Orchardclan - OPEN & ACCEPTING

[sheslethal]

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01 38 moons. 02 warrior, moonpaw's mentor. 03 loc: den, fresh-kill pile 04 tags: open. 05 form.
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hollysnap was awoken by the drumming of rain and the slow drip, drip, drip of water onto her nose.
indentthe tortoiseshell she-cat snorted, shaking her head, as she rode the cusp of sleep's dark waves onto the shore of consciousness. her wide yellow-orange eyes gradually adjusted to the change in lighting, pupils shrinking and dilating, until, after a few moments, the warrior could bear to lift her head and peer around the den. some of the bodies of the other warriors──warm lumps of fur all crowded together in the far corner of the cave in an effort to escape the cold outside──remained, but a great deal of mossy nests were missing owners. hollysnap couldn't tell the time of day if she tried. outside, the skies were charcoal gray, and the sun was obscured; somehow, someway, faint hues of light streamed into the den, fighting feebly against the deluge. the prickly-furred she-cat looked upward and glared at the cave's leaky roof, as if staring down the sprung leak would fix her clan's dilemma. it didn't. more water fell through onto her face, as if starclan was laughing at her attempts.
indenthuffing, she clambered to her feet, shifting until she was out of the way of the water. the dark cat yawned loudly and raised a large paw to rub her face clean of the sleeping dust that had gathered in the corners of her eyes. thunder grumbled in the distance, and she wished she could collapse back into her warm nest and sleep this muggy day away.

indentthe tortie pushed her negative thoughts aside. if she started moving, then the air whispering through her short fur would subside. hollysnap knew from experience that once she busied herself the coldness and the wetness wouldn't plague her mind as much. so much for more sleep. with all this in mind, the muscular female proceeded to complete her usual morning routine: she first bowed, sliding her forelegs out before her, in a luxurious stretch, and when she had slowly eased herself out of that, she arched her back. the warrior relished in the familiar cracks and pops her cramped bones made as she twisted every way possible for a feline. she released a low, rumbling purr at the feeling of refreshment and invigoration that came over her; the noise reverberated throughout her broad chest and caught in her throat. hollysnap completed her routine by shaking out her fur wildly and suddenly; she didn't bother to lick her pelt into submission. the wind and rain whistling outside would style it for her. hollysnap stalked easily around the few cats that separated her from the entrance to the den. she slipped out of the cave and stepped outside, only to be instantly met with everything she had expected: rain, rain, mucky puddles, and, oh wait . . . more rain.

indentthe camp, an open area with a river in its center, was slightly less wet nearest the caves where orchardclan's cats slept. still, the area was very exposed. hollysnap shrank against the outer wall of the warriors' den, which offered meager protection but suited her fine. she stared out at the soaked camp and its sparse occupants. cats were out, milling around, but they stuck to the sides of the camp to avoid the expanding river, swollen with water. the fresh-kill pile, though small, looked as if it still offered prey. the black-and-ginger molly was starving──her belly cried out when she simply pictured a nice morsel. steeling herself for the bitter sting of the rain, hollysnap darted away from the den and bounded across camp, eyes narrowed against the downpour and pelt doused by the time she skidded to a stop at the fresh-kill pile. she examined the contents of the pile with a twitching tail, eager to get out of the rain; there was a lark, a vole, a pigeon, and one crushed mouse. all were completely drenched, but hollysnap chose the pigeon and hurried to slide beneath a rocky overhang. lightning flashed overhead as she settled down on the semi-dry ground.
indentshe absently watched cypressshade gather ravenclaw, spiderpaw, and cloudfern, presumably for a patrol. although the tortoiseshell was never one to turn down a patrol, and always wanted to serve orchardclan to the best of her ability, secretly she was glad that she didn't have to go out . . . yet. perhaps the rain would let up later. the she-cat sniffed at the pigeon as she set it between her fore-paws. once she'd plucked the feathers and taken a bite, she discovered that the meat was tough and lacked flavor, due from it being out all night in the rain. prey was prey, however. hollysnap munched in silence and thoughtfully watched the rain pour. she thought of her apprentice, moonpaw, but ultimately decided that she would let him sleep and rouse him for some training after she'd eaten her meal.

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01 8 moons. 02 apprentice to darkrain. 03 loc: apprentices' den. 04 tags: open. 05 form.
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burnpaw crouched right outside the apprentices' den, protected just enough from the rain by the cave's overhang and by his fluffed-up pelt. today was positively boring already. he'd been woken up by the sudden rain before everyone else in the den; he hadn't been too hungry, and being more eager to start training for the day than eat, he'd settled at the den entrance to wait for darkrain to wake up. the last thing he wanted to do was pester the dark tom into wakefulness, although he knew he wasn't above doing so.
indentburnpaw was a busybody, always ready to go out for some sparring and excited to learn something new, which was why he despised rainy days. it put the clan on a bit of a hold; nothing was as exciting, and the cold seemed to sap the energy out of everyone, including the lively dark tabby tom. despite the weather, burnpaw was determined to keep a positive air about him. he scanned the soggy camp, looking for a denmate to talk to; while he was acquaintances with all of the apprentices, he would hardly call any of them his best friends. at times, the tabby was far more focused on training with darkrain than he was on the usual apprentice gossip and foolery, although it did amuse him. unfortunately, the only apprentices that were awake were sorrelpaw, bluepaw, and spiderpaw, and the latter had just left on patrol. burnpaw didn't want to interrupt the two mollies, especially because he could sense even from his seat that bluepaw was irritable. so, the young male tucked his paws further into his chest fur and wrapped his tail tighter around himself. he let out a small sigh of boredom, burning orange eyes assessing his surroundings.

[monochromia]

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warrior ~ 32 moons ~ clan camp ~ tags → cloudfern
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Honeycloud awoke abruptly to the sound of unreasonably persistent rain. He hated the sound of water, whether it be in a river or the average seasonal rain. It made his stomach twist, but there wasn't much he could do but pray for its end. He moved slowly to the entrance of the warrior's den. He peeked out, being able to make out the faint shape of a cat. He went a few paces forward to try and see the cat's face. Judging by the white fur, there were only three(?) cats it could be. He dreaded each step he took, but was too taken by curiosity at this point to return to the den. He stood a fox-length away from her and noticed she was in the midst of dozing off. "What kind of bat-blind cat lets themselves sleep in this kind of weather?" he hissed, prodding her wet fur in an attempt to wake her up.

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rogue ~ 21 moons ~ orchardclan camp ~ tags → open
` ` 𝚝 𝚑 𝚎 f 𝚌 𝚞 𝚗 𝚗 𝚒 𝚗 𝚐 f 𝚘 𝚏 f 𝚝 𝚑 𝚎 f 𝚏 𝚘 𝚡 f 𝚒 𝚜f 𝚊 𝚜 f
𝚖 𝚞 𝚛 𝚍 𝚎 𝚛 𝚘 𝚞 𝚜 f 𝚊 𝚜 f 𝚝 𝚑 𝚎 f 𝚟 𝚒 𝚘 𝚕 𝚎 𝚗 𝚌 𝚎 f 𝚘 𝚏 f 𝚊 f 𝚠 𝚘 𝚕 𝚏 ``
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Nature lay on a singular tree that stood close to the warrior's den. Usually she'd be more thoughtful to choose to rest so close to a den full of cats that could rip her apart if they so wished but she also feared how bad the rain were to get if she decided to find a tree on the outskirts of camp. She could run fast, but was no one to challenge human nature's will. She kept a close eye below her, but trusted her small size could disguise her well among the leaves and lower branches.

[Genesis_]

Tom - Medicine Cat - Apprentice: Rowanpaw - Tags: Rowanpaw

The tom nodded at his apprentice's words. "Tell me about it," Otterseed grumbled. "Anyways, what we use for aching joints and shock?" he asked, questioning the young apprentice.

Molly - Warrior - Apprentice: Icepaw - Tags: Silentclaw

Looking around, Littlecreek spotted Silentclaw as Cypressshade organized a patrol. Standing up, her paws carried herself over to the tom. "Morning, Silentclaw," she greeted the warrior. "Sure am glad I wasn't put on that patrol," Littlecreek said, flicking her tail over to the patrol.

Molly - Warrior - Apprentice: N/A - Tags: Honeycloud, Cypressshade

Cloudfern opened her eyes as Cypressshade called her name for a patrol. It was then that she felt a sudden prodding of a paw. Standing up, Cloudfern turned around to see Honeycloud. "It feels good!" she hissed back. "Now if you don't mind, I have a patrol to go on," the she-cat meowed, tail flicking agitatedly as she walked over towards Cypressshade and the rest of the patrol.

Tom - Apprentice - Mentor: Ravenclaw - Tags: Cypressshade, Sorrelpaw

Spiderpaw looked up, grinning wildly when Sorrelpaw called out to him. "Yes!" the apprentice exclaimed. "You should come join me!" he called to her. Unfortunately, that's when Cypressshade called him over for a patrol. Tail drooping, Spiderpaw made his way over. "Or not... I guess I'll see you later then, Sorrelpaw," he said to her as he padded past her, flicking her playfully with his tail.

Molly - Apprentice - Mentor: Lioncry - Tags: Sorrelpaw

Once she got her drink, she sat up to see Sorrelpaw heading towards her. "Hey, Sorrelpaw," she mewed back. "There's so much rain! At least the river won't be drying out any time soon," the apprentice joked.

Molly - Queen - Kits: N/A - Tags: The other queens

Brooksplash snorted at Gingerflower's words. "As if we'd make you sleep outside!" the queen responded playfully. "Besides, us first-time queens will need all the help we can get," mewed Brooksplash. It was true though. Both her and Lilyfern were due any time now, and she was uncertain with the other queens.

Tom - Elder - Tags: Open

Beestep shook his pelt off as he stepped back under the shelter of camp. "Can't even go to make dirt without getting drenched," the elder complained wearily. Nothing these days really made the old tom happy, so it wasn't abnormal for him to be complaining. He didn't really care who heard him, or what they thought of him. He did enough for the clan back when he was a warrior to not care about anything else.

[HyperfixationStation]

Cypressshade
Tagging - None. Mentions - Mintstar Open for interaction.

Cypressshade leaped off the rock, deciding to go look for Mintstar.

Gingerflower
Tagging - Those in the nursery. Mentions - None. Open-ish for interaction.

"Don't worry, I won't be going away anytime soon, at least, not if I have a say in it. Don't worry. I know you all will be great mothers, and you will know it." She leaned in closer to the queens at this point. "But I would recommend being ready. Birthing kits is a little painful." She chuckled. she then got up and went inside the den, pulling a chewed-up stick from a hidden spot. " Here. I call it my lucky stick- it was what I was floating on when I got rescued from the river. Many moons ago, when I was quite young, queens were using this stick to deal with the pain of birthing, it's a bit of talk that this stick is lucky. I want you to use it as well. Perhaps it will help your kits as well." Also it may keep Flutterkit from dying because mwahaha She slid the stick over to Lilyfern and laid back down.

Silentclaw
Tagging - Nobody, really. Mentions - None. Open for interaction.

Just chillin near the warrior den.

Flutterkit
Unborn.

Adderkit
Unborn.

Hollowkit
Unborn.

[anamarjorie]

Frostbelly
At the camp//mentions:Cypressshade patrol//tags:Creamflower

Frostbelly curled his tail around his small body in attempt to make himself look smaller so that no raindrops would hit and warm himself up, and he was sure that he was doing a favor for the other warriors in the den that are also trying to squeeze in to escape the same things.
The white warrior turned his head when the deputy called his chosen warriors for a patrol, he was not sure that he should feel glad or volunteer to join, in one side he will not get wet from the rain but the other side is that he was doing nothing and could certainly join; Sighing the tom looked around the familiar faces, most of them are trying to escape the rain while there are others enjoying the rain by paying or just standing outside, Frostbelly didn't understand them, they could catch a cold or a similar sickness, talking about that he saw Creamflower, a queen eating a rabbit in the prey pile.
''Creamflower get back in the nursery!'' He called her in a scolding tone.

[rose petals.]

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|tom|med.cat app|tags: Otterseed|

Rowanpaw was thrown off by the sudden questioning and he paused. He didn't want to be wrong, Otterseed might think he wasn't a good medicine cat! Taking a few more moments to think about it, his eyes lit up as the young tom came up with an answer. "Oh! Ragwort leaf! Right?" he asked, praying to Starclan that he had gotten it right.

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|molly|apprentice|tags: bluepaw, spiderpaw|

Sorrelpaw giggled. "Yeah. If I'm not careful I might turn into a fish!" She meowed with a laugh. "I don't know how anyone can train in this weather!" She flattened her ears against her head as a stray raindrop landed on her nose.


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|molly|queen|tags: queens|

Lilyfern took the stick from Gingerflower and wrapped her paws around it. She didn't want imagine how painful giving birth would be. "Thanks Gingerflower, I don't know how any of this could go through this without you." The queen was actually being genuine for once, which was unlike her. But Lilyfern really meant it, Gingerflower knew what she was doing and could help her.

[Queen of flames]

Mintstar
she // leader // 8 lives // crushing to (open) // mentoring (open) // talking with::

She sat inside the leader's den staying near the entrance so she could see the camp, her eyes looked up to the dark almost black sky, the rain was getting harder any minute and even the wind was blowing crazily. It sure gave butterflies to her stomach and she hoped that this rain could not turn into a catastrophe, especially when the river where pretty full after all the melting snow what they had in leaf-bar. Most of the river was being little dried, but not enough, so this rain could make them flood, but hopefully just a little bit. She shook her head little annoyed for some of her clanmates which were standing at the cold rain like they had no worries at all, she was very pleased that Cypressshade organized some patrols out, hopefully, they realize to check the rivers mostly, or the hills with mud and rocks, this heavy rain could easily start a mudslide.

Nightcry
tom // warrior // mates with Brooksplash // mentoring (open) // talking with:: Brooksplash
When the rain started he get into the den to sleep, not worried about the rain that much, but when the noise got heavier and he started to scent the nervous smells coming for his den mates he took the rain seriously too. The rain was hard and so was the wind, when the heavy gust arrived from time to time it felt like he was going up with it, but he didn't. He gave a look around before half running past the heavy rain toward the nursery "Brooksplash?" he called out for his mate.

Shadowrunner
she // warrior // crushing on Otterseed // mentoring Sorrelpaw // talking with::

She sat near the warrior's den entrance together with her brother Darkrain, her eyes following after his other brother Nightcry who run into the nursery to see his mate. She didn't want to think about it, but this rain and the tension inside the clan made her nervous, hoping that the rain could stop soon or that the rivers could not flood too much. She felt relieved that they didn't have any kits at the clan yet, but some of the queens were heavily pregnant and could due anytime soon and that's worried her, the stress could start the birthing and that could become a problem.

Darkrain
tom // warrior // crushing on (open) // mentoring Burnpaw // talking with:: Burnpaw

He groomed his pelt, watching the rain near the warrior's den, his eyes turned to his apprentice which was there outside of the apprentice's den, looking like he was waiting for something to happen. He sighed as he looked the younger tom "Burnpaw, go somewhere more dryer, we're not doing any training before this rain and wind calm down" he meowed to him with an annoyed grow 'you can't train after being crushed by a fallen tree' he thought himself.

[Animals65]

Creamflower hears a voice and turns her head to see it was Frostbelly, one of the warriors. Upon hearing him telling her to go back in the nursery, she cocks her head in confusion before swallowing her bite of rabbit. "Where's the danger Frostbelly?" she asked, looking around and scenting the air, only smelling rain. "Did a fox suddenly show up in camp?"

[Genesis_]

Tom - Medicine Cat - Apprentice: Rowanpaw - Tags: Rowanpaw

Otterseed nodded at his apprentice's answer. "Correct. And what do we use to help with shock?" he asked. The tom was proud of his apprentice. One day he would make an excellent medicine cat for his clan.

Molly - Warrior - Apprentice: Icepaw - Tags: Silentclaw

Looking around, Littlecreek spotted Silentclaw as Cypressshade organized a patrol. Standing up, her paws carried herself over to the tom. "Morning, Silentclaw," she greeted the warrior. "Sure am glad I wasn't put on that patrol," Littlecreek said, flicking her tail over to the patrol.

Molly - Warrior - Apprentice: N/A - Tags: Honeycloud

Cloudfern opened her eyes as Cypressshade called her name for a patrol. It was then that she felt a sudden prodding of a paw. Standing up, Cloudfern turned around to see Honeycloud. "It feels good!" she hissed back. "Now if you don't mind, I have a patrol to go on," the she-cat meowed, tail flicking agitatedly as she walked over towards Cypressshade and the rest of the patrol.

Tom - Apprentice - Mentor: Ravenclaw - Tags: Patrol

Spiderpaw went over and joined the patrol, patiently waiting for his mentor to join them.

Molly - Apprentice - Mentor: Lioncry - Tags: Sorrelpaw

"Honestly! Starclan forbid our mentors still want to take us out training today," Bluepaw mewed, shaking her head. If Lioncry tried to take her out in that downpour, she might just claw his face off. There was no way she was going out in that.

Molly - Queen - Kits: N/A - Tags: Nightcry

Brooksplash was about to respond when she heard Nightcry's voice call her name from outside the nursery. Purring, Brooksplash pushed herself to her paws, dipping her head to the other queens as she exited the nursery, her large belly swinging. As she approached her mate, she rubbed her cheek against his. "Morning," she purred.

Tom - Elder - Tags: Open

Beestep shook his pelt off as he stepped back under the shelter of camp. "Can't even go to make dirt without getting drenched," the elder complained wearily. Nothing these days really made the old tom happy, so it wasn't abnormal for him to be complaining. He didn't really care who heard him, or what they thought of him. He did enough for the clan back when he was a warrior to not care about anything else.

[ghost_raven]

Ashfeather /// Warrior /// 34 Moons /// Pretty long-haired gray tabby with brown flecks, a singular white paw (front right), and green-blue eyes /// She-cat + Bi-curious/Questioning /// Crush: Open /// Mate: N/A /// Mentor/Apprentice: None /// Tags: Silentclaw

The she-cat walked through the territory, a small mouse in her rain-soaked jaws. Moving about, she set her eyes on a medium-sized bird. Ashfeather gently set the mouse down where she could see it, moving slowly towards the bird. In the time the thunder overhead stopped rumbling, the bird was limp in the she-cat's teeth. Going back to her mouse, she picked it up and set off for the camp.

Jaywing /// Queen /// 22 Moons /// Lynx-pointed Siamese with pretty blue eyes /// She-cat + Bisexual /// Crush: Open /// Mate: N/A /// Mentor/Apprentice: None /// Tags: Queens

The young queen's eyes traced the rain. She was listening to the other queens' conversation but she wasn't an active part of it. Jaywing was normally quiet but she did like to talk here and there.

Moonpaw /// Apprentice /// 10 Moons /// Pure white tom with sapphire-blue eyes /// Tom + Pansexual /// Crush: Maybe Rowanpaw /// Mate: N/A /// Mentor/Apprentice: Hollysnap /// Tags: Open

- Asleep -

Sagekit /// Kit /// 0 Moons (Unborn) /// Tiny lynx-point with blue-green eyes /// Tom + Bisexual /// Crush: N/A /// Mate: N/A /// Mentor/Apprentice: None /// Tags: Nope open as of now

Unborn