The Lover Album Archives. [ Mumblepaw VA ]

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Daylight.

The learner steps out of the den. The morning sun beaming through the brush that covered in the settlement. The rays shining onto their pelt as if it was a reflection of their fathers. Mumblepaw grinned at this thought, placing his stick in the corner of where they stopped in the clearing, the light causing the calico to shimmer in it. Bursting through the sky like it was waiting to shine after a 20 moon dark night. Mumblepaw giggled as they placed their paw into the sunlight, their white paw turning into a glowing white, taking it out of the light and back into the shade caused it to go back into its normally color. The learner smiles. There were glowing!
The ground was warm when it was covered by the sun, but this ground, the shaded area of the settlement was cooler, calmer, much comforting than its fiery counterpart. While the shade brought calmer conditions, the sun soaked clearing was warmer, bringing bursts of energy into Mumblepaw’s figure. The giggled again, a leaf falling into the clearing causing Mumblepaw to stalk it from the shade and drawing him back into the light. Pouncing onto the leaf in a swift motion ending up with them laughing as he missed the leaf by a very large gap.
The warmth beaming into the calico as they stood up again. A bug catching their eye in the clearing, claw still not unsheathed as Mumblepaw chased the bug. Tripping over a pebble or two, he thought Stonepaw got rid of those! No matter! The bug was going into the shade! No! As the flying spotted insect landed in the shade, Mumblepaw gave up the chase, instead choosing to stalk it like the leaf. Haha! This bug was going down! As Mumblepaw slowly inched closer, tail stub lashing as he tried to not laugh due to excitement. Finally getting into pouncing distance from the ladybug, launching upwards and onto the bug… or where he had expected it to be!
“Stop running away! That’s rude!” It mewed towards the insect

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Me!

“Aha! I’ve got you!” Mumblepaw says sharply, picking up the leaf to try and trick the ladybug onto it. Master Plans for a Master Scout! Speaking of Master scouting! That price of prey in the pile was looking mighty tasty to him! Mumblepaw grabbed a trout from the pile, carefully taking bites out of the flesh as they took it back to their area of the clearing and ate in silence. It was relaxing in the shades, peaceful. The tunnels would be like these tenfold. This Settlement can’t get the tunnels back with me! They thought mentally. This settlement didn’t want them back anyways! That was Mumblepaw’s job now! Not wormy Wormbite, Dad’s or Even the grumpy Tinystorm! Mumblepaw laughed to themself. Head turning back to the leaf that the ladybug was actually started eating! YES! Master Planner! As they finished eating his fish, it buried the bones and slowly approached the leaf. Ladybug instantly taking note of the cat padding over, because just as Mumblepaw went to tackle it. They came back empty pawed! “Again?!?” Oh come on! Mumblepaw refused to give up though! They just needed a new plan, and aha. The perfect one came to mind in an instant!

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Cruel Summer.

What was that funky little plan you may be asking? Mumblepaw had no clue. But it got in the sunlight. So the learner stuck to the shade for now. Trying to chase after the ladybug once more. Nose latching onto the scents of budding flowers outside of camp, however. This would only serve to distract him! And they refused to let that happen! Paws kicking into action, back to tripping on pebbles as they were sent flying forwards into the sun covered center of the clearing as he halted to a stop, unplanned of course. Stars above. “I really have to get Stonepaw out here to get rid of all these pebbles! Wait Mr. Ladybug! Don’t trip!” The summer heat, it was new. It was Cruel for sure, and yeah Mumblepaw was getting a tad bit hot while racing through the clearing, was the sunlight really that powerful??
Mumblepaw couldn’t help but laugh at their own remark, a wide grin appeared on his maw as it did so. Stone paw and him had quite an odd relationship. It was a friendship, but was it really? It felt like the only time Mumblepaw talked to the older herbalist was for healing. It probably wasn’t nice for Stonepaw, things like that could put some stress on a cat like him, for sure. The learner made the mentally note to visit the herbalist’s den after this, perhaps ask him how’s he’s doing? Mumblepaw had no clue! It wasn’t like Stonepaw seemed interested in the tunnels? Did he even know about them??
The calico threw the thought of that to the side for now as he tried to track down the ladybug. Clearly getting lost in their thoughts had let it escape its grasp! The lack of a plan was no worry! He had their nose to guide them! The learner tried to remember what smell the insect was and came up empty pawed. The learner tried and tried to remember or even just go in blind, only be latching onto faint herb scents and bold ones of fish and its clanmates different scents. Nothing to find this insect.