Heroneye
| she/her | RiverClan | Lionheart |
Heroneye stepped in at Stormstar's den at the leader's desk prompting, her shoulders tense. She just had to talk. Get it all out into the open. Then everything would go back to normal, right?
Certainly not for Softpaw, commented a voice in the back of her mind. Heroneye ignored it.
"I was taking my apprentice, Softpaw, out for swimming training--" Alright. One sentence in, and she was already babbling and bringing up irrelevant information. She paused, briefly scowling, as if irritated with the bickering in her own internal word. She paused to recollect herself, trying to keep the image of the waterlogged corpse out of her mind.
"We were just beginning when Softpaw spotted something in the water: blood." She sounded calmer as she spoke now, though the story didn't match that direction.
"After inspecting the area, we found its source: Sweetsap's body.
"From what I could tell, there were no signs of foul play. She seems to have fallen in and gotten her fur caught on something, causing her to drown," she continued. Of course, most any cat's first reaction would be to suspect murder, but Heroneye had no reason to think that any such thing had occurred. She had, after all, just seen the warrior that morning (
How quickly things change, Heroneye reflected bitterly), and any other cats' scents in the area had been older than that.
She awkwardly and unceremoniously trailed off after that. What else was there to add, anyway? She was dead, and that was all... She turned her gaze to the leader, awaiting her reaction.
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taillow - Stormstar )