High Rank Announcement [#hrannouncement]

**dino.** · #38 May 28th, 2023, 05:11 PM

High Rank Announcement [#hrannouncement]

Stars. That was a lot of cats. Bumblebreak glanced over the growing crowd for a moment, then swiveled her head in surprise as Hazelpaw suddenly boosted a familiar pipsqueak up onto the stone. Before she could react, Wolfkit had scrambled up her let to perch on her back. She craned her neck to stare at him with narrowed eyes, debating on booting him back off or not... and decided it wasn't worth the effort. Whatever, the little scrap could have his moment of fun. She turned back to the Clan and cleared her throat.

"Right, okay, so. There’s several things that I have to address, but first things first. Thrushstar is gone." Her voice was a mix of matter-of-fact and greatly irritated. "He’s not been in camp and there’s no trace of him anywhere, so it’s safe to say that he’s gone missing, which means I’m in charge. Now, I’m not about to stand up here and tell you all about how great I’ll be or how I’ll be better than all the others, because everyone else has done that, and then they’ve all vanished or died, and I’m starting to think it’s just a curse at this point. So all I'll say that if I’m not doing the job you all think I should be doing, you’ve got my full permission to handle me yourselves."

A brief pause, before she carried on, a more bitter edge lacing her words. For the love of the stars, to demote one cat and then to lose another in one fell swoop. She was just about ready to tear someone's ears of.

"In addition, Cinderpaw’s been demoted. She wasn’t doing her job and I wasn’t about to wait around a couple more moons for her to figure it out, so she’s no longer your medicine cat apprentice. I’ll be assigning her a warrior mentor, and she has a moon to tell me she wants to take on a warrior name before I rethink letting her stay in ThunderClan." Bumblebreak never understood why the she-cat had so starkly refused to take a name. It made no damn sense. "Now, Sundust has turned up missing too. Spiderthroat took out a patrol to the sunken camp look, but we lost two other warriors and the search wasn’t successful. That leaves us with no medicine cat, so for the time being I’m appointing Spiderthroat and… Roseraven to handle healing things until I find another."

The latter was named a little begrudgingly. She still didn't fully trust Roseraven after the fiasco with that mother and her kits, but she was also one of the few in ThunderClan who Bumblebreak was absolutely certain knew all that herb stuff. "You’re hurt or sick, you find them. That being said, the old camp is off-limits unless you're with at least a group of three. I don't care how old you are, if I find out you've gone out there alone, it'll be your pelt lining my new nest. Is that all understood?"