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you can break a shovel when you break new ground.

purrks: agatha kitty, mind reader, go with the flow

[ @FrostyGalaxy [larkstar] ]

larkstar invited rushwater in, and the blue-grey tabby wasted no time dipping his head (being tall wasn't all that great, honestly, it meant he nearly knocked his head on just about everything.) and slipping into the den with an efficient sort of grace befitting of one as calm as he.

"there's two main things that brought me here today," he began, sitting arrect just inside the entrance. he felt wholly awkward just being here, but he didn't betray himself by letting it show. he was reserved and collected- just as he had to be.

first was the thing eating at him. a mystery unsolved, clawing its way through his mind. "if you recall, i found minkpaw drowned at haven springs a few evenings ago." the memory was fresh. the taste of her wet fur lingered at the back of his throat, taunting him. "i'm certain it was murder. a skilled one at that, because they escaped the scene without leaving so much as a scent or a tuft of fur."

he paused, savoring his words as he picked them carefully, "i've been doing a bit of digging- investigating, if you will. i wanted to gather as much information as i could before presenting this to you. i'm. . . there wasn't a lot of evidence left at the scene, but from what i can gather, i don't think it was personal nor was it a kill of rage or fury or- you get my point."

"it was a kill for the sake of killing. i'm afraid we might soon have a repeating killer on our paws. i hope i'm wrong, but i doubt it."

rushwater let larkstar take in all of the information, watching her expectantly. after several heartbeats of silence, he concludes:

"i'd like to continue investigating this." he said, simply, "i feel as though it is my duty to riverclan to unveil this crime and prevent further needless death. this isn't something we can brute force, it must be careful observation and tact. it must be subtle. for this reason, i've neglected telling anyone but you, tansypaw and cherryswirl of the true nature of minkpaw's death. if theres too much of a stir, the killer will get antsy and more careful. we need every mistake we can get them to make if we're going to find them."

"with that being said, i felt that it was your right as leader to make the decision as to if this deserves further investigation or not."

so that does it, then? rushwater's shoulders relaxed a smidge once the whole spiel was over. it was a lot, he knew, but an apprentice was dead and by starclan he was not going to sit idly by when another might very well be next. the real question was if he'd honor an order to leave it be- to do exactly that. sit and watch. as much as he preferred to remain entirely within the rules, if he felt that such an order endangered riverclan-

no need to hypothesize when he'd be getting the answer in the next breath. rushwater's indigo blue eyes skimmed the floor idly, observing every little detail. his second topic of talk was much grander.

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