[Arie]

Originally Posted by RedHead

"I'm not making fun of you Doepaw, I'm actually really proud that you were able to climb a tree." Flintspirit meowed, a bit confused as to why she thought she was being made fun of. He hadn't thought he'd come off that way. "Oh.... you fell out of the tree too?" Maybe this was a little worse than he had originally thought it to be. Flintspirit listened quietly as Doepaw continued speaking, the tomcat now realizing this was a bigger issue than he'd written it off to be. "I see..... Hey, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was... that bad." Flintspirit shifted in his nest a little bit, before tilting his head with a small smile. "But you're okay right? Like I said, I promise everything is going to be okay. Even if you don't feel like it right now." He reached out with a forepaw to give her a small cat hug, hoping that he could somehow make up for his earlier... lack of sympathy.

@Arie

Doepaw nodded slightly at his apology. She didn't know why she got so upset about the issue but... it just scared her so very much and it was just a whole shock to her. But when he asked her if she was okay... She didn't exactly know if she was okay or not. Her head hurt. Her legs hurt. And her eyes, despite still blind, were also starting to hurt from the crusting blood that had fallen down her face as an after effect from the fall. "I...don't.. know," was all she could force forward... Her voice felt like clogging up and she just needed... She didn't know what she needed and therefore just took a few steps forward and rested her face in his fur... She just wanted her head to quiet down, to stop showing her the pictures that it did.... Because in her head, she could see. And she didn't like seeing. She didn't like seeing at all no. Because what she saw... It terrified her. She kept over dramatising things in her head but all she could see as she pressed her head into Flintspirit's chest was the loss of her littermate who was just taken... and flown away. She still heard the screams in her ears, the terrified sounds that she assumed would haunt her... Maybe it would be worth sharing? She didn't know but she shuffled her small legs so she was now totally enveloped in Flintspirit's fur and inside his nest. She needed all her strength for this moment.. "My.. My.." she broke off already, finding it hard. "My littermate... She got... she... got...taken....by... a bird," her voice was small barely louder than a whisper as if she was afraid. "That... that.. is... also... why... I... am afraid.." She shook so badly now. "She... she.... was... deaf... Didn't hear... or see.... the bird.."