Singepaw | he/him they/them
A slender orange tabby cat with long belly fur and brown eyes
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Dawnglare was gone, that was straight forward enough. One day you are running through puddles working on foot work and the next he’s gone just like a dead leaf in a windstorm. Was it slightly frustrating? Perhaps. But it gave way to greater opportunity, not that Dawnglare was remotely bad at being a mentor but there was a chance he could snag an enforcer as a mentor. They were idolized and probably rightly so. He’d only really started to get a feel for shadowclan just as he began his apprenticeship, so he was just catching up. He didn’t know enough of the enforcers to gauge how ready they were for apprentices, except that Mirehound already had one. Cedarpaw if he could remember correctly. That left around five or six different mentor possibilities… if he had his numbers right.

He gently tapped the pads of his paws against the ground in thought. He’d have to approach one of them at some point just to bring up the point he was mentorless and was distressed at the idea he could miss out on a possible raid if training wasn’t picked back up soon. That’s however when another thought clicked in his head just as his eyes passed the shadow ledge. Why not go directly to the source?

Was it a little ambitious? Perhaps. But there was nothing wrong about being forthrightly ambitious in his training goals. (At least not that he could identify at that moment) Would he have rather gone through a deputy? Perhaps an enforcer to get some networking and build reprieve? Of course. However Singepaw liked to figure that Dawnstar was reasonable. In fact a little self righteously he would’ve assumed that this was the exact behaviour she would have appreciated. Jumping through the hurdles could have been risky depending on Dawnstars mood and whatever time of day he caught her, if it was even possible to catch her attention since she just seemed so busy. Especially these days.

He tapped his paw pads against the ground a few more times. Technically it was her job to reassign mentors, though why would you stop there? He could emphasize the fear of missing a raid and perhaps ask her for direct training tips. Again far more ambitious than his already quite straight forward idea, but worth a shot. Pros? Potential one on one training with Dawnstar, gain some kind of notoriety (for the bare minimum) of requesting a new mentor and taking his training into his “own paws”, be prepared for the raid. Cons? He could miscalculate when approaching Dawnstar and catch her when she’s too busy, fail miserably at a training opportunity, get assigned a lack lustre mentor.

He tapped his paw pads one more time before nodding confidently. That’s it. It was decided he would approach Dawnstar whenever he saw her next. Sure there was cons, but there was also a potentially large payout for guts. He nodded again, primarily to reassure himself, before continuing his grooming session he had abandoned.

@Undertaker