pebble in the water [ badgerstripe & thundergleam ]

[Flamestar]

〔✦〕The sun was still climbing its way into the sky when Fallowbite's hunting patrol left the camp. She had appeared annoyed when she was assigned to the patrol, but after they had left the camp, a grin of satisfaction started to form. Badgerstripe and Thundergleam were with them, two loyal Thunderclanners. Skyclaw may think he was smart, but he was truly mousebrained. She knew word was getting out by the brief glances more of their clanmates began to share with her as they passed by. No words were needed to know they were on her side...Thunderclan's side. Soon they would have enough warriors to take back their clan. Anticipation burned in her claws each time she saw Howlingstar's grandson, but she had to force herself to keep her head down. During the meeting she had made a mistake, and Bugpaw had almost paid for it.

She was quiet until the patrol was far away from the camp, and she was content there were no listening bushes. The deputy nodded at Fallowbite, giving it a chance to leave if it wished. They all need to catch enough prey before returning to the camp, but they had plenty of time. Besides, her words would only take a few minutes. "Wait, don't leave yet." she murmured to the two she-cats as they went to go hunt. The deputy flicked her tail for them to come closer.

"Things are going to change soon. Can I count on each of you to choose the right side?"

even on my weakest days ( I get a little bit stronger ) //

• ooc. @badgerstripe @THUNDERGLEAM and @FALLOWBITE
  
• FLAMEWHISKER —— deputy of thunderclan , mentoring none . storm x lily . littermate to nala, smokey, and nemo ✦ penned by icey !
  ✦ afab / she/her / 36 moons & ages every 20ᵗʰ
  ✦ widowed / heterosexual / closed to romance
  ✦ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / underline & tag account when attacking
  —— difficult in battle
  
  ✦ “speech”, 'thoughts', all opinions are in character
  ✦ tags — msg on discord for plots — toyhouse
  
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  a longhaired red tabby with low white and green eyes. flamewhisker's fur is a vibrant hue of red, riddled with thick classic tabby markings. her fur is medium in length, and she has a large, feathery tail. her chest, belly, tail tip, and her paws are dipped white. flamewhisker's eyes are a dark, deep shade of green. her shoulder has a large scar on it from a fight with a dog. she also has a shredded ear from a disagreement with a loner during her time alone before joining thunderclan. on particularly cold days, or sometimes before a major weather change, she will walk with a slight limp from her shoulder injury.

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[badgerstripe]

What once was easy and comforting company is quickly disregarded in the face of sorrow, and the strange feeling in Badgerstripe's gut that she is spiraling downwards once more. Fallowbite, as one of Skyclaw's followers, is regarded with little more than a roll of her eyes when she leads the patrol out. Thundergleam and Flamewhisker, however, are barely spared a passing word. Badgerstripe feels far too bitter with too strong a desire to be alone to conversate with cats she could consider friends.

But, her standoffishness is ignored by her deputy. Flamewhisker pulls both mollies aside with an urgency that, while she feels inclined to deny and begin her dutiful hunt, she cannot in good conscious reject. While Badgerstripe's expression was nonchalant, sorrowful at worst earlier, her eyes meet Flamewhisker with a clear vision and furrowed brows. By the tone of her voice, the hush of it all, she knew this was serious.

" Change? " she echoes, in no more than a whisper. Badgerstripe's eyes widen. She had fallen so far into despair, that she had begun to accept Skyclaw's reign; how could she forget, how unnatural it was? How could she forget, that there was a right and wrong side?

Had staying at Sleekwhisper's side blinded her so?

" Yes, " she answers simply, quickly, firmly. The right side - a side where she could hunt on her own once more, without the watchful eyes of cats who despised her. A side where she could train her apprentice without interference; where she could interact with the other Clans like they used to. Could she be happy, again?

And Sleekwhisper.. could he be happy with her? Badgerstripe almost asks, but bites her tongue - her dear friend's stance had been painfully obvious to all. I will help you choose the right side, she thinks decidedly, though.. not without its' sliver of doubt.

BADGERSTRIPE ( she/her )​

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[THUNDERGLEAM]

Ferocious fear clung to her throat more than she had ever known. Never before had Thundergleam experienced this vicious twisting, true terror slumbering in bone marrow, burrowed there and refusing to emerge. The crack of Howlingstar's body, striking the unforgiving earth- the glint of accomplishment in Skyclaw's eyes. It persisted uninterrupted in her memory.

Of course, as ever there was reprieve in her dreams- within, Thundergleam knew that welkin eyes did not approve of this fate. ThunderClan would not tuble down a dark path, surely- no, no. This spot was simply eclipsed, and ... and she had to be a guiding light, a bolting beacon, glowing pristine toward a new dawn.

That Badgerstripe would not look squarely at her, head bowed, felt like a thorn was lodged in her heart. She knew them to be friends now- that it had to be a hidden thing sickened her, and she missed casual smiles and feathered compliments. There were many pieces missing from her whole the more she lived beneath this iron claw.

If there was one thing Thundergleam knew, though... it was that Badgerstripe and Flamewhisker were loyal. Loyal to the word of their leader, the leader star-blessed, the One who had deemed Flamewhisker her successor- not Skyclaw. When glinting green eyes turned to them both, voice low, Thundergleam elt her hear and jaw shudder. Can I trust you to take the right side.

Yes, came Badgerstripe's answer. Thrill lit a crimson sheen in Thundergleam's pupil, and snowy lashes fluttered with an innocence that did not suit the cryptic words that followed. "I know the Truth of the world." A tufted tail flicked near-cheerily. "I will always be on the right side."On ThunderClan's side. ​

penned by pin ☾​