RiverClan Training Island - Page 123

**Moon Lily** · #**1221** April 17th, 2020, 03:01 PM

@Bluepetal

Eagleflower nodded, shaking his now dusty fur off. The move was quite effective when you did it right. And he did, if fact, so so. He grinned back at the apprentice.
"Hey, look at you! You're practically a bird now, huh?" He mewed, shaking his head.

**Star child** · #**1222** April 17th, 2020, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Moon Lily

@Bluepetal

Eagleflower nodded, shaking his now dusty fur off. The move was quite effective when you did it right. And he did, if fact, so so. He grinned back at the apprentice.
"Hey, look at you! You're practically a bird now, huh?" He mewed, shaking his head.

Honeypaw mocked a bird sound. “It seems so,” they joked. “What are we doing next?”

**Moon Lily** · #**1223** April 17th, 2020, 08:05 PM

@Bluepetal

Eagleflower laughed, the chuckle traveling around the hollow. He felt at home. He hadn't since Dreampaw left. Shaking out his fur, he stood up, glancing around the clearing.
"How about some more hunting practice, huh?"

**Star child** · #**1224** April 18th, 2020, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Moon Lily

@Bluepetal

Eagleflower laughed, the chuckle traveling around the hollow. He felt at home. He hadn't since Dreampaw left. Shaking out his fur, he stood up, glancing around the clearing.
"How about some more hunting practice, huh?"

Honeypaw nodded. "Okay," they smiled. "What type of hunting?"

**Spiderfrost** · #**1225** April 18th, 2020, 10:05 AM

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Harepaw shrugged. "It wasn't too bad, I guess. We saw big white birds. Tried to catch it, but it flew away." He twitched his nose.
"What happened when I was gone?"

"Hm, sounds like you found yourself a seagull." Brightwhisker grinned.

"I'm unsure when you left, but the most recent things are Shadowclan and Thunderclan breaking their alliance. There's some bad blood between the two leaders and Icestar hasn't exactly endeared herself to Lionstar either. Were you at the gathering? It was quite tense with Windclan and Shadowclan too." He started as he looked out at the river to study it. He noticed it was staring to look particularly deep closer than usual and flicked his tail. Must have been the melting snow. He'll have to see how far was safe for the inexperienced apprentice before he got him in too deep.

"Other than that, Windclan was displaced for a while by coyotes in the moorland. Riverclan went and chased them off. Nearly got my front legs wreaked because I took one head one. Kinda stupid of me to be honest." the color point shrugged as if fighting and surviving the jaws of a predator three times his size with only a few scars was not a big deal.

As he spoke, the warrior was pressing his paws down in the sand under his feet, looking hard at where the drop of would be. But nearly neck deep without the feeling of an edge had the tom clinch his jaw. Yeah, that wasn't good. The water was deeper and he refused to chance Harepaw's safety when the current could drag the younger cat under if he didn't know how to work around it.

He turned back to his apprentice. "Don't get any farther than this ok. I haven't found the drop off to deeper waters so that means the river's been swollen from snow melt. At this height on the shoreline it'll be deep enough for you to float with your legs above the ground." he warned seriously.

**Star child** · #**1226** April 18th, 2020, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Spiderfrost

"Hm, sounds like you found yourself a seagull." Brightwhisker grinned.

"I'm unsure when you left, but the most recent things are Shadowclan and Thunderclan breaking their alliance. There's some bad blood between the two leaders and Icestar hasn't exactly endeared herself to Lionstar either. Were you at the gathering? It was quite tense with Windclan and Shadowclan too." He started as he looked out at the river to study it. He noticed it was staring to look particularly deep closer than usual and flicked his tail. Must have been the melting snow. He'll have to see how far was safe for the inexperienced apprentice before he got him in too deep.

"Other than that, Windclan was displaced for a while by coyotes in the moorland. Riverclan went and chased them off. Nearly got my front legs wreaked because I took one head one. Kinda stupid of me to be honest." the color point shrugged as if fighting and surviving the jaws of a predator three times his size with only a few scars was not a big deal.

As he spoke, the warrior was pressing his paws down in the sand under his feet, looking hard at where the drop of would be. But nearly neck deep without the feeling of an edge had the tom clinch his jaw. Yeah, that wasn't good. The water was deeper and he refused to chance Harepaw's safety when the current could drag the younger cat under if he didn't know how to work around it.

He turned back to his apprentice. "Don't get any farther than this ok. I haven't found the drop off to deeper waters so that means the river's been swollen from snow melt. At this height on the shoreline it'll be deep enough for you to float with your legs above the ground." he warned seriously.

"Okey." Harepaw shook his head. "If I was gone for almost a whole moon, do you think Lionstar would let me go to a gathering?And How'd Thunderclan and Shadowclan break an allegiance?"

**Spiderfrost** · #**1227** April 18th, 2020, 10:54 AM

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"Okey." Harepaw shook his head. "If I was gone for almost a whole moon, do you think Lionstar would let me go to a gathering?And How'd Thunderclan and Shadowclan break an allegiance?"

Brightwhisker tilted his head in thought, but in the end made an unsure motion.

"I'm not sure of the specifics, but last gathering when the new leader, Duskstar made her announcements, she made it pretty clear she wanted nothing to do with Shadowclan." he said as he waded through the river water to come up to Harepaws side.

"Think you're ready to come in deeper? I'll pull you back if you get to far out from the limit I set."

**Star child** · #**1228** April 18th, 2020, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Spiderfrost

Brightwhisker tilted his head in thought, but in the end made an unsure motion.

"I'm not sure of the specifics, but last gathering when the new leader, Duskstar made her announcements, she made it pretty clear she wanted nothing to do with Shadowclan." he said as he waded through the river water to come up to Harepaws side.

"Think you're ready to come in deeper? I'll pull you back if you get to far out from the limit I set."

Harepaw glanced at the water, stepping forward a few paces. Glancing at his pelt, he asked, "Do you think my tail will cause me to not swim properly? Since it's like a bunny tail?"

**Spiderfrost** · #**1229** April 18th, 2020, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Bluepetal

Harepaw glanced at the water, stepping forward a few paces. Glancing at his pelt, he asked, "Do you think my tail will cause me to not swim properly? Since it's like a bunny tail?"

The warrior glanced towards it only to shake his head.

"The tail is just more dead weight in the water unlike on land where we use it to balance, honestly you just have one less appendage that underwater currents could latch onto to drag you under." Brightwhisker explained.

"You mainly use your legs to swim, so you should be fine."

**Star child** · #**1230** April 18th, 2020, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Spiderfrost

The warrior glanced towards it only to shake his head.

"The tail is just more dead weight in the water unlike on land where we use it to balance, honestly you just have one less appendage that underwater currents could latch onto to drag you under." Brightwhisker explained.

"You mainly use your legs to swim, so you should be fine."

Harepaw nodded. "So, how exactly do you swim?" He stretched out a forepaw.
(I have no idea if japanese bobtails can balance as well as any cat, but they can jump amazing heights.)