[Undertaker]

High Rank Announcement [#hrannouncement]

Dawnstar yawned softly as she watched cats freak out about an apprentice getting kidnapped or whatever. If the cat wasn't dead, and pieces of her body hadn't been tossed over ThunderClan's border, or better yet her pelt, she didn't get why anyone was getting their tail in a knot. Just throw RiverClan some prey and herbs, and take the apprentice back, easy. What a fuss over a load of dung. The ShadowClan feline's eyes shone with utter disinterest, however that sparked with a hint of delight as Twilightstar spoke, seeming to find the matter overdramatized as well. It seemed that Twilightstar had stopped with the sympathy act. Although, it was very clear that RiverClan was more or less at fault here. She wondered if this would be the final blow that shattered the longstanding alliance of Wind and River. If Cinderstar was smart or at least smarter than Skystar, she'd jumped at the chance to form an alliance with WindClan. As annoying as they were, the bunnies have proven dependable and competent, or at least Twilightstar.

Anyway, if RiverClan had a history of maiming and abusing apprentices, then okay, maybe there'd be a reason to worry, but Dawnstar's put ShadowClan pretty high on the cruelty list when it came to causing some serious harm. Aside from being insensitive, reckless, (Lionstorm) and a tad bit mean, Dawnstar didn't really count anything RiverClan had done to ThunderClan as evident to them hurting Cinderpaw. ThunderClan was just making a big deal out of nothing again. One of these days she really should give them a real reason to throw a fuss. Although considering they didn't really know what state Cinderpaw was in, it would be intriguing if they really had tortured or harmed the apprentice. But aside from ThunderClan's usual whining and poor me dung, RiverClan was a total riot!

Moving on to Snowleap. Hahahahahaha! She knew RiverClan had fallen on hard times with Skystar in charge, but Snowleap damn! Look at him throwing his entire clan and his leader under the monster like that. If Skystar was smart, which past actions have proven otherwise, he'd exile the tom. Dawnstar found it utterly hilarious how he asked for forgiveness. He was bowing his head not for the sake of knowing that Cinderpaw was 'safe' in RiverClan and saying nothing to ThunderClan about the kidnapping, but for his own peace of mind. He refused to take any form of responsibility for anything, wow! This had to be the funniest gathering in a long time.

Dawnstar didn't attempt to hide her amusement with all of this, laughing and shaking her head. She did notice Cinderblaze booting some young cat away from the deputies, too nice if you asked her, but she was going to ignore it since she was suddenly in a good mood. Still, she did stare at the tom for a long hard second, and then glanced over to Snowleap and went back to smiling maliciously. She noticed Cinderstar looking over to Twilightstar, but wasn't certain as to why. Twilightstar played this game long enough to know when 'not' to involve her clan. You can't lead a clan with a heart full of empathy and compassion, it'd be your downfall.

Then there was RiverClan picking fights with ThunderClan again, predictable, Cinderstar was on top of it. If RiverClan kept walking down its current path, she doubted they'd last long. At least Cinderstar was trying. Dawnstar was solely here for viewing purposes and so didn't see the need to add kindle to the fire. Now that the show was over, it was time to go.

"Well, this has been fun and very entertaining." Dawnstar chuckled, leaping off the stones. "ShadowClan we're out." Dawnstar yowled, giving Twilightstar a wave of her tail in farewell as if the leader would miss her and began leading her clan home.