[WinterMara]

| Softpaw of Thunderclan |

As Softpaw was hugged by Cinderstar [With no time to process that Cinderstar was there, but oh well], she felt a bit of relief, she was with her mom again but also was not immediately grounded for all eternity, now. . .the explanation.

' 'I went out on my own for a bit due some stress, which I know you're not supposed to do but I'd done it plenty of times before and was fine all things considered, but I must've gone out of the territory or, twolegs are in our territory, because I somehow managed to get snagged by some. . .if you couldn't tell by this annoying thing around my neck.' '

She did show slight annoyance in her tone at the end of the sentence, but it wasn't directed at Cinderstar, more so at the stupid butterfly neck thing. ' 'You can ground me for all eternity if needed.' ' Softpaw knew she didn't need to add that last bit, but she did anyway, just so her mom knew there'd be no hard feelings if she was stuck in the apprentices den forever, or the leaders den if she really decided to go down the overprotective mom route.

| @marni