pafp WHISPERING WOLVES 》medicine den

REDFLOWER

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The sun is just barely descending, sinking into a glorified puddle of oranges and reds at the treeline. When Redflower enters camp, it's lit aflame by the descending sunset, coating everything with a golden glow. Her paws are sore, her pelt is dusty, and she's thirstier than she can remember being; even now, as twilight arrives, the air is thick with greenleaf heat. Her jaws are clamped around a magpie that hangs low, one wing dragging against the earth. She hesitates near the fresh-kill pile, pale eyes lighting on the medicine cat's den.

"Fallowpaw. I've brought you something from my patrol." She drops the bit of fresh-kill at Fallowpaw's sickbed, eyeing the young feline with hard, glittering eyes. Redflower leans closer, conspiratorily. "My patrol was a disaster," she mews, her voice edged with malice. "Full of weak wastes of warrior names. Sunshinespot missed a mouse that was practically right in front of his face!" Her lip curls, revealing a hint of ivory fang. "Kittypets!"

  • ooc: please wait for @FALLOWPAW !
  • Redkit . Redpaw . Redflower, she/her w/ feminine terms.
    — “speech”, thoughts, attack
    — 14 moons old, ages realistically on the 15th.
    — mentored by NPC ; mentoring n/a ; previously mentored n/a
    — thunderclan warrior. npc x npc, gen 1.
    — currently mated to n/a.
    — penned by Marquette.

    lh tortoiseshell with low white and pale yellow eyes. bright, spiteful, impressionable.


 

ˏˋ*⁀➷  Fallowpaw can't say that she likes being doted on. It makes her feel vulnerable, weak, having everyone catch her prey for her. It makes her feel like a kit. She offers no gratitude as Redflower drops a magpie at her paws. "Mn," is the only sound it makes, a grumble of acknowledgement. It pushes to up to sitting, lethargic in the claustrophobic heat of the medicine den. Its whole body feels weighed down, fur and cobwebs dragging it down to the earth that threatens to claim it.

Redflower's complaint draws more notice, though not by much. "He always did seem a bit..." It searches for a kinder word than the one on the tip of it's tongue - but it's too exhausted for niceties. A languid sigh tumbles from its maw. "Lazy, I guess." A shrug, halfhearted and tired. "Kittypets," it mumbles in shallow agreement, learning down to begin defeathering the magpie. She feels rather like one right now, lazing around doing nothing but eating and sleeping. It seems like everyone has been complaining about kittypets... Well, if it keeps the attention off of her for being a rogue, Fallowpaw supposes she doesn't mind.


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  • FALLOWPAW ⁀➷ she / it, apprentice of thunderclan, eleven moons.
    a scarred, pointed brown and white molly with shaggy fur and golden eyes.
    standoffish and solitary, always seems to have a dark cloud hanging over its head.
    baying hound xx npc, littermate to antlerpaw & doepaw.
    peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / / underline and tag when attacking
    penned by SATURNID ↛ saturnids on discord, feel free to dm for plots.
 
. ° ✦ For some time, precious moons between kithood and apprenticeship, Bravepaw had rarely felt the urge to use his namesake against his own Clan. On occasion he earned the judgement of his peers, and though they may have shared their piece of it to him he had never taken it for malicious intent. Much could be said the same for his friends as well, Fallowpaw in particular when he defended its place among them to Raccoonstripe all those moons ago.

"Sunshinespot?" Bravepaw paused as he dropped his offer of prey for Gentlestorm to return to. "He's not a kittypet, he's a ThunderClan warrior!" There is humor in his voice, sure that the pair could not be serious. Sunshinespot, son of Sunfreckle and Rabbitnose, a kittypet?
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  • ooc:
  • BRAVEPAW — HE/HIM ・ 10 MOONS ・ THUNDERCLAN & APPRENTICE ・ PENNED BY beatae!
    A Longhaired chocolate tabby with a white locket and deep blue eyes. Very thick coat that has started to grow into long, wispy curls. Developing into an awkward stage of kitten uglies as the rest of his body grows and changes. Severe scars from owl talons stretch across his shoulders and another that starts from his back down his left thigh.
 
Fallowpaw agrees with Redflower's assessment of Sunshinespot easily enough. The young warrior smiles, satisfied as if she'd sank her teeth into the bit of prey herself. Her ears angle toward Bravepaw, who smiles at them a touch incredulously. "Sunshinespot?" He asks, his blue eyes round with confusion. "He's not a kittypet, he's a ThunderClan warrior!" Redflower blinks at him, as though she's perceiving him for the first time.

"I mean, he was forest-born, at least," she concedes, waving a forepaw. "But Sunfreckle was a kittypet, and I think that kittypet softness never leaves your bloodline... not unless you train it out." She grins again, all sharp edges. "And look at who he was trained by — another kittypet!" Distaste colors her mew.

  • ooc:
  • Redkit . Redpaw . Redflower, she/her w/ feminine terms.
    — “speech”, thoughts, attack
    — 14 moons old, ages realistically on the 15th.
    — mentored by NPC ; mentoring n/a ; previously mentored n/a
    — thunderclan warrior. npc x npc, gen 1.
    — currently mated to n/a.
    — penned by Marquette.

    lh tortoiseshell with low white and pale yellow eyes. bright, spiteful, impressionable.


 
Good luck seems to nip at her heels in tiny blessings... Easily gained friendships and the living, breathing health of what family she had left. Fallowpaw would not be so easily forgiven for whatever mischief it got up to in order to end up in such a state but Doepaw had decided on giving that lecture another time... when things weren't so fresh. When her sibling would not still be struggling to adjust to a new world, marred by its losses. Bravepaw and Redflower enter the den dangling fresh-kill from their jaws and she is eager to scamper in after them to hang out with Gentlestorm and her sister... more food wouldn't be helpful so there is no pressure to provide any!

Except... when her ears swivel forward to listen to the chatter that has begun in her slow arrival, the cheek-splitting grin on her face falters near instantly. Dapplings of honey and ash become a chew toy to mean-spirited narrative and for each lashing of tongue, Doepaw feels equally injured, like the welts of their cruelty might show up on her skin physically. "Fallowpaw," she mews sharply, a pinch of her features showing her offense- the creases of her expression only deepen as Redflower persists, turning dandelion eyes towards the older she-cat in dismay.

This felt far too alike the poor reception she'd gotten... a staunchness in the mentality of opposition rather than union. Where had it even come from? "Sunshinespot's my friend," she warns the two of them, a scowl drawing onto her face as blurry vision flicks between them. "And he's not lazy... you're just rude."

What really bothers her remains left unsaid, glimmering in the quivering of a lip teetering towards upset- If they thought Sunshinespot was useless for missing a catch, did that make her a waste too?​
 
. ° ✦Redflower turned only to double down on her harsh words. She did not save them just for Sunshinespot, however, her venom itching closer and closer over the anger Bravepaw has reserved from his Clanmates since he was just a young kit.

"SHUT UP!" Round blues grow watery in an instant, kicked into an emotional state of bristling fur and a fluffed tail. "You don't get to say his name like that!! He's more than you'll EVER be!" Bravepaw sniffled and turned to Doepaw as she admonished her sister for the same. His did not dare to look at the scarred molly, his disappointment in the pair far too grand to soothe his temper.

"Sunfreckle gave his life for this Clan. What can you say?" The red tom had only been his mentor, and the bond between them had been one so similar to his father, he could only imagine it tenfold if he heard the same spoken of Batwing.
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  • ooc:
  • BRAVEPAW — HE/HIM ・ 10 MOONS ・ THUNDERCLAN & APPRENTICE ・ PENNED BY beatae!
    A Longhaired chocolate tabby with a white locket and deep blue eyes. Very thick coat that has started to grow into long, wispy curls. Developing into an awkward stage of kitten uglies as the rest of his body grows and changes. Severe scars from owl talons stretch across his shoulders and another that starts from his back down his left thigh.
 
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