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@Undertaker @Lillian @Rose @/Solar @/everyone else
[Sorry if there’s some overlap or repetitiveness. I read what I could yesterday and have been working on this reply between everything I’ve had to get done irl since then >< lol]

She’d missed Dawnstar’s call for a meeting but as she came slowly back from the mild delirium of the poppy seeds in a random nest in the medicine den, the commotion and voices gathering traction from the clearing were beginning to settle into some sense in her head. A meeting so soon… It was Icethroat’s voice that brought back the flood of memories, how it all started. A crooked smile crossed her face before she shifted and propped herself up then pulled herself to her paws. Wincing against the pain that radiated from her ribs and paws, she pushed forward and made her way to the mouth of the medicine den. Sitting down with an amused smile playing at her lips and her black tail twitching for all the movement that was restricted through the rest of her battered body, Cougarivy listened as Icethroat spoke. One point after another, but whose case was it actually?

Finally, Icethroat finished the long winded rant and Cougarivy spoke up from her place by the medicine den, not bothering to rise to her paws again, in drawn out syllables, ”Who are you fighting for?” she giggled. ”I heard Mirehound and Roanpaw and Larkfire and Shadowfur and enforcers this and that…has anybody asked any more of you than the bare minimum? Are the ones you claim were so mistreated complaining? I haven’t heard it, so what’s your deal? Fighting in the name of cats who never asked for it,” she giggled. ”Speaking of Mirehound, you’re being real quick to accuse Vixensnarl of not knowing what’s going on, but what are you going on about? Who’s been left to rot? Mirehound was buried, I saw to that myself. You bring up Mirehound like Dawnstar is just supposed to be watching over camp like the stars but also say she should be out of camp more doing things. When it became clear that Dawnstar was not in camp when I brought Mirehound’s body in, did you ever let her know? Because I know I didn’t. But I guess she should be working more but also staying in camp more and just by the Dark Forest’s divine powers know everything that’s going on, but without asking anything of her enforcers since you seem to have a problem with that for us.” She giggled, pausing for a breath. ”You want her to pick a deputy so what? You can accuse her of pawning off responsibility more? Because the enforcers were Dawnstar’s idea and Dawnstar’s chosen and overseen by Dawnstar, because she can’t be everywhere at all times.”

She winced slightly as she tried to shift and a pain shot through her torso. ”Dawnstar has made it abundantly clear that any cat is welcome to the exit. So when a cat just disappears, why would she go searching for every one? Then you’d be complaining that she isn’t living up to her claim that cats are free to leave. In the times a cat goes missing because they’d died, what is Dawnstar supposed to do for them at that point anyway? Give ‘em one of her lives?” Cougarivy rolled her eyes, ”Talk about wasting her time.”

”You talk a lot about wasting time and uselessness, but what have you done? Other than trying to delay Dawnstar taking patrols out to deal with the dogs you led a bunch of apprentices to just so you could pose half-assed complaints.” She felt an annoying sense of defensiveness at the claims made against her enforcers, though hail made some mousebrained attempt to warp them into Dawnstar’s problem. ”Larkfire is a good enforcer, with a mouth of her own. Shadowfur was a good enforcer. And Vixensnarl has done more for Shadowclan than you ever have. I was tasked with keeping the enforcers on their game so if you’ve got a problem with the enforcers then you’re trying to play with the wrong cat,” she licked her lips, wiping the sideways smile brighter at the prospect of challenge. ”If you think any of the enforcers aren’t doing enough then there are spots open, all you gotta do is pose a challenge. But again, where have you been? Sounds to me like you’d rather have leadership who talks a lot and have no idea what it looks like to have leadership who keeps things running, regardless what you see or don’t see. You’d fit well in the other clans.”

The giggle turned into a laugh that wracked her ribs and made her cringe sideways, cutting off the laugh. But through the pain, she gritted her teeth and continued with a smile, ”You have to go all the way back to the beginning of Dawnstar’s leadership to justify your accusation? You have held onto that belief for all these moons based off of one warrior seasons ago? So you’ve had issues all this time and yet we’re just now hearing about any of it? And have never tried to make any sort of change? You’re funny, if only you were a bit more entertaining.”

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Blackhawk rested a bit aside, looking at all the cats.


[Open!]

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LilyPaw licks a rock.

[open lol]

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Bunnykit watched the appentice, her eyes wide. Was rock-licking some type of advanced practice that helped develop your skills as a warrior? Bunnykit had to know. She approached the apprentice slowly, until she was standing just a meter away from Lilypaw. "Whatcha doing?" she asked.

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(Not gonna be fancy because I’m tired,)

Lilypaw looks up and is baffled by the weird kitten asking her a question. Without hesitation, she utters out; “Licking Rocks…”

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(That's fine, I like straightforward rp responses)
Bunnykit tilted her head to the side. "How come? What does it accomplish?" she asked, narrowing her eyes. Licking rocks, huh? Bunnykit couldn't quite wrap her head around the concept.