Palepaw's eyes narrowed, a chord within her plucked... no, snapped. She held herself still, worried that any movement on her own part would lead to her giving in to the desire to bowl him over and snapping her jaws at his neck.
She dug her claws into the ground to root herself in place.
Only an apprentice...? She was nearly his age, barely any younger, just not yet a warrior.
She wanted to scream at him, scream about how Eelpaw had been the last part of any happy memories she'd had growing up after her own mother, the cat who preached just about daily that cats were bound to leave her and hurt her, her siblings, just about every mentor she'd been assigned to, and then her best friend, her only friend her whole life, all of them up and vanished.
She had to remind herself this wasn't a misery match. That wasn't the point of this conversation. She'd been trying to help him.
And yet....

"Fine, go wallow in your misery. I'll complete the patrol without you and I'll be damn sure to tell Kestrelwing."
She turned in place and stomped away, not wanting to look at his stupid face anymore. She couldn't force sense into this mouse brain and she wasn't going to try.

She leapt onto of a fallen log, trying to put distance between herself and the offending warrior, when the wood where one of her hind paws had landed shattered, and her body slid backwards, her leg getting caught at an awkward angle.
She squawked indignantly and tried to yank her leg free, only succeeding in smacking the bending part of her leg painfully.
"MY LEG IS STUCK, BLIZZARDKY!"
The feeling of being trapped caused panic to well within her and the desperately dug her claws into the leg wood to try to pry herself free, only succeeding in one of the splintered pieces jabbing harshly into the muscle, and she paused, suddenly aware that a wrong move could lead to a worse situation.
"BLIZZARDSKY!"
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Palepaw wants nothing more than to shove the dumb oaf off the log. It was simple, all he had to do was remove the piece of splinter that was threatening to pierce her leg. He didn't need to break anything!
And she couldn't quite twist in a way that let her look at the piece to try and remove it herself and she didn't have a tail to try and flick it out of the way.
Nope, she was stuck until Blizzardsky got his head out of his ass.
"Pretty sure they'd appreciate you showing up late with prey and the apprentice they assigned you to look after as opposed to being on time without either. It's not that hard. Just move the wood splinter gouging my leg."
Her ears folded and her nubby little tail lashed. She wanted out of here and she wanted out fast. The longer he waited the more he risked getting bowled over by her just to get her frustrations out.
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Palepaw picked herself up, leg moving carefully to not catch on yet another stupid piece of wood. Once her leg was clear from the possibility of extra poking, she sat herself down and looked at it, wincing when she saw the faintest amount of blood on her paws, likely from splintera as the log had broken.
Given that the pain wasn't too unbearable, she stood up and padded after Blizzarsky.
"Thanks," she murmured.
Even if he had been tempted to leave her.
She watched him for a bit, and since he wasn't catching anything.... she'd likely have to split off from him.
"It would be quicker if we both hunted, don't you think?"
Yes, she was an apprentice, but that didn't mean she was useless. She knew damn well how to hunt. It was the only thing Sootfailure had taught her and Eelpaw. She didn't know why Blizzardsky felt she didn't know anything, that somehow being an apprentice meant she had to be protected and coddled.
Her nostrils flared a bit, but she bit back any harsh words about the subject and turned away, intent on catching her own prey to help out, pointedly ignoring his muttering.

She only managed to catch a mouse in her time away and she padded back a little disappointed with herself. She made a little indent in the ground like she'd been shown to and dropped her prey in, carefully scraping the dirt over it and looking around for Blizzardsky, and any hint of him calling for an ending for the patrol.

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