- Dec 17, 2022
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It is the first he has come to this place willingly in some moons.
The night sky is deafening even through the safety of the tunnel entrance. Crickets and cicadas chirp far above. The moon, clawing desperately to fullness, lights the path of three quiet paws. Wolfsong is awake. His breathing shifts subtly when he sleepsβ it is not quite a snore, yet close enough to it Sunstar would remember it for the rest of his life. Now, each inhale is even and measured. "You do not need to pretend for my peace, Ellisif." His tired voice holds no malice. Only the barest hints of distance, cold as a hair's breadth in leafbare, edges onto his words. He looks into the medicine den a moment longer to breathe in the scent of bitter herbs and dried greenery, whatever use any of them may be (even in the moons he slept here, Sunstar had not learned of them at all; his heart so liked to keep his secrets). Then he turns.
He sits with his face to the moonlight and his tail curling over his paws. A long shadow stretches back towards Wolfsong's nest. Though there is no seeing it, his eyes are closed to the camp before him. The expanse of his clanmates' sides, rising and falling in quiet measure, still pierce the backs of his eyes. Should he think too hard on it they are a half-moon before. Scorchstreak and Bluepool rest in their shared nest. Gracklestep haunts their camp like an enigma. Cygnetstare appears, half a ghost, in the corner of his vision. Grief splits him straight through. "Do you consider me cruel?"
The night sky is deafening even through the safety of the tunnel entrance. Crickets and cicadas chirp far above. The moon, clawing desperately to fullness, lights the path of three quiet paws. Wolfsong is awake. His breathing shifts subtly when he sleepsβ it is not quite a snore, yet close enough to it Sunstar would remember it for the rest of his life. Now, each inhale is even and measured. "You do not need to pretend for my peace, Ellisif." His tired voice holds no malice. Only the barest hints of distance, cold as a hair's breadth in leafbare, edges onto his words. He looks into the medicine den a moment longer to breathe in the scent of bitter herbs and dried greenery, whatever use any of them may be (even in the moons he slept here, Sunstar had not learned of them at all; his heart so liked to keep his secrets). Then he turns.
He sits with his face to the moonlight and his tail curling over his paws. A long shadow stretches back towards Wolfsong's nest. Though there is no seeing it, his eyes are closed to the camp before him. The expanse of his clanmates' sides, rising and falling in quiet measure, still pierce the backs of his eyes. Should he think too hard on it they are a half-moon before. Scorchstreak and Bluepool rest in their shared nest. Gracklestep haunts their camp like an enigma. Cygnetstare appears, half a ghost, in the corner of his vision. Grief splits him straight through. "Do you consider me cruel?"
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ββββββa rogue brought to windclan in a search for greatness, one of sootstar's most loyal warriors turned into her downfall. with a mate and kits to worry about, and now nine lives from starclan with a missing limb, windclan's leader has a lot to prove.
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