WISH YOU WERE STILL HERE // visiting grave


It was about time he did this. For to long he had been avoiding to come here, to visit Rosepaws grave. The pain had been too real, to strong. It was cruel how this world dared to contunie on moving when his friend was dead and buried underneath this dirt. They could have become warriors together. Well, that was not entirely true. Rosepaw would have become a warrior before him. Didn't really matter. It felt unreal that he had been the one who had made it and not them. Rosepaw had dreamed of this day, working so hard to become a loyal and devoted warrior one day the clan could be proud over. Despite how difficult the road had been for them the cinnamon had never given up. Meanwhile he had never cared for this life, never planning to stay for as long he now had. In the end he would have been the one leaving Rosepaw behind. Instead tragedy had struck and here they now stood. Vulturemask was now living his friends dream.

" I'm sorry it took me so long. I should have came sooner." He stood in front of the grave, staring at the pile of dirt. His gaze carried sadness inside of them. He wished he could have taken some flowers with him but no flowers were growing in the leafbare, not what he had seen. Rosepaw had loved flowers, it was a shame his grave not could be buried with them at all seasons. Sometimes when he closed his eyes could still see his face, how brightly he could smile. But also he could see clearly the day when he had made them cry. You're suffocating me!. Regrets that would haunt him forever. There was a long pause, he just standing there to stare blankly, distantly as he fondly thought back on the memories they had shared. " My name's Vulturemask now and...i'm a warrior." It was strange to speak out his new name still, weird to hear others calling him out with that name. But more than anything it was weird that he even had gotten this far.

There was silence again, clearly he find discomfort to speak to a pile of dirt like this. Would Rosepaw even hear him from down here?. If now he could play with the idea that starclan even existed that was. " I'm sorry for what i said to you. I didn't mean what i said. In truth i was able to finally breath for the first time thanks to you.." It finally came, his long overdue apology. He had been holding it in for so long. No one had cared about him back then. To everyone else he had just been this kit who had killed his littermates, making his own mother abandon him out of grief. Now, he knew better. That dream having showed him the truth and he wanted to believe it was thanks to Rosepaw. The point was that when his world had been crashing down Rosepaw had been the one cat who had reached his paw out to him, and since then they had sticked to his side no matter what. " I wish i could have said that to you while you still were alive..." Regret again, his words heavy on his tongue. It was making his face show a pained expression. A rare sight this couple of days since his face was showing less and less emotions.

" I...wish you still were here. I really miss you and...shit, i could have really needed you right now." because without you i'm lost. How would Rosepaw even feel if he knew what he had done?, the monster he had become?. What he was planning to do next....Would Rosepaw even recognize him anymore if he would stand before him right now?. Maybe he would be horrified, terrified of him. The crime he had commit he could tell no soul about it. There was only one path left for him now. " Rosepaw, please forgive me." A pathetic plea. Please forgive me for what i'm about to do. If there was anyones forgiveness he wanted right now it was theirs. It had always been.



 
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[] Death was a strange concept. It was unpredictable and seemed to show up out of no were like an uninvited party memeber. All death did was take and take from everyone around them and never gave anything back, never gave a second chance. Snowshadow gave a small sigh as he stood before a small stone, a wilted flower laid upon the white ground and seemed to have a lost look to his gaze. This was were they had buried Wisteriapaw. Where he had sat with his mother and siblings trying to dig through the frozen ground until their paws went numb. It was the start of the plague known as greencough now and its first victim that would forever remain an apprentice.

"I'm sorry Wisteria, I wish more could've been done," Snowshadow whispered softly to the ground, a white paw placing itself on the mound of snow before pulling away, "That we got to know each other more, all three of you more," His family meant the world to him and he had been lacking on even interacting with his siblings. Now it was too late for Wisteriapaw, too late for Snowshadow to not harbor guilt. He wanted to be a cat they could talk to, trust in, and he had failed them. All three of them were no more than strangers to him and he just- didn't know what to do.

Moonshadow had vanished shortly thereafter and Hyacinthbreath didn't even know that Wisteriapaw was dead. The thought of the pale she-cat made his fur bristle and his blood boil; she ruined everything. She left her mother, she wasn't there to help with Wisteria, and was blissfully ignorant to everything in Windclan for her own selfish needs. Snowshadow shook his head as he refused to let that get to him right now, he needed something more to think about. Though as he sat there in silence, a voice could be picked up some were nearby.

It sounded familiar, and the black and white cat moved to get up from his paws; did some else come visit the graves? He turned around a boulder to find the dark pelt of Vulturemask, sitting before a plot of land and talking to it like he had just done to Wisteriapaws' grave. There was no conext to the siutation as he couldn't pick up the others' words and he had stopped speaking by the time he got there. A soft look crossed pale and amber gaze before Snowshadow spoke up softly, "Vulturemask? What brings you out here?" He questioned softly, worried for the young cat.

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Sootstar didn’t visit the burial grounds as often as she’d like, it was a down right shame. The fallen cats of WindClan deserved to be visited with, but she was glad that clan-mates like Vulturemask and Snowshadow appeared to find time to do what she could not.

Rosepaw’s death felt like it both happened yesterday and like it happened centuries ago. So much has happened since the fallen feline left WindClan, Sootstar hopes that he looks down upon WindClan now with a smile and guides them through leaf-bare. Wisteriapaw was a death that most certainly felt like yesterday, seeing him choked and bloodied was still an image burned into her head. A horrible, horrible way for an apprentice to go. No young cat should die ill.

Sootstar in a few moments of silence remembers and honors them both with her clan-mates. She is nearby and only glances up when Snowshadow speaks to Vulturemask, the blue smoke is unaware of the tom’s pleas to their fallen litter-mate.

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( primary character / "speech" / ic opinions )

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╰ ★ ჻ 001 GENERAL INFORMATION ,
· SOOTSTAR, female — she / her
╰ ‣ 34 moons . pisces. ages on the first
╰ ‣ windclan leader . marsh-born . believes in starclan
╰ ‣ former soldier of the marsh group

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╰ ★ ჻ 002 VISUALS & AESTHETICS ,
· DOMESTIC FELINE, smells like heather and wet dirt , status — 100%
╰ ‣ blue smoke . scarred chest, difficult to see through fur . green eyes


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╰ ★ ჻ 003 MENTALITY & MANNERISMS ,
· ESTJ-A ❝ EXECTUTIVE ❞ , Slytherin, Lawful Evil
╰ ‣ Cunning, brash, fierce, confident, self-reliant, envious & selfish
╰ ‣ finds great difficulty in relating to others . can be cruel, usually shows mercy to those she can find sympathy with
╰ ‣ sole key to her heart is loyalty, if you have her trust, she often shows a completely different side of herself. Aggression tends to manifest from her extreme paranoia
╰ ‣ Appreciates titles such as "miss, m'am" etc

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╰ ★ ჻ 004 INTERACTIONS & RELATIONSHIPS ,
· SOOT CLAW x PEBBLE BREEZE, sister to Pebblenose
╰ ‣ heterosexual. mate to Weaselclaw
╰ ‣ mother to Windpaw & Sootpaw
╰ ‣ mentor to Sootpaw & Coyotepaw
╰ ‣ average fighter . skilled hunter .
╰ ‣ will start fights . unlikely to flee .
╰ ‣ attack in underline . penned by user @ava.