Mallowswarm
Spiderstar continued with more ceremonies, but they weren't for deputies or medicine cats. They were for warriors. Not as important in the grand scheme of things, but Mallowswarm knew from experience how special they were for the cats in question. She didn't understand how some needed prompting to step up to the Stormcrest, but maybe they were too amazed to be having their warrior ceremony to move immediately. Regardless, soon all seven apprentices were standing before Spiderthroat and receiving their warrior names. "Rainstreak! Sunflowerfire! Butterflybrook! Lightningstrike! Cloudedcreek! Dawnflutter! Sagelily!" Mallowswarm cheered. The amount of names she had to chant made her throat feel hoarse, but she pushed them out anyway, her voice mingling with her clanmates as the names of the new warriors echoed through camp.
Next was reassignments. As Spiderthroat told the reassigned apprentices what to do when their names were called, Mallowswarm's thoughts drifted to her own apprentice, Fawnpaw. She had looked for her so they could begin her training, but the she-cat was nowhere to be found. Missing, probably. The thought made disappointment flood her chest; she had been hoping to train her, guide her to warriorhood like Wolfhive had guided her, but she couldn't do that now.
I tried. She hadn't abandoned Fawnpaw; she had
tried, but the apprentice hadn't responded to her efforts. There was nothing she could do if Fawnpaw wasn't willing to work with her.
It seemed Spiderthroat was giving her another chance, though. The sound of her name drew Mallowswarm from her thoughts.
Spiderlingpaw to Mallowswarm. She had been assigned another apprentice. One of Spiderthroat's kits too, if she wasn't mistaken. "Spiderlingpaw?" Mallowswarm called into the crowd, rising halfway to her paws. She didn't know what the apprentice looked like (she never really interacted with kits, and she was fairly sure that litter had been apprenticed while she was sick), but she scanned the crowd for her anyway. Hopefully Spiderlingpaw was at the meeting; it would be awkward if she never came and left Mallowswarm standing alone.
As she looked for her apprentice, Spiderstar spoke again, this time doing apprentice ceremonies. She listened absently as he gave the new apprentices their names before pairing them up with mentors. Until she heard her name. Again. She was receiving another apprentice. For a moment Mallowswarm wondered if she'd heard wrong; she had just gotten an apprentice, why would Spiderthroat trust her with two? She frowned, looking up at the leader as he continued his announcements. New Hornets- Mountaintalon, Pineblossom and Acornfall, not cats she had ever really interacted with, but she trusted Spiderstar's judgement- and new members of ThunderClan. Then the leader dismissed the meeting, and Mallowswarm turned to see an apprentice making her way towards her. Breezepaw. Her new trainee.
"Hi," Mallowswarm said once her apprentice had reached her. She paused for a few moments, trying to figure out what to say. What had Wolfhive said when she had been apprenticed under him? What had Mushroomcloud? "I, uh, I'm your mentor." She regretted the words as soon as they came out of her mouth; of course Breezepaw knew that. "Uh, is there anything you want to do first? Hunting, fighting?"
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