[Spotty]

- Galebird -

One of her ears angled towards Gentledoe as the other she-cat spoke, voicing Galebird's own thoughts when she said the spot shouldn't be hard to find, but the last sentence stuck in Galebird's mind. "I don't want to take the risk of remaining in the area for too long, especially since a warrior was just killed here." This was their own territory, they should not have to be afraid and on the lookout for murders when walking in their home. From the day she joined Thunderclan, she had worked towards building a good sense of safety around herself and her clanmates - be it reinforcing the dens and walls when she found nothing better to do or keeping an eye out for when her clanmates seemed hurt, it had always been important, and anything or anyone coming to rip that away from her... she had to find out who did this and make sure they wouldn't come back.

 

Her thoughts were interrupted by the thick and heavy cloud of scent they seemed to have walked into, and it wasn't hard to see where Darkpetal had been killed. Slowly drying blood spilled, smeared, and splattered all around the spot, staining the forest floor in a deep red, gradually turning more brown-like as the blood dried. Pushing through the disgust the smell dragged up in her chest, Galebird took a few more steps to go around the blood, searching for any more clues that could have been left behind. Any pawprints leading away that they could follow and possibly find a smell where blood wasn't pushing every other scent away. She saw some fur here and there, but it was all too covered in blood to even see if it was dark or brown.

"You're not being realistic," She whisper - just to herself, unsure if the others were even able to hear it - and walked around the blood to get back to her patrol. "No," She answered to Gentledoe. "And yeah, we should head back." She would still seek out Dovefluff to ask more about this, anything to make her home a good and safe place again.

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