SUFFERING LEAVES SUFFERING LEAVES [❤️‍🔥] material gathering (phase II)

[WOLFGRIN]

Prey was already running thin, but the population steadily dwindles further. But Wolfgrin's mind is on the kits in the nursery, warmed only by the bodies of the queens who mind them, and those queens will need warm nests to keep themselves from freezing on behalf of their charges. If he wasn't so busy gathering supplies for the Clan, he'd offer his own warmth to help them; he's large and he runs hot. The most he can do is search for materials for their nests.

Easier said than done - try as he might, all he can find are pine needles too brittle and trampled apart to be useful. He sifts through them, vainly hoping to find some that have fared better, but the needles under the top layer are soggy with thawed frost. The tortoiseshell sighs despondently. "Damn." He hopes the others have more luck. The thought of losing Butterflytuft or Oddgleam to the cold and leaving their denmate alone with a veritable army of kittens to tend to sickens him to the core. If worst comes to worst, would Orangestar let him help them even though he has no kits of his own?

Thinking of kits makes him think of Flamefeather. If only he had his mate to reassure him... The temptation to go home and nap to meet the flaming apparition in his dreams is overwhelming, but he has to keep going without it, for the good of the cats he lives with.

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• WOLFGRIN ☾ he/him, warrior of skyclan, thirty-seven moons
  ⭃ a tall, disheveled chocolate smoke tortoiseshell with orange eyes. he displays oddly dog-like qualities, even smelling faintly like a dog after growing up with them on a farm. his smug, careless, smooth-talking outer persona masks a heart of gold. though the safety of a clan serves his interests well, he is more inclined to loyalty to individuals rather than clans. after the death of his mate, flamefeather, he's begun to privately question starclan.
  ⭃ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / / underline and tag when attacking ↛ see battle info here
  ⭃ penned by solaire ↛ @funeralscythe on discord, feel free to ping for plots.
  

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[FLUFFYPAW]

The days do not warm, as many had hoped; the Clan grows colder, and prey runs even scarcer than before. Fluffypaw has had to miss a meal or two, with all the kits in the nursery, both born and soon-to-be born, and cats are falling ill, now, too. She parts her jaws, wondering if she'll find even an inkling of prey... but there's nothing but frost in the air. She gives Wolfgrin a sympathetic glance; it seems his frustration is contagious. Their patrol has come up empty-pawed on everything, so far.

Jade eyes wander until she spots something bright crawling from the hard earth. She smiles, relief flooding her veins. Fluffypaw breaks away from the patrol and secures her teeth around the thick stems of enormous ferns. "Look! These will be perfect!" Not only is the nursery cold, but the apprentice's den could use some insulation too, she thinks... maybe once the queens and kits are warm and secured, they can take some leftover ferns for themselves. She knows she's awakened a few times with a nose colder than snow itself!

『 out of character. 』 ✧･ﾟ:* 『 about. 』

• ooc: rolled a 16; found some ferns (2 points)
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• Fluffykit . Fluffypaw, she/her w/ feminine terms.
  — “speech”, thoughts, attack
  — 12 moons old, ages realistically on the 8th.
  — mentored by Greeneyes ; mentoring n/a ; previously mentored n/a.
  — skyclan apprentice. butterflytuft x dandelionwish, gen 3.
  — penned by Marquette.
  
  lh chocolate tortie/cream chimera with jade eyes. frightened, clingy, anxious, gentle.
  
  

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[flowercloud.]

Flowercloud let a tail sympathetically touch the other warrior, the smell of defeat and understanding the sigh that escaped wolfgrins body. "There.. is no time to give up, we must keep looking for anything that may of be use to us," she says gently, green eyes could be mistaked for pleading as the molly flicked one ear. She understood well the frustration that came to play in not finding things to satisfy or even help her clanmates. But that doesn't mean she couldn't help, or at least try to help.

Her scarred head lifted, ear perking as she glanced at the ferns that her clanmate found. "Great job Fluffypaw! You have great eyes," she purred, trying to encourage and lift the apprentices spirits as she followed through to find more, a little shriveled but nonetheless, it was there and usable.

So her jaws would pick at the large ferns, grasping and pulling with teeth clenched until she finally managed to break it if it's frost that seemed to melt in the warmth of her mouth as she lifted it.

"Oh .. I do hope this frost eases a little! We need a break."
//Rolled 14! Found ferns +2!

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[EMBERFALL]

It seemed as everyone but Wolfgrin was lucky with their finds, and she would be one of the added lucky ones. The cinnamon smoke scours each inch of the frost-bitten land she steps on. She couldn't risk the chances of missing something vital for her clan's prosperity in the worsening leafbare weathers. Her nose scrunches as she catches a decaying scent of avian as she scans the trees above before catching sight of an abandoned bird nest; would there be eggs? Emberfall scales up the tree as she finally finds herself to the nest and finds long plummed feathers belonging to the old owner.

" No eggs, but I found feathers. " The warrior would murmur as she clutches the feathers between her jaws carefully and makes her way down to join the other three. While this wouldn't sate anyone's hunger, it would keep them warm until the feathers were worn down. Pointed ears give a flick as she glances at her shadowing apprentice to see if he caught anything, " Any luck? " Maybe luck was on @noodle 's side today and the others (except for Wolfgrin).

Rolled a 16; found feathers for 2 points

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