| Magpiewisp |
Ancient RiverClan Medicine Cat
Dark Forest
Darkness itself seemed to embrace the ancient tuxedo as he made his presence known, warm, brown eyes on the star burdened feline that stood before him now expressing a momentary curiosity that he couldn't say he genuinely felt. There were many cats that had stood before the council to plead their cases, to state why
they above all other cats should be given another chance at life. Usually it was younger cats. Kits who had been foolish and in their insistence to show how much smarter they were than the queens tasked to protect them showing precisely why important clan matters were left to the adults, or warriors who believed they had been dealt an unfair paw in life having it end so soon. Yet here before him stood... an elder. A cat who had literally lived a whole, rich life... and yet they wanted another go?
"Allow me to get this straight," Magpiewisp drawled, a deadpanned expression settling on his gaze as he stared the elder up and down.
"You, an elder who lived to have a family, a long life as a warrior, and retired well into elder age... believe you are due another chance at life. Because you wish to do better? Because you want a happier ending? Most cats in the clans grow without family. Many kits are orphaned. Many queens die while giving birth. Cats die in the battlefield, kits die to predators, and so on and so forth... What happens if life doesn't go as planned this time? If it isn't the perfect, ideal life you wish for? If your grandkits die? If you never become a parent in this life? If you never even make it to apprentice age? You lived a life few clan cats can lay a claim on. I do not understand why you would feel a need to do it all again and risk getting nowhere in life on half thought plans."
Perhaps it was pessimistic of him. This view on life. But he just couldn't grasp it. How a cat who had been there for a full, long life, who had been an elder of all things, could believe they had been dealt an unjust paw in life. And why? Because he had been a bad father? Surely if they were giving out lives for something as commonplace as that the stars and forest would be empty by now. It wouldn't be up to him, of course, whether this cat was reincarnated or not. He was sure some sap from the stars would soon show up and claim nobility behind the intentions or some other boorish ideology in that path. In the meantime all he could do was wait... and perhaps pretend to ponder on this cat's obviously excessive sense of worth.
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GhostThief [Icykiss]