Username: All Along Watchtower
Clan link: Clan of the Sea Breeze
Prompt:
1.
The Clan of the Sea Breeze's relation to twolegs... depends, wildly. Some of the cats (such as Cinnamonbreeze and Doespring) were born and raised completely feral, unsocialized and unused to twolegs. If confronted by one, they'd be fairly on edge and stressed throughout the entire ordeal, even if they know (usually through their other clanmates) that twolegs are... well, not completely harmless, but not necessarily a universal threat to a cat like a predator might be.
Others, though never domesticated or raised by twolegs, are... less feral. Jack tolerates the presence of twolegs, will sometimes mooch off them if they deem them safe enough. They would never want to be caught by them, though, or be a housecat.
Still others were either rescued at a young age, or born indoors, and domesticated, Heatherstar himself among them. But even amongst the former domestic cats and kittypets, opinions on twolegs... quite vary. Many of the former housecats have grievances with their old twolegs - and of course they do, for if they did not then why would they have left them to join the clan? Whether abandoned, or treated poorly, or battles they made up in their own heads, they don't completely trust twolegs anymore.
And yet.
The thirteenth and last rule of the clan's code states that "A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet, but if those on journeys off the island come across twoleg food freely given, and not as bait in a trap, they are allowed to eat. Food is a precious resource, and who knows how well your next hunt may fare for you. Likewise, when injury or illness is too great for our healers, a cat may be brought to twolegs for aid, lest they perish from something they could have survived."
Heatherstar, in whatever wisdom he may or may not have had, made this code for practicality's sake. After all, he had reasoned, the community cats were often supplied with extra food from the twolegs, free and without being part of the shelter's traps. A cat on a journey could not always be expected to hunt, or to have prey running well wherever they went. Why deny them food, simply to adhere to a wilder lifestyle?
The injury or illness part comes from a similar place. As a former kittypet, Heatherstar knows about veterinarians - most of the island cats do, at least a little. While transporting a gravely injured or sick cat from the island to the mainland is quite the task, taking them to the vet gives them a greater chance to live through it than just using herbs and cobwebs. If a cat's leg is completely ruined in a fall, wouldn't it be better for them to have a vet either attempt to fix it or amputate it entirely, rather than having to drag it with them?