[Charmer]

Originally Posted by AbsurdJinx

@king kaleb! @Charmer

Juniperpaw huffed in frustration as Daydream pulled away from both her an Shinefang. Sometimes, the ShadowClan cat can just be so irritating! ``Daydream-`` she began, abruptly trailing off as Shinefang took over. And then, like a shadow, Juniperpaw stood beside the elder feline, mimicking his actions. She narrowed her eyes and shook her head at Daydream, following Shinefang's gaze when he looked to the burdock root before looking back over at Daydream. She eyed the severe-looking injure stretched across her friend's throat, and wondered how they hadn't noticed earlier. Now that they were aware of it, it seemed so obvious. Juniperpaw felt guilty for not seeing it sooner. At Shinefang's demand, Juniperpaw straightened with purpose and meowed, ``Okay, Daydream, don't claw my ears off. I'm just following Shinefang's orders. Instead, claw what remains of his ears off.``

She neared the hot-tempered feline, looking over at Nightpaw and remembering that the warrior apprentice hadn't been introduced to Shinefang. While inspecting Daydream's neck and considering how to approach the situation Juniperpaw spoke, ``Oh! This is Nightpaw. Nightpaw, Shinefang; Shinefang, Nightpaw. Nightpaw came as Daydream's escort.`` Juniperpaw smirked at her words. It sounded like Daydream needed a guard to go everywhere. She remembered back before Geckoleaf disappeared - her mentor was so close to assigning Juniperpaw bodyguards. The thought amused her. ``Hey, Nightpaw, why don't you wash the wounds... er, everywhere else? See where the blood is clotted?`` The RiverClan she-cat directed her attention on Daydream. ``Daydream, without you, where will ShadowClan be? You worked so hard to get to where you are - don't let it be for nothing.``

In all honesty, Juniperpaw was a little disappointed in Daydream. Hadn't they thought of the options where infection kicked in or whatever and ShadowClan was left without a medicine cat? Who would heal those cats then? What about Geckoleaf, who worked so hard to help Daydream get where they are? And what about Shinefang and Juniperpaw? What would they do without their Daydream? Juniperpaw roughly batted Daydream's chin up, though she was careful to avoid the injury. Her eyes were narrowed and she frowned as a result of her disapproval, but she concentrated on the rather nasty wound across Daydream's throat. Juniperpaw wrinkled her nose in distaste as she began to tend to her friend's injury.

Originally Posted by king kaleb!

they were stubborn; but daydream wouldnt admit that. they didnt like to admit that they needed help, when others could do use so much more. ¨i was planning to see geckoleaf after this, thank you very much.¨ they mumbled under their breath, but even then, how much would they have let gecko treat them? [at this point in time, day does NOT know gecko is missing.] their eyes were in slits, gazing back just as fiercely to juniperpaw as she inspected their neck. they didnt like the feelings of being inspected and prodded at, attempting to shift their neck away. they didnt like to think that they were weak, that they had needs like any other cat. ¨when all of your herbs are destroyed, and you see cats dying at your paws from battle, you learn to pick and chose whats more important.¨ to daydream, they werent important. atleast; not compared to a queen who was recently kitting before they left, or the aprentice they had saved from the breath of death at seastones. or the countless warriors that had come in, battered and bleeding, needing something, yet daydream didnt have a lot to give. that, right there made them feel weak. so of course they would tend to other cats before their self. they knew geckoleaf would yell at them if she heard about this, them going back into their old habits of self sacrifice. they could be on their death bed and daydream would still some how manage to stand up and treat someone else. they felt slightly embarrassed; having three sets of eyes on them. their tail swayed in annoyance,¨i came here so i could have supplies to treat others, not a doctors appointment.¨

"Yes, Juniperpaw," Nightpaw answered at once, giving Daydream an apologetic look before beginning to lick the wounds clean here and there as Juniperpaw inspected the worst of them. She was honestly happy to have another cat telling her what to do. It gave her less time to claw herself up over how stupid she must have been to miss all these wounds. Wasn't she supposed to be Daydream's friend? And escort too? Her entire job had been to keep them safe but she'd been too excited about the adventure.

Shinefang continued chewing on the root as the two shecat's worked, listened to the Shadowclan cat gripe. Once he had it into a nice pulp, he moved closer, licked the paste onto his paw. "Then you're bad at math. Here's a quick lesson: one dead or incapacitated medicine cat plus all the herbs in the forest, plus twenty sick cats equals twenty dead cats. I have no doubt you were trying to do the right thing, Daydream," Shinefang added, his voice more gentle now, "But you have to understand that if you neglect yourself too treat other cats, eventually it will catch up with you. Then there will be no one to help the cats you couldn't get to before your time ran out. And frankly, I don't care if you don't want the healing from me. I've already lost a cat today..." Shinefang said nothing more for a long moment as he sat there holding the pulped herbs, grief clouding his eye, "I'd appreciate it it if that was the last of the blood on my paws today." He gave the wounds on Daydream's neck a quick look and gave a quick, "Good work getting these clean, Junebug." He spared a nod for Nightpaw and held the herbs out to apply them to the wound, fully aware that he may in fact lose his remaining shreds of ear in the process.