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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 20, 2008 21:00:23 GMT -5
Emberstar padded silently into camp and dropped her fresh-kill on the pile. She hadn't been able to sleep (again), so she'd been out hunting all night. I wonder why I haven't done that before. I caught quite a bit of prey, Emberstar thought with a yawn. She decided to lie down in a spot of weak early morning sunlight so she could wash her fur.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 22, 2008 2:00:22 GMT -5
Spottedshadow padded out of the warrior's den, she had smelled fresh-kill and had given in to the hunger clawing her stomach. She gave a huge yawn before seeing her leader Emberstar lying in the sun and snapped her jaws closed. She had been thinking about Emberstar before she went to sleep last night. Looking a bit worried and ignoring the fresh kill for a little longer she padded over to the Shadowclan leader,
"Did you sleep at all tonight?" she asked, twiching her tail in concern. She looked her leader over and waited for an answer. |
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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 22, 2008 21:11:10 GMT -5
Emberstar smiled at her deputy. "Well, no.. But all the prey seems to come out at night, so.." Emberstar said slowly. She felt bad for worrying Spottedshadow, but she was always awakened by bad dreams of Shadowface, the queen who had acted as a mother to Emberstar and Streamclaw, lying dead. Emberstar looked up toward the sky. Shadowface, I miss you so.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 22, 2008 21:23:19 GMT -5
Spottedshadow shook her head she was an apprentice when the rogues attacked the first time and remembered the fight. She had grieved along with the clan, along with her leader.
“How long are you going to grieve? She loved you but she doesn’t want you to waste away! She wouldn’t want this.” Spottedshadow didn’t know that Emberstar was having nightmares about her but she knew that it bothered her. It made her sad to see her leader like this. |
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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 23, 2008 16:17:34 GMT -5
Emberstar tipped her head to the side as she looked at her deputy. "You're right. It gets better every day, but.." Emberstar turned her head to face Spottedshadow. "I will ask for some poppy seeds tonight," Emberstar reassured her deputy. She did not like to numb her mind, but she knew that she needed more sleep to run her Clan. Emberstar sighed. Perhaps I was right. Perhaps I am not fit to run this Clan. The thought scared her, and she pushed it firmly away. Shadestar knew what he was doing.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 23, 2008 16:32:12 GMT -5
Spottedshadow nodded feeling a bit better; she wouldn’t feel completely better until she saw her leader asleep. She nodded at the pile of prey Emberstar had brought back,
“That is an impressive amount; maybe we should have night hunting patrols.” She joked lightly. She reached over with her claws and hooked a vole. She plopped down and started munching on it; she flicked her ears at the pile trying not to look like she was too concerned about Emberstar. |
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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 23, 2008 16:43:55 GMT -5
Emberstar smiled, it was nice to have a deputy who was so concerned for her well-being. She will make a good leader when I am gone, Emberstar thought, having the good sense not to say it out loud. She rested her chin on her paws and sighed softly, looking around at her Clan as the cats woke up. Maybe Shadestar did make the right choice, Emberstar thought hopefully as she searched the cats for Streamclaw's black pelt. Her sister was the only family she had left.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 23, 2008 16:53:52 GMT -5
Spottedshadow finished off the vole and licked her jaws, licking the last scraps of meat and blood from them. She looked around at the awaking clan,
“Who should go on a dawn patrol?” she wondered out loud. Her mind shifted through the warriors and apprentices that could do it and who should go on hunting patrols later. Starting to wash her ears, she wanted to wash up before distributing orders and responsibilities to the clan. |
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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 23, 2008 17:10:44 GMT -5
Emberstar glanced at her deputy. "I could go," she volunteered. She looked around. "And... Halfpelt," she said, saying the name of the first cat she saw. She decided to let Spottedshadow figure the rest out, since Shadestar had told her it was good to let the deputy make descions, to help prepare them for being leader.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 23, 2008 17:20:37 GMT -5
Spottedshadow let her mind shift though the cats, it took a minute to registure what her leader said,
“No you have been hunting all night, you don’t have to come.” She mused lost in thought, she thought of Emberstar’s sister and Eagletalon. She finished washing and streached flexing all her muscles letting them ripple under her coat,
“I think I will take Streamclaw and Eagletalon this time. Halfpelt can lead the sunhigh patrol.” She decided and looked for the cats she wanted as more and more cats woke up. |
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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 23, 2008 17:35:10 GMT -5
Emberstar nodded. "You show good judgement." Emberstar closed her eyes for a moment. Then, they snapped back open. It's your own fault your tired, mouse brain, Emberstar thought to herself. She forced herself to sit up, and she began to wash her fur. As she did, she thought about how Shadowface and her father had died. I never did find out which rouge killed them. I'm assuming it was in the group that attacked the Clan, but.. Emberface wondered, because it would give her mind something to focus on so that she would not fall asleep yet.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 24, 2008 0:05:33 GMT -5
Spottedshadow basked in the phrase, ruffling her fur with pleasure. Then seeing her leader’s eyes close and Emberstar sitting up, she gave her a sharp look. She didn’t like it when any cat was exhausted in this clan, except for herself of course,
“Why don’t you eat something and try to sleep till sun-high?” she proposed, “I’ll wake you if anything happens, although I don’t think much will.” She finished. She wanted Emberstar to be fresh incase something did happen and she had been hunting all night so she didn’t have any obligations for a while . |
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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 25, 2008 13:05:47 GMT -5
"Well..." Emberstar said, thinking. Spottedshadow seemed to have things under control, and it was true that odds were nothing was going to happen. "Alright, but just for a little while," Emberstar relented. She gave her gray and white pelt one last quick lick, before curling up in the sun. Sleep took her mind immediately.
Once Emberstar had fallen asleep, Streamclaw padded softly over. "I'm glad you got her to sleep. She seems so exhausted lately," Streamclaw said softly to Spottedshadow, sitting down next to Emberstar, who was also her sister. Streamclaw gentley stroked Emberstar's side with her tail, absentmindedly staring off into space.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 27, 2008 0:55:22 GMT -5
Spottedshadow nodded watching Emberstar go to sleep, she was glad and hoped that she would get enough sleep. Looking up at Streamclaw she smiled,
“Me to I was getting worried. Oh, I’m glad you’re here, I was about to get you and Eagletalon for the dawn patrol.” She meowed warmly, “Did you sleep well?” she asked. She saw Eagletalon walking out of the warrior’s den and beckoned him over with her tail.
Eagletalon was still groggy from sleep when he saw in the corner of his eye Spottedshadow waving him over. He changed his direction so he was now heading in the direction of Spottedshadow, the deputy. He noticed as he traveled over to her that Streamclaw was with her and a sleeping Emberstar. He yawned, jaws stretching wide. He made it over to the cats, and lay down, waiting for Spottedshadow to talk. |
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Post by ~+Emberstar+~ on Jun 27, 2008 10:05:14 GMT -5
Streamclaw nodded in reply to Spottedshadow's question. Dawn patrol. I wonder when I last went on that.. It seems like I've been doing hunting patrols lately, Streamclaw thought, feeling excited to be doing something different. She looked down at her sister. I wonder if she's thinking about Shadowface.. She's been doing that way too much, Streamclaw thought uncomfortably.
In Emberstar's dream, she was padding through a dark forest. Shadowface's scent seemed to be just ahead just around the next corner... But when she rounded the corner, no one was there. "Shadowface?" Emberstar yowled in her dream. "Hush young one. Do not think so much about me. Think about the cats who are alive, the ones you CAN protect," Shadowface's voice said. Emberstar sighed peacefully, and her dream changed to a normal dream, of hunting squirrels.
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