// set three days after the battle with the rogues and after the medicine cats have just finished their half-moon meeting
Every moon the medicine cats of all the clans made their way to the moonstone to convene with the stars. This moon, they were short a couple of faces. Dawnglare and Ravensong lay sick still and she cannot help but think that at least SkyClan had an apprentice. While RiverClans healer was ill in the medicine cat den there was no one to attend to their sick and injured. If she had her own apprentice to spare then she would, but Magpiepaw is on a journey across unknown territories and while she is endlessly proud of him she also misses him terribly.
She files out of the mother-mouth with the rest of them, tail already waving in a goodbye. She was eager to get back to her clan, to the cats who lay sick in her den, to her children and her mate, there were a lot of repairs to camps the others could help with as well, but there is something that makes her pause. Voices drift to her on the breeze and she is quiet for a moment before turning to the others "Do you guys hear that?" she asks, voice hushed. Then she sees them. The group draws closer and she turns to the other medicine cats, tears of happiness makes her vision blurry as she says "theyre back it’s-it’s them it’s the journey cats" they were here with the lungwort, no one else had to die from this awful terrible disease. She thinks she might just faint from the sheer relief of it.
She covers the distance between them and the others quickly, green eyes scanning the crowd for a familiar black and white pelt. Was it just her or did the group seem smaller than the one that left? She can feel her heart sinking as she draws closer. Those bright blue eyes and kinked tail was nowhere to be found and she cannot help but fear for the worst "It’s good to uh to see you all" she says, and she tries to smile she really does, but her eyes keep checking and re-checking the cats who are present. "Where are- is everything-is everything okay? Where are the uh the rest of you?" she is not sure if she can handle the idea of so many lost and she finds herself worrying her lip with her teeth. Stars forbid Magpiepaw had died, she is not sure how she ever could live with herself knowing she had allowed him to go to his death, buried far away and alone and cold… She awaits the answer to her questions and while she scans the crowd she takes note of the other ShadowClanners who were missing. Smogmaw among them and her heart goes out to his kits. She begs the stars to not allow them to have lost a mother and a father in one fell swoop.
// this is for the advanced journey group only!
Medicine cat tags : @WOLFSONG @cottonpaw @Fireflypaw and @BERRYHEART