- Jun 10, 2023
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What is only potentially hours feels like days in the tunneler's mind, already having been so wary to go back into the tunnels since the journey back from the mountains. He had seen that nothing had happened, knew that if it did it was likely he'd die quickly and get to visit with the stars that he loved so much or that he'd escape so the fear had ebbed and moved to the back of his mind. It was still there, just less and less did the voice that once yelled out to him that the tunnels were a death trap scream in his mind, instead now it was a whisper and eventually daily activities had turned to weekly then moonly until he simply recognized the tunnels as what he had thought them to be before the trip; dangerous but useful, well-maintained and they would be fine but let them go untouched for too long and this would happen.
Once the coughing had subsided he'd began looking around, eyes wide as he begged for the ability to see as ShadowClanners did so that he may be able to see just a little bit in the pitch black that was the cave now. He backed away from the collapsed earth in front of him, afraid that more would tumble and fall and instead of missing him this time he'd be buried. Eventually dust settled and the threat of coughing was no more. Despite the lack of coughing, however, his chest hurt, his breathing became more rapid as a ringing formed in his ears and silently the small feline would lean down to place his paws on his head and fold his ears down, praying it would stop.
It took a moment, silence filling the tunnel for only StarClan knew how long before the ringing subsided and the pain in his chest ebbed. Paws shuffled him towards the fallen dirt once more and he began to dig carefully, slowly as he tried to let the newfound shaking in his paws subside. It was the slowest he'd ever dug, paws carefully removing dirt to be sure no more collapses happened, to be sure the fear that clung to him in the same manner as the dirt that coated his pelt didn't cause himself to collapse. It took ages, paws slowly moving as air slowly got thinner.
Before long he reached through dirt and paw clasped against another and without thought a small sob wracked through Mouseflight's throat; he was saved!
Once the coughing had subsided he'd began looking around, eyes wide as he begged for the ability to see as ShadowClanners did so that he may be able to see just a little bit in the pitch black that was the cave now. He backed away from the collapsed earth in front of him, afraid that more would tumble and fall and instead of missing him this time he'd be buried. Eventually dust settled and the threat of coughing was no more. Despite the lack of coughing, however, his chest hurt, his breathing became more rapid as a ringing formed in his ears and silently the small feline would lean down to place his paws on his head and fold his ears down, praying it would stop.
It took a moment, silence filling the tunnel for only StarClan knew how long before the ringing subsided and the pain in his chest ebbed. Paws shuffled him towards the fallen dirt once more and he began to dig carefully, slowly as he tried to let the newfound shaking in his paws subside. It was the slowest he'd ever dug, paws carefully removing dirt to be sure no more collapses happened, to be sure the fear that clung to him in the same manner as the dirt that coated his pelt didn't cause himself to collapse. It took ages, paws slowly moving as air slowly got thinner.
Before long he reached through dirt and paw clasped against another and without thought a small sob wracked through Mouseflight's throat; he was saved!
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this takes place immediately after this thread! ignore the fact it's super late
also he's got a hold of @BLUEFROST 's paw! -
mousekit-mousepaw- mouseflight
⋆ ftm - he/him - 16 moons
⋆ bisexual - open to relationship
⋆ tunneler of windclan
⋆ attack - speech - thought
⋆ penned by tikki