- Feb 23, 2023
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Sometimes regular old patrols could be so BORING! Walk to one border, rub against some plants, then walk to another. Make sure everything was okay on the territory in between. She had so many other exciting things to do, like grooming her pelt or eating lunch. Even hunting was more exciting than this! The moors are incredibly still today, only a gentle breeze sweeps across them and ruffles the grass softly as they walk through it. The sky is clear and for the first time in a couple of moons it is not miserably hot. The change in the weather is proof that leaf-fall is just around the corner, and shortly after that it would be another leaf-bare. She just hopes this one is not as terrible as the last had been, but with the sickness looming over their heads like a black shadow she somehow doubts it. Even her own sister had not escaped its clutches.
Also because of the sickness, the patrol was gloomier than usual today. Everyone is weirdly silent for a long time which only serves to make it even MORE boring in her opinion. They could at least talk to each other. They stop on a rise, eyes sweeping across the landscape and a couple of other warriors start discussing which way they should head first. As a lead warrior, she knows she should at least participate in the discussion but her attention is drawn elsewhere. Some creature wriggles around in the dirt and she watches it for a few seconds before an idea overcomes her.
With one claw, she hooks it and holds it up, turning to the cat who is closest to her. "Sunstride!" she calls out to the other lead warrior "Lookit what I found!" she holds her paw up to the fiery tom and from it dangles a worm. The creature, still covered in a little bit of dirt writhes in her grasp but it cannot escape. "I dare you to eat it!" a mischievous smile is on her face as she holds her paw out, waiting to see how he would react, what he would do. He liked eating weird things right? Maybe a worm was a usual thing for him, maybe he had even given one to his mate to eat.
// please wait for @SUNSTRIDE