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✦ . ˚ . They will leave soon, those that head out as warriors and those that will be there only to witness departure. After all that has happened to them in these scarce few nights– Sunstride cannot pretend he is not reeling. There is blankness to the warrior's gaze, a far-off look. Even as he sets a rabbit before Scorchstreak, he is not as present as he would like to be. The fragility of their state steals all joviality from him. He will do what he can to steady them all. Even if there is very little he can offer. The burnished warrior nudges it a little closer, and settles down himself. "Eat," he instructs gently. "It may be one of your last steady meals before the mountains. After all you have been through– you should leave with a full belly and a steady heart."
Exhaustion weighs down his voice. He sweeps one great paw over his face, mussing the fur along his cheeks and disturbing one eyebrow into a jagged shape. So few days ago he had found himself thinking of life in Sootstar's pawsteps. To have fought in this battle and raised a clan around her as her own young grew within. How terrifying it would have been to be her or to witness her as one that loved her more than as a leader did. Now, he sits and thinks of Scorchstreak. They were friends in the way that lead warriors were; they worked together, bled together. But to know her is something different entirely. He recalls what he knows of her son, and thinks of this litter now. "Perhaps it will be a pleasant distraction, this trip of yours. Your young will lean of life without their father, and you will be there to guide them through it. It is a tough territory, yet you are tougher still," he chuckles.
Exhaustion weighs down his voice. He sweeps one great paw over his face, mussing the fur along his cheeks and disturbing one eyebrow into a jagged shape. So few days ago he had found himself thinking of life in Sootstar's pawsteps. To have fought in this battle and raised a clan around her as her own young grew within. How terrifying it would have been to be her or to witness her as one that loved her more than as a leader did. Now, he sits and thinks of Scorchstreak. They were friends in the way that lead warriors were; they worked together, bled together. But to know her is something different entirely. He recalls what he knows of her son, and thinks of this litter now. "Perhaps it will be a pleasant distraction, this trip of yours. Your young will lean of life without their father, and you will be there to guide them through it. It is a tough territory, yet you are tougher still," he chuckles.
- OOC. please wait for @SCORCHSTREAK !!
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✦ . ˚ . SUNSTRIDE. FORMERLY SUNNVAR. HE - HIM - HIS OR THEY - THEM. LEAD WARRIOR OF WINDCLAN. 4 YEARS OLD. PENNED BY REVELATIONS. ——————
✦ NPC x NPC. DECEASED MOTHER, ESTRANGED FATHER. NO LITTERMATES. MATE TO WOLFSONG. FATHER TO BEARKIT, SINGEDKIT, RIVEKIT, SUNLITKIT, AND FEATHERKIT —— - "speech"