[duckie]

Yewpaw
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Oddear's words completely dumbfounded the apprentice from time to time but there was something utterly enthralling about his being that left you hanging onto them for dear life. Yewpaw stuttered as he suddenly dashed off, long legs propelling him faster than hers ever could, but she remembered Coldsong's training. He may be gone but his words were not. 'Don't stop to think, Yew, just be quick.' she thought. And she was off, paws pounding against the ground and heartbeat pounding in her ears as the world flashed by. She couldn't help but laugh - the exhilaration going straight to her head. Oddear had pulled far ahead but she skittered to a stop as he bounded up a stone, looking oddly statuesque as the sunlight framed his lithe form.

Yewpaw was breathing hard but his questions brought her mind down from the high. What happens? "What happens when?" she shot back, her words unintentionally sharp as she struggled to regain her breath, "When we die?" What kind of a question was that? Not that it wasn't something she had thought about, but why ask it now?

"I... I used to think we go to StarClan. I used to think StarClan ran everything. They planned your life out - all the good things. I was so sure..." She let out a heavy sigh. Now she was faced with two options - either StarClan was more malicious than they were taught, or they weren't so all-mighty. Perhaps three? Maybe they just didn't exist at all?

[ @Romulus ]