[wren]

Originally Posted by Brilliance

Dandelionglow did feel discouraged. What was the point of being a warrior if she couldn’t even hunt? Let alone, fight? Everyday was just a challenge and she tried improving but failed miserably. Quite honestly, she’d rather spend her days rolling in flower patches and having fun. Hunting was such a responsibility and Dandelionglow never been a responsible cat. The she cat’s ears flicked when she caught the sight of a flashing figure - almost as fast as a comet. Her eyes widened and her jaws went slack when she managed to get a good look at the new company in her presence. He effortlessly caught that...what was it? She couldn’t get a good look at it and she almost stumbled back when this tom approached her. “Uh, y-yeah that’s me.” She replied, although she didn’t sound too enthused about this.

Dandelionglow wasn’t going to deny that she envied the tom. The way he moved professionally, as if he was one with the wind, and the way he killed that creature without any imperfection. It was amazing to her. Who does he think he is? When she glanced down at the catch...it was a shrew! A shrew!? Are you freaking kidding me!? She thought panicking to herself but shook her head to rid her thoughts of aggravation. “Yeah, Yeah, I would had totally had it under my control, but then you just came so fast that I didn’t even know you were around here! At least you got it, it’s your catch.” The she cat replied, almost gloomily as she gently used a paw to scoot the dead shrew back over to him. She didn’t understand why he was dropping it at her paws since she wasn’t the one who caught it. She couldn’t share his excitement though but that was only because she thought it was unfair how she tried to catch it and nothing happened! But when this tom comes along and catch it, then he caught it. Yet Dandelionglow was always still nice and polite despite her conflict with herself. “Are you sure your name isn’t Show-off?” She teased him with a mirthful glint in her eyes. “Because I’m pretty sure that catch you just did was quite a performance! Bravo! Bravo! How’d you get so good?” She smiled and looked up at him with a curious and intriguing gaze. Sure, she was jealous of him, but she wasn’t going to deny that he was a good hunter.

(( this is like years late ))

Troutsplash could pick up on her discouragement. She'd missed the shrew and missing a catch was pretty disappointing. Not that he'd know what it felt like to miss a catch. heh. His long tail twisted around his paws and he sat back relaxing his shoulders. ' ' I'm sure you did-' ' Bring down the ego a bit mousebrain. ' 'it's been such a while that we've had shrews running around. You might just be a tad rusty eh' ' he said flashing her an encouraging smile as she pawed the shrew back at him. He tried to convince even himself that it was the case, she was just a little rusty. For her sake at least, the shrew had basically walked right out under her paws. He felt his gut twist but he pushed down his discomfort.

Maybe it would've been best to let her deal with the defeat and walk out, he'd done enough already. Stealing her catch, droning on about how she might've just been a little rusty and not to mention just rubbing it in. Was there any way t bring down his ego? Very unlikely, and he knew it too. He was too busy in his own thoughts to realize she had actually been talking to him and suddenly jerked his head back up in surprise, a pleasant smirk formed on his lips and he shrugged. ' ' oh you are too kind, I was hardly even trying !' ' he stood dramatically throwing his head back ' 'The burden of being the worlds best hunter is far too great for me' ' he grinned and looking like a complete mousebrain threw his back up against a tree lifting a paw to his head, Opening his mouth to speak before turning red in the face. Eventually bursting out laughing at his own little joke as he slid down the tree onto his backside. far to amused he remained there until he rolled onto his side looking over at her he offered a coy little playful grin ' 'I'm really an airhead huh' ' he said with a small chuckle.