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[Eggbounce.]

I'M GONNA BE THE SNACK THAT SMILES BACK
I'M GONNA BE THE KIT TO YOUR KAT ​

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eggbounce & 17 moons & male & he/him & skyclan warrior ​

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" Ooof~ " the eggshell tom grunts as he falls to the ground, autumn leaves crunching beneath his weight. Leaf-fall is prettier then he remembers ti - the way the leaves change colors from green to vibrant oranges and red, like feathers or flames. Perhaps it's simply that he's older now - no longer young enough to fall for lies about dying like the leaves - but it's comforting. Eyes flick towards the sky, limbs stretching as he rolls belly-up, before finally focusing upon his sibling. He'd flopped down here because he'd wanted to speak to her after all. " Are you excited? To be a parent I mean, "

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( I ' M ━ G O N N A ━ B E ━ T HE ━ O N E ━ Y O U ━ U N W R A P )

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// please wait for @Owlheart

 

[Owlheart]

She has been jumpier than normal these days, not really sure what the catalyst for this change was but she was pretty sure it was since she had ran herself into stress a lot more than usual. It feels like she's an apprentice again and counting down the days until her assessment happens, just so she can jump over that hurdle but there was that lingering feeling that she wasn't prepared. That she wasn't going to be enough as a warrior, or that she was going to some how fail miserably. Things had subsided after the meeting where she recieved her warrior name but those same fears have begun to claw their way up now. Now it wasn't because she was scared of not being enough of a warrior but as a-

The crunch of leaf-fall leaves and the weight of someone hitting the ground causes her hackles to raise, she whole heartedly believed she jumped at least the size of the tall pine in fright. "Eggbounce!" She outcried like a kit again, biting her tongue to hold herself from scolding her littermate. Similarly to her other littermates she hadn't been able to talk to him about the fact she's going to be a mother but it seems that he doesn't hold that against her. Flitting into conversation with ease, flopping down without a care in the world. She really admired that about her brother, that care free lighter than air attitude that she adored about him.

"...I am" She finally settles on saying after she calms her hammering heart rate from the earlier surprise. "I'm also scared" the confession is meek, once again too vunerable and honest for her own good but she felt safe to mention it to Eggbounce of all cats. "I don't want to... I don't know, fail as a parent? What if I mess up really bad?" She hadn't thought to search for guidance, merely just accepting in her anxiety that this may be the case. "I don't want to mess it up" she sighs in defeat, shuffling to sit closer to him, if he would allow it she would attempt to press her head ontop of his own in a search of comfort.
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[QUILLSTRIKE]

IF THE POINT'S TO NEVER DISAPOINT YOU, SOMEBODY'S GOT TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO​

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”The fact that you're worried about that kind of thing at all is a good start.” Quillstrike noted, tail giving a restrained twitch from where it was curled around his paws where he was sat a few strides away grooming the blood of a mouse from his muzzle. ”My dad didn’t give a shit about ‘failing’ as a parent- he was the adult, and the adult was always right in our den.”

If it bothered him to recall such things, it didn’t outwardly show as the towering chimera went back to his task. Maybe it’d been rude of him to interject into a conversation he definitely hadn’t been invited into, but he’d never really given a shit about social etiquette, and if the pair had wanted a private conversation they probably shouldn’t have sat down and started talking in the middle of camp.

”And if it helps, I’m sure one of the more experienced cats would tell you if you were bombing that hard.” he added with a shrug of broad, striped shoulders, a casual afterthought doused in the soothing logic he was so used to offering up to his mate.

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[DOEBLAZE]

Qualified to give parenting advice she is not, but that doesn't stop Doeblaze from joining the knot of cats gradually forming around Owlheart. The tawny warrior crosses over from the fresh-kill pile in a few easy strides, settling down a respectful couple of tail-lengths from Quillstrike. She hums lowly in thought as she washes the vibrant blue pinfeathers of her meal from her white muzzle, tiny flakes of azure drifting to earth around her paws. When the conversation dips after the chimera tom to her right interjects, she decides she might as well offer some advice of her own, even if her own parenting skills are ... questionable.

" Hey. Chatting about my grandkits-to-be? " Doeblaze raises a brow in good humor at the pair of siblings, her maw curving into a small but definitely-there smile. The prospect of grandkits to come still infuses her weary bones with excitement every time they're mentioned, and her son's mates have solidly won her approval. Owlheart is leaning against her brother in search of comfort, a familiar anxiety creasing her bright tabby face, and Quillstrike is as bluntly impenetrable as ever. Her eyebrows inch up an increment at his words—for all her mistakes, she can't imagine ruling over her kits with an iron paw. Though he seems to have turned out fine, if his love for Twitchbolt is anything to judge by.

" If you ask me, it all seems easier once they're here. The first time you see your kits, you just ... " she pauses, groping blindly for words as if back in the dark mountain-caves. " You love them so much, and you want nothing less than the best for them. Everything else comes after, you know? " Doeblaze shrugs, one paw kneading thoughtfully at the ground. She knows she hasn't been the best parent, even more than that doesn't know how to fix it, but she'd say she's being honest right now. She does love her children, all of them, and she wants nothing more than to see them happy.

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