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Originally Posted by BEAR.

He didn't miss the mildly irked look, and was pretty pleased to see his water attack worked. Good to know! ... Wolfpaw eyed the nearby mud slush but decided he probably shouldn't poke that bear too much. Not yet, at least.

".. Well, I don't think many of us fully grasp how dire our food supply being sabotaged was." A clenched jaw, forcibly unleashed. "If we wanna survive, we're gonna have to go against our nature. Fishing isn't ideal but if.. if we can adapt, and have it as an option, it's gonna be harder to hurt our food supply." The other Clans would assume ThunderClan had to rely on land and air prey, the possibility of fish would never occur to them. In the event of another territory poisoning, their water would likely be untouched - and ThunderClan would survive, remain strong. "i don't wanna see a repeat."

His gaze fell over the rippling water, where the silhouettes of fish danced just beneath the surface. Wolfpaw never considered himself terribly prideful -- not in a sinful way, but damn it was hard to swallow the pit of stubbornness lodged in his throat. For all his apprehensions, he was too rational to not recognize an opportunity to actually learn.

Sure, he could smack the water around all day. It might give him a workout, but odds were he'd just scare the fish. Violetfreckle.. meant that he could master the art in a fraction of the time. A baited breath.

Then, he lifted his eyes to meet hers. "Can you?"

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•° Violetfreckle °•
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Oh, StarClan. She didn't miss the glace at the mud-slush. And as he started to talk, she resisted the urge to scoff. 'Against their nature'. Please. This was what was wrong with the general ThunderClan mindset. Though she had to admit it probably took a lot to set aside one's pride, and a small part of her that she didn't quite notice was satisfied. Violetfreckle let the younger cat keep talking, grooming the rest of the pond water off her pelt in the meantime.

At this point, she wasn't too sure what to say. She opened her mouth and tried to think of something, but before she could get anything out, Wolfpaw asked her to teach him. Oh! She shut her mouth and furrowed her brows. "I mean, of course. I may have been born RiverClan but they can't tell a fish from a pile of algae over there." She snorted at her own joke. "ThunderClan's my home, and if I can help teach some skills I learned over there, I'm not passin' that chance up."

"What do you know so far?" At the question, she took a tentative few pawsteps closer to Wolfpaw and the shoreline.