back when i could only hide - stargazing

[x LUNAPAW]

IT'S SO LATE IN THE NIGHT​

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Mismatched eyes wandered the stars as Lunapaw sat in the center of camp. She needed to start back home soon, but she wanted to take a moment before she did. Skyclan was so busy, with so many cats chatting and wandering that she rarely found an opportunity to just look up at the sky. The stars were so much brighter here than they were above her twolegs den. It almost made her believe what she had learned.

The stars she had loved for so long were home to dead cats. That's what her new clanmates said. She should believe them, she thought, she didn't think they were stupid or liars. The power of this Starclan had even been demonstrated to her, when Blaise - or, Blazestar - resurrected before her eyes. Dead cats in the sky were certainly no more fantastical than that.

And yet.

Lunapaw tilted her head as she gazed skyward, squinting as if trying to see the cats hidden there. For all her life she had been enamored with the stars, it felt impossible that they could hold such a grand secret from her. It felt like she should be able to see it, if she just knew where to look. So she looked, tracing all the stars she remembered so well, searching them for some unfamiliar shape that she had missed before, anything that might reveal the truth of her clanmates words. She found nothing. The stars, as ever, were still and silent in the face of her rigorous examination.​

 

[BLAZESTAR]

╭── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──╮​

Blazestar had first met Lunapaw on a night like this one, with the clear sky sprawling above them, stars etched silver into the darkness. She'd been stargazing then, too, but it had seemed more intense than that -- as though she's tracking skyward, linking stars together in her head. She's doing it now, paused on the edge of camp, head tilted.

"Looking for something?" He's curious. He settles his pale bulk beside her small black frame, trying to trace the pattern her gaze has drawn above them and failing to make any connections. "You seem like you're doing more than just looking."
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[FIGFEATHER]

THERES MAGIC IN YOUR EYES, TEQUILLA SUNRISE​

Figpaw never gave much thought to the stars in themselves, she loved StarClan and all, but it was such a complex concept her young brain struggled to understand. Perhaps one day an event would occur that solidified her belief in them more. Safe to say, it was her last guess that Lunapaw was looking for signs of StarClan within the night sky.

Figpaw feels confident she has the answer to Blazestar's question, "She is looking for the "Big Claw"!" The girl exclaims, remembering when a fellow apprentice pointed out the image in the stars. Hmm... where was it? She didn't forget now did she? Ah- nope, there it was! With her own claw, she points into the night sky. "There!"

//she's referring to the big dipper lol. The "bowl" is the toe of a cat while the "handle" is the claw LOL ​

 

[HUCKLEBERRY]

( ☼ ) a small yawn would escape a somewhat broad muzzle, heavy pawsteps would alert anyone close by of the presence of huckleberry who had emerged from the shadows to join those in the open clearing whose focus were upon the ever growing stars in the nightsky. the tom would come to stand besides figpaw, head tilting back as amber hues would search for the band of stars that the apprentice had pointed out saying it was big claw.

it was fascinating to know just how many pictures one could make just by connecting certain dots. "if there's a big claw, does that mean there's a little claw too?" the words were spoken in a curious tone, if baguette were here he would know.
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( i hear the wandering streams and the song of the birds )