LOSING MY MIND // Willowburn


He was sure everyone hated him now, to have run away from a battle...ah, that was really not good, was it?, was it?. No, only cowards did that and he had done just that!. Run away to safety while Needledrift had...if only Amberhaze had jumped out to save her instead of...yeah. He was sure that was what everyone was thinking right now. That it should have been him instead, Lividsmoke surely did so - everyone did. It would have been better if he had died, for them anyway but what about him?.

Basilpaw touched his chest, the same spot this paw had pressed down at his throat, this claws...he could still feel them how desperate he had been to not make them sink in any further...to...to reach to his very heart. Breathing, he find it difficult to breath again. Basilpaw gasped for air as he started to scratch at the spot, eyes wide and emotional. I don't want to die...to get so real to something so....deadly, to know how close he had been... It had made his eyes become clearer. That day he had never been so close to death before and that was terrifiying, still was, to think how everything could end just like that. That made life been viewed in a different light, to value the sole fact that he was still breathing.

He choked on his sobs as he struggled to get air through his lungs. Thank starclan. He was grateful that it hadn't been him that day, that it had been Needledrift's life that had been taken, stolen and not him. Basilpaw grinned to himself through bare teeth, chest beating with both guilt and relief. Ah, he truly was horrible but was that really so bad to be?. If that meant he could stay alive....even if this clan wished him to die so badly...Basilpaw wouldn't allow them to get him so...easily.

@Willowburn