tunnels KICKING UP DUST // hunting

[SOOTSTAR]

SOOTSTAR ♀​

With a pelt thick with dirt, Sootstar trudges through the shadows with her maw open. The tastes of many fresh scents flood her nose and her mouth salivates, imagining the taste of warm rabbit blood. Soon enough, it would not just be a visualization, they'd be gulfing down meat any time now. Up ahead the tunnel forks, but Sootstar knows from experience both directions meet again after several fox-lengths. The scent of rabbit was fresh here- she has bets that they are active right past these tunnels. If the patrol splits up, one going in one direction and one the opposite, they could successfully corner the rabbits and kill them before they knew what was coming. @BLUEPAW ... go into that tunnel, we're going to corner some rabbits. @cottonpaw , go with her." She dips her head to her daughters before looking back at the rest of the patrol, bunnypounce and @SHADOWPAW , "The rabbits are going to run in our direction... be ready to kill when they bump into us. Follow slowly, and quietly..."" Sinking down she stalks forward. //so apparently the dice god decided she actually is wrong, they are in fact, not in the location she believes them to be but instead further ways up. Bluepaw and Cottonpaw are free to attempt to improvise on the failed plan, if they have the wits!

 

[SHADOWRUNNER]

\╱╲I SEE A RED DOOR & I WANT IT PAINTED BLACK╱╲/​

Shadowpaw swallowed coarsely as he filed in behind Sootstar with his mentor just behind him after that, likely readying themselves to catch whatever got past the leader and apprentice. Admittedly the young apprentice felt a deepening weight of anxiety with being on a patrol with Sootstar and her kin, alas he had none of his own family present to offer comfort or support to sate his nerves. All he could do was focus on steadying his breathing as he stalked his away through the tunnel as instructed.

NO COLOURS ANYMORE I WANT THEM TO TURN BLACK
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[► BUNNYPOUNCE.]

RUN RABBIT, RUN RABBIT, RUN RUN RUN
bunnypounce | 22 months | female | she/her | physically medium | mentally easy | attack in bold hotpink

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The quiet uneven thump of bunnypounces hobbling gate echoes faintly through the tunnels, dampened and softened by the dirt surrounding them but there nonetheless. The molly doesn't speak for the entirety of the journey up to that point, simply ambling along lightheartedly, eager and obedient. Orders from her queen, from her deputy - well, who is she to argue? Not that bunny really even thinks to - she just merrily drifts along. That is until the scent of juicy rabbit catches her attention, and sootstar begins to speak. Her head nods jerkily in her excitement, lips quivering to hold back to giggly glee she cannot risk expressing for fear of scarring away the snacks. She drops even lower than her usual hunched crouch, but lets shadowpaw and sootstar take the lead - she is better built for reinforcement than taking the lead after all, the crooked thing she is.

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