@Suspiciousmindz

'Cold... Dark...' These two things ran through the young she-kit's mind over and over as she lay in the darkness, waiting for something to come along and snatch her up. She was afraid, though she forced herself to not show it. Viper glanced up at the night sky and smiled. She had been on her way to someplace called... Riverclan? That sounded right but it didn't at the same time. Her mother lost her, dropped her and her brother while something chased them, but only picked up her brother. Now Viper lay exactly where she was dropped, waiting for that something to come and get her, but it never did. Her head pounded, but that never distracted her from the beauty of being able to see the night sky. It was her favorite time of day after all. When it became clear whatever was chasing them wasn't coming after her, Viper decided to try to get up, only to find that extremely difficult. Her head started pounding harder and harder once she started lifting it, which made the young kit dizzy as she stood. While her mother taught her how to fight insects and small rodents, she had yet to learn to fight other cats, so when she caught wind of one, she simply froze, making herself look bigger than what she was. When she saw the tom, her eyes went wide. He seemed uninterested in her and very powerful. She hissed, then stumbled as her head pounded once more, making her want to curl up and cry. She'd have to persevere. Right?

Viper allowed herself to not be a poofball anymore as the tom seemed to be friendly. She kept her inner guard up, however, glancing around every so often. "Who are you?" she asked bluntly. Without even realizing it the young kit had sat down with a playful air about her. 'You really can't seem to make up your mind, can you?' she thought. "And there are a lot of reasons to be frightened: the gloomy atmosphere, the lack of light, the absolutely ENORMOUS tom right in front of me that could eat me in one gulp..." She paused in her sarcastic listing. All were valid points, however, as she gazed into her acquaintance's eyes. "My name is Viper," she said after a few moments.

The young kit tilted her head and glanced in the direction the large tom was directing to. "You seem nice, Blazing.. Star?" Viper couldn't quite grasp why he was named that. "Why were you named that if you don't mind my asking? I've heard of the clans before, but never of a cat named 'Blazingstar.'" She was being way too inquisitive for her liking, but the Windclan leader seemed to be a half-way decent tom. Maybe it wasn't so absurd that she had let her guard down. "Well, leader of Windclan, maybe you can help me in my current... situation..." she started after giving a moment for Blazingstar to respond. "I ran ahead of my mother and brother, got chased by something that I now know as my own shadow, and ended up here with no other cats in sight... I've been waiting right here for ages... What should I do?" As she uttered the last few words, her true age started to show. Viper was scared, cold, and alone. She just wanted to have her family back, though a thought occurred to her in that moment; What if whatever chased her wasn't a shadow. What if it simply got full on her mother and brother... Her eyes grew wide as she thought of this, but she shook her small head and gazed up at the orange tom, tears welling in her eyes. "Where do I go if my family never comes?"

As the Windclan leader spoke, Viper's eyes grew wide. She had heard very little about clan life, but what little she knew sounded like a lot of fun. When Blazingstar stopped, however, the young kit calmed herself and glanced in the same direction he did, her fur starting to ruffle again. "You just said it was safe though," she said, looking back up at the tall tom. The she-kit flicked her tail in slight impatience, though she knew not what for. Something made this cat standing before her suddenly think it wasn't safe for the young kit to be out here at night, and it started to frighten her as the silence drug on for what seemed to be ages. "Is it, or isn't it?" she asked, trying to speed along the tom's thoughts.