WindClan: Life Before 2023's Fire

[Caramel]

Crowkit peaked his head out of the nursery, he was 6 moons old by now and hoping he would become an apprentice though it could always be about something else. The gray tom padded quietly out of the den and sat down, looking up at Twilightstar on the Breezerock.

@Spooky Pepper @Dovesong @SpookyScarySkeletons @mellifluentCurator if any of y'all want to interact with him)

[shaae_26]

Wolfkit, a bit too excited, came running out of the nursery.

[RedHead]

Quicksilver had been mindlessly rolling a clump of moss back and forth between his paws, at a loss of what to do and entirely bored. Though as Twilightstar suddenly entered the den, towing a few other cats with her, the silvery tabby looked up, blinking in surprise.
Her words were sharp and quick as she gave them a rundown, and Quicksilver's eyes narrowed slightly as he surveyed the new cats coming in, instantly beginning to survey the damage to see what he could figure out on his own.

Echopaw seemed in terrible shape, Quicksilver could just smell the wounds, even from his place on the far side of the den. That was no good. Twilightstar had said something about Cinderkit's leg.... was it broken or something like that? Quicksilver had had a broken leg at one point in his life but he had been in too much pain to even remember half of what the medicine cat had done to fix it. Something with twigs and leaves but after that Quicksilver had no recollection.
But that Shadowclanner had to stop pacing if he was ever going to focus on what he needed to do. Lifting his head, Quicksilver snapped in his direction. "How about you stop with the pacing? It's driving me insane." He meowed, flicking his ears. He didn't want to respond to the tom's question... Quicksilver honestly didn't know if these wounds were bad enough to cause death or not. It looked pretty bad. But the action in the medicine den had just gone from zero to a hundred and he didn't need a random Shadowclanner pacing about like a madman.

Blue eyes moving back over to Echopaw, Quicksilver could feel himself inwardly wince at the wounds and grime covering her fur. That was going to take ages to clean off, and it would be hard to clean out everywhere on the young she-cat as well, with how much grime there was. Turning to Shockholly, Quicksilver angled his ears towards Echopaw. "I think our best bet for her would be a running stream. It cleans out wounds well, and with her current predicament I think that's the way we need to go. That way we can make sure we get out all the grime and everything gets cleaned before trying to patch it up." Quicksilver himself had used streams before, he didn't like the taste of blood so often washed off any scratches he had from battles or other causes in streams. There wasn't one too far from the camp as well, if he recalled correctly.

@Zesty Mango @Wings @Moonraven @Rainquail @Yellow Caballero

[RedHead]

Originally Posted by Arie

Wow. This cat was really slow in the head. Stagpaw didn't really get it... why did it take him so long to form a reasonable sentence and why was he staring at him like... like he'd grown a second head? Looking back at his neck, Stagpaw confirmed that indeed there was not a second head attached to his neck and he looked back at Livereater in even more confusion. What was he staring at? Like he didn't have a second head and he was quite sure that he didn't bear anything that looked wrong so what could be like... looked at? His paw he knew was a given but Quicksilver was looking at him. Like... the entire him. Oh and then he finally said something but... this was what he'd been expecting. What was there with adults and their wrong perception of 'fun'? Bees were fun! And in denial he shook his head and lifted his paw and poked it at Livereater's chest and then proceeded to attempt to slap his ears as the dumb warrior asked if he'd ever seen a bee. Did he not see the many battle scars Stagpaw had on his body? "I'VE SEEN MANY BEES! And I've been fighting them too! AND I was actually useful and I got their honey for Oogly and Old and Herpwerp to use! So... bees ARE fun you're just some old guy who does not see the fun in it... but do you wanna go bee watching with me? We're not destroying a nest just... having fun!" he smiled brightly and looked up at the warrior quizzingly.

What even was this child? Pumapaw was bad but this right here in front of him....? Quicksilver didn't know what to say. Maybe he should've given Twilightstar more credit if this was what she had had to deal with.... they were kind of in the same boat when it came to crazy and weird apprentices with apparently no filter. And.... there was the insults. But Quicksilver didn't understand this one.... He kept himself well-groomed and kept exercising, plus his pelt was silver already so silver hairs of old age couldn't be seen growing in. Stagpaw should have no reason to call him an old guy. In perspective, he believed he looked at the most 30 moons. Maybe 35.
"Okay here's the thing kid." He meowed, shaking his head as he stretched out his forelegs. "I am not a fan of bees, never have been, never will be. But I'm also not 'just some old guy', if you're going to call me old, I am The Old Guy, okay? Do not group me in a group, especially if its of old cats. I refuse to be part of that." Quicksilver then stood straight, tail-bob flicking. "So if you want to go get stung spying on bees, then so bee it. I'll come with you, but as soon as the bees are within a fox-length radius of me I'm running." He was making puns and this was bad. That was a dad thing. He'd accepted long ago that he wasn't a good dad and was never going to be. So he definitely needed to not act like one.

[Jessica1917]

Dimtail looked up as his leader called the meeting, standing up and slowly padding over to the group. So many kits. He sat down on the side of the group, near the front but on the side so he wasn't surrounded.

[Arie]

Originally Posted by punkscape

"Okay! I'm not scared of the water!" She sure wasn't. Coyotepaw splashed in after the warrior until the water of the stream lapped at her belly fur. She outstretched her forepaws to move the water around, having fun splashing as she waded in. When she looked down, she could see tiny fishes darting to and fro in the clear water, and she tried striking at them with a paw, with no luck. But she wasn't really trying to catch them--just playing around. It seemed like she'd be a natural at swimming.

This was... not going too horribly wrong. At least Coyotepaw hadn't drowned yet, which was significant improvement to Weaselskip's own first encounter with water. Didn't help she'd had someone else actively trying to not help her but... it had worked. Somewhat. "You're doing great!" she responded and even let out another thrill of laughter as it seemed the apprentice had gotten caught up with the fish that was just existing in the tiny body of water on Windclan's territory. "Do you like swimming?" she questioned as she just watched the apprentice with careful green eyes, long legs balancing her on the bottom but at any point she could fold them up and just... float. But she didn't, she had to have some resemblance of control were anything unfortunate to happen to the kid. Because in her eyes that was what Coyotepaw was still, but she didn't mind it. Coyotepaw was fun to teach and it allowed the molly to let out her own more... ridiculous side. "Are you ready to go find bugs in the water?"

[RedHead]

Moonbird padded up to the breezerock, taking a seat and curling her tail neatly around her paws. Orange eyes lifted upwards to Twilightstar, awaiting to see what the leader would be announcing.
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Quicksilver padded into the clearing, shaking his pelt from the herby smells (disgusting), and taking a seat near the back of the gathered cats. He took a brief glance around, not spotting Pumapaw once again. He hadn't seen her around in a while, and frankly, was beyond the point where he was glad about it. He was actually kind of getting a little teensy bit worried.
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Mapledance shuffled into the clearing, sitting down near the edge of the gathered cats before lifting his sky blue eyes to Twilightstar to see what she had to announce.

[StealthWarrior]

Skyripple sat down and watched a queen settle down beside her, edging away, the queen hissed at her, "More important getting away from a tired queen than it is to listen to our noble leader to you eh?" so this was the kind, lovely, charming Sugarbush.

[gs29513]

Skunkblaze quickly made her way over to the Breezerock, sitting down near the back of the crowd. On the offhand chance something interesting happened, she wanted to be there.
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With a careful look around, Wishpool made her way into the clearing, taking a seat somewhere in the middle. However, she kept her gaze trained on the nursery. The kits seemed to have been decently well behaved lately, so she hadn't had to do anything major.
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Thornpaw made her way slowly into the clearing before sitting at the back. She didn't want to be noticed. As weird as it sounded, not being talked to was quite preferable to any interactions she'd had. Aside from Seedpaw.
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Deadkit stayed by the camp wall. She didn't REALLY want to see anyone, and the best way to do that was to stay out of the way. (ALL OPEN)

[PEPPERMINT~]

Originally Posted by Lynxpaw

Blackkit was purring, laying down happily in the sun. "Nightpaw ... You never said you had siblings"

Nightpaw shrugged. "They aren't actually my siblings since I'm adopted, and they fight a lot. Or at least my sisters do.. Strongkit's nice though." Nightpaw explained. He never really talked with any of his adopted siblings, he was just never interested.