Username: EchoIre
Cat Name: Shellmask > Oakwhisker
Gender: Tom
Rank: Warrior
Clan: LakeClanAge: 23 Moons
Eyelashes?: No
Prompt:"Are you sure he wants to be here?"Shellmask shrank away unconsciously. That was Appleleaves's voice, and it was Glacierstar who responded.
"Of course he does." Uncertainty.
"He wouldn't stay if he didn't."It was dark.
It always was.
He was alone.
He always was.
"Maybe I could... offer to go join the hunting patrol?" Shellmask offered warily.
They don't want you there. Came the echo.
The tom shifted. "That- that's not true..."
I bet they're laughing about you now. Remember how you let that mouse get away yesterday? The echo hissed.
What good would you be on a hunting patrol?"I..."
-Another example or two
-Doesn't notice others around him, sees himself as alone, walks through life w/ head down, not looking
-Only hears negative comments
-Event similar to first, this time snaps back
-Clanmate comes in; "Are you okay?"
-A crack, he sees them. They're worried?
-Next morning, same clanmate asks him to come on patrol
-He tries to refuse, gets dragged along anyways
-Catches something, clanmate compliments him, crack widens
-Walking back, overhears two clanmates remark he's a good tracker, crack widens again (Did they always say that?)
-The echo is present throughout, but after the third crack he notices it's quieter somehow
-That night, the echo is berating him again, about to go lay down in his nest, but notices first clanmate from the edges of the crack and goes over to them instead
-Flash forward, speaking with Glacierstar about changing his name
-Echo is still there, doesn't see all of Glacierstar's face
-Shellmask clams up, Glacierstar pushes him ("If you feel your name doesn't suit you, I understand, but I need to know what you feel fits you best.")
-Shellmask is silent, Glacierstar explains after a moment how he names the clan cats, and that all he knows of Shellmask is that he's very secluded; he doesn't
know Shellmask, but he'd like to
-Another crack
-Short bit about Shellmask pushing himself to spend more time with his clanmates, ignoring the echo and noticing more and more about them and sharing more and more about himself, steadily having the shell crack
-Cut to Shellmask waiting at the bottom of the Highrock, shell is gone but echo is still there, he shushes it
-Gets called up and renamed Oakwhisker, notices how happy his clanmates look for him, how they're cheering his new name, feels proud
