ShadowClan Clearing - Page 846

**Ian** · #**8451** Yesterday, 11:29 PM

Slytiger grinned back at Gracklepaw when his apprentice approached. He had been a little worried that he would be assigned one who didn't care about training or would be overly difficult, but that didn't seem to be the case. Still, his grin was replaced by a frown when Gracklepaw explained their previous mentor hadn't trained them. That just wouldn't do at all!

"Don't worry about it. We'll start with a tour of the territory and we can do some hunting while we're out if you're up for it. You'll be warrior material in no time. And this should go without saying, but I won't be offended if you get lessons from others. In fact, I even encourage it. Obviously I'm going to teach you all I can and do my best to guide you, but that doesn't mean you should pass by other opportunities to learn something new or improve your skills. The greatest warriors are the ones who are proactive," he explained, finishing his speech with another grin before beckoning Gracklepaw to follow with a flick of his tail as he headed for the camp entrance.

"We'll start with Shadow's Break since we shouldn't hunt there and go from there."

[feel free to post with Grackle at Shadow's Break if you want! i also apologize for the delay, i have a group paper and presentation for a final and my wifi provider had an outage over the weekend T-T]

**Honey Bee** · #**8452** Today, 06:16 AM

Badgerstripe waited for her apprentice Meadowpaw.
@Streamtail

**gs29513** · #**8453** Today, 05:30 PM

Shrewstep might end up regretting this. But that was always a risk when doing ANYTHING in Shadowclan. Anything could result in a smacking from Dawnstar or one of the Enforcers, or general social embarrassment that Fiercefire would no doubt learn of and use as a source of ridicule the next time they spoke. But whatever. There was also the possibility that his 'endeavor' would be looked upon fondly. Who knew who knew who knew? Shrewstep certainly didn't, but he was also bored, so he was going to solicit the attention of the apprentices. They always seemed more energetic than the warriors, him included generally, though not today. Today Shrewstep was endeavoring to provide an opportunity for them to do something with all that ambitious energy, and prove that they were actually trying to get their training done. If they didn't take him up on it when he OFFERED, they really had no right to complain about innefectivity from their mentors.

Apprentices! It was supposed to be slightly more impressive than it ended up being, more of a loud suggestion than a commanding yowl. Then again, this wasn't a full event or anything which typically required an Enforcer or Dawnstar or Medicine Cat, so it was probably a good idea to keep the volume a little lower. If you lack battle training or simply want to get some extra practice, I'll take as many as want to come Icy Heartlands and we'll do a bit of sparring. Icy Heartlands was, in his opinion, one of the least exciting parts of the territory, and therefore the least likely to have predators or other clans pop out of nowhere. There also wasn't much prey to scare off, or many herbs to damage. All in all, the perfect place for a potentially rowdy gang of apprentices to muck about. If another warrior wanted to come along and help supervise Shrewstep wouldn't begrudge the help, but he also thought himself capable of running a lesson of some use to any apprentice on his own. It simply remained to be seen who, if anyone at all, would want to come. (OPEN!!!! Shrew'll probably head out on the 11th or 12th as long as someone's replied!)