pafp GET IN YOUR ZONE | playing with a mouse

[ferretpaw]

⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ On the far end of camp, the small molly Ferretkit had her head poked into the gorse wall that surrounds the hollow camp. Her tail would swing tentatively behind her for long stretches of time while she was completely silent in her concentration, aside from a few stray giggles. What could she possibly be so entranced with?

Inside the small dip into the ground under the gorse wall, the hole that she had stuck her head in, resided a small field mouse - absolutely terrified by now, surely, but what Ferretkit saw was a new buddy to play with. Every once in a while, she'd stick her paw into the gap, at which point the mouse would shy away. When that failed, she'd wait patiently outside of the hole with her tail swinging across the snow-mixed dirt behind her. Eventually, seeing as her new friend doesn't want to come out to play, the she - kit stands and stomps her paw on the ground, before taking a frustrated step back. It is at that moment that the mouse sees its escape, and darts.

Ferretkit is on its tail almost immediately, batting towards it and letting it run in a game of chase. With excitable squeals, she chases the field mouse across the camp's clearing, darting between legs and under startled raised paws. Once they get closer to the nursery, the mouse's trajectory is clear: it's running straight for an unknowing kit who just happened to be stepping out of their den.

"Grasskit!" Ferretkit hollered, barely able to speak over her woops and squeals. The mouse was headed straight for them! "He's gonna get you, Grasskit! Run!" She decided her game of chase was over, and a new game has started. In her eyes, the mouse is no longer her friend: it is a rat warrior, large and fierce with the biggest teeth ever! It runs straight towards little Grasskit, poised to attack, and Ferretkit would be the hero that saves them!

‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎┌── AND EVERY WORD SHE SAID ⋅❁⋅ IT WAS A LITTLE SURPRISE ──┐‎

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  FERRETKIT ✩ she/her, kit of windclan, 3 moons.
  ⭃ a long-furred chocolate tabby/fawn chimera with low white
  ⭃ sister to GORSEKIT
  ⭃ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / / underline and tag when attacking
  ⭃ penned by ixora ↛ @.ixora on discord, feel free to dm for plots.
  

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[Grasspaw]

𓆝 . ° ✦ He jumped a bit, Ferretkit's yell startling him. Suddenly a mouse was charging straight for him. Delighted in a game of chase, he took off as fast as he could. Considerably faster now that he was almost 2 moons old, but not quite fast. The mouse skittered nearly past him, and he batted at it with a sheathed paw, knocking it over. "I got it!" He squeaked.

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ooc Information

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  NAME — HE/HIM ･ 1 MOONS ･ KIT & WINDCLAN ･ PENNED BY TWITCHTAIL

  Small fawn tabby with pale green eyes.
  "speak" thoughts action
  — peaceful, healing, and minor injury powerplay allowed

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[RATTLEHEART]

AS HE RAISED HIS FIST BEFORE HE SPOKE — With an early morning hunting patrol firmly behind her, Rattleheart had decided to take a short while for herself in camp, chin tucked atop white paws as she laid half-splayed out of the nest that she and Venomstrike shared. She found herself wishing that her mate wasn't away on clan duties of his own, wishing that she could tuck herself against his fluff and doze until she was called upon for another task - or it was time for a meal, whichever came first. For now though, she was just content to enjoy her temporary break, letting the weak leafbare sunlight beat down on her back as she surveyed the camp around her. Nothing too exciting seemed to be going on, though Ferretkit certainly seemed enchanted by whatever had caught her attention in the gorse wall.

For the moment the lead warrior was just keeping an eye on her, seeing no reason to step in when the young chimera wasn't trying to actually get out of camp.

That seemed to be working out fine - up until Ferretkit sent the object of her captivation shrieking across camp, darting in between legs and in a desperate rush to get away from the little paws that had been tormenting it. Though a mouse didn't really present any kind of threat to anyone on its own, Rattleheart couldn't deny the way that her entire body tensed as it grew close to the nursery. The last thing they needed was a frantic little mouse biting down on an unsuspecting kit's paw. They were still young enough that it could leave a mark, and be a small waste of resources that she was sure Wolfsong wouldn't be fond of - no matter how close they were to newleaf proper. Grasskit's arrival only heightened that worry, finally driving the tunneler up and out of her nest, and onto her paws.

It seemed that she wouldn't have to step in though, blinking in surprise as Grasskit lashed out with a paw and knocked the poor thing over with his paw. His first catch it seemed, even if the prey had come to him rather than the other way around. Rattleheart reached out with a paw then, pinning the little prone mouse to the ground as she settled nearby. "That was quite the swipe there, Grasskit. I'm sure whoever you end up apprenticed to will be glad to make use of it." Her gaze then shifted over to Ferretkit, head tilting over to one side. "Is this yours, then?" She could forgive Ferretkit for so blatantly playing with the poor little creature. It wasn't as if she were a fully grown warrior - or even an apprentice - so she didn't have the extra knowledge of how intensely valuable prey really was.

THE RIGHTEOUS HAND OF GOD 𓆩♡𓆪 THE DEVIL THAT YOU FORGOT

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  ❥ longhaired black and white tom with pale green eyes
  ❥ 48 moons old; ages the 1st every month
  ❥ afab; uses he/she/they pronouns
  ❥ homosexual homoromantic; mated to venomstrike
  ❥ sibling to scorchstreak, lizardbounce, and rabbitclaw
  ❥ currently mentoring downypaw
  ❥ somewhat difficult to befriend; wary but kind
  ❥ "speech", thoughts, attacking
  ❥ peaceful powerplay allowed
  ❥ all opinions are ic

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[nightingalecry]

Grasskit is hers just as much as the little tom-kit isn't. Nightingalecry isn't sure she tries hard enough to spread her love equally amongst her six rowdy kittens - but inadequacy bites her like a greenleaf bug far too often and she dismisses the worry before it intensifies (knowing full well that it'll return in due time.) The young mother hadn't been hunting, but instead was cleaning the messy fur of her doubled-in-size litter, when Grasskit decided to leave the nursery. She heard shouting, watched her son dart out a little further, and then - quiet.

"Oh, oh -" Nightingalecry frets as she stands and trots to the nursery's entrance. She sees a mouse toppled over (and dazed?) near her son's pale paws, and Rattleheart there too, entertaining him and Ferretkit. It seemed that the stray prey found itself in an unfortunate position, but thankfully no one was hurt. Her thin tail twitches at the tip, "They worked together, it seems," she murmurs, forever an advocate for her little ones, "Maybe they can share it, if they want...?"​

 

[violetkit]

BOO. Stuck in the nursery again. Ugh, she got soooo tired of pouncing the same tails and knocking the same mossball around. Especially when no one else wanted to play with her! But apparently Violetkit did something bad by nipping a kit younger than her, so she had to be "watched" and had to have a "timeout". And MAN was it boring. Cats much larger than her came and went from the nursery and every time the tiny tortoiseshell would whip her head around to see if it was her father coming to save her from her boredom.

Giggles and squeals of joy leak in through the nursery's entrance and Violetkit's mood sours terribly, settled against Gorsepetal's side. Jealousy rose like bile in her throat as Grasskit got to leave the nursery to investigate, little kindling eyes narrowing and a sickeningly jealous growl vibrating her body. Gorsepetal shifts next to her, presumably to swipe an ear for misbehaving again, but Violetkit leaps to her paws and bolts as soon as Nightingalecry moves to also investigate what's happening.

Violetkit darts between the queen's legs and out of the nursery, almost stumbling over the snow accumulating outside the den. Her pupils dilate in the sudden sunlight, desperately swinging her head around to see what kind of fun she was missing out on and - was that, wuh - FUH -

FERRETKIT?

"WHAT!?" Violetkit shrieks, dashing toward Rattleheart and dropping onto her belly to observe the mouse. YOU CAUGHT A MOUSE?" The little molly is absolutely gobsmacked. The fur along her spine prickles as jealousy absolutely drenches her.
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𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 ——— ✿ ——— 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙮 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡

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  violetkit

  
  

  — she / her, 2 moon old kit of windclan
  — a tiny black molly speckled with red and white with sundown eyes
  — snakehiss x berrysnap, sister of rosekit, waspkit, and the estranged privetkit
  — full length biography
  — penned by izanami / @nullmoons

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[Grasspaw]

𓆝 . ° ✦ Grasskit beamed. He caught a mouse! A real live one too, not just a mossball pretending to be a mouse. The little tom looked up at Rattleheart as she spoke, breathing labored and feeling a little sick, but still tapping his feet excitedly nonetheless. He was awfully out of breath from the exertion though. Why did his chest burn so much? He barely went anywhere! He looked over at Nightingalecry as she suggested he and Ferretkit share the mouse. "Ooh can we, please?" He puffed out. With a bright smile at Ferretkit, he leaned down and got real close to the mouse's face, studying it under Rattleheart's paw with Violetkit.

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ooc Information

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  NAME — HE/HIM ･ 1 MOONS ･ KIT & WINDCLAN ･ PENNED BY TWITCHTAIL

  Small fawn tabby with pale green eyes.
  "speak" thoughts action
  — peaceful, healing, and minor injury powerplay allowed

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