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AND IT NEVER MADE ANY SENSE, ANYTHING

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MAGGOTPAW . 6 MOONS . IT/THEY . WINDCLAN

"Yes, Leopardpaw. You look very ferocious. Nobody's ever going to mess with you." Maggotpaw confirms. All things considered, she's very likely to be the most imposing one here in the company of two elders and a scrawny little Maggotpaw. Objectively Maggotpaw knows this and almost wants to have her switch spots with it to be the one pointed out at the catmouse, but there's this funny little squeeze in its chest that chokes the suggestion back down the moment it opens its mouth. It doesn't want Leopardpaw pointed at the catmouse. It doesn't want the catmouse to so much as look at her or anybody here. It just wishes someone would stomp the thing to death already.

So instead of any of that, Maggotpaw turns its attention to Duckthroat, who is telling Maggotpaw what that ugly thing's real name is. Possum. So that's what those are. It'd heard the word before—hadn't Windclan had a warrior with that name at some point?—but it had never had anything to pin the word to until now. "Possum," Maggotpaw repeats, glancing back over at the freaky lookin' thing. "Okay well. They are over there thrashing that possum bad. I think it's killed--oh," no, wait. The creature is doing weird things. Hadn't it just been dead...? Maggotpaw frowns. "I mean actually, it's going now. So we can stay out here. You all did a very good job. You were all very scary. Say thank you to Leopardpaw for being the scariest though." And it positively glows with pride to hear that Duckthroat, the smartest cat who ever lived by the way, liked the 'Get Big And Go Grrr' plan.

"Twilightstar is back." Maggotpaw observes, still on tiptoes, still bristling. It isn't aware of this. "A lot of other cats aren't yet. Whisperinghive isn't." The lack of Whisperinghive around here is particularly grating. He'd better not be out there getting eaten up by a fire or Maggotpaw will lose it. It wonders if it could go and ask Twilightstar to tell him to come back already. He's a bad listener though. He probably wouldn't come back. Maggotpaw huffs to itself.

@Idiotic.Bean101 ; LEOPARDPAW
@Rustleaf ; FIDGETBERRY
@Tallstar ; DUCKTHROAT