WaterClan
Dawnsinger slowly drifted into consciousness once more; she had been falling in and out of the seemingly eternal blackness of unconsciousness, her visits in the real world always painfully brief. She had no idea what the true passage of time was since she had nearly drowned some point in her life prior to this blurred, foggy version of life. If this was life. Was she still among the living? It was difficult to determine whether or not she was still breathing; although the faint rising and falling movement of her chest that stirred the long, pale silvery gray fur that lined it. Her heart seemed to be fluttering unsteadily, but was it truly her own that her sharp hearing detected? Suddenly, she was aware of another heartbeat accompanying her own -- it was strong and steady, and was soon joined by the body heat emanating from her visitor. Dawnsinger's fur prickled as though an entire colony of ants were marching through it, and her ears swiveled towards the intruder as she instinctively attempted to decide if he was a threat. His breathing filled the place in which she lay, possibly a den of some sort due to the lack of air circulation and the way sounds echoed within it as though it were a minute, cramped space. The other cat was a single tail-length away, and she sensed its eyes resting upon her limp head.
Finally, without warning, Dawnsinger's eyes slid open for the first time in days. Her vision was blurry and dim at first, but she could barely make out the interlacing brambles of a den. She stared blankly at the wall with a vacant expression for several moments while thoughts and scent crept into her mind and nose. The sharp smell of herbs awoke her at last, and she raised her head to blink hard a few times, her eyes drowsily unfocused. Her gaze fixed on a dark gray mass only mouse-lengths away from her; her conscious returned at the exact same moment that her senses did. Stormcall watched her with an expression upon his handsome face that was equal parts worry and relief, and something in his eyes told her that her mate had spent the last period of his life unsure whether she would survive or not. Her death was a painfully realistic factor for him. The young warrior ached for him, but a desperate need eliminated all other thoughts in its powerful intensity.
Thirst. The burning thirst felt like her throat was on fire, though that notion was ludicrous; Dawnsinger cast an anxious glance downwards just in case the sensation was real. She could have been breathing flames, if it was not for the ragged stones that tumbled down from her arid maw. Thirst. It could have killed her, but the wild desire to survive was too strong within her spirit for it to do so -- besides, it was impossible to focus on or do anything else with the solitary, agonizing thought screaming inside her mind, rattling within the confines of her skull. Thirst. Water. Its deprivement was maddening, and the word tumbled from her mouth. "Water." The single word was little more than a dry whisper, and it was hardly audible. Her lips might as well have been forming a word without the intention of actually uttering it aloud. "Water," she repeated, her voice louder this time; it emitted from her parched mouth as an unfamiliar rasp, and she jerked in surprise while pricking her ears and looking about for the strange cat that had spoked. Then it dawned on her that her voice, which was not her own but somehow came from her, was what had produced the plea. Stormcall looked equally startled before her, his ears pinned back as he gazed at her in mild wonder, but he proceeded to fetch her water anyway. Normally, the WaterClan warrior thought as she watched her mate's tail disappear between the brambles of the medicine cat's den, she would simply draw the vital liquid from the water-rich air surrounding her, but she barely had the energy to form the musing, let along carry it out.
Dawnsinger rested her exhausted head on aching paws and waited.
((Meh. . . I'm just writing quickies, so please excuse the bad quality/quanity of them. X.x Writer's block doesn't help at all, of course. I'll unsuccessfully attempt to write at least one more post later, but it isn't very likely. ;A; I apologize for not being able to get on the computer as of late, but things haven't exactly been in my control recently. And, WolfShadows, the Gathering hasn't begun yet. Thank you for re-joining, Nala, welcome back~ All of your cats are accepted, unless Tink disagrees.))