- Jun 7, 2022
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✧ . Things have been strange in the stars for some time now, but the air has shifted once more in a way the night sky is more familiar with. One of an impending arrival, of a ceremony to be prepared for. This isn't the first, nor the last time this change will happen, but it almost comes as a shock every time.
This one — This one comes as a shock.
For even though their lives had been dwindling, they've lasted so long. Longer than their predecessors, perhaps a blessing to his former home, changed in ways he'll never get to experience without stars in his paws, without the changing of names to prove himself a part of it.
A ghostly-reflection of a sibling who has gotten to experience the marshes turn into something more — who lived under the fallen leader's reign — the faded-furred boy moves toward the newly star-kissed form, pale blue eyes glimmering with curiosity, even past their sadness for the new face, still getting used to this: this world they'll walk from now until the end of time.
He remembers their ceremony — the last time he'd given a life to another, he'll have to prepare himself to give again — and remembers his plea at the end of it. Tell them I say hello.
It's a plea he'd given their predecessors, and will no doubt give to their successor in due time. He'd had a feeling they would answer their request, though… perhaps not in the way they had — in the close bond they'd forged with his mother, in a watchful gaze over his brother. He is grateful for it, though, that his family had someone looking out for them for as long as possible.
And now, the boy looks up at Chilledstar, notes the differences in their appearance since the last time he'd faced them. The scars, the courage built as time passed. Star-lined whiskers twitch as he assesses the fallen leader, and finally, he speaks.
" Do you remember me? " Leaping Toad asks, frost-blue eyes round as the child awaits his answer. Do you remember me from your ceremony? From before that, even?
This one — This one comes as a shock.
For even though their lives had been dwindling, they've lasted so long. Longer than their predecessors, perhaps a blessing to his former home, changed in ways he'll never get to experience without stars in his paws, without the changing of names to prove himself a part of it.
A ghostly-reflection of a sibling who has gotten to experience the marshes turn into something more — who lived under the fallen leader's reign — the faded-furred boy moves toward the newly star-kissed form, pale blue eyes glimmering with curiosity, even past their sadness for the new face, still getting used to this: this world they'll walk from now until the end of time.
He remembers their ceremony — the last time he'd given a life to another, he'll have to prepare himself to give again — and remembers his plea at the end of it. Tell them I say hello.
It's a plea he'd given their predecessors, and will no doubt give to their successor in due time. He'd had a feeling they would answer their request, though… perhaps not in the way they had — in the close bond they'd forged with his mother, in a watchful gaze over his brother. He is grateful for it, though, that his family had someone looking out for them for as long as possible.
And now, the boy looks up at Chilledstar, notes the differences in their appearance since the last time he'd faced them. The scars, the courage built as time passed. Star-lined whiskers twitch as he assesses the fallen leader, and finally, he speaks.
" Do you remember me? " Leaping Toad asks, frost-blue eyes round as the child awaits his answer. Do you remember me from your ceremony? From before that, even?
- // @CHILLEDSTAR.
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LEAPING TOAD ✦ AMAB. He / Him. Resident of StarClan.
✧ . A brown tabby and white tom with blue eyes.
✧ . Geckoscreech xToad's Prowl
✧ . Mentored by the Marsh Group
✧ . Peaceful and healing powerplay permitted!
✧ . Penned by Abri ‣ @_abri_ on discord, feel free to dm for plots!
✧ . " Speech " ; Attack
