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**Fish** · #**2385** January 30th, 2025, 05:12 PM

Adderstrike

Determined ⋆ Loyal ⋆ Lawful Good ⋆ She/Her ⋆ Killer Aptitude T3
“I can fix her!”

It was nice to see that Owlstar was relaxed at least. With being asked what was on her mind, the shecat walked into the den and sat down in front of Owlstar. Did she remember how much it seemed like Adderstrike liked to talk? Well here would go the reminder. "So I talked about this a long time ago to Fadingstar but I still feel like this is something worthy to be said again and considered once again." She rolled her shoulders a bit and took a deep breath. She was trying to not get too emotional with this but this was a lot. It was her life, it was everyone's life but it was what Adderstrike thought was for the better.

"When we were thinking about going back to the forest after our exile I tried to offer up the idea of staying in the mountains. Sure we needed to find a better spot so we weren't rubbing shoulders as hard with the Atari, but staying up there was much better than going back down here. He wanted to return to see if things would change and honestly... I don't think they have.”

“Thunderclan doesn’t seem to want to do anything other than to decorate the forest with our guts and suffering. I will not take their tragedy as an excuse for acting this way either. It's juvenile and stupid. We were not the cause of their plague and if we started to attack clans just because of a grieving leader then no one would be on our side, why is it different here? Why are we the only ones with sin here and must be tormented forever?” She then shook her head to focus back on the main part of this.

“We should seriously consider going back up into the mountains once again.” She said with a firm and serious expression on her face. This was a heavy choice to take but with all her heart Adderstrike thought it to be the right one.

“The last gathering that happened, Bumblestar threatened to take all of Stormstar’s lives right on the seastones. This whole time Thunderclan has wanted nothing but to harm Riverclan and it feels they are trying to find the smallest excuses to harm us. She wants nothing with diplomacy, she is waiting for us to breathe wrong to come and slaughter us. I do not trust a single word that squirrel has to say. Nothing we can do is good enough for her. She demanded that we did something more about Cobwebstorm and when you pivoted and did something she wasn’t satisfied. She said nothing to it. And this isn’t a comment entirely on your choice here but that nothing will ever be good enough for the thunderrat, she wants to rule our clan like it’s hers and at the same time use it as battle practice.”

“I might be swayed to think that the windrogues won’t do anything just for the hell of it but, One less hardly matters and if the thunderrats decide to attack us, the shadowrogues will just join for fun. It’s a disgusting and distressing position we have been put in.”

“Nothing we can do will ever be enough for them no matter what they say. So the only thing left to do is leave. We cannot fight all of them nor bear being attacked, honestly even the stress is straining on one's health.” Adderstrike wouldn’t outright say it but she was on edge that one day the thunderrats would just waltz into the clan once again. She had cats important to her that she needed to protect, it was something that she promised but with such a looming threat it was daunting to say the least.

“We know that there is relative safety up within the mountains and while there might be a lack of our namesake up there it is hardly a reason against this. There is so much room up there we should be able to find land of our own… And I think it’s better to just go instead of ‘wait and see’ing it… I know its a massive decision to go through with this but I don’t want it to take another invasion of our camp to seriously think about this.” Adderstrike said before letting out a sigh. It felt like some weight was lifted off of her shoulders but there was still so much weight. Would Owlstar even consider this or would Adderstrike just be laughed out of her. Or even worse not seen loyal to the cause; whatever that may be. The last thing was Adderstrike wanted to be seen as not loyal but there wasn’t a moment in her life where there wasn’t the looming threat of the other clans attacking them for whatever they saw fit.

“Just think about it, ok? I lived my whole life with these mangy cats wanting to attack us at any moment for anything that seemed ‘reasonable’ enough to their absent morals. I think it would be nice if kits could be born without this worry. And I don’t think any amount of playing nice will be enough for these cats. So… Just think about it.” Adderstrike said with a sorrowful look on her face. She started to get up from the ground expecting that this wouldn’t be a long conversation. She mostly intended to leave her thoughts here in the end anyways. Though it did feel good to finally get this off of her chest and to someone of power. Maybe.. Just maybe there would be a change for the better.