private WE WON'T BE ALONE [ 🎀 SCORCHSTREAK ]

[PINKSHINE]

" Scorchstreak! " she accosts her the first moment she gets, approaching her with a spring in her step. Her eyes are bright, her tail high in a happy-go-lucky swish. Pinkshine's in a good mood... a great mood, even, thanks to a certain somebody, but not every cat had the same benefit that she did... Enjoying her honeymoon phase didn't make her blind to the goings on in the clan. Things could be better, maybe, but then again, you could almost always say that about pretty much anything ever... Pinkshine would bump shoulders with her former mentor. " Let's go do something fun! " without giving her the potential chance to argue, Pinkshine is trotting off into WindClan territory.

What was the something fun that she had planned? Um... well, the thing is that she didn't, but that's okay! ...Actually, it was super okay, because she just came up with a brilliant plan! Her paws carry westward in the direction of the sun - warmed pool, and as she did, Pinkshine would chatter idly. " How are you feeling lately? " Her tail would flick against her side. " Don't lie," she adds with a fierce pout. Pinkshine knows even the toughest cats weren't okay all of the time. Pinkshine would be okay for both of them, if she needed to be.

OOC: @SCORCHSTREAK :3!

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[SCORCHSTAR]

༄༄ The deputy manages to refrain from flinching when the sudden voice of her former apprentice calls her name. It is a near thing, though, and Scorchstreak turns narrowed golden eyes upon the cat at fault. "Pinkshine," she greets, warmth wrapped in the syllables. Petals opening in the daylight, a sunflower’s head turning to meet its light source. A rare thing, growing more common, the smile that settles on her muzzle is one spared for the younger calico and few others. She does not protest when the other tunneler leads her away from camp and in a familiar direction, trailing behind with only a put-upon sigh. When the younger begins to chatter away, she listens intently, and responds without complaint.

"Lately…" Her voice is tight, restrained. Don’t lie. It is one of the only things the deputy would lie about, but in the face of such an order, paired with such a kitlike pout, she is loath to disobey. "Not well. I… feel lost without my sister." After every tragedy, she had always had a dappled black-and-white shoulder to lean on. She had always had someone who understood. To have that ripped away in such a foolish manner is impossible to adjust to. Who is she meant to go to, when all those who she would have once leaned on are dead? Her circle of friends is one of ash, blackened grass where once flowers grew. "Enough about me, though. How about you? I heard something the other day… something about you and Featherspine." A scarred brow quirks upward, questioning. Leading the younger feline into a response, hopefully diverting her attention from pain and suffering and back into something bright and cheerful. Pinkshine deserves no less than bright and cheerful.

YOU KNOW I DESERVE IT ☽♰☾ WELL, TAKE IT OUT ON ME

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• SCORCHSTREAK ❯❯ she/they, deputy (tunneler) of windclan
  ༄ small, slim flame-streaked calico with fiery golden eyes. cold and closed-off, ferociously protective of her clanmates. rarely seen aboveground.
  ༄ mate to bluepool ; sibling to rattleheart & rabbitclaw
  ༄ mentor to bilberrypaw & brackenpaw ; previously mentored pinkshine
  ༄ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted, but may react aggressively
  ༄ penned by foxlore

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[PINKSHINE]

She's happy to see Scorchstreak smile. Pinkshine was, um... well she wouldn't say grown, but she's grown up, and now she could tell that her younger self had not been perfect about executing her goals... but she'd still dont pretty good, hadn't she? Could any other cat say they garnered smiles so easily from the likes of Scorchstreak? From the likes of Featherspine? She almost feels bad that she had asked what she'd asked- that she risked making it disappear so quickly... Not well, her former mentor mews, and Pinkshine's face creases with worry. Her sympathy is mewled with an, aww rolling off the tongue. She missed them too— always seeing the pair of them together, happy chatter that Scorchstreak didn't seem to spare for too many others... She deserved more cats like that. More cats like Rattleheart, more cats like Bluepool...

She's thinking about what she'll say, when Scorchstreak suddenly decides she's done talking. " Scorchstreak! " she balks. Enough about me?! " That was barely anything!" Pinkshine fixes her former mentor with the sternest expression she can manage ( So: not very stern at all... ) Their paws continue to tread the path Pinkshine has predetermined for them both, all the while, her mind churns... Scorchstreak says something, something with less sorrow in her voice, something with a smile, but Pinkshine doesn't even hear it, she's so concentrated...

It's here that they stop, and Pinkshine tells her, " You're not gonna believe this... " Before them lies the sun-warmed pool, in all its sunny and... pool-y (?) glory! " But I just tricked you into relaxing! " It makes a small splash when Pinkshine gets in, and she would playfully splash water up toward Scorchstreak. Wouldn't it be a waste to come all the way here and not get in? Huh? Huh? " Get in! " she insists, and whatever Scorchstreak did do, she would take this moment to think...

" ...Rattleheart's still looking after you, " she says at last. " I bet he's following right after you whenever you go in the tunnels, watching your back... " She'd like to say it's all okay, not to worry, because they're having a great time in StarClan, but... Pinkshine doesn't really know what she'd do if she was Scorchstreak. She's lost kin... Larkfeather, Lilacstem. Pinkshine tells herself to keep smiling for them, but she can be lost even while she's smiling... " But um, I know it's not the same... I dunno what I'd do if... if Downyfur... " Well, she doesn't even wanna think about it for too long, cause just the hypothetical made her too sad... (And how long would it stay hypothetical for?

She scrunches her face. " But- But there are other cats here for you, y'know? There's always gonna be cats that love you... Like me! " she cheers. She would've left that in subtext, but why bother? Would anyone else be this clever tricking Scorchstreak into relaxing, like this? Pinkshine blinks. " Wait, what'd you say about Featherspine? "

OOC: Sorry this is so late!

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