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Originally Posted by Zero to Hero
West waited quietly as the she-cat thought and then listened carefully as Littledragon was speaking. However, it wasn't such an easy thing for him to do; he was always impatient. The tom's mouth fell open in surprise as Littledragon mentioned the name Northpath among the other weird-sounding clan names. He took a clan name...? We thought he was kitnapped, but maybe we were wrong. He cast a side glance in South's direction, taking in her reaction to this new information before responding. "That... Northpath," He paused, the name sounding weird on his tongue. "Our brother's name was North, is it possible that he kept it a part of his clan name?" West was somewhat knowledgeble about clan life, having been bored one day and questioned a few of his 'friends' about it. The tom, however, was confused about the mention of this 'StarClan.' He figured that maybe it was this new clan he had been hearing about, the one that had freed the clan cats from the evil rule just a few moons ago. "Is StarClan that new clan you speak of? If so, could you maybe point us in the right direction?" The tom turned to South, determined. "We'll have to head there right away in order to get there before dark." He was confident that they had finally gotten the answers they were looking for. The young tom was excited to speak to his brother after all these moons. It was obvious that he didn't expect that the warrior had meant Northpath had died.
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South nodded as her brother spoke, looking at Littledragon. She'd momentarily forgotten about the fact that she wasn't the Clan cat's favorite at the moment as she opened her mouth to speak. "Yeah, he's probably that Northpath cat you named. That sounds like something he would pick," she confirmed, nodding along at her assumption. She honestly didn't know what he would pick, since she hadn't really ever gotten to know her brother all that well. They were, after all, only kits when North had been separated from the rest of them. Momentary grief flashed across her face but she pushed it down, realizing there were other important matters at paw. She searched Littledragon's face for any give away sign, but the feline was quite hard to read for being such a straight forward cat. "Yes. Please. Which way is this "StarClan" you speak of? We need to get to Northpath right away." An urgency lined each word that left her lips as she straightened up, already preparing to set off in whichever direction Littledragon pointed them in.
A look of sadness crossed Littledragon's expression as she watched both West and South's curios looks regarding StarClan. She hesitated to tell them that StarClan was in fact their ancesstors... where cats who no longer walked the earth roam. For a brief second, she thought about directing them to the Starcave and letting them figure it out for themselves, but even she wasn't that harsh. "StarClan... isn't an actual living Clan," she began, her voice uncharacteristically awkward for once as she avoided West's and South's piercing gazes. The ThunderClan warrior cleared her throat and composed herself, looking once more from West to South, and back again. "Northpath... he lost his life during a recent evil era that was spread among the Clans. He... he died saving Zerosight..." She trailed off and and swallowed, waiting for their reactions before saying anything more surrounding the sudden and untimely demise of the young medicine cat apprentice.