How could the sky be so clear in fact, when in her mind, everything was a blur?
Noodle was on the border, blood quickly rushing out of the new scratches, wounds, and what would be scars eventually. It had been routine, or as routine as it got in WindClan. A loner on the border, asking for his name and business, preparing a greeting of welcome to the stranger. But all sense of normality went right out the window when she felt claws dig into her face.
Noodle wasn't a stranger to danger, but she was to fighting. Picking off zombies from afar in their old shack had been easy. Live opponents were something else entirely. The stranger's large claws continued to rake down the in-shock feline, and the she-ct finally let out a cry when she felt the fangs of her enemy pinch across her neck. It didn't break into the throat, but the same metallic smell of blood that clogged her senses became ten times as overpowering.
Her ear faintly twitched when she heard the stranger leave. "Help.."