- May 17, 2023
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She's thinking about him. Out of all the cats who have died recently, it's his ugly face that has to stain her thoughts. She tries to imagine Falcongaze's scowl, the tilt of his scarred jawline, but all she comes up with is the nebulous concept of his displeasure. It sits, tiny and dainty, next to her monumental guilt. She's finally put a name to it, at least. The feeling, the dark and sludgy one that sits in the space where his nest used to be, the one that Drowsynose won't let anyone else take, and no one does anyway because he's still in fits about it all.
She's carrying a robin—to the nursery or the cats in the elders' den, she forgot—when her paw detects something right under it and seizes up instead of stepping. The calico stumbles with a sharp little yelp, and the robin is flung sideways into the muddy snowmelt dirt. Another yelp, higher-pitched, meets flattened ears. "You—" She whirls around to meet the wide, pale eyes of one of her mother's kittens. "Ramkit." She says it sternly, like she wasn't the one who wasn't watching where she was going in the first place.
Just beyond her is her unmasked twin, whose name she remembers too by virtue of them both almost rhyming. A wispy sigh leaves her nose. "Watch where you're playing," she snaps, but it's half-hearted. Being nearly stepped on is a pathetic look on a kitten, no matter how angry they get about it.
@RAMKIT @LAMBKIT
She's carrying a robin—to the nursery or the cats in the elders' den, she forgot—when her paw detects something right under it and seizes up instead of stepping. The calico stumbles with a sharp little yelp, and the robin is flung sideways into the muddy snowmelt dirt. Another yelp, higher-pitched, meets flattened ears. "You—" She whirls around to meet the wide, pale eyes of one of her mother's kittens. "Ramkit." She says it sternly, like she wasn't the one who wasn't watching where she was going in the first place.
Just beyond her is her unmasked twin, whose name she remembers too by virtue of them both almost rhyming. A wispy sigh leaves her nose. "Watch where you're playing," she snaps, but it's half-hearted. Being nearly stepped on is a pathetic look on a kitten, no matter how angry they get about it.
@RAMKIT @LAMBKIT