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RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY Raccoonstripe's gaze flicks first to his middleborn daughter, who fixes her posture the moment he publicly corrects her. Tigerpaw's smug look—directed to the nearest littermate—is not missed. He wonders almost despairingly if she was under the...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY He'd followed Nightbird to the Sandy Hollow, half-intending to set his apprentices against hers in a spar—but he's greeted by a far stranger sight. Dayfern has set up some… contraption, some unsightly, teetering log supported by angled wood...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY "ThunderClan! Patrol assignments. Don't keep me waiting." Raccoonstripe sweeps close to the base of the Highrock, his flank twitching as though a livewire runs beneath his tabby pelt. His single eye flicks restlessly from cat to cat, as if he struggles...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY This is no longer a problem ThunderClan can ignore, the tabby thinks, his jaw set grimly as he leads the procession back to camp from SkyClan's border. With Stormywing's initial report, the soil-stained thing he'd found, and this most recent discovery...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY Mudbelly's lion-hearted request that Raccoonstripe be responsible for his apprentice for the day had been astonishing, if nothing else. The Clan's deputy, charged with two apprentices of his own, and this mousebrain thought he'd like nothing better than...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY Raccoonstripe is back from a training session, one he'd decided to take both apprentices on. As a result, he's exhausted. His brain buzzes lowly with unfiltered static; he turns to look at first Stormpaw, and then Howlpaw, barely registering which dark...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY This should be a celebration; this should be a special, sweet moment, something for him to share with the she-cat who has been by his side all along, believing in him. He steals glances at her from time to time as they race through the forest, and...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY Raccoonstripe is still unsure about tugging both Howlpaw and Stormpaw with him on the same patrols, but he is only one cat, and his schedule since his deputy appointment does not allow him to separate training sessions any longer. He keeps a careful eye...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY Their ritual is quiet, always has been—that is the nature of their relationship. This time, though, there is a lingering guilt in the glances he throws Twilightpaw's direction. He does his best to avoid eye contact with his daughter, does his best to...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY Perhaps Raccoonstripe has neglected an essential aspect of fatherhood. It had been amusing to watch Tigerpaw declare her love for Thrashpaw as nursery-moss still clung to her tabby fur; he'd hardly given it another thought. But seeing Twilightpaw share...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY He had left Stormpaw in camp today, much to his chagrin; however, Raccoonstripe wanted his first training session with his new protégé to be unencumbered and without influence. His son is sharp-tongued and wily, and with enough prodding, Howlpaw could...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY Raccoonstripe had visited Twilightpaw only once after the hawk had scored his spine; he fights with the urge to sink into relief that he has lived, relatively unscathed, and the bitter shame that rushes his mouth when he remembers the terror in his...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN DEPUTY It's a lush day, for this early in greenleaf; the sun is strident, filling the golden clearing with warmth and the promise of prey. Raccoonstripe, Nightbird, and Roaringsun are all tending to their split duties in Roeflame's absence when Flamestar...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN LEAD WARRIOR The gorse trembles, and the scent of cats' blood infiltrates the clearing. Raccoonstripe lifts his head from where he'd lain with Clanmates, washing dust and scraps of leaf litter from his thick pelt; his nostrils flare, his eye widening. Hopepaw...

RACCOONSTRIPEHE / HIM ◆ THUNDERCLAN LEAD WARRIOR Raccoonstripe is silent on the journey to their camp; every pawstep feels misplaced, as though he's complicit in making some irreversible mistake. ThunderClan's newest member stumbles somewhere behind him, determined to keep up through the newleaf...