- Sep 8, 2023
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An odd sense of dread has been lingering over Breezerunner's head lately, but he isn't sure the feeling is necessarily new to him. Since he was small, the young tomcat has been a cynic and a skeptic. He never gets his hopes up about much- in fact, the last time he'd done that was when he and his brother and sister had planned to be a triad of tunnelers together. That had been before he'd sprouted legs and grown long like a weasel. Before he and Mossdust and Wormwing had grown distant and out of touch. Despite his reverent realism, Breezerunner finds that lately he's had to face a lot of shocking realities. Between the hunger of his clanmates, the illness and deaths from the plague, and Badgermoon's betrayal Breezerunner has been feeling more weary than usual.
When Bluepaw had proposed to him that the pair go searching for food together, Breezerunner welcomed the opportunity to take his mind off of current events. Besides, if they're able to bring something back for WindClan it might help to bring him some selfish peace of mind. Once they've set out, it doesn't take them long to find the trail of a hare on the moors, and it takes an even shorter amount of time for them to take it down. It's a sizable piece of prey- a small blessing they've been spared from StarClan, he thinks- but the cheerfulness that Breezerunner feels as he looks down at the dispatched hare is shortlived when he catches wind of something nearby.
"Do you smell th-" the question receives its answer before it can even fully form on Breezerunner's tongue as an unfamiliar figure pops over the crest of the hill they're on. Breezerunner growls, low and warning as they draw closer, but it's obvious that he and Bluepaw are outsized and outnumbered by the rouges encroaching on their territory. "Thanks for doing all the hard work," one of them barks out a laugh as he comes tail-lengths from the pair "I'll be taking that off your hands now!" One of the other rouges bowls Breezerunner over while the one that speaks snatches up the hare and turns tail to flee.
"Cowards!" Breezerunner cries, swiping at the tails of the fleeing rouges, but weakened and slowed by his hunger he's unable to make any meaningful contact. The moor runner only makes it a few strides before he feels winded. Deflated, he turns back to Bluepaw "I suppose we could try to find another, but that was the only thing I could scent here..."
/ please wait for @BLUEPAW first! :3c
When Bluepaw had proposed to him that the pair go searching for food together, Breezerunner welcomed the opportunity to take his mind off of current events. Besides, if they're able to bring something back for WindClan it might help to bring him some selfish peace of mind. Once they've set out, it doesn't take them long to find the trail of a hare on the moors, and it takes an even shorter amount of time for them to take it down. It's a sizable piece of prey- a small blessing they've been spared from StarClan, he thinks- but the cheerfulness that Breezerunner feels as he looks down at the dispatched hare is shortlived when he catches wind of something nearby.
"Do you smell th-" the question receives its answer before it can even fully form on Breezerunner's tongue as an unfamiliar figure pops over the crest of the hill they're on. Breezerunner growls, low and warning as they draw closer, but it's obvious that he and Bluepaw are outsized and outnumbered by the rouges encroaching on their territory. "Thanks for doing all the hard work," one of them barks out a laugh as he comes tail-lengths from the pair "I'll be taking that off your hands now!" One of the other rouges bowls Breezerunner over while the one that speaks snatches up the hare and turns tail to flee.
"Cowards!" Breezerunner cries, swiping at the tails of the fleeing rouges, but weakened and slowed by his hunger he's unable to make any meaningful contact. The moor runner only makes it a few strides before he feels winded. Deflated, he turns back to Bluepaw "I suppose we could try to find another, but that was the only thing I could scent here..."
/ please wait for @BLUEPAW first! :3c