- Oct 22, 2022
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Today had been a very good day for Skyclan and the cats who resided within. The day itself had been warm, one of the last amicable leaf fall days before leaf bare settled in not even a moon from now. Border patrols came back with very little to report, a bit laden with prey, and then the hunting patrols returned as well, with as much fresh kill as cats had been sent out at the very least. So as the clan settled down to eat, the sun settling down into the horizon, the atmosphere became one of laughter and merriment. The camp becoming as warm as a twoleg hearth, and as the laughter reached a lull, a voice called out above the cacophany.
"Alright! Alright! Gather around youngsters!" Burr gestured the clan forward, getting a few raised eyebrows from some of his denmates that only got a rolling chuckle from the elder tom. "Yes even you, ya codgers, I've got a whole three seasons on at least one of ya!" One of the elders breaks out into a snort before they start making their way over, a tom grumbling about how he is 'definitely not a codger' to the lighthearted protests of the rest of them. Burr smiles a bit wider at that, making sure the clan is all gathered before he heaves himself up onto the tree stump in camp, sitting back on his haunches as his paws punctuate his words with a dramatic fervor. "Allow me to tell you a tale that my mother told me, and her mother before her, all the way back to when the loners during the great clans of old told it as hushed whispers. Allow me to tell you a tale of two sisters, their alliance, their strength, and their fall."
"This is the tale, of Sun's Trail and Moon's Whisper."
"Alright! Alright! Gather around youngsters!" Burr gestured the clan forward, getting a few raised eyebrows from some of his denmates that only got a rolling chuckle from the elder tom. "Yes even you, ya codgers, I've got a whole three seasons on at least one of ya!" One of the elders breaks out into a snort before they start making their way over, a tom grumbling about how he is 'definitely not a codger' to the lighthearted protests of the rest of them. Burr smiles a bit wider at that, making sure the clan is all gathered before he heaves himself up onto the tree stump in camp, sitting back on his haunches as his paws punctuate his words with a dramatic fervor. "Allow me to tell you a tale that my mother told me, and her mother before her, all the way back to when the loners during the great clans of old told it as hushed whispers. Allow me to tell you a tale of two sisters, their alliance, their strength, and their fall."
"This is the tale, of Sun's Trail and Moon's Whisper."
header by lleafeons on DA, fancy via chérie, Burr art by @/lokisaurus