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- Oct 4, 2022
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THERE'S A WORLD THAT WAS MEANT FOR OUR EYES TO SEE
For once in what felt like forever, a day of leaf-bare that wasn't overcast, and the camp felt more lively than it had been in... well, for as long as Patchpaw could remember. She had woken up with what felt like a spring in her step, and for once she was finally regaining some of the old confidence she had back when she was a kit--and it certainly showed. For one thing, Patchpaw would frequently go toe-to-toe with Stormypaw in a variety of challenges, most of them being silly ones like who could catch the biggest prey and who could run from the SkyClan-ThunderClan border to the ShadowClan-ThunderClan border first. And although Stormypaw had been able to beat her by just a fraction of a fox's tail in the race, Patchpaw discovered it was highly amusing seeing the expression on her face when she dragged a squirrel out from a tree and carried it along, swinging by its tail in her mouth, and since then she's developed a taste for it. She never meant any harm, though--Stormypaw almost certainly beat her in most training fights, and although she had the advantage of having more experience than Patchpaw did, she certainly wasn't going to go down without a fight.
Which, is what lead them to where they were now: a contest between them to see who could gather the most moss in the shortest amount of time.
"I'm... Almost... There!" Patchpaw shoves her huge moss ball forwards by her nose. The snow made it much more difficult to manuever, but once she had figured out she could dig into the snow in front of the moss ball and leave a perfect canal for the ball, it became just as easy as carrying it in her mouth! Even though she couldn't. Eventually, she rolled it so far as to push it gently down the tunnel into camp, when it unexpectedly began to pick up speed.
Oops.
Frantic, Patchpaw chases after the ball of moss rolling down and bursts into the camp, announcing her arrival with her shouts for it to "stop rolling away from her", even though it was an inanimate ball of moss. It bounces a couple of times before gently rolling to a stop next to Stormypaw, its momentum ended by the snow in front of it. She's panting as she strides up to it and yet beaming with her achievement. She had taken her sweet time rolling all of her moss up into a ball until it was too big for her to carry in her mouth, and then rolled it the entire way to camp with her nose.
She looks over towards Stormypaw with a vibrant grin, amber eyes sparkling with a kind of jovial playfulness.
"May the best moss-collector win!"
@STORMYPAW (after stormypaw responds, first post to respond is the judge for the competition!)
Which, is what lead them to where they were now: a contest between them to see who could gather the most moss in the shortest amount of time.
"I'm... Almost... There!" Patchpaw shoves her huge moss ball forwards by her nose. The snow made it much more difficult to manuever, but once she had figured out she could dig into the snow in front of the moss ball and leave a perfect canal for the ball, it became just as easy as carrying it in her mouth! Even though she couldn't. Eventually, she rolled it so far as to push it gently down the tunnel into camp, when it unexpectedly began to pick up speed.
Oops.
Frantic, Patchpaw chases after the ball of moss rolling down and bursts into the camp, announcing her arrival with her shouts for it to "stop rolling away from her", even though it was an inanimate ball of moss. It bounces a couple of times before gently rolling to a stop next to Stormypaw, its momentum ended by the snow in front of it. She's panting as she strides up to it and yet beaming with her achievement. She had taken her sweet time rolling all of her moss up into a ball until it was too big for her to carry in her mouth, and then rolled it the entire way to camp with her nose.
She looks over towards Stormypaw with a vibrant grin, amber eyes sparkling with a kind of jovial playfulness.
"May the best moss-collector win!"
@STORMYPAW (after stormypaw responds, first post to respond is the judge for the competition!)