private FOG ALONG THE HORIZON ✦ CANDORPAW & HOLLYPAW

[LIONPAW]

How peculiar, for all three of them to be selected for the same dusk patrol. It does not happen often but perhaps Twitchbolt thought it would be nice for the littermates to spend some time together on an outing to the oak-populated border ( or maybe it was sheer coincidence ). Lionpaw had come to realize that he really hadn't properly spent time with Hollypaw or Candorpaw lately; it was no conscious decision of his own, really, but training and patrolling had been eating up most of his days. Did they even have anything in common anymore, besides their kinship? Then again, Candorpaw and Hollypaw had always been the closest out of the three. Perhaps he'd... never been as close with them as he would have liked.

So, it is a nice feeling, embarking from the pine camp alongside his siblings and smiling softly as they gushed about what they've learned lately and what interesting happenings have occurred on patrols and whatnot. As always, Lionpaw is more inclined to listen than to take control of the conversation, though he gets a few words in here and there.

Briefly, their talks cease as the patrol approaches the border with ThunderClan. The chocolate torbie point narrows his eyes, concentrating as he sniffs the air and registers information in his head — their musk was recent. "ThunderClan was just here." Lionpaw lifts his head now, angling his ears and surveying the area visually. It seems that they'd just left. Good. An impending anxiety always accompanies Lionpaw on his outings to this border, as if he'd run into Burnstorm and would be subjected to the heat of his estranged brother's gaze — not as fiery with hatred as Skyclaw's, but equally as disgusted with and dismissive of their shared blood.

𝐌𝐘 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄 ✹ . + 　 　˚ 　　　　 · 　 𝐀 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐋𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐘

• @HOLLYPAW @CANDORPAW

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  — lionpaw / 10 moons / he/they pronouns
  — skyclan apprentice / mentored by crowsight
  — doeblaze x blazestar / hover for immediate kin
  — lh chocolate torbie point w/ blue eyes, diagonal scar across face
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[CANDORPAW]

They are a trio once again, united beneath the same sun. with mentor's lagging behind, they are allowed some much-needed time to congregate, and Candorpaw slips into the routine easily. They were freshly made apprentices, again! Not-yet aware of how their training may or may not split them up... The forest is no less wonderous to Candorpaw as it had been the first day he saw it. The same old trees and same old stones, perhaps... but if one looked closely enough, one would find something new to appreciate each and every day...

Today, its the way the sun sets the tips of Hollypaw's ears aflame. It's the way Lionpaw smiles, small and close-lipped the way it had been in kithood... It's easy to be a child again like this, no longer on the cusp of warriorhood as they were. It's easy to let his worries wash away in an endless stream of pine-needles, to not think twice about the nature of the world they lived in... To not stop and ponder the nature of the deaths that were unfair, and what should be done about it...

No, he doesn't worry. He's never been great at worrying— but that was one deficit of his he did not mind.

He lives and breathes in the moment. Thinks of the present, the future, but not the past. He worries not of death on their borders, or of any mistep on this one, in particular... He feels the wind in his fur. He ponders if Blazestar had felt it in the very same way he did, now. ThunderClan was just here, so observes Lionpaw. Candorpaw hums his acknowledgement. " So it seems. " To think, they had kin over this border... ThunderClan was not his burden to carry, but at times, he pondered the future where it had been.

" Ah, you remind me- " he pipes up, turning fully to his pointed sibling then. Pale whiskers twitch with interest. " You chattered with some last gathering, did you not? I recall it sounding rather... " He tilts his head, straining for details, but not quite recalling anything substantial... All he remembers is being curious, and evidently, he still. was. " ...Clamorous. " A fine enough word. Candorpaw quirks an imploring brow.​

 

[LIONPAW]

Lionpaw returns Candorpaw's inquiry with a rather solemn glance, one that communicated that this was not the petty drama or juicy gossip that his boisterous littermate was perhaps seeking. "It was Burnstorm." The apprentice murmurs with a frown, gaze sweeping to Hollypaw and then back to the flame-pointed trainee. Burnstorm, their estranged half-brother, one they'd discovered moons ago during one of Howlfire's storytelling sessions. His curiosity about his ThunderClan kin had only grown since then, holding out a shred of hope that perhaps they could nurture a relationship despite their distance from one another. Now he knows that can't happen.

"I didn't know it was him at first." Lionpaw admits, averting his blue gaze almost shamefully in nature. It wasn't as if the apprentice could have known any better, but to make such a negative first impression... The chocolate torbie points regretted approaching his kin with such defensiveness and fire. He had only been trying to stand up for Howlfire and Fireflyglow, only to utterly sour and char any potential connection with Burnstorm. "He was sayin' bad things about our father." Blazestar had not been as great of a cat as others made him out to be, according to the resentful ThunderClanner. This challenged everything Lionpaw had ever heard about the famed leader; all of his life, he had idolized his father.

He doesn't know what to believe, truthfully. Maybe Burnstorm was just blinded by his own hurt feelings; how could Lionpaw trust his judgment? They shake their head, murmuring, "Just another one of our ThunderClan kin who wants nothin' to do with us." First Skyclaw. Moonwhisper had died before she could meet her younger half-siblings, but they could only assume that she would have held a similar sentiment to Burnstorm. "It's just the way things are." The chocolate point says defeatedly.

𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 ✹ . + 　 　˚ 　　　　 · 　 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄

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  — lionpaw / 10 moons / he/they pronouns
  — skyclan apprentice / mentored by crowsight
  — doeblaze x blazestar / hover for immediate kin
  — lh chocolate torbie point w/ blue eyes, diagonal scar across face
  — click for full tags

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