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Sootfur (he/him)
Light grey tabby with blue/grey eyes
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Sootfur's claws were sinking tightly in the hard, cold ground. The control over his body, his head, and the reality... everything was falling apart. He stood still without breathing, ignoring his shrinking chest and the burning of his lungs as his eyes were fixed on a terrible scene in front of him.
The lithe body of her beloved apprentice was laid out in an innatural position, her eyes glazed with a curtain that would never leave her.
Starclan... hoe could you let this happen?
His eyes darkened and became the color of the gray sky during a thunderstorm. He could not leave the sight of the red stains coloring her fur, but too soon his sense tried to shake him awake to hear the desperate cries of Rainpaw and his parents. Oriolepaw limped toward his friend, too.
This.. must be a nightmare...
But the feel of the cold sand under his toes felt
real, and he had never smelled such a strong scent of blood in his life before.
He padded on with slowly, mechanical movements, ignoring the cats he pushed away involuntary to make her way to the center of the clearing.
When he reached Quietpaw's body, he collapsed on the ground and almost choked in pain.
She is DEAD... "Dead..."
Everything around him became once more blurred, but the lifeless eyes of her first apprentice kept o staring at him.
I didn't save you... I'm so sorry...
Sootfur touched her head with his nose, sobbing as he made his best efforts to clunch his jaws and concentrate only on her scent. But that had disappeared, replaced by another one that had the name of death.
...Something else lingered on her pelt, but it became more obvious as he turned to Rainpaw. Something vicious that he had already smelled... something like..
"A fox." The words came out more empty than he'd thought.
"Rainpaw, was it a fox?" He asked Quietpaw's brother, hoping that he would reply between a sob and another. His head was spinning at incredible speed. He needed a reply, and he needed it now.
Tears had started to stream down his face, but he'd still not realized it.
His only apprentice had not only died, but had died in a terrible way. He shut his eyes closed and felt tears leave his orbs for the first time.
Whoever has done this... WILL PAY WITH THE SAME DESTINY.
And so, with Sootfur's first apprentice came also his first promise to Starclan.
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