OOC:
Haha, that's who I basically based Petal's speech from. But just with less....whining.
IC:
"Do not go ahead if you don't know the way, dearie~", Petal said, skipping past Raven.
Petal walked past a stream, sniffing the air, 'Okay, this is the way there.', she thought. The stream gradually became bigger as she walked further. She came to a halt at the base of a watefall. Petal looked up, staring at boulders that seemed to form a staircase of some sort. 'All in tact.', she thought, nodding.
"Woah, thats beautiful" Raven said looking at the waterfall
"Well, the real beauty is in that little cavern that is up those stone stairs.", she pointed out the stone steps. She padded over to the first step, and quickly jumped from stone,to stone, to stone. The stones were quite slippery, but she managed to get to the top without slipping. She entered a cave behind the waterfall.
Raven lept up the stone stairs behind her but slipped on a stone and fell back a few rocks and had to climb them again, once at the top she came in and stood in the entrance looking at her paw, "aww man, I think I sprained my paw climbing those ro...." she trailed off once she looked up and saw the cavern, "my goodness" Raven stood in the entry way looking around her
The walls of the cavern shined like gems, and a river of clear water flowed through the cave. Spots of dirt were near the walls of the beautiful cave, as beautiful blue flowers grew in them. Petal sat near the river, licking her paws, as the walls shined upon her fur.
Raven stood there, mouth open until she went to step forward and stepped on her bruised paw and stumbled and fell forward and slid across smooth stone until she reached the cavern wall, "ow... that'll leave a mark" she picked herself up and walked slowly around the edge of the cave, looking at the walls and patches of blue flowers, "this place is...magical, that's the word...magical."
Petal stared at her bruised paw, "Are you alright?", she said, padding over to her, concerned.
Raven picked up her paw and looked at it, "It's nothing major, It'll heal, just... gonna be an inconvenience that's all" she gingerly put her paw back on the ground
Petal stared at her, "Oh...Alright...", she said, "As long as you're fine....". She walked back to her spot near the river, "Here, come sit with me.", she said with a smile.
Raven padded over and lay down next to the river, and gazed into it crystal clear water
Petal looked at her reflection in the water, her smile fading. She sighed, still staring at herself in the water.
Raven turned smiling to Petal and saw her smile had faded, "hey, whats wrong?" she said with concern in her voice
"Oh.....It's just...", she stared deeper into the water,"I look too much like my mother....It makes me miss her so much more, Raven...She was my only friend when I was a kit...And she showed me this place. This place reminds me of her, and that's why I come here.", she wrapped her tail around her paws, staring sadly at the water.
Raven flicked her tail over her friends shoulders in a comforting manner, "oh, Petal, it shouldn't make you sad, You should see yourself and be proud that you look like someone as special to you as your mother, she sounds like she was a wonderful cat" Raven sat for a few minutes before asking, "What happened too her, Petal?"
Petal stared at her paws, "She...She died fighting rouges that entered our den.", she sighed, "She told me to run, so I did. I came back when I thought it was over...The rouges were gone....But...My mother was laying there...Dead...".
Sorrow for Petal filled Raven's eyes, "Oh, but remember that the dead are always with you, in your heart, and at any given time they indeed are alive, through the love you showed for them, and as I've heard that clan cats say, apparently all cats that die go and live in the stars, I think that's a nice thought"
"That is a nice thought, Raven...", She smiled at her, "Thank you,Raven....Thank you for being a good friend.".
Raven smiled, and rested her head on her paws, she fell asleep while staring into the water and dreamed of being washed away by a river, over rocks and rapids, she twitched in her sleep
Petal fell asleep aswell. In her dream, she was in the cave. It felt so real, yet it was just a dream. 'Hm? Oh...Raven probably left...', she thought, noticing Raven was gone. She walked outside, jumping down the stones. It was quiet, strangely. She couldn't hear the watefall for some reason! A familiar looking cat padded towards Petal, "Petal.....It's very good to see you, my dear.", her pelt had stars in it. Petal stood in awe, wide eyed, staring at her. "Mother!", she gasped,"You're....Alive!". Her mother was a fluffy dilute calico, much like Petal, "Not quite, dearie.", She said gently, licking her daughter's forehead,"You're dreaming, Petal.".
Raven woke up, "whew...it was just a dream..." she stood up and drank some of the water and saw that Petal was sleeping, maybe I'll go catch some prey and bring some back for when she wakes up she thought, then she padded out of the cave