WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

[Puddle~]

@Fallen One

Puddlepaw tilted his head a little as his words were left hanging in the air, no response coming from the small kit before him. He definitely knew she could talk--he'd just heard her crying out a few heartbeats prior. So, a lack of speech development definitely wasn't the case here. But then, what was wrong? Perhaps she was just shy? And why did she seem so sad? Where was Brightflame? Questions whirled through the apprentice's head. Completely uninformed on the matter of Brightflame's death, the apprentice blatantly asked a few questions, unaware of how they'd affect the kit. He had no idea they were likely the root of the small she-kit's sadness. "Look... it seems kinda like you don't want to talk much... but don't worry. I'm nice. I promise I won't bite. Aren't you Emberkit and Cinderkit's sister? Where are your siblings? And your mother?"

[AmberShadow]

[QUOTE=WarriorsAndHorses;714777]SoftFeather chuckled at the kits' conversation. "WillowKit, that's your brother, BlueKit." She meowed thoughtfully. "BoulderClaw, Can you get me freshkill please?" She said turning her gaze towards her mate.
@Bravekit

Willowkit smiled and pressed her nose against Bluekit's head. "Hi, Bluekit. You look cool." She said as she looked over his pelt colors.

[Quasar]

Originally Posted by Arie

Letting out a snort, one of her lesser appreciated characteristics, Weaselskip nodded to the comment of the other warrior. "Who in truth needs emotions. The only seem to wreck and destroy you more than you already are." She hadn't meant to sound so philosophical, so cold... but it was the only reasonable response. She knew what love felt like... she knew and she cherished it so very deeply. But that was it. She knew nothing about herself other than that... Nothing. And she so wanted to figure out who she was, what she was and just know what laid ahead of these hollow walls she'd built up for herself. "What's on my mind you ask?" she answered, trying her best to add in a bit of sass. Despite how she wanted to explore the world... despite how vulnerable she felt... She would do her best to keep up these walls for as long as she could, even though she was lowering them every now and then. "I have fallen utterly in love with someone I shouldn't and is currently debating my entire life due to it." There it was. It was out and it was just straight and blunt as she would've preferred. Now it was up to her clanmate to deal with these emotions for now and she was glad to just have a moment to breathe.

Lotuspool hummed in response. Well, that wasn't quite what she was expecting, but oh well! She nodded, "Oh, ok" she curtly mewed. She didn't necessarily know whether that cat was a medicine cat, a cat from a different clan, or both. But really, who cares if a cat likes a cat from another clan? as Long as they're loyal to their clan above all else, there wasn't really a problem, "If you don't mind me asking, who is it?" she asked, her gaze focused on Weaselskip.

[Dark Flame]

The tom smiled. “Thank you. You too.”

His blue pelt was shining a little in the brief sunlight that could reach him. Bluekit grinned.

@AmberShadow

[Dark Flame]

Originally Posted by LionKitKat

She nodded, attempting to drop into the same crouch position as her mentor. She began to sniff the air for the smell of rabbit based on the ones she had smelled from the fresh kill pile. "I think I smell one", she said, pointing in the direction of the scent.

Sunnythicket nodded, her messy golden pelt blowing in the breeze. “Keep your scent hidden though. Come on and have a go!”

She grinned, and nodded her head to the rabbit’s scent, inviting her to try her hand at this rabbit hunt game.

[Mango]

Originally Posted by Rainquail

When Coldamber deposited Fizzlekit in the nest beside her, he shook himself and in a fit sat at the edge of the nest, continuing to pout.
When a moss ball rolled towards him, he perked up. He bopped it with his teeny paw and drew it in closer. He briefly put his weight on it before tossing it back to Gullkit. His throw landed a tad short and he huffed, a bit dejected.

@Zesty Mango

Originally Posted by bmkmb

The brown kit flailed as something pushed her, but stopped when she felt warmth. Curling into the source's fur, Sparrowkit opened her little mouth and searched for the food. She happily latched on and suck out the milk, content for now.

Gullkit gave a happy smile before fetching the mossball and rolling it back to Fizzlekit, it was fun.
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Gentlemoo purred as he watched Sparrowkit nursing. He loved her a lot, she wasn’t his favorite, Songkit was, but he loved her nonetheless.

[Moonraven]

Originally Posted by Nightbound

Leappaw flicked her ears back. “Loyalty is coming back no matter what. It’s turning your back on one thing for another.” She said quietly. Maybe something did knock some sense into my head. Leappaw thought. @Moonraven

Now that answer was a bit more mature than what Twilightstar was expecting, something she could work with, even so. "If you were loyal, you wouldn't have left in the first place." That was going to bother her to no end. In the back of her mind, wondering, when the molly would walk off either for another clan or just straight out of WindClan altogether. "Unfortunately you've broken any faith or trust I had in you." Twilightstar started, "Go spend half a moon as a loner, come back, and I'll allow you to join WindClan again or don't come back at all your choice." If the Clan heard that Leappaw left willing with a loner, mistake or not, they'd want her out.

[Moonraven]

Twilightstar laughed, bitter and cold when they both gave her their version of the truth. It was better, but she knew that they were both still lying to her.
"Why lie to me to about this tiger?" she started once again on these questions. "Why protect this rogue, unless you had something to do with your sister's back getting damaged, Whispertail."
This story made a little more sense, but still too many holes that Twilightstar was going to fill with her own story. No one goes as far as to make up an insanely stupid story to protect a cat they don't know. So here's what she thought, either Whispertail attacked his sister out of jealousy, hatred or whatever and Goldkit happened to be there, or another cat within the clan attacked her and Goldkit happened to be there. Regardless there was a threat to her Clan and she'd tear through whoever and whatever until she got to the bottom of it.
"Goldkit, you still haven't told me why you were out of camp in the first place," she growls, annoyed with the kit's insistent chiming in when she could not answer a simple question. She could tell the kit was scared of something, but the thing was why fear a rogue? She lived in a clan full of strong warriors, at least she did for now. There was no reason to make up such an absurd lie, unless whatever she was afraid of could get in and out of the camp with no problem. Her words only strengthed Twilightstar's former thoughts. "You're both annoying me and testing my patience. These two were literally digging their graves here.
@Goldwhisker @Echobreeze18

This tom was quite fun, unexpectedly. The last time Twilightstar has had any real fun was when she had started off as WindClan's deputy as short as that had been. It was a tom from ThunderClan who taught her how stress-free and entertaining a little bit of play could be. Though cautious at first, the few meetings they had never revolved around their clans, they often showed up to spat some insults at each other and thrown snow at one another. She had never seen the point of playing around as a kit, it got in the way of her naps and she always found it so irksome being bumped into or stepped on when the kits fought with each other.
Who knew something so pointless in the past would bring her some semblance of relaxation today. Her tail swings behind her like a pendulum in motion and a smirk sits on her maw as she watched Rushingmoor try to guess the dumber things that she dealt with. It starts out as a titter as he guesses her clanmates have her help them find their tails.
"So true, but no," she beams, "although I'm more then one hundred percent positive that if our tails weren't attached I'd be asked multiple times in a day to help find them." Could you imagine, detachable tails? Not only would that be chaos, but she could also see her clan mate's purposely stealing or switching tails with someone just to annoy her. There would be that one cat with multiple tails for the hell of it. Twilightstar's imagination could be so amusing some times.
"I shall hold you to that now." Honestly, despite how naturally lazy and unmotivated as she was, Twilightstar would much rather head outside the camp with Rushingmoor rather than deal with some of the stuff she had to deal with. Truthfully, it would most likely end up with her kidnapping him than the other way around. He had offered and now he was going to be her excuse for things she didn't want to do.
He could also help her find some hiding spots from her parasite, her den wasn't working anymore. She should introduce the two, maybe the kit would latch himself on to Rushingmoor since her mother was no longer an option. Twilightstar would lose a sound excuse to make cats leave her alone, but Rushingmoor's sacrifice would be for the good of her sanity.
"I take it back, you are an idiot." Her laughter was so free and pure, so childish despite her adult years. It came to the ears as a tickle and bounce while she watched Rushingmoor make a clown of himself. Her shoulder shook with silent mirth as her laughter fell to a soft snicker.
"Even though it appears that you started to contract that stupidity disease," Twilightstar was almost certain that everyone in the clan had just a touch of it, "you can not go playing double agent in ShadowClan. Even though I have many fools, you are the only fool who can entertain me without giving me a headache." Whether that was a compliment or not was up in the air. If Twilightstar could have silly little conversation likes this with all her clanmates she probably wouldn't mind spending more time with all of them.
@Beau

[Blitz]

Originally Posted by Socks

Tumblekit gave an awkward smile, trying to figure out how to configure his face to give off the same feeling as Hazelkit's smile. "I-I, uh. It's nice... To meet." His fur fluffed up and he stood still for a moment before jumping up to his paws. Next, next, what's next? "Game!" He exclaimed, padding in place. "Game, game, play-uh, I- Can we?"

Hazelkit jumped to her paws in excitement when she heard the idea of playing a game. "I'd love to play a game!" The she-kit exclaimed. "What should we play?"

[dionysus]

[ @Moonraven ]

Rushingmoor exhaled through his mouth, forming a “phew” to show that he knew exactly how crazy a world like that would be. Detachable tails would be odd for a number of reasons, but when he looked at the idea through Twilightstar’s perspective it became a nightmare. He snorted at the thought and purred amusedly,

“You’d have to make a second deputy whose sole job is tail sorting!”

Oof, being leader certainly didn’t seem as glamorous from an actual leader’s perspective as it did from all of those brain dead warriors who were dying for a chance to “prove themselves.” Dying for a bit of power more likely- once those cats got a taste of the crap leaders had to deal with daily they’d go insane. Rushingmoor had been sure of that even before his chat with Twilightstar and he knew now without a doubt that he himself would go crazy dealing with what she dealt with.

“Do me a favor,” he chuckled, “if there ever comes a time you need a tail-sorting cat... don’t choose me!”

But he had a different important job now- official kidnapper of the leader. Rushingmoor looked forward to the chance to see Twi in action and he planned to sneak her out to the territory as soon as possible for a good old fashioned race- or whatever else she wanted to do since it would be her break from the tailless (the nickname he’d decided to give to those mouse brains of the clan who would lose their tail if it weren’t attached.) They still needed a signal, though. Flicking his ear thoughtfully, Rushingmoor teased,

“For a signal, you can stand on the breeze rock and hoot like an owl- I’m sure that won’t alert the tailless to our little scheme.”

The striped warrior really did think that a signal would be a good idea, though, so he suggested for real,

“Or, if you want something even more subtle, maybe an ear flick?”

Rushingmoor did his own with a thoughtful grin, but ear flicks were common things and could easily be mistaken for a signal when one of them was really just thinking. It was too subtle. Rushingmoor didn’t offer another option, though, waiting to see what Twi thought and if she had a suggestion.

A bright smile spread on his face as he heard Twilight’s effervescent laugh and he paused momentarily in his foolishness just to listen to it. It was the kind of laugh that felt like sunshine and Rushingmoor wondered why he’d never heard it before. Subconsciously, he wanted to make her laugh like that again. Even though she was currently insulting him! The brown warrior gasped and put a paw to his heart, pretending to be hurt, but soon dropped it back to the ground in favor of leaning forward and responding cheekily,

“I take that as a badge of honor.”

Then he laughed at teased with a silly smirk,

“And- you just gave yourself away, Twi! Youuuu like me! Haha! So I’m not one of the tailless!”