camp SMALL BONES BURIED DEEP ✦₊⁺ HUNTING FOR BUGS

DEERPAW.

DEERPAW.

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Around the World [TC '24] Wolves [TC ’24]
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Dark paws press firmly into the earth, and a huge ginger tail bends low, its tip flicking curiously. While a long muzzle noses towards the base of round rocks. Stray leaves cling to a messy coat, as hooked claws sink into the soil that was packed with bits of grass and mud – he is looking for something... anything for the small click click click of tittering legs against stone. The scrawny apprentice is simply bug - hunting for today. He finished changing the elder's bedding and delivered prey for the nursery for today. He has nothing to do... Good. Not that he personally cared. But, the air is quiet and tense around camp, he wasn't that close with Howlingstar though many were.

He keeps his rear low near the ground, long arms stretched and working — busying himself with digging up grubs, for beetles, and bugs. Anything for any creepy crawlies in the earth dug deep into the cool soil. He dig more until his hooked claws scratches against a stone. An ear flicks as he leans his neck low to the ground, arching his back like a filth, drowned snake. Ah. A dark paw digs up the stone and there lies a big beetle, with a few scattered worms squirming around. The creature's limbs bunching until a single paw slaps it to the ground with a small twitch of a small smile curled upon his lips. "There."

The beetle squirms, buzzes loudly beneath his toes and he sheathes his claws to avoid squishing his new prize. His hind paws plop onto the ground and his pelt prickles when he feels eyes on him. Starclan... why are they staring at him? He is so much of a spectacle that others can't mind their own business? Disgusting fly. Deerpaw huffs suddenly, clenches her teeth around the body of the bug's torso – only to whip his head around, ears flattened and him cringing away at his apparent audience.

"Ermm..." The beetle's wings are buzzing violently against his leather nose, making him scrunch it up. He doesn't loosen his grip, narrowed hazel eyes hard upon the clanmate, despite the translucent wings splaying to either side of his face. "D-don't you know... it's considered rude t-to stare..?" He mumbles. That is at least what his Mother had told him before when he was always staring at his siblings.
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﹒౨ৎ˚₊‧ 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑩𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑲 𝑮𝑶𝑨𝑻'𝑺 𝑬𝑮𝑮 ᯓ★ 𝐔𝐍𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐘 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃
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  • ( I-I CAN'T H-HANDLE IT! ) ˚₊‧꒰ა ♰ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ DEERPAW. ╱ thunderclan apprentice
    ⸝⸝ amab ; HE / HIM ; 7 MOONS OLD & AGES EVERY 26TH.
    ✶ homosexual, ace / not actively looking / open to puppy-crushes
    ✶ a scrawny longhaired black/dark ginger tortoiseshell tom with low white and hazel eyes.
    ✶ thoughts ; "Speech, 4d4344" ; attacks only
    ✶ may powerplay minor harm ╱ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted
    ✶ smells like mud &. damp earth musk
    all opinions are ic! he's morbid and he sucks </3 ♱
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He doesn't mean to stare, he just can't help himself when someone has a bug. This is Rabbitnose, he is a professional bug hunter. Master mushroom forager. Connoisseur of funny little guys. Worm watcher. It is only natural that he finds a brief pause in his sorrows to observe this fine specimen that Deerpaw has unearthed.

"Oh, I didn't mean to stare." He says, padding over. "I was just admiring how big your beetle was! It's pretty cool."

He doesn't care if any of Skyclaw's lackeys come over and criticize him. They are just blind to the wonder of bugs. Little creatures that live amongst them, uncaring of the happenings of the cats that tower over them.... Did they have drama too? Little bug drama? Its a whole other world down in the grass and dirt.... Perhaps when he is finally laid to rest one day, he will come back as a worm.....

"There's all sorts of cool bugs in the dirt. And the BIGGEST worms, too." He says. And dont get him STARTED on slugs.​
 
⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊ A disheveled patchwork apprentice carved into the soft earth with vigor was rather surprising. She stood watched him go at it before lifting his prize up out of the dirt, its hard body glicened in the sun, buzzing angrily. Dwindlingpaw chuckled, her smile blooming once again being caught off guard by the others antics.

Poor Deerpaw must have actually gotten embarrassed and scolded the onlookers like he wasn't doing anything weird, and it took all of the shecat's willpower not to outright laugh at him. Dwindlingpaw didn't apologize; lingering curiosity didn't have her turn away and pretend that she wasn't staring either.

Rabbitnose's admiration filled the silence, and she nodded along; it truly was a pretty thing, not that she cared much about the size. It was the color and shine that mattered! "Good catch! What are you going to do with it? You better not be planning to eat it." If he didn't want it, she was definitely going to try and convince him to put it in one of the Skyclaw mosquito's nests.

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    Dwindlingkit — She/Her ･ 7 moons ･ Thunderclan apprentice･ PENNED BY @Ghostunes!
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    ☀︎ A charismatic colorful array of cream orange and red fur shaped like an apprentice.
    ☀︎ Crimsonsun x Shadedmoon
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-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- i ate a beetle once. i was waiting for my mom to come back and i got real hungry. it wasn't very tasty! they're a lot better when they're cute and alive! and they're verryyyyy crunchy!"

the bright colored orange tom cat limped over, sitting down carefully before lowering himself into a laying position. he let his head lay on the ground between his paws as he watched the beetle. his tail curled and uncurled before he looked up at the small group of cats. there was just a lot happening... he wonders how rabbitnose is holding up. he doesn't want to ask with so many cats around, however, so he opts to just look back at the beetle.

"i think we should name her. she's kinda cute... you think they have clans, too?"

a clan filled with beetles. what a sight that would be, wouldn't it?
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