private AND THE NEXT ONE BEGAN [✿] drowsy & lupine

[DOEBLAZE]

✿—— the tabby pads out into the pines that are quickly growing familiar, this time flanked not by a large golden shape but by two small smoky ones—though they seem to grow taller every day, sure to surpass her soon. she has had little time to see her kits since they all left the nursery; it's not just the new apprentices falling asleep before their heads hit their nests, it's her too. days filled with patrols, training, swapping tips and tricks while resting in camp don't allow for the long, leisurely hours she once enjoyed—and she finds she doesn't miss them. she doesn't miss laying motionless in the nursery, drowning in her own head, but she does miss how easy it was to see her kits, to go for a little walk as a treat or teach them some new game or story.

now they're cats of skyclan in their own right, apprentices training for warriorhood, as she is in her own unorthodox way. today, though, she's managed to carve some time out of busy hours to speak with them, taking a walk out into air that smells like clean leaves and pine instead of disease, trying not to think of the cats piled up in dawnglare's den, coughing, sharing a camp with her children. when she finds a good spot, overlooking the distant horizon past many, many trees, she takes a seat, careful of her achy muscles, and beckons her kits to do the same. bobbie tilts her head, fixes them with gentle green eyes, and mews, "did you two have something you w-wanted to talk to me about?"

NO LOVE, HOWEVER BRIEF (✿) 𝑰𝑺 𝑾𝑨𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑫

• ooc: @DROWSYPAW & @LUPINEPAW !!
  
• nothing here, have a nice day :-)
• 
  — bobbie
  — she/her ; warrior of skyclan ; 40 ☾s
  — "speech" ; thoughts ; attacks
  — chibi by its_oliverr
  — penned by dejavu
  

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[DROWSYNOSE]

I'VE LEARNED TO LOVE YOU, HONEY!​

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he pressed himself closer to his mother, purring at just her very presence. he missed her so much, missed sleeping in the same nest as her, with his siblings. he... wanted that to go back to normal but it couldn't be like that. drowsypaw was am apprentice now, and he had to just suck it up. he had to learn to fight to protect his mama from dogs. to protect his siblings all the same... and with that scary sickness... ah, he shook his head to get himself from his thoughts. he yawned, blinking a few times to try and get that sleep from his eyes before he perked up his ears.

"yes, mama. i'll go first but i... mama, I'm not your daughter. i am pretty sure I'm your son, and a brother to crowpaw and lupinepaw."

he didn't even realize his eyes had begun to tear up again. he didn't think his mom would hate him but he can't help the fear that consumes him. he really hoped she wouldn't be upset...

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[DOEBLAZE]

✿—— drowsypaw presses against her, and bobbie welcomes it—most of her physical contact these days is battle training, trying (and frequently failing) to field blazestar's powerful swings. it's nice to have her kits pressed against her like they were in the nursery again, and though she can't say she misses being penned up in camp, she missed this. a quiet purr rumbles in her chest, dragging an affectionate lick across drowsypaw's forehead, waiting for her to speak as lupinepaw gathers up the nerve.

then she's listening to him speak, pale eyes blinking encouragingly at her son. oh—is this what had been making drowsypaw worry as of late? she can see tears glittering in his eyes, and it hurts her heart to think that he must have spent so much time anguishing over this. the tabby presses her nose to the smoky tom's head, mewing gently into his fur, "alright. my son, then, and one to - to be proud of."

it's true. she hasn't had the time to tell any of her kits, but she's proud of them—proud of the work they do as apprentices, as the credits to their clan that they all are. she's been so busy with her own training and patrols that those lazy nursery days have become a distant memory for her, perhaps a not-so-distant one for her children. finally bobbie lifts her muzzle from her son's head, turning a green gaze onto lupinepaw, "did you have something t-to say too, love?"

NO LOVE, HOWEVER BRIEF (✿) 𝑰𝑺 𝑾𝑨𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑫

• ooc: ——
  
• nothing here, have a nice day :-)
• 
  — bobbie
  — she/her ; warrior of skyclan ; 40 ☾s
  — "speech" ; thoughts ; attacks
  — chibi by its_oliverr
  — penned by dejavu
  

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[LUPINESONG]

❀‿ Lupinepaw stumbled in the face of change lately, even when the change was positive. She padded quietly beside her family members, brushing upon the other side of Bobbie, enjoying the comfort of it that was readily available in kittenhood, but seemed to have been slowly yet steadily dissipating in frequency. She was silent as they walked through the shaded forest, but thoughtful. This was a happy moment and a necessary one at that, but Lupinepaw still felt bothered by her involvement in it—or lack thereof, more specifically. If Drowsypaw hadn't come to her first, would she have been able to do this on her own? How long would she have just grinned and bore with it for no real reason besides her own fear caging her?

The thing was, Lupinepaw wanted so badly to enjoy being Bobbie's beloved son and Crowpaw's and Drowsypaw's good brother. And for the most part, she did. Before, Lupinepaw hadn't closely inspected the odd turn of the stomach that happened when bestowed these labels, it didn't feel fair to scrutinize something that she figured rationally was not in any way a problem—or shouldn't have been a problem, anyway. Besides, her feelings seemed so silly and minuscule compared to the real problems the other cats had to deal with in Skyclan.

But she had Drowsypaw alongside her in this, and despite any misgivings about her own cowardice, she took heart in having his paws to pad behind. And their mother, as sweet and accepting as she'd always known her to be, took Drowsypaw's profession with an affectionate purr. Familiar sage green eyes were set upon her, and took a deep breath before nodding along, "Y-yes I do, uhm..."

She wanted to say this with more elegance than she did last time, and soothed the flutter in her chest with a distraction. Bobbie had a flyaway hair on her chest... Lupinepaw leaned over to give it a quick smooth-down before speaking again. "I am your daughter, actually. Like, uhm, I'm a she-cat, yeah. Drowsy and I told each other a few days ago, it was a happy coincidence, I guess," She stated with a purr of her own.

JUST LIKE THAT ⊹₊°❀‿ THE MOON GOES FLAT

• OOC:
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• 
  — lupinekit . lupinepaw
  — trans she/her. 4mo apprentice of skyclan
  — ??? ; single
  — tall, long-haired black smoke with low white and green eyes
  — smells like sweet lupine flowers and young pine needles
  — “speech”, thoughts, attack
  — icon by saturnid, fullbody and chibi by nya
  — penned by eezy

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[DOEBLAZE]

✿—— that her children ever thought she might treat them differently, might disparage them for such things, is something that makes her heart ache. if drowsypaw is her son, then so be it—of course she'd love him just the same, no questions asked. they're her kits, yes, but like it or not they were growing older and further, becoming their own cats rather than little copies of her and their father (oh, how that subject still aches, and she pushes it away and it goes quietly). these moments are ones she treasures, walking out with her kits to field their troubles and talk of their new apprenticieships, and if this was a part of that she would accept it happily. they are her children, and she would move the mountains themselves for them if she needed to.

she offers lupinepaw an encouraging nod and a smile as the smoky apprentice licks down a fur on her chest, fielding this second confession as kindly as the first as she leans to offer her daughter a comforting press of a white-freckled muzzle to her dark head. "and a daughter, too. i'm a lucky mother," she purrs with some amusement, settling back and regarding her children with soft rosemary eyes as she mews, "i'm so proud of you both - you're going to be great w-warriors one day."

NO LOVE, HOWEVER BRIEF (✿) 𝑰𝑺 𝑾𝑨𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑫

• ooc: ——
  
• nothing here, have a nice day :-)
• 
  — bobbie
  — she/her ; warrior of skyclan ; 40 ☾s
  — "speech" ; thoughts ; attacks
  — chibi by its_oliverr
  — penned by dejavu
  

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