oneshot Dear fellow traveller,

[Eggbounce.]

I'M GONNA BE THE SNACK THAT SMILES BACK
I'M GONNA BE THE KIT TO YOUR KAT ​

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eggbounce & 18 moons & male & he/him & skyclan warrior ​

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Curiosity - it is a trait that has been ingrained in Eggbounce since childhood - a kitten full of questions. It'd often frustrated his clanmates to no end - the endless flow of words, asking why, why, why. But while temperament has evened out, no longer so tearful and distraught, his thirst for knowledge has not changed.

Eyes squint against the sunrise where he sits, contemplating. He'd asked his aunt once, what it was like - what twolegs were like, what life as a kittypet was like. Its a choice he's never fully understood - to let the strange creatures wrap pelts around your neck, to eat strange foods in strange places.

And yet - the thought doesn't leave his ind. Each day, the daylight-warriors and their apprentices come and go, nobody even batting an eye. Nobody asks where they are going, why they are leaving. There is a freedom in that captivity that Eggbounce craves - patchy pelt always in the back of his minds eye.

Mind drifts, only for a moment, to his family - to his sister, granted deputyship only to have it taken away. To his baby siblings only just welcomed into the world, and Owlhearts kittens born at the same time. It feels as though everyone is growing and changing without him, as though he is the only one frozen in time.

Hindlegs wriggle, and he leaps - powerful paws gripping the fence as easily as any tree he's ever climbed, pulling himself up and over. It's easier then he'd ever imagined to finally cross that line - pausing only for a moment to glance at what he leaves behind. 'I'll come back,' he thinks, a silent promise he makes to himself - because he's sure he will. Skyclan is his home. But... he has always been a curious child.

Paws thud against the earth, the only sound that breaks his silence, before his paws carry him onwards.

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