private holding you hostage // marblepaw

[Ternstar.]

FROM COFFIN TO THE CRADLE
I GOT DEMONS, I GOT ANGELS​

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ternfrost ♛ 24 moons ♛ female ♛ she/her ♛ shadowclan queen ​

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With recent revelations, something has changed - or perhaps, nothing has, and Ternfrost is simply seeing what was already there. Blue eyes linger consideringly upon tabby pelt, and there is a moment of contemplative silence before she speaks. " The stars spoke to you at last, " she can't hide the approval that colors her tone, even as face remains otherwise impassive. She remembers keenly the way magpiepaw had always been... gifted. Strange, odd, star-touched - whatever it may be, it'd been clear enough from the start what path her friend would walk. Marblepaw had never showed uch signs at least, not in Ternfrosts eyes. But this? Surely, this could only mean good things.

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I - S H O U L D- H A V E- B E E N- B O R N- W I T H-
A -W A R N I N G- L A B E L

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// @MARBLEPAW - im sorry she's awful </3

 

[MARBLELEAF]

Ternfrost's approach is not entirely unexpected, though Marblepaw stiffens almost on instinct. The queen — star-chosen, star-blessed — regards her with something like interest in her still-water gaze. "The stars spoke to you at last," she says, and the medicine cat apprentice levels her newfound leader with a gaze she hopes is unreadable. "With all due respect," she murmurs, her tail curled around her paws, "the stars have spoken to me since I was six moons old, Ternfrost." She has not shared this, in truth, with anyone — not even Starlingheart — and she does not intend to fully divulge that secret now, but she isn't sure how she feels about the condescending tone Ternfrost addresses her with.

I should be happy, she thinks. The pale she-cat had been good friends with Marblepaw's predecessor, Magpiepaw, and perhaps that is why it had been so difficult for Ternfrost to accept her in his place. She thinks she can understand that, as bitter as it has been to swallow at times.

Smogstar had been an imposing figure, but he had vanished with no trace seemingly overnight, leaving behind everything he'd promised. Mirestar had tried to be something else — a savior to ShadowClan — and that had failed, too, and they've left their empire crumbling behind them.

Marblepaw's eyes narrow. Her tone becomes brisk, loses its childlike softness. "You must have been chosen for a reason." She studies Ternfrost, the ice in her gaze, the confident tilt of her chin. She has known the queen her whole life — but has she, really? "We haven't had a strong leader since Chilledstar. I've seen too many in the few moons I've been here. I want to know you'll stay." It's bold, for a medicine cat apprentice to speak to her leader-to-be this way, but Marblepaw does so anyway. Starlingheart will be Ternfrost's advisor, but there may come a day where that changes — and Marblepaw wants Ternfrost to know where they stand.

『 out of character. 』 ✧･ﾟ:* 『 about. 』

• ooc: —
• 
• Marblekit . Marblepaw, she/they w/ feminine and non-gendered terms.
  — "speech", thoughts, attack
  — 11 moons old, ages realistically on the 1st.
  — mentored by Starlingheart ; mentoring n/a ; previously mentored n/a
  — shadowclan medicine cat apprentice, formerly a rogue. siltcloud x lilacfur, gen 3.
  — currently mated to n/a.
  — penned by Marquette.
  
  
  sh fawn tabby with dull green eyes. courageous, curious, introspective, observant, judgmental, snarky.

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[Ternstar.]

FROM COFFIN TO THE CRADLE
I GOT DEMONS, I GOT ANGELS​

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ternfrost ♛ 24 moons ♛ female ♛ she/her ♛ shadowclan queen ​

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'The stars have spoken to me since I was six moons old, Ternfrost.'

" Have they? " she drawls, brow raised - no hint of question or curiosity, only skepticism. Marblepaw had never seemed it - seemed special, for all her title and position. And yet- if Ternfrost truly thinks about it, neither had Starlingheart. Perhaps, she admits - if only to herself - there are many kinds of star-touched.

'I want to know you'll stay' she says, and oh isn't that just it? She knows why they all take to the young tabbies proclamations with skepticism, with disbelief and disillusioned eyes. " I will, " she agrees easily, the heady weight of a promise she fully intends to keep. And then, " I'm not like them. Smogstar... Mirestar... for all their strengths, they have known other homes, other lives, " And when things had gotten to hard to bear beneath starclans gaze, they'd returned to what they'd once known. " I was bon here - and, if nothing else, I can promise I will die here too, " she had never wanted anything more - except, maybe to be picked apart by Magpiepaws birds, if only to be closed to him. But eyes blink, and that foolish dream fades as quickly as it had resurfaced. She would die for shadowclan - for her clan.

Nine times over, if that's what it takes.

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I - S H O U L D- H A V E- B E E N- B O R N- W I T H-
A -W A R N I N G- L A B E L

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[MARBLELEAF]

Ternfrost gives her a somewhat flat look of incredulity. "Have they?" Marblepaw stifles her frustration; she knows the gray-pelted queen has always found her wanting in comparison to the student who had come before her, but she's continually shocked at how little faith some of her Clanmates have in her abilities. Is it because she's rogue-born? Traitor-bred? Somehow, she doubts Ternfrost cares about that part of it as much as some of her other Clanmates do. "Yes. I've seen..."

Her eyes darken to a shade as deep and immobile as the shadows in her mother's forest. Siltcloud stalks her in sticky, starless night skies, but there is no question that she walks with StarClan. Marblepaw had seen the blood on Caterpillarfuzz; she had seen the patrol's grim expressions upon returning with their news. Siltcloud is dead, and she has visited Marblepaw since before her naming ceremony...

But Ternfrost does not need to know that. Not yet. Maybe not ever. So Marblepaw says, "I've seen many things in my dreams." That's all she will offer the newly-chosen leader today.

And it's then that Ternfrost makes her vow to Marblepaw. "I'm not like them." She intones that she'd been born to ShadowClan and would die in ShadowClan, and Marblepaw studies her for a moment, wanting to believe.

How can she even have doubts? StarClan had sent her the sign of the tern trodding through frost, taking flight toward Highstones. They had wanted her to see it, to bring their message to her Clan. She has no doubt in her heart that Ternfrost is meant to lead this Clan, because StarClan had spoken to her and told her so.

"Okay." She blinks. "I believe you." And she does, too, even if it's hard — even if she wants to give into the grievous doubts her Clanmates had muttered, hissed, shouted. "As long as you stay, then ShadowClan can be strong again, too."

『 out of character. 』 ✧･ﾟ:* 『 about. 』

• ooc: —
• 
• Marblekit . Marblepaw, she/they w/ feminine and non-gendered terms.
  — "speech", thoughts, attack
  — 11 moons old, ages realistically on the 1st.
  — mentored by Starlingheart ; mentoring n/a ; previously mentored n/a
  — shadowclan medicine cat apprentice, formerly a rogue. siltcloud x lilacfur, gen 3.
  — currently mated to n/a.
  — penned by Marquette.
  
  
  sh fawn tabby with dull green eyes. courageous, curious, introspective, observant, judgmental, snarky.

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