private wildflower and barley ☾ houndstride

[LAKEMOON]

.·:*¨༺ ☾ ༻¨*:·. The thick clouds that blanket the sky above are dark, ominous. Despite the tangerine tint that peeked behind the horizon, Lakemoon wouldn’t have been able to tell whether it was dawn or dusk, until an early morning chill stings at her nose as a breeze passes through.
The days have blurred together for the last two moons, framed by a strict routine that centered around Snowkit and Graykit. The spindly warrior was as present as she could be, upholding her normal responsibilities and patrols as she always had. There was no Lilybloom to come back to camp to, or share a meal with, only the empty space in the nursery where her nest had been. The nothingness is unbearable, and the blue tabby is desperate to avoid it, filling the time she is camp bound by bringing Iciclefang meals, settling somewhere close by where azure optics can watch them play from afar, waiting just in case they want to approach her.
It’s what is on Lakemoons mind now, as her solo hunt would guide snowy paws towards the rivers bank. The lulled silence that filled stormy ears is thick, and almost doesn’t register the sound of heavy pawsteps nearby.
Something shifts in the warriors peripheral, her gaze veering in the others direction.
It’s Houndstride.
Lakemoon comes to a halt, ear flicking with unease. The day the brown tabby had disappeared with nothing left in his wake but the scent of fox and rusted blood, it was what Lakemoon considered one of the worst of her life- before Lilybloom’s death. Then, he was back. Battered, changed, but alive- had she even blinked an eye? Or had her mind been too occupied by her mate's pregnancy, the news of Berryhearts death?
”I-“ she begins after a heartbeat of silence, then there’s a crack in the sky. Dimmed hues fly upwards only to be met with salted water, pouring in what feels like sheets.
Instantaneously, they are both drenched, ears flattened against the pounding droplets.
Shit.

‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎┌── SMELLING LIKE A BONFIRE ⋅ ࿏ ⋅ LOST IN A HAZE ──┐‎

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  @HOUNDSTRIDE.
  [ Prompt — Oh noooo, you and another cat (or cats) got caught in the rain and must shelter from the storm together! ]
  
  

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  LAKEMOON ☾ she/her, warrior of riverclan, 27 moons.
  ⭃ lanky blue tabby with low white and navy blue eyes and a slightly twisted right hind leg. A large facial scar stretches from her right brow to her left cheek, and another crosses at her chest and stretches down the length of her stomach.
  ⭃ daughter of Tempestmoon && Lilypad ࿏ sister to Wolfwind ࿏ mate to Lilybloom & mother to Snowkit, Graykit
  ⭃ peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / / underline and tag when attacking
  ⭃ penned by Noor ↛ @toyangel on discord, feel free to dm for plots.
  

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