- Dec 10, 2023
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(☼) evening comes too slow for pebblepaw's liking. something inside of him is shattered and the feeling resonates into his surroundings. time moves at a honey drop's pace, the sky a wash of indigo and rose with a marigold sun sinking in a view he knows his momma would adore. he can't stand to think about her, think about the damned circumstances leading to him not being there. he goes everywhere with foxtail! everywhere! no pawstep of his mentor's is not matched by his own during the day. internally he knows the rusty patched tom is not at fault, but there is some bitter, child brained part of the apprentice that fully blames foxtail for hazecloud's kidnapping. staring at the tom from across camp, bile rises in his throat. hazecloud is gone, and there's nothing pebblepaw can do about it except hold a grudge.
he thinks about hazecloud to stop himself from thinking about riverpaw, about the horrific rainstorm his brother had been trapped in. he thinks about hazecloud to stop himself from picturing smokestar's hefty body falling... falling... splashing into churning waters below. whenever he closes his eyes and forgets hazecloud is gone, he can see riverpaw and smokestar swapping places, can see white patched bodies soaked with mud, flaming eyes turning to ice, life fading fast from them. salmonshade had said she didn't know if her apprentice had been taken by twolegs or had been lost, but pebblepaw thinks he knows the answer. he can sense it because why wouldn't riverpaw be dead? smokestar is, anyway.
the honey-slow sun melts from the sky as the young apprentice sits with a broken expression outside of the apprentices' den. he can't bare to see the empty spot in the siblings' nest, can't bare to see the fluttering bird chest of shellpaw and not hear the soft snuffles and snores of his brother. pebblepaw gazes at foxtail from across the clearing and sees hazecloud trapped. he spots salmonshade and can hear the crash of booming waves and rumbling thunder, riverpaw stolen. it's all too much for the dappled blue boy to take, and in a flash of a heartbeat, he stands from his silent vigil, paws pattering swiftly to the nursery.
as ember eyes adjust to the dim light of the comforting den, pebblepaw finds his siblings' nest right away. hazecloud's scent is permeates the whole den but is concentrated on her nest. the boy steps into it gingerly without saying a word to the queens and kits who might be watching him. something in him has shattered the way nothing has before. pebblepaw curls in his momma's nest and slips his tail over his eyes, dampening it with hot tears that spill in the darkness.
he thinks about hazecloud to stop himself from thinking about riverpaw, about the horrific rainstorm his brother had been trapped in. he thinks about hazecloud to stop himself from picturing smokestar's hefty body falling... falling... splashing into churning waters below. whenever he closes his eyes and forgets hazecloud is gone, he can see riverpaw and smokestar swapping places, can see white patched bodies soaked with mud, flaming eyes turning to ice, life fading fast from them. salmonshade had said she didn't know if her apprentice had been taken by twolegs or had been lost, but pebblepaw thinks he knows the answer. he can sense it because why wouldn't riverpaw be dead? smokestar is, anyway.
the honey-slow sun melts from the sky as the young apprentice sits with a broken expression outside of the apprentices' den. he can't bare to see the empty spot in the siblings' nest, can't bare to see the fluttering bird chest of shellpaw and not hear the soft snuffles and snores of his brother. pebblepaw gazes at foxtail from across the clearing and sees hazecloud trapped. he spots salmonshade and can hear the crash of booming waves and rumbling thunder, riverpaw stolen. it's all too much for the dappled blue boy to take, and in a flash of a heartbeat, he stands from his silent vigil, paws pattering swiftly to the nursery.
as ember eyes adjust to the dim light of the comforting den, pebblepaw finds his siblings' nest right away. hazecloud's scent is permeates the whole den but is concentrated on her nest. the boy steps into it gingerly without saying a word to the queens and kits who might be watching him. something in him has shattered the way nothing has before. pebblepaw curls in his momma's nest and slips his tail over his eyes, dampening it with hot tears that spill in the darkness.
- // bingo fish is bluegill! this takes place the night after riverpaw's disappearance, before eveningkit's. " #848DAE"
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PEBBLEPAW ☼ HE / HIM, APPRENTICE OF RIVERCLAN. NEPHEW TO
SMOKESTAR. 7 MOONS OLD, PENNED BY LAVS
a large blue tabby with low white and vitiligo. pale blue fur covers the length of pebblepaw's stocky body, sliced through with darker tabby stripes and spots. baleful orange eyes peer out of heavy set sockets, and his muzzle, paws, and tail tip are dashed with white.
![HORIZONPAW [transferred]](/data/avatars/l/2/2390.jpg?1720126321){kind=avatar}
