[Lightningpaw666]

Originally Posted by Dolomedes

Orangeblossom
| He/him | TC warrior | Moons: 20 | No purrks |

Orangeblossom startled slightly as Brackenclaw seemed to completely disregard Orangeblossom's previous attempts at starting conversation, and instead chose to focus on his glances towards a certain medicine cat. Just as he kind of did before, the ginger got strangely flustered for being caught for some reason. He wasn't sure why, he was just worried for a friend, Orangeblossom was a huge worrier, but also staring was kind of rude, his mom taught him that so maybe he was just embarrassed by doing such a thing. Hopefully Springlight wasn't offended or anything, he really was just worried. He gave a sheepish grin to his friend and shook his head lightly, "I don't think so. I'm just worried for her, a lot has happened for everyone, but I can't imagine having your mentor and partner step down like that. It must be such a big change, and I know she's strong and can handle it easy, but I'm scared she'll just bury herself in her work." He spoke. Not quite grasping at the fact that his friend had implied a crush at works, or something more than friendship, he wasn't the brightest when it came to romantic stuff and wasn't even aware of his own blossoming feelings. Heh.

The warrior, wagged his tail a bit as he looked over to Brackenclaw fully and suddenly he remembered a fact that he would've rather not remember at the time. Vixenpaw. Right. Green eyes looked away quickly and he suddenly was bluntly reminded that they were missing now. And so were his other siblings. Gone. And his mom. No no no. A gathering is not the place for a full grown warrior to cry. Don't mess up Thunderclan's image. Hold it together for now. "...You were Vixenpaw's mentor... right? Did...they say anything to you that might explain why they're.... I'm sorry, that's silly, I'm sure if they did then you would've told someone already but I'm a hopeless optimistic at heart I just... hope that they will return to me.. soon." He quickly used a paw to wipe at his quickly growing misty eyes. "Anyways... how have you been?"

[ @Lightningpaw666 - Brackenclaw ]

Brackenclaw had been avoiding Orangeblossom for this exact reason. He felt guilty for Vixenpaw's disappearance. He tried to find the Apprentice after they went missing but to no avail eventually he had no choice but to give up especially when he was assigned Pheasantpaw. Brackenclaw didn't know exactly what to say but would attempt to do something. "I'm sorry Orangeblossom but Vixenpaw didn't say anything to me. I tried looking for them after they went missing but found no traces. I feel bad for their disappearance given you trusted me to teach them. But at the end of the day there wasn't anything I could do to stop the scenario." Brackenclaw would bow his head in apology as he would let Orangeblossom decide how to feel about Brackenclaw's failure as a mentor.