private SIGNUM MALUM | lovage

[Oleanderkit]

It is a cold day in SkyClan. Wind nips at the pine needles, and they jump to the forest floor in meager protest. Though the pines are stubbornly evergreen, the other foliage around camp has begun its transformation. The sun's alchemy makes it all golden. The ferns crisp at their edges as if sat too long in a pan. The wind carries the scent of autumnal rot, fungal and unfamiliar, and Oleander begins to learn about the changing of the seasons.

But there is a different kind of change at the back of her mind. She herself has done quite a lot of changing — she accepts her suffix as Oleanderkit now more often than she does not, though secretly she still wishes she could just be plain old Oleander. She's three moons now and almost four, and in just two more she'll be apprenticed, so she's told. She has a friend in Budkit. She has a not-friend in Foxglovekit. She knows about salvation, and about star-blessings, and a whole host of other things that she didn't know before. Even Lovage has changed, once nervous and uncertain and seeking asylum, and now more confident, more... Clanlike. The whole family is, except for one.

Oleanderkit curls at her mother's side, petal-red nose tucked into her paws. She watches the world outside the den with little interest. It is unusual for her not to be distracted, not to be lured out of her isolation by a promising flash or smell, but even with the season's changes she cannot convince herself to move. She likes the warmth her mother provides. She tries not to wonder too much about what it would like to have another cat there — a cat that had been there once, but isn't anymore. Oleanderkit had never met him. Maybe that is why she asks now, "Momma, what did Laurel look like?"

𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋, 𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐍, 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇, 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐓 𓆱 . ݁˖ . ݁𓆸

• ooc. @lovage
  
• OLEANDERKIT —— kit of skyclan . lovage x laurel . littermate to birchkit and mercurykit ✦ penned by meghan
  
  ✦ a willowy silver blue ticked torbie with low white and seafoam eyes. lonerborn, oleander struggles to learn the ropes of clan life while coping with anxiety and past trauma. may seem strange, and has unconventional hobbies.
  ✦ girl / she her pronouns / undiscovered sexuality / 03 moons & ages every 20th
  ✦ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / underline & tag account when attacking
  —— will not start fights / will flee / will show mercy. a mere kitten, she cannot defend herself in battle.
  
  ✦ "speech", thoughts, all opinions are in character
  ✦ full biography — msg on discord for plots — toyhouse
  

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