Nightgaze
Thunderclan warrior

It was a miracle she'd fallen asleep. Rest had seemed to slip through her grasp ever since...the incident. Was it an incident? It didn't seem so. Murder? ...The concept appeared so foreign to Nightgaze. Yes, she had attempted it before but she never saw it as murdering, she was just looking out for her clan right? Surely those cats were terrible anyways...Fawnpaw wasn't.

Of course, these were simply thoughts that swirled absently in the warrior's head like a stray piece of seaweed in a whirlpool. They were small and hardly noticeable. Did they matter? That was another unimportant question...or was it important? They kept coming, always whispering, always there but barely apparent. Never stopping. Was this what life was going to be like now without Fawn? Was she always going to be questioning the world?

She swayed feebly in the breeze, caught in one of her now usual dazes. Wait, breeze? There shouldn't be a breeze. Confusion pulled her brain back to reality as it suddenly became very clear to her she was not in her nest. She was in a field...a very green one. Flowers decorates the landscape and a few trees were dotted about. And...it was night but stars seemed to make the strange place bright.

Where was she? One moment she was asleep, curled up in the warriors' den and now she was standing in this unknown place....she needed a moment to take this in. Brows furrowed in confusion as she surveyed the area it dawned on Nightgaze that this place was empty as far as she could tell. Just to be certain that there were no other beings present she shakily mewed out: "Hello...?"

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Nightgaze
Thunderclan warrior

Flinching as her name as cried out in response to her unsettled mew, a prick of fear struck Nightgaze for a moment before being replaced by pure disbelief. That voice...it sounded so familiar... she knew that voice...it couldn't...be could it? Had she imagined it? Was this some cruel trick of her mind, playing with her aching heart?

But as she slowly turned around all suspicions were forgotten. I-It wasn't fake...it was her..."Fawnpaw!" was the name that erupted in the form of joyful astonishment from her maw. Not wasting any time, the small she-cat bolted towards her former apprentice, using all her speed to reach her as if afraid the young cat might disappear in any moment.

The warrior leapt at Fawnpaw, forepaws wide in an attempt to embrace her in a large hug. Tears spilled out from her shocking green eyes and ran down her cheeks as she purred loudly. Nightgaze had longed to see the cat she saw as a little sister ever since her untimely death and now...they were reunited by some unlikely luck. Her heart healed ever so slightly at the sight of Fawn and nothing else occupied her mind.

"I-I missed you, Fawn! I can't believe you...died." Night sobbed as she aimed to cover her deceased aprentice in a army of affectionate licks and nuzzles. Fawnpaw had never seemed dead to her...not really, but still her absence hurt more than claws across her pelt. A happy yet sorrowful smile tugging at her lips, Nightgaze continued to cry as she clasped her apprentice in a tight hug.

(Guess you could say...she's been very dead, eh? *Bad dum tss* :'3)

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Nightgaze
Thunderclan warrior

"Me too, Fawn! Me too!" Sobbing, purring, hugging. It was perfect. This single moment of perfection seemed to be frozen in time, unmoving and pristine. Nothing could ruin it, nothing at all...At least that's what Nightgaze thought. You see, Fawnpaw was alive only in her dreams, sleep was the only thing that connected them now, and at the break of dawn she would awake, everything would be left exactly the same in the real world. The world without her Fawnpaw.

Yet, the warrior was still so caught up in her reunion she didn't have to foggiest clue about that. Giving Fawn a bit of space, she gazed her apprentice with loving eyes. "I...I just can't believe it! You're here! I thought you were gone forever when...when I say your body." A cry caught in her throat at the memory of the young she-cat's mangled corpse...it haunted her.

Suddenly, a more serious, distant look came across her bright green eyes. "Fawnpaw...what happened to you?" The question that had remain unanswered, could now be answered. It had been the thought that had been screaming most loudly in her mind. She was found by the Windclan border but mabye Fawn could tell her from description who it was. Who better to reveal the killer than their victim?

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