The Starcave

[Leucos]

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Smiling as the tom arrived last, he spotted echokit and gave a chuckle "who's this small fry? " he said in a playful tone. Then his eyes darted over to fawnsqueek. He's heard that name before..somewhere. wow...two clans already have apprentices....perhaps I should hurry up with that...but none I like... as a matter of fact that's what he was gonna ask coyotesnarl about.along with something else. He for some reason felt more comfortable asking a tom that question then the others who obviously have already chosen their apprentices.And the lad looked more experienced then the two she cats..
Or maybe he could...nah... Putting that at the back of his head he gave Fawnsqueek a smile and sat down. "sorry I'm a little late just a lot of stuff ,how should we start ? Or should there be introductions ?" hinting on the two new comers.

[wren]

He was enjoying the calm, though slowly growing bored of sitting there with his thoughts. Thinking about visiting again being made whole again and waking up like it was all a dream. One of his least favorite things to do. Perhaps they wouldn’t visit tonight and it would be a quick check in. Share few insights and head on home. That’s when he heard a pair of paw steps, glancing over his shoulder expecting to see perhaps Lionwhisker and Irisflame accompanied by each other, though the second set of steps sounded short and laboured. Like.. something small. His eyebrows knit together in thought before Irisflame emerged accompanied by the tiniest little snot he’d ever seen.

“Oh you’ve got to be kidding me” The toms ears flattened in annoyance. Though these meetings where but once a moon he’d enjoyed the “kit free zone” but now it followed him here. The toms glance fell on Echokit rather unamused with her choice. She looked small and... whatever he shouldn’t think negatively of it when it stood staring at him. “Oh ha ha” The sarcasm dripped from his voice “How’s babysitting Irisflame?” He snorted turning away and not caring to introduce himself to the little one. He was sure the blue she cat had done enough talking about the ugly tabby to fill echokits nightmares.

Otterstone emerged and boy did she look tense, though he could be reading her wrong as they shared a long stare and she broke it with a curt greeting. Overwhelmingly tame. Interesting. The toms tail curled in delight “Otterstone.”

There was the cat of the hour, Fawnsqueak, though he looked rather unimpressed at the motion of being here. No wonder, they were an underwhelming bunch of weird plant cats who could blame him. The scarred tom traced Otterstone before flicking back to Fawnsqueak noting his smile. It seemed forced. He offered his own, a curt sort of thing where he tried to only move the side of his face with fur to cover it. You know... to avoid any drooling if possible. The tom shuffled again adjusting so he was facing the warrior- er Medicine cat apprentice. “You know, we’re cats too right? We don’t just talk about patients and the latest in herb news” The tom said with a snort of a laugh. “You are trying to hard, just relax.” his tail gently rested against his shoulder as he tuned into their other conversation. Mindless babble about the other newbie.

Lionwhisker entered and only spared him a glance. His ears flattened going back to the gathering for a brief moment. You have something to ask me. His curiosity was boring a hole into the side of his skull and he’d nearly forgot! Now he had a chance to speak with him. No matter he’d wait until the end and he’d escort the thunderclan tom to thunderglade. He didn’t fancy heading back to his dusty den anyways.

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[Fawn]

"Oh, uh.. I actually prefer Fawnsqueak, if you don't mind," Fawnsqueak replied to being called a 'small fry', then his gaze drifted down to the kit.. apprentice thing, and he frowned. ..Oh. Oh. He'd meant her. Obviously. Well.. that was unfortunate. But at least it got his introduction out of the way. In the most awkward method possible, no less.

Moving on from that with a cough, he took comfort in Coyotesnarl's reaction to the shrimp because it was all too common that he was the odd one who refused to go completely mushy and gaga over miniature cats that wouldn't even stay that size. He didn't see what was special about them aside from their inferior sense of.. everything, but that wasn't as guaranteed to wear off. After the patients he'd been bound-by-duty to treat, he couldn't help the mutter of, "We're all kitsitters here, man."

Fawnsqueak raised an eyebrow as Coyotesnarl said they were cats. "I mean, literally all your names suggest otherwise, but.. sure." Lion, Otter, Coyote... Iris? A bit dryly and now with a more genuine smile, he added, "That's ..probably because herb news isn't nearly as lucrative as one would hope." If that was their only subject, it'd be over fast.

Wishing to push things along, Fawnsqueak cast a glance around the cave at each of the medicine cats as if to silently question what they were supposed to be doing next.

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Irisflame felt her indigo gaze flash in amusement at the attention that Echokit was getting, the small ankle-biter seeming tiny compared to the rest of them. Well, all of them except for herself. She was the size of her apprentice, but boy...her fighting spirit was much bigger than that. Feeling her chest puff out in determination, she inhaled deeply. It was ambitious, finding an apprentice this young, but Icestar had demanded so. And what Icestar said, she would do. Not only because it was her duty, but because she was honestly scared of what would happen if she didn't. She could handle a few bullies just fine, make a lot cry in a snap. But Icestar was something else. She'd never given her the liberty of knowing that, though, of course. But she'd still follow her demands like there was no tomorrow.
She would drape her tail around the silvery she-cat's shoulder reassuringly, a faint smile on her maw. Her eyes floated back towards the scarred tom, hoping he wouldn't...well, you know. Be a grump. But, as always, Coyotesnarl was quite the pessimist.
"Shut up, you old coon! She's much less a hassle compared to you." She snorted, her eyes narrowing with faint amusement.

As the other medicine cats began to flood in, Irisflame tilted her head on surprise. Another newcomer? She'd never seen the tom before... He smelt like Riverclan, which he would- he was Otterstone's apprentice, she presumed- but she couldn't recall anything else about him. He had a coat like a deer's, spots and everything. Probably something related to a deer, then... Deerspot? Deerear? Deer...boy. Deerboy he'd be for now. At Otterstone's greeting, she grinned, dipping her head.
"Let's just say that no one's being an idiot. How's Riverclan?" She mewed, her voice almost sheepish. There really hadn't been much excitement, and she didn't want to be the one to bring up the battle. How would she even-? She shook off that matter. It could wait.
At Deerboy's 'small talk' attempt, she broke out into bursts of laughter, her lungs contracting sharply with each bubble. Was that really what other cats though of them?!
"Well, some of them deserve it!" She exclaimed, her voice raised in mild protest, "But yeah, listen to Grump- we're not weirdos! Irisflame, nice to meet you." She introduced herself, dipping her head in a slight nod of greeting.

Smiling in Lionwhisker's direction, she nodded. It seemed Echokit had yet to be introduced, and she didn't want to steal it from the furball. She was a handful, she had to admit, but she was still worth talking to.
"Hey, Speedy, why don't you introduce yourself?"

[Wings]

At Coyotesnarl's rude response, Echokit's eyes flared with annoyance and a hint of anger. She had done nothing wrong to give the tom the right to act like that! Sure, she may of called him Grumpmeister but, she didn't know what his name was either way and that was what Irisflame called him. Though, she soon came to the realization that his name was Coyotesnarl. Seemed like a fitting name for a rude cat.

As more cats flooded in, Echokit saw that Coyotesnarl had gone over to another tom, who had white spots on his back and a bobtail.
As she watched the two toms talk, a voice caught her attention, drawing her away from her watch. She came to view a kind looking she, who was missing a leg. Before she could reply she heard 'who's this small fry?' She didn't exactly appreciate being called a 'small fry.' Sure she was small but proportionally she was a larger built she.
Before she could reply again, Irisflame ask her to introduce herself. Finally. Finally she could talk with out being cut off before she could even start! Giving a small smile to Irisflame, Echokit padded forward into the spotlight. "I'm Echokit!" She gave Lionwhisker and Otterstone both warm smiles. She smiled at Fawnsqueak too but, not as much as she did to the two more respectful cats. She was the medicine cat apprentice for stars sake and a young one too!
She continued to talk while she could. "I know that you're Coyotesnarl. A fitting name. But, I don't know you, you, or you!" She muttered under her breath about Coyotesnarl's name, it did fit him, and not because of his scar or anything like that, it's just his attitude. While she pointed to who she didn't know, Fawnsqueak, Otterstone, Lionwhisker, she smiled at them warmly.
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Otterstone listened to Fawnsqueak and Coyotesnarl before turning her attention to Irisflame. "Riverclan is doing well. But if you ask anyone, it's no thanks to me." She pursed her lips. She hurried on, not wanting to stay on the topic of the battle.



A mroow of laughter slipped out of her mouth as she listened to Irisflame. The younger she-cat made Otterstone happy, lifting her mood some.


Turning her gaze and attention again, she settled on the puffed up, excited she-kit. "Well, Hello Echokit. My name is Otterstone." She gave a small dip/nod of her head to the kitten, golden eyes gleaming.



Out of the corner of her eyes she caught Fawnsqueak again. Should she introduce him. Maybe not, but at least give him an explanation of being there.



"Not to take the shine off of Echokit, but I also gained an apprentice." Though it wasn't by choice, she thought. "Coyotesnarl has already been aquainted." She fought hard to keep the edge off her voice, but the end result was a rather steady tone of voice.

[wren]

Coyotesnarls ears flattened as Irisflame told him to shut his yap. That was a first, though he didn’t doubt the she cats ability to command a room he certainly wasn’t expecting it. To make matters ever worse.. he wasn’t even that old. Barely thirty one moons and people were treating him like he had a leg in the grave! “Go ahead and count me out of that nonsense.” The tom remarked under his breath at Fawnsqueaks comment. He’d rather be caught dead than having a shrimp for an apprentice. Tiny and all... stupid. Well not stupid- maybe stupid. He hadn’t spent enough time around the tiny things to know.

He’d felt out of place among the ranks of his comrades, them having wanted to serve their clans in a purposeful and meaningful way. In his case perhaps the quite opposite, a cry for attention or loneliness had crept up so slowly on him. Having asked Brightstar for the rank was a horrible mistake. Now he was stuck with three legged flirt face, the little pair of fireballs and the golden tom (he’d find a better code name for lionwhisker later), but hopefully Fawnsqueak would round out enough they’d get along. He didn’t seem too thrilled to be here either.

“You’ve got a dry sense of humour there fawn” The tom said with a half grin whiskers twitching in acknowledgment to his attempt. Yeah. They’d get along fine.

As Otterstone spoke up he felt that feeling of angsty excitement fill His chest, again, if it hadn’t been for fireball number two he would probably still be in a decent mood. “You aren’t going to mention how you got your apprentice?” The toms voice was cutting as he stood from Fawnsqueaks side and approached the stone tail lashing through the air. Being the antagonizer he was he’d only wish for an overreaction, though for her she seemed to be keeping her lid screwed on fairly tight. “Or Perhaps that’s a story for another time?” he barely gave the riverclan medicine cat a glance before he slipped down onto the jagged stone surrounding the somewhat glowing rock. That would be enough to settle the tension amongst them.

“Now are we visiting or what?”

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[Leucos]

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Laughing "sorry lad, I meant that fella " he then pointed to echokit who was finally speaking . Smiling " names Lionwhisker " he was gonna comment on a few other things but they went by quick! Somewhat of a whip lash for him. His head jerked to Coyotesnarl who was getting impatient by the looks of it. " yes yes, I think we should get a move on.. So, who wants to go first? I don't have anything too exciting ...although I did have two cats who fell out of a tree.."
Though he did have a few questions or so..

[Fawn]

Fawnsqueak stared at the kit, an oblivious one at that but... honestly, he wasn't expecting much from the younger generation since they'd been nothing but repeated disappointments in his short lifetime. This cat--half his age--wasn't giving him hope for the future when she apparently hadn't even heard his introduction, or cared to listen to it. Not that he could blame her for that particularly. However, he wasn't about to have a repeat incident, so he told her, "Um.. I already introduced myself." Although he hadn't said it with animosity, he hoped that wasn't too... mean for a kit, he didn't know how to interact with them. They made already-difficult social situations worse.

It was weirdly a relief that Otterstone chose to move things along. "Yeah, that's... sort of me," he chipped in with an attempt at enthusiasm, smile lopsided. In commentary of his own lack of excitement, he snarked, "I would be jumping up and down and talking our ears off, but I'm not five." Surprising, he knew. He could look the part of a five-moon-old munchkin. But he did feel like he was getting older by the minute with this plant lover's social hour.

Fawnsqueak took the initiative to join Coyotesnarl at the shimmering stone after eyeing it suspiciously, disenchanted. StarClan dreams were a bit enigmatic to him (and typically useless), but if it made these guys happy, he'd join in this star-nap extravaganza. Although he settled down to sleep, he... waited.

And waited some more, because what was supposed to happen here, anyway? Fawnsqueak had never been skilled at resting when insomnia dug at his thoughts.


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[Moon Lily]

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Irisflame could feel satisfaction at Coyotesnarl's lack of reply at her snap, power rushing through her veins. She'd never had trouble whipping pelts into place, which came as a surprise to many. 'Look at the size of her!' Was a common misconception, one that usually came at a sorry price. She really did enjoy teasing Coyotesnarl, and although she could say undoubtedly that she was friends with the tom and would stick her neck out for him, it was a relationship, like many of the others, proved complicated. Looking away from the scarred tom, she instead looked to Flirty and Deerboy, confused.
"No thanks to you...?" Her gaze traveled to Fawnsqueak's brown orbs. Had something happened, something that has forced the former warrior into her guidance? Coyotesnarl's snarky statement caused her pelt to provoke uncomfortably with the thought of it, but she shrugged the feeling off, blue gaze growing round.
"A bravo to you, Deerboy. Congrats!" She purred, tail-tip flicking in a gleeful gesture. It was best to ignore the obvious tension between Flirty and Grump, as she was sure it would otherwise esculate.


Deciding to approach the crystal with the others, she watched the moon closely as it began to align itself with the gem, the shaft of light beginning to bring more into the cavern.
"What did the tree huggers expect they would do? Fly? Idiots." She laughed, eyes rolling at Lionwhisker's comment. The Thunderclan tom was friendly, as always. She began to settle down, tucking her legs beneath her to get comfortable. After all, she didn't want to wake up with cramps like she did last time. She beckoned for Echokit to sit next to her, the cave starting to slowly grow brighter with the blue light that had begun to fill the room. The soft shade whitewashed the whole lot of them, the environment looking drastically different than usual. Here they went. Touching her nose to the cold stone, she closed her eyes. The icy touch of the solid crystal sent shivers down her spine, chilling her before dropping her into


darkness.