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Post by Nightstar on Jun 22, 2008 11:17:00 GMT -5
Nightstar padded out of her den and stretched in the early morning sun, she yawned before trotting over to the fresh-kill pile. When she got there she was disappointed to find only a few fish and a water vole, but Riverclan had been short on prey since the Great Flood washed most of the fish away. She sighed and pulled a fish out of the pile then went to find a sunny spot to sit just a few tail-lengths away. She sniffed at the fish before taking a bite out of the side, the succulent juices of fish took her back to a time when the prey was running and the bad memories of the Great Flood didn't exist.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 24, 2008 20:38:46 GMT -5
Sandfur padded into the camp, a few fish and mice in his mouth. More mice than fish actually, he had gotten better at land hunting, he had to the fish were almost all gone. He noticed the clan leader, Nightstar sitting a little ways away from the fresh-kill pile and trotted over. He dumped the prey on the pile, making it just a little bit bigger. The sun shimmered over his pelt; the water was still dripping off from his recent swim after hunting. He grabbed a fish from the pile, and carried it over to where the Nightstar was eating, dipping his head in respect. He washed the water from his coat, it hadn't penetrated his fur it was just on the top coat and easy to clean he always did this before eating.
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Post by Nightstar on Jun 25, 2008 4:54:44 GMT -5
Nightstar dipped her head in return to Sandfur hardly noticing him and snapping back into reality, the reality where her bad memories returned. "How are you today Sandfur?" she asled before taking one more bite of her fish letting the juices fill her mouth again though this time she couldn't seem to get the bad memories to go away, the bad memories stung fresh in her memory. She was glad that atleast her clan had gotten better at hunting the woodland prey which seemed to be pretty much the only thing they could still catch.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 27, 2008 1:15:05 GMT -5
Sandfur twisted to reach his back, when he untwisted and looked around. The camp was pretty empty. He glanced back at his fish, it was really small, and he couldn’t wait to for the larger fish to come back. As a Riverclan cat he found it hard to hunt without water and he missed having fish more often, “Oh, I’m just fine thanks,” he looked at Nightstar, “How are you?” he asked politely.
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Post by Nightstar on Jun 27, 2008 1:32:29 GMT -5
Nightstar flicked her tail behind her on the dirt and reached down to take another bite of her fish. The camp was so quite it seemed eerie, most of the cats were out on patrol and the camp just felt empty. She returned her attention to Sandfur, "Just fine, I wish there was more prey but what cat doesn't?" she said with a sigh. "Atleast some of the fish have started to return." she said before taking another bite.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 27, 2008 1:44:59 GMT -5
Sandfur acknowledged this with a grin, he remembered when there was no fish right after the flood, “Well that’s great news,” He shook his head like it almost was a joke; “Right after the flood I nearly had a heart attack when I didn’t have a fish for over a day.” Sandfur took a couple bites of the fish to consol him, when he was on the all land-prey diet his fur had lost the oil that lets Riverclan cats swim so great.
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Post by Nightstar on Jun 27, 2008 1:55:35 GMT -5
Nightstar looked back at her coat when Sandfur had finished speaking, "My coat hasn't completely recovered from all that time with fish, I find it harder to swim with after eating all this land prey, my coat used to be much lighter." she said tuning back and facing him. She had eaten more land prey than most other cats, trying to leave the fish for her clan her coat had lost the sterio-type Riverclan sheen.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 27, 2008 2:16:13 GMT -5
Sandfur smiled he had noticed that all the Riverclan’s cats had been slowly loosing their sheen. He had also noticed that it was Nightstar who had lost the most, but had never brought it up it. It wasn’t his place to tell the leader anything, “It’s weird, I’ve never felt the water try to drag me down by my fur before!” he was so happy that fish were coming back, his oils were coming back and he didn’t get soaked through today when he swam.
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Post by Nightstar on Jun 27, 2008 2:24:53 GMT -5
Nightar smiled at Sandfur's statement,"Atleast we know why we have to pull so many Thunderclan cats from the river, they never eat fish they must feel like they have rocks for pelts!" she said smiling she had grown up with the river and with fish, she couldn't imagine ever being afraid of the water. Except of course the great flood, she was glad that her pelt had been healthy when the flood came.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 27, 2008 2:40:42 GMT -5
Sandfur laughed softly, Riverclan cats had dragged a Thunderclan cats out of the River since the beginning of the clans. He loved the water, the way it ran over his coat and how it was able to do anything it wanted. ‘Which was probably not the best thing in the world’ he thought to himself, “Especially those Thunderclan apprentices, by Starclan can they ever just stay on their side of the boundary?” He asked rolling his eyes.
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Post by Creampaw on Jun 27, 2008 3:54:33 GMT -5
Creampaw giggeld quietly,Thunderclan's cats are always falling in the river and Riverclan cats are always pulling them out "I have never seen a Riverclan cat fall in to the river once" Creampaw ran and told Sandfur. She grabbed a fish and sat down by Nightstar and Sandfur.
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Post by Nightstar on Jun 27, 2008 4:00:03 GMT -5
Nightstar smiled as her apprentice ran up made a comment about Thunderclan cats, "Very true Creampaw, and if we do fall in even kits are taught to swim, I've seen Riverclan apprentices pull Thunderclan apprentices out of the river before. They always looked quite embarrassed once they've done it they hardly ever make the same mistake again." she mewed with amusement. Creampaw was a young apprentice full of life and energy, she was glad she had the oppritunity mentor her.
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Post by *Crimson* on Jun 27, 2008 14:19:37 GMT -5
Sandfur smiled at Creampaw he was happy that this clan had her, she was going to be the clan future. He finnished off his Fish and feeling the freash fish fill his belly he felt a surge of energy. He streached wanting to do something else! He finnsihed streaching and stood up,
"i'm off to go patrol our boarders, you can follow if you wish," he said looking at Nightstar and Ceampaw. After that he bounded out of the camp.
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