[Bat`Pelt]

Originally Posted by Charmer

Nightpaw's ears perked up as she heard the fluttering of wings. A bird with bright blue feathers fluttered and landed on the forest floor, just to the side of a tree maybe twenty tail lengths away. It began to peck at the floor of needles trying to get at the earth beneath. Nightpaw made her move move, creeping as quietly as a Shadow as she kept in the shade of the beeches. Paws light, tail just high enough not to drag, stay low, and birds hear and see better than they scent, she repeated to herself as she stalked. Don't chase it. Get close enough to pounce. That one had been hard. Even now, all of her instincts demanded she charge after the bird. But she crept, swiftly but patiently. As she began to close in, she froze as she noticed her paw hovering over a twig. Gingerly, she stepped over it. Finally, she was close enough. She sprang from the shadows and pinned the bird, delivering a swift bite to its neck before it could do more than let out a feeble tweet. And give thanks to Starclan, she repeated to herself, for the life, and ...oh mousedung, what were the words? Thank you for its life, and how it will feed my clan. That sounded close enough. As she scraped the needles over the bird, she couldn't help but smile to herself as she thought about how she'd called it her clan. She supposed that made it official. She was home.

The loner turned around, his ears flicking as he spotted the she. "Mouse-Dung!" He cursed, glancing around for a exit. The tom glanced at a tree, then to a grass patch, he began to slither toward the grass patch. His went pure silent as his black pelt brushed a branch, making needles fall onto the ground.