SnakeClan Camp

[- - -evening ||]

[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300]MOONFIRE[/shadow][/glow]

As she padded to Raccoonstar's den, Thunderheart intercepted her once again.
Foxdung! What did he want now?
What he said next was what she would have never guessed "While I'm glad you're okay, that isn't what I meant to say." he ducked his head, embarrassed, but forced himself to continue, "I meant to apologize for my rude behavior. It was unwanted and uncalled for. I am terribly sorry."
She was shocked, he was a very proud warrior, she knew, she couldn't believe that he could say that to her! She could feel her ears getting hot. Mousebrain, it's not like he's saying that he just licked a flying hedgehog!
"Thank you, Thunderheart," she continued more quietly, "you are a very brave warrior you know..." she hesitated, he said he was sorry, so why shouldn't she?
Moonfire was a very proud cat, but she felt this was necessary, "Thunderheart, I'm sorry too," she felt her ears growing hot again, she was speaking only loud enough for Thunderheart to hear her, "I'm really sorry......" she stared him in the eye.
"Look," she meowed quite suddenly, "I have a report to make, Raccoonstar's waiting!" and with that, she flicked her tail and walked toward Raccoonstar's den once more, her pelt prickling and her ears hot.

[//Sunneh// is FuMiNg]

Hazelpaw

Hazelpaw watched Moonfire and Thunderheart's exchange with wide eyes. She wondered why they acted so flustered; it was unlike them. Her ears pricked up as the deputy started padding towards Racconstar's den, and she jumped to her feet excitedly.
"What was that about?" Hazelpaw blurted out, her bushy tail lashing in anticipation. "What did he do? Why did he apologize? Did Thunderheart break the warrior code?" she went on, ignorant of the fact that Thunderheart was standing not too far behind them. "Did he, did he, did he?"

[Kat]

Thunderheart

"I'm really sorry......" Moonfire meowed. What was she sorry for?
"Look, I have a report to make, Raccoonstar's waiting!" she said quickly, heading off towards his den, leaving Thunderheart standing there, hurt.
Thunderheart was confused. Had he imagined her interest in him? Was he just fooling himself? Did she feel nothing for him?
"You're a very brave warrior..." her words rang in his ears. Why, then, would she say that if she didn't like him? Was she just saying that as his deputy? What was the reasoning behind it?
Thunderheart was completely embarrassed. Hazelpaw had over-heard their conversation, and the young apprentice was now bugging her mentor. He slunk towards where he had been before he had decided to make a fool of himself, his eyes on the ground and tail drooping.
Brokensnow was off to one side. He was completely quiet, not a peep came out of him, which was unusual.
Misery loves company. Thunderheart thought as he approached his down-hearted friend.

[- - -evening ||]

[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300]MOONFIRE[/shadow][/glow]

Oh no! Another interupption!!!!
Hazelpaw! "Hazelpaw," she meowed quietly, "Didn't I tell you before to go and clean out the elders' den," she asked crossly, she was in no mood for Hazelpaw's irritating games today!
She gave her a hard stare and willed the apprentice to go away. Go away, please!
She couldn't understand Thunderheart, she had just apolagized, shouldn't he be gloating? Most cats do that when they get their way. Her ears felt hot again. She was getting to be really fond of Thunderheart. She just couldn't understand why his head and tail were drooped like he had done someting shamefuly wrong!

[//Sunneh// is FuMiNg]

Hazelpaw

Hazelpaw flattened her tufted ears against her skull. "But I wanted to know where you went!" she protested. "And, anyway, the elders are sleeping. I didn't want to wake them up."
The apprentice lashed her tail. She hated it when her mentor treated her like an annoyance.
"But if you don't care about them getting their beauty sleep, I won't either."
Hazelpaw stalked off, shooting a glare at Thunderheart. It was probably HIM that had put Moonfire in such a foul mood! Letting out a yowl of irritation as she arrived, Hazelpaw entered the elders' den. "Wakey, wakey," she called, ignoring their meows of protest.

[.M.i.d.n.i.g.h.t.i.e.]

Brokensnow

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Brokensnow lifted his head slowly, finally deciding to stop moping and actually work. He his the Twoleg object away under a patch of bush next to his sleeping place. He was weird about that; he always slept in this spot, and anyone in the way he would roll into another empty spot. The other cats respected his space, and he appreciated that.

Brokensnow pricked his ears, and saw Hazelpaw starting to clean the elders' den. He padded over to help. He enjoyed old cats; even though they were mostly grumpy, he loved to chat with them, and hear stories of the past.

"Hazelpaw," he meowed. "Mind if I help?" He rolled the dirty bedding away expertly in one sweep. Being a former apprentice, he remembered a trick or two about cleaning.

As he cleaned, his posture seemed to be a little more slouched then usual. He still felt bad for what he did to that dog. though time was the best elixir for wounds; he was starting to feel grief a little less. It was a Twoleg dog, and it could have hurt them. Maybe killing it was self-defense. What was done had been done, and he had to move on.

With one sweep with of his tail, the dirty moss flew out of the den, along with some of his grief. the friendly sparkle came back to his eyes, and he picked his head up a little more then usual.

[//Sunneh// is FuMiNg]

Hazelpaw

Hazelpaw grinned at the white warrior.
"Thanks, Brokensnow!" she mewed thankfully. The apprentice sensed something different about the tom, but for once, she stayed silent. Hazelpaw cleaned out the rest of the moss with a swipe of her paw, then looked around.
"I'll go get more moss," she offered eagerly, quickly getting to her paws. She hesitated. "Um, can you tell Moonfire where I'm going, Brokensnow? If she thinks I've snuck off again, I'm as good as crowfood!"
Hazelpaw then dashed out of camp without waiting for an answer.

[- - -evening ||]

[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300]MOONFIRE[/shadow][/glow]

*Look at "A Leaders Daily Life" to find out more...*

[- - -evening ||]

[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300]MOONFIRE[/shadow][/glow]

*continue from "An Important Conversation part one"*


"Yes, Raccoonstar," she meowed nodding her head.
As she walked out of his den, she spotted Thunderheart sitting by himself, beside the elders' den. "You should get some rest, she meowed, "You've had a long day!"
As she sat by the fresh kill pile to take a juicy vole, she was aware of Thunderheart watching her. selfconsciously, she took a bit into her vole.

[//Sunneh// is FuMiNg]

Swifteyes

Swifteyes padded back into camp, hoping no one noticed his absence. It would be very suspicious to see a lazy tom like him suddenly vanish into the woods. He shrugged, his dark coat rippling. It didn't matter.
He sauntered over to the fresh-kill pile, selected a mouse from the bunch, then took a bite out of it. Swifteyes smiled at Moonfire, his teeth bloodstained from his meal. "So," he mumbled arrogantly through a mouthful of fresh-kill, "How does being a mentor feel?"

[- - -evening ||]

[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300]MOONFIRE[/shadow][/glow]

She looked at him quizicly, "Swifteyes, where were you? I have been a mentor for a moon already! It's Thunderheart you want to be congratulating... Where were you anyway?" Her eyes narrowed, "What Where You Doing Out Of Camp?" she asked angrily.

[//Sunneh// is FuMiNg]

Swifteyes

Swifteyes swallowed his mouthful slowly, to give himself time to think of an aswer. He wasn't particuarly worried; he had talked himself out of worse situations.
"Well, I was out for a breath of fresh air," he said casually, leaning towards Moonfire so that he was less than a mouse-tail length away from her delicate muzzle. "Is that too much of a crime? I would of been at both of the apprentices' ceremonies, but you know how Raccoonstar tends to keep ceremonies a secret," he purred.

[Kat]

Thunderheart

As Thunderheart waited for Eveningpaw to wake, he watched Swifteyes talk to Moonfire. Thunderheart had never been particularly fond of the tom, partly because Swifteyes never seemed to bother with him and partly because he reminded him of himself. Thunderheart liked to believe he was not like Swifteyes; whenever Thunderheart flirted with she-cats, that was all he did- flirt. He didn't often use it for gain, he did it for a good time. To him, Swifteyes did it to get out of sticky situations.
Thunderheart wondered what Moonfire was thinking. Was she annoyed with Swifteyes, or was that a gleam of interest in her eyes? Thunderheart looked down to his food. He didn't want to think that way. Moonfire was allowed to live her own life, and he wasn't going to force her to do anything.
Where is Eveningpaw? I told her to come and eat forever ago!

[- - -evening ||]

[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300]MOONFIRE[/shadow][/glow]

Moonfire looked down at the tom, distaste coursed through every part of her body, if he was an enemy warrior, she would have already ripped him to shreds. Besides, he was a clanmate.
She took a deep breath, "Oh, is that so, so secret that he wakes the whole clan up for it? But you weren't there, where were you?" She asked again, "How could you not notice that I have been training Hazelpaw for almost a moon now, surely your not that oblivious to life, surely not," she meowed with mock concern, "Oh, wait! That's right! You're doing nothing for clan besides eat, sleep, be lazy, and flirt with cats! And now you're going on adventures?!"
This cat reminder her of Thunderheart, Thunderheart's stupider, lazier and flash talking twin anyway. They both acted in the same way sort of, but Swifteyes was very careless, and he thought he could talk his way out of anything.
Even if he was a clanmate, she would rake her claws across his ears any day! He was annoying and obnoxious. He was even more annoying that Hazelpaw, and that was saying something!

[glow=blue,2,300][shadow=blue,left,300]EVENINGPAW[/shadow][/glow]

Eveningpaw yawned and stretched, Thunderheart had called her out a long time ago, but she was so tired! Why was Thunderheart calling her anyway? She was a kit, she wasn't supposed to do anything! Wait! She was an apprentice! Foxdung!! She remembered.
"Oh, no!" she thought out loud, "Thunderheart is going to kill me!" she woke up Hazelpaw, and the two of them raced outside.
"I'm sorry Thunderheart!" she meowed, "I forgot that I was an apprentice..." she trailed off, mousedung it was her first day as an apprentice, and she had already screwed everything up! She looked up toward Thunderheart, waiting to hear what he had to say.

[//Sunneh// is FuMiNg]

Swifteyes

Swifteyes was taken aback by the sharpness of Moonfire's retort. "I-I was interested to hear what being a mentor feels like," he said, trying to sound as though he really cared. "I've never been one before, as you know." he lowered his voice to a whisper. "I've been lazy in the past," he mewed, "and I want to change my ways."
He touched up his act with a bashful glance at his large paws.
"I was out of camp because I wanted to help feed the clan, but I was afraid that I might be a little rusty at hunting, so I snuck out. I didn't want to be embarassed." Swifteyes sighed, then went on. "And I have a right to be. I didn't manage to catch a thing. I'm no more useful than an elder."
He looked away as though ashamed, but he was really hiding a snicker. Whether Moonfire believed him or not, there was nothing she could accuse him of besides laziness.

Hazelpaw

Hazelpaw awoke with a start as Eveningpaw yowled something about her mentor killing her. She smiled. The young cat was going through an experience all new apprentices went through, including herself. Her jaws opened in a yawn as she padded towards Thunderheart.