summer to fall ★ doestar

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    doestar

    sunpaw's transition to clan life had been... easy. the young female was sick of being a loner, and being with her sister rewarded her everyday. she was getting a little better, at first she struggled to make herself useful, but now she knew their ways and rituals, and contributed just as much as anyone else. the fawn-furred feline still wasn't a decent fisher and was a shoddy swimmer too. she still had a lot to learn. sunpaw was walking riverside, musing her on past and present. when her and tempest were a wee older than a kit, their parents split them up, and they were alone ever since. she turned out well enough, but she still strived for a figure like that in her life; and so sunpaw eagerly waited to be appointed a mentor. the usually cheery little sunpaw sat staring at the fish in the water, looking rather mournfully into the river.



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    The chance to see an apprentice by the river, hunched upon the bank with the water frothing only a mouse-length away, lapping gently at the pebbles. Gazing, perhaps, at the silvery minnows catching rainbows as they flew along the current, their magnificent arcs shining in the sunlight. Sleek, inky salamanders drifting through the shadows of smooth, lichen-cloaked stones. Sunpaw, her pelt almost violet, gleaming under the dappled shade, didn't shy away from the river, despite its unfamiliarity. It brought the ghost of a smile to the leader's lips as she approached the girl, her small brown form idly crossing the grassland; the fresh, clear water already ran in her.


    As she neared her, however, her expression and posture became more clear. Something troubled her, and it leached from her skin in a thick cloud, erasing the smile from her maw. The she-cat came up behind her and took a seat by her side, studying her expression with wide, gentle amber pools in a silent question. They caught her visage for a moment, the sloping forehead and twitching nose, grids of vivid blue framing her features, before she finally spoke. Outside of meetings, she was a woman of few words, and those that did escape her did so in a rough, murmuring tone, scarcely above the flutter of a moth. "How are you?"

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    sunpaw almost had a heart attack. it was the leader! sunpaw reeled back wide eyed in awe, a bit awkwardly before resuming her previous mournful expression. "i'm alright." she murmured, splashing the water pitifully. but then she went off on a rant, "but it's just that i miss my family but they're all gone my mama left us and then tempest left us and now i found her but we still can't spend that muchtimetogether and ijustfeelsolonely." sun huffed at the end of her tirade, speaking so fast words bundled together.


    "don't get me wrong," she started out casually before looking at doestar wide eyed, "Doestar, don't get me wrong i love it here but everybody else has got somebody." she looked like a sad baby animal and huffed loudly, annoyed. "I mean you love it here don't you?"



    tags ✧･ﾟﾟ | "speech"

    (i just had a lot of muse u do NOT need to match this lol!! i lov sunpaw)


    Sunpaw nearly leapt away, the sharp rise of her head and gentle widening of her bright eyes barely needing to take place before her body twitched backwards from the leader. Doestar tilted her head to one side, warm eyes widening in turn to search the girl's expression, flicking her rounded ears as if to ward something off. This was an unfortunately common occurrence with apprentices, who didn't know their leader nearly as well as they should. A quiet tongue and reclusive nature were not the best qualities for a leader to have, but she was simply unable to shake them off. They were some of the only traits of hers that had not been obliterated by seasons of command. Thankfully, however, Sunpaw was quick to fall back into her previous state. The aging molly settled back into herself, expression softening and movements slowing once more as thoughts of her own inadequacies left her.


    I just feel so lonely. Jump cut to little Doepaw watching the other apprentices splash around in the river and wondering why Owldapple couldn't look his daughter in the eye without looking sad and turning away. Her lip twitched, stung by something invisible, but eyes remained locked on the gentle water and its fluid motion. Everybody else has got somebody.


    I mean, you love it here, don't you? Finally, the she-cat broke her gaze from the bubbling, clear river and shifted it to the apprentice. The big eyes, the trembling face, asking for some reassurance and the truth and something in between the two. She could hold the expression no longer and the wall fell, crinkling into something rueful, a tinge of bitterness mixed in by the deep-seated dark circles beneath her eyes. They had been there since she was fifteen moons old, unceremoniously pushed into the position by some accidental election after the disappearance of her stepmother and her deputy, visions of a stuttering leader pacing upon the fallen tree, terrified to face the future. Too many tears until her eyes ran dry. It had been a long time coming.


    However, she finally felt she could answer honestly.


    A rare smile graced her lips. "I do." pause, gaze darting briefly back to the water and grasslands around them. The smooth stones beneath their feet. "When I first came here, it felt like I was coming home." the smile twitched briefly, but remained. "I love my Clanmates, though it was difficult getting to know them at first, and I still have a hard time making friends. Blankstare-- do you know him? My mate, Blankstare-- he and I are both very quiet, so we only got to know each other well into being warriors. You're much smarter than I was, Sunpaw," a hint of amusement twinkled in her eye. "and I expect you to have a far easier time. Give them a moon or so." shift back to the water. "And you can always come to me if you'd like someone to talk to." the flow, always constant, had been home before she even knew it. "How is training?"