[Toodle]

Leafecho felt a new emotion building up inside her, melting through her passivity. It started to get under her pelt how unreasonable so many warriors were being. She understood wanting and demanding the best for their clan. She hadn't been here long but she wanted success for the clan maybe even more than most, she knew what it was like to not have such a support system. Before her mind could stop her she turned to Buckbranch and refuted, "What more do you want?" She started to trail off, heat spreading beneath her pelt in sheer embarrassment, but she was already in it now, so she pushed herself to continue. "I mean...She did just give us all a time frame. It's...it's not an empty promise when she states a deadline, right? She spelled out her plans, if she were to go into detail over every single plan she had then we'd...well, we'd be here till the next gathering. I don't think it's too much to ask to give her one more moon to let her prove herself. She's not asking for forgiveness, she's simply asking for the opportunity to prove herself."

She felt herself shrinking until her throat seemed to close up. Reality was crashing into her. She not only spoke in front of the whole clan, she went against another cat, and a tom at that. But it needed to be said, right? She was proud of herself but it was a pride buried somewhere deep down beneath how mortified she felt.