WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

[Moonraven]

Originally Posted by Nightbound

Leap didn't see Twilightstar coming but her ear was twitching and heard her. Leap turned to face her. "Unless you're in a clan keep moving or I'll claw your ears off!" She spat her tabby fur bristling.
@Moonraven

The molly moved across her territory on swift and sure paws, once again slowing herself into a trot and then a walk as she located the source of the unknown scent. She unscathed long curved claws and narrowed her eyes at the spatting cat. The leader was by far anything close to intimidating but considering that this could be a potential threat to her clan, Twilightstar kept her head high and hackles raised. The only reason she didn't pounce without warning was due to the word 'clan' that was uttered. "You're invading my territory. You're the one who needs to be moving." Twilightstar didn't like how hostile this cat was coming off as. "What do you want with a clan?" Out of curiosity, Twilightstar asked the question that was running around in her head. She noticed the foggy cloud in the molly's eye but that didn't make her any less of a threat.

Originally Posted by Rainquail

Wraith painfully hobbled through the moors, limbs trembling with the effort of traveling so far and pain the pain of persisting. She had chunks of her fur that had been ripped out, thankfully with only bite marks to accompany the missing fur. Her worst injury was her back left foot, which had pretty much been chewed off.
Once she reached a rock outcropping to shield her from the worst of the wind and she sat down to rest, limbs still shaky.
It was difficult to tell her fur colour, as it was smeared with blood, dirt, and who knew was else. She looked too soft to be a loner or rogue, her stomach filled out despite her thin appearance. @Moonraven

Her nose jumps as she picks up the scent of fresh blood, that could be a problem. That smell would call predators from all over the place if it wasn't taken care of. Picking up her pace, Twilightstar tracked the scent down with the help of the wind. She circled around twice before she finally found who it was she was looking for. "There you are." The leader muttered to herself as she nimbly made her way across the outcrop. She paused, peering down at the mess of a cat a few tail lengths away. Closer, she was able to identify the cat as molly, pregnant, and obviously in need of some medical help. Twilightstar turns and walks away wordless, returning a few moments later with cobwebs. "Hey, Kittypet. I'm not going to hurt you. I've got some cobwebs to help with the bleeding." She trilled calmly as she made her way over to the Queen to press the cobwebs against the bite marks. She needed more for the paw of hers, it looked pretty nasty.

Originally Posted by Lynxpaw

Eagle limped up towards a she-cat sunning on a large rock, wincing every few steps. He had heard about the Clans from some rouges. He had always admired them and he knew they had a cat that could heal. He looked up at the she-cat. "Excuse me? Sorry to disturb you," He meowed politely. "I'm Eagle. What's your name?"

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Where did these kittypets come from? Twilightstar raised her head as a young cat pads up to her. He's got a limp, smelt soft and certainly looked like a kittypet...to well fed. "Twilightstar." She yawned, stretching as she stood up and then leaped off the Breezerock. "You're pretty polite for a cat who doesn't belong here." Twilightstar was too lethargic to be grumpy about an outsider right now. "What happened to you?" She questioned, picking a very faint scent of a predator on his pelt. It made the fur on her neck stand up barely, she didn't like the smell it was ruining her good mood.

[kittygirl]

Cherrypaw sat down with a sigh, her mentor was gone already! cherrypaw looked up at twilightstar hoping she didn't think it was her fault. Cherrypaw was a bit glad that she would get a new mentor...only because foxpudge scared her quit a bit! She stared at her paws trapped in her thoughts.

[Confuzzled.Lynx]

Where did these kittypets come from? Twilightstar raised her head as a young cat pads up to her. He's got a limp, smelt soft and certainly looked like a kittypet...to well fed. "Twilightstar." She yawned, stretching as she stood up and then leaped off the Breezerock. "You're pretty polite for a cat who doesn't belong here." Twilightstar was too lethargic to be grumpy about an outsider right now. "What happened to you?" She questioned, picking a very faint scent of a predator on his pelt. It made the fur on her neck stand up barely, she didn't like the smell it was ruining her good mood.

"I thought that it would be the right thing to do to be polite to a cat I just met,"Eagle explained. He paused for a moment and then murmured "I got attacked by a fox but i managed to escape". He shifted his weight, not meeting Twighlightstar's eyes. He knew that she was most likely going to reject his request.

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[Daylily Orchid]

Snowpaw looked around, hoping to find someone to talk to, or at least to tell her what was going on. Is this some sort of meeting? Like when my housefolk had other housefolk over?

[teddy.]

Oddear half stretched half walked across their barren clearing until he was happily planted under the rock, his limp ears as perked as they could be. Oddear let his gaze fall upon Twilightstar, maybe she had some good news?

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Every step Lupinkit took was a shakey one. They last time they were all gathered like this was at beach, it was hard not to associate the gathering of cats with the metallic smell of blood and fear. Lupinkit watched the meeting from afar, staying close to the nursery this time.

[MagicCat99]

Deerblossom padded towards the Breezerock and sat down.

[Abyssopelagic]

She heard footsteps and furled further into the outcropping. When another cat came into view, she crawled towards her and the second time the cat paced around finally noticed her. Wraith let out a squawk when the strange cat left. She didn't want to be alone right now. Disheartened, she started grooming the worst of the matted blood in her fur and perked up when the cat came back.
She briefly sniffed towards the cobwebs the molly had brought and made it as easy to get to her wounds as she could. She huffed something barely audible, little more than an exaggerated exhale, but it sounded like gratitude. @Moonraven

[Sweetie]

Brindlejaw padded into the clearing just heartbeats ago helping clean up the last of the camp. Blazing orange eyes looked up to Twilightstar as he walked towards the Breezerock. The deputy kept his gaze forward, excusing himself pass the swarm of cats. The tortoiseshell made his way up and a respectable distance away from his leader. Giving a welcoming nod the tom looked out at the clan.


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Her stomach was swollen and fluffy. A few pains shot here and there as she tried to walk to the clearing. The mottled queen didn't make it far before sitting down to take a break. Slightly panting Songbird took a few heartbeats to compose herself before putting her mask back on. Eh, right here is good enough. Shrugging her shoulders as she groomed her black and white coat from any dust she collected and curled her tail neatly over her paws.

[Abyssopelagic]

Originally Posted by Moonraven

Twilightstar drew her tongue over her chest fur a few times as Eagleflower gave his name. It was kind of cute, not that she was biased with names, she just didn't hear flower a lot for toms. His awkwardness was rather funny, but she kept herself from laughing at him since it might be considered rude. Her attention is drawn away as some more RiverClan cats enter the camp. She still hadn't caught hid nor hair of Brindlejaw at all, she really didn't want to organize patrols right now. Hell, she didn't even want to socialize but someone to greet the RiverClanners.
Her eyes trailed after the tom dubbed, Lord Jerkboob, as muttered something underneath his breath and padded off. Strange yet lively cat, she turned her head away while flickering her whiskers at the dog killing comment. She was more interested in the quiet one that came in and kept to the back. Which one of these guys was the patrol leader?
"If you need to rest the warriors' den is over there, and the medicine cat is over there for injuries." Twilightstar started, raising her voice a little so the one who had wandered could hear her. "If you're looking to keep busy we need some hunting done. I can have cats accompany you, although, the last RiverClan patrol that came to help seemed to prefer working alone." Something she didn't mind, whatever got it done the fastest. "Do you have any idea about how long you'll be staying?" Her eyes flickered to each RiverClan cat as she spoke so that they knew she wasn't directing the question at one cat in turn.
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Deadpool purred loudly delighted to hear that Shockpaw was alright. The thought of her friend getting hurt made her heart drop. It seemed that ThunderClan wasn't as bad as she had originally thought. Perhaps it was because they got a new leader? As the topic changed to her, she lowered her head to her paws and cuddled closer to Shockpaw with a frown, careful of her injuries and her fractured tail.
"Me go patrol border, I good girl mark border me did." She was still rather proud of herself for that tiny accomplishment. "Scary Twoleg come, hurt me and tail did them." She pointed at her shoulder, thigh, and tail. "ShadowClan help me, Nettlespark, Ravenvine save I. New friends of me...think I." She was still a bit uncertain where she now stood with Nettlespark. "Stay ShadowClan, met Irispaw and Beastie, fix tail sorta Irispaw did." Beastspark had been a little scary but he's proven to be pretty nice. "Whiskernose new friend too came home with family, hunting went he with Nettlespark me thinks." She was probably talking to fast and not making much sense, but that was just her. Deadpool wasn't sure if Whiskernose went hunting or not with Nettlespark, she hasn't seen them for a little. She didn't think they went home that fast.
"Nettlespark mad at I or Whiskernose, me no knows." She adds gloomy wondering if Shockpaw could help her with this problem. The chimera wasn't sure if the tom had gone back to ShadowClan yet... "You friends in ThunderClan?" Deadpool, feeling like she was talking too much about herself changed the subject back to Shockpaw.
@Rainquail

Shockpaw nuzzled into Deadpool, missing getting to be near their friend. "Shadowclan has had a tendency of.... catching Windclan cats recently." They actually didn't know that 3 of their clanmates had left to join Shadowclan, despite the implication of their words. "I'm glad they helped you, though. I think we passed a Shadowclan warrior while on the way back, so they haven't gone back home just yet." Shockpaw was used to her fast speech, and they themself had a tendency to run their mouth a hundred miles an hour.
They thought about their time in Thunderclan. She hadn't spoken to anyone much in the time the clan stayed there, staying mostly to themself. "Not really. Stayed to myself mostly, but they were quite accommodating. As grateful as I am for their generosity, I'm so, so glad to be back home." They closed their eyes and took another inhale of the camp. The slight unfamiliarity to the smell was better than wholly new scents. @Moonraven

[Arie]

Originally Posted by Spiderfrost

She waited with a patient gaze as Breezefeather seemed to collect his thoughts before speaking out loud. And as he described the feelings and thoughts that regularly consume him--the void--he called it, there was a squeezing in her chest as she felt the need to do something to comfort him. His eyes as he spoke were troubled, she could read them from her place right beside him and felt her shift to habitually press her nose to his shoulder like she would her sister when she felt everything was too much.

She thought about asking him about it, about all that lead to the void inside of him. But it wasn't her place. Breezefeather was trusting her to listen and that's what she will do. She listened as he described how his previous mate refused to settle down--which wasn't bad--but it still pulled at her how he spoke of her and then her betrayal of the clan, their family, their child. Daisybloom felt for the tom as he confided in her and she was unsure what to say. There was a long since afterwards before she decided, if he trusted her so much after such a short time knowing each other, then she would trust him.

"I understand...a little of what your going through." she started.

"Maybe not in a way that is exactly like your's but...since for as long as I can remember I've had issues when I feel over whelmed but too many cats or those I feel uncomfortable by. It's this anxious little bubble that rises up to my throat and squeezes it. I go mute...y-you saw a bit of that the day before, when I was overwhelmed and anxious about your territory and all the new surroundings and cats. My mind can run wild with assumptions of others and I get tense and on edge."

"It's scary...when those nasty, dark feelings blind and take over you. you feeling like they are constricting your body, you can't move, can't breath. Sometimes it feels as if your downing, or burning, or so cold you think your body is frozen over..." She turns an understanding, yet self-depreciating expression the striped warriors way.

"It's ok." she murmured, pressing her nose to him again in comfort. "If it hurts to talk about right now, if the void is taking over then take a moment and breath. My sister always helped be with my anxiety attacks, let me help you with this. It seems like you've had no one in a long time just sit with you and share space to help you. And that's not ok."

"If you want to try talking more about them, I'm here, I'll listen."

Breezefeather took in a deep breath. They'd both told each other about their deep deep problems and the issues they were facing. It was emotional but also somehow relieving to get everything off his shoulders and he noticed a minor change in Daisybloom's demeanour. His shoulder dropped and he curled his tail around Daisy before pressing his body into hers, taking comfort from her warmth and closeness. It was a nice feeling, this quiet and just supporting each other, because that was the only thing you could do when it came to mental issues, you could not fight the others battles for them - it was something they had to fight themselves and overcome... However by being there for them, for being a constant something that did not change you improved you made them greater and stronger and more able to tackle the mental battles there was ahead of them. The quiet was nice. The support was even better and he did his best to soak it up. "I appreciate you telling me about your issues as well. It gives a nice retrospect to feel that you're not alone with your issues, that someone has experienced something similar and is able to relate to it and understand how it feels to battle with oneself. The feeling that you'll never be rid of it, but rather learn to live with it. I think it is when you realise that you cannot be fixed, that you cannot become good old innocent young anymore that you start to improve. I will never not be enraptured the Void. It'll never go away, that I am aware of. Such as your anxieties will probably never leave your body... But I need to believe that at some point we will win, and although it'll never leave we will become better, learn to diminish the effects it have over our lives."