GROWING LIKE A BREEZE ✦ bunnypaw

[MIDNIGHTPAW]

The sun has only just begun to rise in the sky when Midnightpaw stirs, groggily stretching out of her nest. Her thin limbs are stiff and sore, constantly aching from the effort of keeping up with her training. She’s beginning to find it difficult to wake so early, between how easily her body becomes over-tired and her inability to sleep most nights. She struggles, but manages to shake the exhaustion from her dark fur. A cold breeze rustles through the camp, and the last bit of dew from the night still clings to blades of grass. The shadow-cloaked apprentice is on her way towards the fresh kill pile when she stumbles across a beautiful sight.

A large black-and-yellow orb weaver spider has spun a delicate web between the two browning stalks of dead weeds, the pattern intricate and wondrous. Crystalline drops of morning dew bead along the strands, glowing in the early sunlight like diamonds. The spider herself is busy at work, continuing to add new threads to an already complex tapestry. Midnightpaw is awestruck, her star-filled gaze wide as she pauses to watch the arachnid, entirely forgetting about her breakfast. Pawsteps slip across the sand towards her, towards the web, and she turns to find the lilac silhouette of Bunnypaw wandering dangerously close to running into it. “Oh, wait!” She cries, reaching out a paw to warn the other girl. Her ears flatten against her head bashfully as she stares into warm yellow eyes. For a moment, she is dazzled by the color, before the burn of embarrassment heats her skin. “I’m sorry, I… I just like them,” she explains softly, realizing she had just shouted at her denmate kind of abruptly.

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• MIDNIGHTPAW ✦ she / her, moor-runner apprentice of windclan, 8 moons
  ⭃ short-hair black tabby with low-white, vitiligo and blue eyes. petite and fragile
  ⭃ hollowcreek x harbingermoon // littermate to whitepaw and grasspaw
  ⭃ adopted by nightingalecry // adopted sister to frightpaw, witherpaw and deathpaw
  ⭃ single, crushing on no one // currently mentored by redheart
  ⭃ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted // underline and tag when attacking
  ⭃ penned by limerence ↛ @limericks. on discord, feel free to dm for plots.

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[bunnypaw]

Bunnypaw doesn't want to stir. She doesn't want to leave the pile of siblings she gets to sleep within, leave the safety of camp and security of being left alone. But it's clear what she wants doesn't matter. It's what the Clan needs. Sedgepounce is a forgiving mentor, at least, and goes by her pace even if it bothers him (does it? She's not sure.) The sun edges over the horizon and before she knows it, she's awake, unable to sleep once more. Her mentor will find her soon for their dawn patrol, and despite her misgivings, she's never given him issue over patrols before, so...

Her paws carry her, eyes bleary from a restless night of sleep. Midnightpaw's voice wakes her with a sudden jolt, her fur ruffling as she stumbles a half step back. "I'm sorry -" she starts too quickly, golden yellow eyes blinking hurriedly. The blue eyed she-cat looks at her with the same wide eyed wonder before admitting her fault - that there was a spider in Bunnypaw's path, and the other simply didn't want her to ruin the work the arachnid completed overnight.

Bunnypaw... doesn't like spiders. But she thinks she doesn't mind Midnightpaw and her caring demeanor towards them, so she tries to tuck the discomfort away.

"Um - can you -" she swallows thickly, trying to lean around the web to avoid taking it down. She detests her bulky build. "Is there a way around it? I don't... I don't want to ruin it, not if you like it." Not really at all, in truth, but the details hardly matter.​