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Dusk gathered outside, the sky caught in the ever-shifting state of grey in between night and day, the last colorful streaks of sunset falling below the horizon somewhere behind the trees. In most clans, that would herald the end of the waking day, but in NightClan it was barely the beginning.
Shrikepaw paused for a moment at the top of the cenote to scent the air, the dying light reflecting off of the bright white half of his pelt in a stark contrast to the way it sank without a trace into the inky blackness of the rest of his pelt. That dichotomy was still giving him trouble when it came to nighttime camouflage, but he was determined to use tonight figure out how to make it work - after all, he was destined to be a NightClan warrior, and knowing how to hunt at night was a must. Every once in a while a more overbearing clanmate got worried about an apprentice going out at night alone, though, so he had made sure to leave camp just before night truly fell.
Post by Whitemuzzle on Sept 6, 2020 15:11:56 GMT -5
The colorful streaks in the darkening sky seemed to beckon to Greypaw as he watched the last rays of the sun as it set in the west. He wanted to get out of camp before he was asked to clean out the old moss from the dens again. He had spent all last night doing the warriors den and now he wanted to disappear before he was asked to do the rest of the dens tonight. With a quick check to see if any cat was watching, he darted out of the cenote only to bump into Shrikepaw. "Oh, uh, sorry," he meowed. "I didn't see you there."
Shrikepaw jumped slightly as Greypaw bumped into his tail, embarrassed for a moment that he had been so distracted that he didn't notice anyone else coming up the path behind him. "I shouldn't have been blocking the path anyway," he said, moving out of the way so that Greypaw could comfortably walk up beside him. "You going out to hunt too?"
Post by Whitemuzzle on Sept 7, 2020 18:40:40 GMT -5
"Yeah, the sooner the better," Greypaw mewed casting a glance back over his shoulder into the camp. "But I'm party to blame too," he added. "I should have been watching where I was going. I was just trying to get outta camp before anyone spotted me. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have to clean out dens two nights in a row."
It seemed that through-and-through, the ragged little she-cat was as far from a Nightclan cat any cat could possibly be. She looked the part; though her pelt was tattered, with fur-less blotches of moon-silver skin, it was otherwise black as the shadows of an abyss. Loonpaw melted into the night- she disappeared completely. Then again, the she-cat was never truly 'there' in the first place, even if a nimbus of sunlight had surrounded her like some mythical being. Nah. Loonpaw, to most of the forest, did not exist. She was uncomfortable to look at, uncomfortable to be around, and-- the greatest blight of all-- she was just plain uncomfortable existing.
As the sun was sinking, though, Loonpaw felt her most 'there'. "Imagine if I had all those colors," the slender she-cat murmured aloud. Her nose twitched at a slight breeze, and twitched again, sharply, as the sound of conversation breathed into her ears with the wind. She had been relaxing at the Land Bridge, and was slowly, slowly winding her way back along the trees, not back to camp, but perhaps the waterfall. But these voices. Guilt, then abrupt anger. Was it because she was out? She hadn't exactly asked for permission to leave-- sometimes she'd slip out, quite unnoticed, when there was still a bit of light-- but--
"Oh," she breathed out, panic rising off her pelt in waves. Surely those were toms' voices. Loonpaw nearly leaped to her paws, and lurched forward, away from the threat of masculine-anything, and promptly caught her little forepaw in a root. A jolt of pain shot up her leg, made her pelt fluff up, and a low but rising scream was flung from her throat. "Ugghhhhh--- oh, oww, oh OWW!" Her fear-scent rose in suffocating waves. A nearby mouse was so unnerved it scurried like lightning across the forest floor.
Post by Whitemuzzle on Sept 8, 2020 18:48:24 GMT -5
"Did you hear that?" Greypaw asked Shrikepaw as he spun around toward the sound. "It sounded to me as if some cat is in trouble. Come on, let's see if we can help." The thought did cross his mind that it could possibly be an enemy but what stranger would be mouse-brained enough to come so close to their camp? Never-the-less he started walking cautiously toward where he had heard the sounds.
Shrikepaw grimaced a little at the thought of cleaning duty. He knew someone had to do it, but he couldn't help but feel like he was wasting time that he could be using to learn more important skills every time he got assigned to it. "Yeah, cleaning duty isn't as-" he was aprubtly cut off by Loonpaw's nearby yowl, his ears pricking up in alertness. The wind was blowing away from them, carrying their scents and voices towards Loonpaw, but making it hard to discern who could have made the sound as her scent was travelling the wrong way for Shrikepaw to pick up.
"We should be careful, it could be an intruder," he said, ears pricked forward as he fell into step alongside Greypaw. Adrenaline prickled at his stomach. Battle training was one thing, but Shrikepaw had never had cause to actually sink claws into a fellow cat's flesh and he felt a feeling almost like excitement at the prospect. Had he been alone, he might have raced towards the sound, but he matched Greypaw's slower pace.
Loonpaw tried to wrench her paw out as she picked up the sounds of the approaching cats. Her fur was a wild black static. She swallowed once, then again, and it was like she had swallowed sand; her mouth was dry and she had a lump in her throat as if she had gulped down a rock. Her anxiety bloomed as she realized she was stuck in this ridiculous gnarled root. "Why couldn't it have just been broken?" the apprentice nearly wailed. At least then she could hobble away and not look like an absolute mouse-brain. Worse yet, she realized the tom cats were apprentices... Greypaw-- she knew him for his big green eyes. And... "Shriekpaw? Shankpaw? Sh-... Sh-something," Loonpaw whispered hurriedly, desperately trying to remember the name of the black-and-white tom whose manner (and wolfish eyes) she found a little intimidating.
The lithe creature wasn't one to call for help-- how embarrassing to be so loud-- so she just sat there casually, eyes looking dumbly ahead, her paw swelling, her heart crying out for a pack of coyotes to rush in and eat her.
Post by Whitemuzzle on Sept 10, 2020 18:02:19 GMT -5
After rounding a small boulder, Greypaw relaxed the fur that began to fluff out around his neck. This was no intruder. It was a denmate, an apprentice like him. "It's just Loonpaw," he told Shrikepaw over his shoulder. "And she's just sitting there staring." From his vantage point, the gray tom couldn't see she was stuck. He looked over the area quickly for any sign of danger. The cry he had heard was definitely one of distress. "Hey Loonpaw," he called as he came closer. "Is everything alright?"
Loonpaw winced as she heard Greypaw speak. Waves of shame radiated from her pelt. She turned her head slightly, trying to pinpoint where the apprentices were, until she caught sight of their slight forms. The she-cat allowed a short look at the toms but then focused right above their heads- her attempt at seeming, well, normal, like she was looking at them. She raised her tail in a jerky, awkward greeting.
"Yes, yes, everything is fine," Loonpaw called in an odd, prim voice. "I, um, I'm just here. Just sittin'." That was all she could manage before her face flushed a brilliant red.
Abruptly, she felt a tickling sensation on her sore paw-- a potato bug was lazily climbing it's way through her fur. A scream erupted from her throat, and she thrashed violently, wailing even more from the resulting pain. The terrified apprentice was doing her best to wrench her paw from the root while also using all her other paws to try and swipe the bug away.
Post by Whitemuzzle on Sept 12, 2020 15:42:28 GMT -5
"Oh, okay," Greypaw answered, albeit a bit confused. "I guess we'll be go-" He stopped abruptly when he heard Loonpaw shriek again. "Something is wrong!" he said as he ran over to help her. In an instant Greypaw saw that she was stuck by her paw and an ugly worm was crawling on her. "Hold still!" he told her. It was with some difficulty but he was finally able to knock the potato bug off her fur. "It's gone now," he said trying to calm Loonpaw down. "Now let's see how you're stuck."