[alec]

 

Originally Posted by GoldenHoneycomb!

Pepperkit
SHC KIT || SHE-KIT || 2M

Listening, Pepper felt like it was right to keep quiet. Other cats probably wouldn’t be too pleased seeing a former house cat - kittypet - in camp until they saw her as their own. As she rose to her paws and padded slightly forward, trying to get closer to the front when she nearly tripped over a cat’s paw. “Sorry!” She mewed, ears flattened as she glared up at the warriors face. The Tom must be mad. He can’t be. I said sorry. He’s gotta understand. Pepper thought, though she still trembled, not daring to shift her gaze or move a muscle.
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Rookfire | @alec

ROOKFIRE
[ he/him | shadowclan warrior | early 20s ]
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rookfires eyes darted around for canopypaw, it appeared dawnstar had decided to partially indulge him. with needlepaw, he lingered at two apprentices for now. with a quick glance for the horizon, rookfire considered the amount of time he'd have left in this day specifically. he hadnt forgotten about the comments, needlepaw being more than old enough to rank up..it stung, especially since he was her reassignment and a majority of the time she had spent as apprentice out of his reach.
before the former medicine cat could linger on the doubts and low boiling anger for too long, magpiepaw, cinderpaw and willowpaw spoke their promises. he'd be lying if he said he didnt feel a bit excited by cinderpaws confidence, hearing his usually so reserved apprentice take up space audibly..

"MAGPIECOVE! CINDERSPARK! WILLOWWOOD" rookfire contributed to the chanting, perhaps a bit too loud to be taken serious as a big bad mean warrior no one would want to pick a fight with but that wasnt of concern to him at the moment. while neither willowwood nor magpiecove were anything special in particular, spar the double w in willowwood, he couldnt help but wonder if this was cindersparks work which dawnstar had honoured or if dawnstar herself got to the point of granting cinderspark her mothers suffix. no matter.
he barely caught scent of trouble in form of dawnstar calling for turtlepaw, meadowwhisper and silentpaw. trouble, primarily because meadowwhisper had previously been described as lazy and the other two were sort of bunched into one big mess with her. curiosity shielded carefully, rookfire didnt care enough to supress the small smirk passing over his face. sure sure it wasnt good silentpaw might be in trouble and rookfire wasnt necesarrily of the opinion that he didnt deserve being a medicine cat (thought he appeared to be seriously lacking involvement) but it was humouruous in a way. perhaps there was still space for someone to improve his record of fastest demotion.

with his head turned to watch the four previously mentioned cat go their way, he only noticed the unfamiliar kit after tripping over his paw and apologising. the twitch running through his leg came as half a surprise for himself, but it appeared camp put him at ease enough that he didnt immediately smack them out of reflex. singular ear perking up again, he leaned down to the kit, maw slightly agape in order to taste the air.
"pepperkit eh?" the tom questioned, skipping over her obvious fear entirely.

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