It made Heronstar wonder whether they’d decided to become mates or something, but somehow she felt they hadn’t. It was a shame, they’d be brilliant together. She wanted to see if they’d ever become mates, because if they hadn’t realised how much they clearly meant to each other by now, it looked a lot like they wouldn’t ever.
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“I want to mentor one of your kits, when they’re old enough.”
“That’s not for me to decide. Heronstar assigns mentors, not me, and she values patience.”
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Droserakit’s eyes started opening first, but only with tiny little flickering movements; only kitten dreams making them move. Shellkit kept trying to clamber over his brother instead of around, and Heronstar found it rather endearing, even if he kept bumping her in the ribs when he did it.
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“Harrierpelt, I… I don’t intend to get in the way when I come in ‘ere.”
“Oh it’s fine, I don’t mind having cats in my way when I’m trying to deal with kits.” Harrierpelt responded to Boulderdash, knowing it was her, both from her still-strong accent and because she seemed to have some fascination with him.
“I was wanting to ask you something, actually.”
“I’m not taking apprentices yet.” He replied, almost instinctively. “Wait, you’re not-" He waved his paw around uncertainly, almost like gesticulating. “You’re not already mates with Myrtleclaw, are you? I already have two impossible patients.”
Boulderdash sat bolt upright at that suggestion, startled that he’d thought that himself. “No, nothing like that. I was going to ask if you… if you wanted to be… mates with me?” Before that moment, Harrierpelt had not realised that the tabby cat could even be nervous around another cat. He scrutinised her carefully, trying to work out if she was serious (she seemed to be) and then working out how to react.
“No. I’m… a medicine cat, I’m not meant to have kits or a mate.” Boulderdash was clearly down-hearted at that response, not having noticed his pause and intonation. Harrierpelt walked closer towards her, close enough that he couldn’t be over-heard. “Not now, anyway.” And he stalked off, glancing behind, leaving a confused Boulderdash in his wake.
[Shellkit and Droserakit are born and named And Heronstar declares them to be the cutest]
[Myrtleclaw and Argusheart go hunting]
[Chubtail and Boulderdash go on a patrol]
[Shellkit and Droserakit stay in the nest with their mother, Heronstar Because they’re too tiny to wander off yet]
[Gustclan consumes a big fish – 3 portions]
(I used a coin & best-of-3 to determine if they were male (tails) or female (heads). I feel this is as fair a measure for kits as any, and I couldn’t decide! I’ll use the coin unless I have a clear idea, basically.~
(They’re both super cute aaaah *joins in coo-ing over them with Heronstar, Chubtail and Boulderdash* Have a post of fluff. I definitely approve of the kit choices!
(Sun-dews are one of two carnivorous groups of plant present in the UK- the bristles on them are a sort of reddish-brown colour. I thought it was cute XD
(I really like your post there)
Leader:
Heronstar | 46 | Female *
Lives: ★★★★★★★★★
↪ Point long-furred molly with blue eyes
Deputy:
Chubtail | 42 | Male
↪ Brown tabby tom with white patches and yellow eyes
** Carries point
Medicine Cat:
Harrierpelt | 21 | Male
↪ Long-furred dark-grey tom with amber eyes
Warriors:
Boulderdash | 37 | Female
↪ Slender grey tabby molly with green eyes
Myrtleclaw | 33 | Male
↪ Long furred pale grey tabby tom with golden eyes
Argusheart | 38 | Female
↪ Chocolate/Dark tortoiseshell molly with pale green eyes
Name | Age | Gender
Apprentices:
Name | Age | Gender
Name | Age | Gender
Queens:
Heronstar | 46 | Female | ••
↪ Point long-furred molly with blue eyes
Name | Age | Gender | •
Kits:
Shellkit | 0 | Male
↪ Newborn white tom kit (will develop grey point) with blue eyes
Droserakit | 0 | Male
↪ Newborn tabby brownish-red tom kit with blue eyes
** Carries point
Name | Age | Gender
Elders:
Name | Age | Gender
Name | Age | Gender
Ally Clans:
Clan Name | Username
Clan Name | Username
Enemy Clans
Clan Name | Username
Clan Name | Username
Borders
North East | Mostly Lake | Forestclan | Simonpet
North West | Mostly Lake | Clan Name | Username
East | Road + Stream | Clan Name | Username
South | Road | Wrenclan | Raven Walker
West | Hills | Clan Name | Username
Medicine Store
Borage Leaves (1) | Brings down fevers, improves milk
Burdock Root (1) | Helps cure rat bites (infection, pain)
Catmint (1) | Remedy for green/whitecough
Cobweb (1) | Slow bleeding. Binds broken bones.
Comfrey (1) | Repairs broken bones, sooths wounds.
Helps wrenched claws. Eases itches, inflammation and
stiffness. Helps burns.
Feverfew (2) | Reduces body temperature, heals aches
and pains, esp. headaches.
Honey (1) | Soothes infections, helps damaged throats
and swallowing, soothes coughing, gives energy.
Ragwort (1) | Reduces joint ache, keeps up strength
Tansy (1) | Cures coughs, cure wounds and poisons.
Stops cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats
Watermint (1) | Reduces bellyache
Herb | Usage
Fresh-Kill Pile:
Frogs | x0 | 1 serving
Mice | x2 | 1 serving
Squirrels | x1 | 2 servings
Rabbits | x0 | 2 servings
Big Fish | x0 + 1/3 | 3 servings
Hares | x0 | 3 servings
Mentors:
Mentor | Apprentice | No. of training sessions | Moves
Mentor | Apprentice | No. of training sessions | Moves
Deceased Cats:
Cat Name | Cause of Death
Cat Name | Cause of Death
Family:
Heronstar and Chubtail | Shellkit and Droserakit;
Name and Name | Kits
