private not the only one refusing to back down // caterpillar

[✧ Siltcloud.]

" I'M AN ANGEL " ?
TELL ME WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT​

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siltcloud ♕ 17 moons ♖ female ♘ she/her ♙ shadowclan warrior ​

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Siltcloud had tried to listen to forestshades advice - at least, at first. Focusing on hunting, on what her apprentice could hear and smell - it'd been working well enough. but as the clan grows more suspicious, as they look for the kits that had gone 'missing' - siltcloud can feel it creeping in, that suffocating sense of foreboding. Of fear. She looks at caterpillarpaws calico figure, and she sees a cat she is proud of. But... it is not enough. No, it's not nearly enough.

Today she drags the two of them into the darkness, slipping away under the cover of night to a secluded spot near the carrionplace. It's quiet here - even the night patrols chilledstar is so fond of will not disturb them here. The ground is smooth and flat, strangely dry for the marshes - in other words, it is prefect for her plans. They stand there in silence for what feels like too long, green eyes staring down the childs form, and then at last she speaks. " Shadowclan is dangerous. The other clans, moreso. We got lucky, that the rogues did not with to steal our territory too, " she says, voice as cold as ice.

There is no pretense left today, no playing pretend - siltcloud is as open and honest as she can be, letting out the monster she knows she is." If they had, you'd be dead. Forestshade says that because you are blind, like her, that you will forever be weak - that you'll be unable to fight. I... disagree, " she twists the truth with sharp-tongued kindness - or what little of it she's capable of. " I'm going to pin you down, and I want you to fight - teeth, claws, your surroundings - use whatever you want to escape. Because no apprentice of mine will be helpless, "

'I want you to survive when I'm gone,' she thinks, but she cannot tell her that. Instead she moves forwards to do just that, sheathed paws aimin to pin the girl with a simply leap, her dust-hued body lighter than most but it'll have to do for today.

━ actions & " speech, " & 'thoughts/quotes' ━

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I ' M - A - N I G H T M A R E ?━ I - K N O W - W H A T - Y O U - M E A N - B Y - T H A T

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/ @CATERPILLARPAW.

 

[CATERPILLARFUZZ.]

BLINDED BY THE LIGHTS​

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the tone on her mentors voice makes her visibly shiver. siltcloud had never been so cold when speaking to her and she wonders if she is okay. she says they were simply lucky that the rogues didn't take their territory but she heard the other clans say there was simply nothing for them to take. they lacked what the rogues truly wanted and... she was grateful for that. she worried that if she faced a rogue, she wouldn't survive. and it seems her mentor shares that same sentiment.

forestshade was another blind cat. she was nice enough, but there is worry in her stomach. she... thought that caterpillarpaw was weak? she didn't want to be weak! she wanted to be able to fight for her clan, the very place that gave her a home and a purpose! her blind haze settles on siltcloud, tail tucked underneath her. she didn't know how to fight, but she would! she didn't want to disappoint siltcloud.

"y-yes..."

she nods her head, grunting as she's pinned to the ground. she doesn't know what to do. she's never been in a position like this. her fight of flight is running through her brain, but all it can say is run. with a whimper, she tries to push the weight off her, huffing as her claws slide out.

"i-i can't! y-you're too big, siltcloud, i c-cant–"

she was gonna be a failure all her life, wasn't she?

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