High Rank Announcement [#hrannouncement]

***Moonraven*** · #**44807** July 18th, 2022, 08:56 PM

High Rank Announcement [#hrannouncement]

Twilightstar rosed and waved her tail calling her clanmates' attention as she began the meeting. "I have some ceremonies to do and of course, reassignment. But before that, there are some more pressing matters to discuss. It's not the first time and certainly won't be the last but one of our clanmates, Cottonwish, was found killed by a rogue near the outskirts. They didn't just kill Cottonwish but decapitated her after death." The leader was aware that there were kits present but doubted most if any of them knew what the word decapitated meant. On the off chance that they did, well the queens were going to have to deal with it. Twilightstar wasn't in the best mood to be considerate right now.

"I've said it once before, and it seems that I have to remind you. I don't care for their age, their gender, or their reasoning. All outsiders that I haven't deemed fit to join WindClan are to be challenged and chased out, especially if they just walk straight into our camp and trespass. Our Clan safety comes before everything else." The leader decided against going into a great amount of detail on that. Fallownose had gotten rid of both outsiders and no one had gotten hurt. Still, Twilightstar wanted to make it clear to her clan that unless she said otherwise, all outsiders are threats.

"I'm extending this warning to outsiders that showed up at the gathering, even though Dawnstar had settled on a more violent approach, if you see cats that are not clan within the gathering they need to be chased out. Regardless of their business or reasons, it's beyond disrespectful and quite frankly disgraceful that we just let them walk in and out without as so much as a scratch to show for it. If the outsiders continue to be so bold it could cause problems with all of the clans." Twilightstar didn't think it was a serious problem, but the fact that one of their clanmates had been decapitated by an outsider was something to be alarmed about.

"I don't want cats going near the outskirts alone anymore, regardless of whether it's a one-time thing, I prefer to be safe than sorry. Apprentices, this is already a well-established rule but a reminder never hurt. You know that you are not allowed outside of camp without a warrior or your mentor. If I hear or notice any of you outside of camp without a warrior, I'll be demoting you to a kit for half a moon."The leader has gotten rather lax on the rule over the moons, but now she had a reason to reinforce it.

"May Cottonwish watch over us in the stars and hunt well in StarClan." Twilightstar finished that announcement up by wishing their fallen warrior a safe trip to StarClan. She let the silence lapse for a few more seconds and then began speaking once again.

"I would very much like to know what you all think about RiverClan and our alliance with them. The alliance was made many moons ago, not long after I took over for Brightsky as WindClan's leader." It was seasons ago which is why Twilightstar was reiterating it. "Lionstorm, or rather Lionstar had been leader then and he and RiverClan had done WindClan a great service of chasing off the coyotes that plagued our territory, helped rebuild our camp, and offered herbs and prey. Since then we have kept our alliance going with RiverClan and the leaders that have come and gone, or rather than we it'd fit better to say that I have. They have aided us more than once, giving us prey and herbs and checking up on us since then...but... " Twilightstar never really gave her clanmates a choice in the matter, but since no one had ever brought up going against the alliance she assumed they had been alright with it.

"But it seemed after Lionstorm stepped down as leader, RiverClan has changed with each passing leader. I've turned a blind eye to many of their heinous actions, but their clan is becoming less and less recognizable with each passing gathering. I'll admit that I've lost my trust and faith in them it's gotten to a point that I can no longer overlook their misdeeds. I meant what I said, WindClan will not be getting involved in any more battles between RiverClan and ThunderClan. We have never called upon their aid during our feud with ShadowClan and have triumphed on our own, RiverClan will have to deal with ThunderClan's ire themselves." As the gatherings passed, RiverClan was reminding her more and more of ShadowClan.

"They've lied to us about poisoning their claws, and have sunk as low as kidnapping apprentices. This is not the RiverClan I first accepted an alliance with. Now I'm thinking about breaking it and returning to our neutral status, but before that, I want to know what you all think. So speak, this is your chance to decide what happens to our alliance, do we break it or do we keep it." Twilightstar put it up to a vote, letting the members of WindClan be the deciding factor rather than making a call herself.

[Twi doesn't care for your age, or how new or old you are to the clan, if you're a member of WindClan, you have freedom of speech and choice. Make sure to mention me if you are speaking directly to Twilight so I can have her respond otherwise I might miss it. You got until I make a post on the 20th to cast a vote.

Also, fun fact: Despite the fact that she's been leading WindClan for like two years, Cinderstar is older than Twilightstar by a handful of moons. Twilightstar is (in moons) only like in her late fifties in age. I just make her seem super old cause she's been through a lot and been running the clan for longer than the average leader. So she holds the title as the eldest leader in terms of holding the rank, not in actual age. ]