by eagle, » Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:20 am
HIGHGARDEN
tawnyrose | molly, queen, 84m, tagged: ploverstar
indenttawnyrose's mind was elsewhere. she had always found pleasure in the gatherings, knowing that her friends and clanmates were reuniting with distant family and companions, and that she could speak and share news with fellow leaders. highgarden's future rested precariously in the balance, and yet she was sitting among the leaders, listening with half of her attention as they chatted. she thought of bluetcrest, birchflame, and cherryfire holding down the camp's defenses, preparing their clan for a moment of attack against the rogues. they had assured tawnyrose that it would be better for her to be out of the camp, where she could scout for their allies in case they needed it... or make new ones.
indenther ears pricked when a tabby leader approached her, and she mustered up a polite smile. "it's very nice to meet you, ploverstar. my name is tawnyrose, and i'm highgarden's queen," she introduced herself before gesturing towards a spot on the ground nearby for ploverstar to sit if she wished. "we've been well, thank you. i'm just glad that winter is over. i love the spring weather, i think we thrive best in it. and our clan recently welcomed a nursery full of kits, so it'll be nice for them to get out and stretch their legs in the nicer weather," tawnyrose said with a quiet purr, decidedly ignoring the reasons why highgarden was not fairing as well as she'd like. "how has cloudclan been over the past several moons? any news?"
squirrelleaf | molly, herbalist, 24m, tagged: open
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figspots | molly, rose, 28m, tagged: manateecall & tourbillonpelt
indent"my thought is that as long as long as a leader is fair and works just as hard as the cats they're leading, they might not be too bad," she said thoughtfully. she had never had a moment of doubt in highgarden's leadership, and she admired them. any cat could have an ego, she supposed, and it might be rooted in holding the power itself, after all. her whiskers twitched. "is swiftclan really that big and noisy?" she asked, genuinely curious to hear his answer.
QUICKCLAN
cyanstar | tom, leader, 78m, tagged: peridotstar
indentfrom almost as far back as cyanstar could remember during his time in quickclan, hazeclan and quickclan had a close-knit alliance. first with hazestar, and then with pantherstar, there was a deep security that ran the length of their borders and beyond, crossing into deep friendships and romances between the clan cats, and cyanstar found that he knew the hazeclan scent nearly as well as quickclan's. throughout many seasons, the change of leaders, the most difficult of wars, the clans had been there for one another, and cyanstar felt that it was only naturally for the alliance to continue and carry on. so cyanstar welcomed peridotstar, nodding along when she began to speak about hazeclan. "i'm very glad to hear that," he said, his tone genuine. "and quickclan is well, thank you. falconflight and i just recently welcomed our youngest kits into the clan, actually. he said that it might be time that we stop expanding our family, as if he isn't enjoying the time in the nursery with them," cyanstar said, purring at the thought of his mate and kits, before he turned his bright blue eyes back to peridotstar. "anyway, i wanted to say that i'm glad that hazeclan came to tonight's gathering. i'm glad that you're here, peridotstar. i'm glad that you're hazeclan's leader, i know that if the dark forest put you here, you deserve it."
lycheewings | tom, medicine cat, 20m, tagged: rootwake
indentthough he tried to always put on a brave face and smile through his own misfortunes and pain, lycheewings was no strangers to mourning and grief. along with losing friends in quickclan, he had also lost two of his littermates and one of his fathers to various illnesses and injuries over the seasons. and though asphodelstorm did his best to protect and care for lycheewings and dragonsoar, there was only so much a father could do for his kits - lycheewings had grown used to grief, and, if anything, it fueled him. it was part of the reason why he had trained so hard. "it's unfair," lycheewings agreed, dipping his head respectfully as rootwake spoke about her mentors and their various loses. "but i don't think there's anyway around it. i think it's the unfortunate part of clan life, and maybe of any life... is that it can't last forever. and there are some things that we just can't heal away. but i'd really like to try my best, and i think that you do too, otherwise you wouldn't feel so strongly like you do. and i admire you for that, i really do," lycheewings added, daring to bump his shoulder companionably against rootwake's. "i think we could be good friends, you and i. maybe we can support each other, even from afar. because it is hard, and maybe we could both use a friend that understands it better than our other clanmates do." however, at the mention of the neighborhood, lycheewings seemed to shake off their previous conversation, his whiskers twitching with curiosity. "i think we have a few cats from the neighborhood in quickclan, actually. did you know raven, sparrow, or crow?"
thrushpaw | tom, apprentice, 9m, tagged: beetlepaw
indentcoming from quickclan, thrushpaw was used to manuvering through large groups of cats, using his smaller size to his advantage. while warriors towered above him on all sides, thurshpaw moved expertly through them, keeping his tail tucked close to keep from getting stepped on. though his father, cyanstar, had warned thrushpaw to stay with rootpaw and keep from getting under a warrior's paws, the young tom knew that his father shouldn't have been expecting him to follow each and every rule. he was given the honor of joining the gathering as a reward for his hard work in training over the past several moons, and it paid off. soon, he would be a full quickclan warrior. soon, he and his siblings would be traveling every inch of the moorland, scaring away intruders, fighting off giant foxes, and he couldn't imagine anything better.
indenthowever, thrushpaw was nearly knocked off his own paws when a molly bumped into him, leaving him swaying, struggling to stay on his paws. by the time he regained his balance, thrushpaw had been effectively knocked out of his thoughts, and he blinked up at the other cat. "it's alright, my mistake too," thrushpaw replied, shaking out his short white pelt. he smiled wryly. "my sister said that i was bound to get under someone's paws... so maybe we can keep this between us?if skypaw finds out, i'll never hear the end of it."
rootpaw | molly, apprentice, 8m, tagged: bear
indentrootpaw immediately found a liking to bear. he was energetic, and he reminded her of her friends back home, which made rootpaw feel all the more at ease. "i'm sure it is," she agreed with a kind smile. "nox invictus is a cool name, not like anything i've ever heard of before. what does it mean?" she asked him after a beat. when bear fluffed out his fur and mentioned that he was close to finishing his training, rootpaw's eyes widened with a new-found admiration. "no way, congratulations! you must be really excited," she said. "i'm still a pretty new apprentice, so i won't be a warrior for moons, but i'm still super excited about it. i want to learn everything i can so i can be the best warrior in the whole clan. maybe one day i'll even be a better warrior than cyanstar." as she spoke, her whiskers trembled with excitement at just the thought of becoming a warrior and having the clan chant her name. "what types of things have you learned? do you know how to swim or climb trees? those are advanced skills for our apprentices."
