- Oct 5, 2024
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⋆⋅☽✪☾⋅⋆ As soon as she gets a moment away from Buzzardpaw and Marbleleaf, Lavenderpaw intercepts her. He stands there, tension coiled in his limbs and framing his spine, staring at the cut on her shoulder as if the force of his attention will reveal its history to him. Bugchaser's hesitant claws cut into his forehead again in his memory, a reminder of his humiliation. Had Puddlepaw fared any better?
"We lost," he observes, dragging his eyes back up to meet hers. She looks... stunned, is the word he settles on, but it's more than that, worse than that. It's the aftermath of the sickening surprise he felt when he first killed another living creature, but multiplied many times over. A crow's neck shattering between his teeth... he hopes he's putting the pieces together wrong. She's too young. It would have happened eventually, but... surely it's too soon. Mapletuft really did turn him soft, didn't she? Nonna would be cuffing his ears if she could hear his thoughts now. He should be relieved, and proud. Wormwatcher's training and his own advice had gotten her through this battle. But instead, he feels faintly ill.
"Are you alright? You look..." Unwell. Empty.
"We lost," he observes, dragging his eyes back up to meet hers. She looks... stunned, is the word he settles on, but it's more than that, worse than that. It's the aftermath of the sickening surprise he felt when he first killed another living creature, but multiplied many times over. A crow's neck shattering between his teeth... he hopes he's putting the pieces together wrong. She's too young. It would have happened eventually, but... surely it's too soon. Mapletuft really did turn him soft, didn't she? Nonna would be cuffing his ears if she could hear his thoughts now. He should be relieved, and proud. Wormwatcher's training and his own advice had gotten her through this battle. But instead, he feels faintly ill.
"Are you alright? You look..." Unwell. Empty.
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ooc ⋅ @Puddlepaw
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LAVENDERPAW ✩ he/him, apprentice of shadowclan, 9 ☾'s.
⭃ a small, spiky-furred black smoke tom with odd eyes and low white
⭃ padding after no one / / mentored by none
⭃ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / / underline and tag when attacking ↛ see battle info here
⭃ penned by solaire ↛ @aurumbones on discord, feel free to ping for plots.