Lionthorn almost laughed, he wasn't precisely a liked individual, but he was most certainly the kind of cat who didn't need to be liked to be wanted. It's just how he got things done, a certain pi-zazz to his manner that he had developed at a young age; he could piss the entire Clan off, rally an entire army of protest yet he'll still be able to get out with his life and maybe, if he was unlucky, a day or so of apprentice duties. It was just how Lionthorn worked, the world was nothing once you knew how to control everyone else in it; really scientific, so we shan't bother going into the details. Unless you are Lionthorn, in which case you can do your own research. I don't help jerks. Anyway, Lionthorn was already thinking up a snappy comment, something to make everyone uncomfortable, or at least, mad, mad was always the ultimate goal; yes, just mad, he finally decided. He flicked his ear.
"Well, I'm sure I can tag along just to keep an eye on my kits," He'd point out. He then frowned, shaking his head; he had to hold back quite a bit of the harsher comments when he and the leader had been in a relationship, now it was open fire. Lionthorn loved open fire. "They're kind of hard to see below that badger you ate; perhaps that fox-sized vole could've been lay-off." Of course, he had never seen the she-cat eat it, and in reality she was a normal weight in his eyes; but hey, harassing pregnant cats were fun; even more fun than stealing candy from babies.
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Now, I am sure you are sick of tired of hanging around with Lionthorn; so, firstly, I shall inform you that is not intelligent to punch your screen. Glass breaks. Broken glass is sharp; it makes you bleed, where as Lionthorn gets around to a snicker at you and no injuries what-so-ever, but at this point, I am sure you will not believe me when I say Valerianpaw wasn't much better than the warrior; she was better at hiding it, of course, she was one of few cats that could perfectly understand Lionthorn, probably the only one who could do it with great ease. She shook her head; perhaps one day the Clan would do good with learning how to read that annoying kitten; he was being a brat, to be frank.
But, I doubt that anyone may have seen that shake of head, for Valerianpaw had just entered the camp; only able to finish the shake in time to stop herself from banging into a boulder near her face; planned? Well, that could only be presumed- Valerianpaw was smart, but it was mostly pure-hard determination that allowed her to be intelligent, not natural IQ (it was only slightly about average) or some sort of weird powers like cosmic awareness- no, Valerianpaw was a dangerous grace with pure hard determination and a need for vengence upon anyone who pisses her off, but she wasn't in any form a genius. Just book-smart.
She did envy one of her Clanmates for one quality, at least, of course; how far she'd actually go to gain that quality varied, and she generally didn't precisely make 'friends' with the cats who she wanted to be like; she was graceful, smooth and intelligent, not a fan chirping up at every single possible attempt. She was a warrior of grace. Not a kitten admiring her father's hunting moves. Apprentice of grace, She thought in spite for the mentoring system; of which she had never liked. I've been trained forever now- I can do just as well as the warriors, but no, Valerianpaw, you got to be patient. She hissed as the last word coursed through her brain; she hated patience.
Hissing. Not graceful. She couldn't help herself, it was annoying. Unwanted; she might have been under-aged, but she would've made an okay, if not above average warrior at this point and memorized almost all tactics, battle moves and hunting moves; the one and only thing she hadn't mastered, insisted anyone she vented to, was this whole 'personality' aspect; she wasn't some noble cat who'd give her life for the Clan; she was a spiteful she-cat with skill, she was like that enemy that ends up having to be used against the enemy team; the two-sided dagger; the very, very sharp two-sided dagger.
Slightly, in understatement, annoyed and in want to bang someone's head in, she spotted Spottedpaw at the corner of her eye. Spottedpaw had one thing she had always wished she had; an envy she'd never been able to satisfy, and the one and only thing she hadn't been able to reach through pure-hard determination, optimism, character; being able to have a bliss, occasionally, Valerianpaw might find herself in a daydream, but that faded away as soon as she noticed, she could never see the good in situations, she didn't need to know the good; bragging didn't win wars (they were, however, very, very nice features after war). She shrugged, Valerianpaw was a graceful she-cat, even her shrugs had a certain swing to them, and then got up and headed towards the medicine cat apprentice.
Valerianpaw thought Spottedpaw girl-next-door sort of pretty, but even that lost its power when the she-cat was carrying yarrow. She quickly scrunched up her nose and held her breath. At one point Valerianpaw wanted to be a medicine cat, it was a very short amount of time, of course, she soon found it far too boring, it wasn't worth the power it gave, so her new attention was on the leader position; harder to achieve but much more worth in the effort; besides, Valerianpaw had always acted more like a politician then a doctor. "Why're you sorting those... those...ew," She held back the desire to scratch the she-cat's fur off; a concept that wouldn't be hard if it wasn't for the amount of fluff she actually had. Besides, attacking the medicine cat apprentice was something not even she could get out of this.
"Those... things. Those unimportant herbs." Valerianpaw knew the name, of course; she had thought herself the herbs when she had gotten into the whole medicine-cat stuff, but she wasn't quite sure what they were used for anymore, not including the kind of herbs that'd be useful in mid-battle situation, and unless a warrior is dumb enough to eat a death berry in the middle of a death battle, or picks up a fever right the moment he enters a fray, she had no reason to know them, she was an apprentice with a serious eyes on the leadership, not a medicine cat taking care of kits. "Spottedpaw, how- why? Is that rat poison or something... I think I'm going to faint that smell is so bad!" She didn't faint, but she certainly did seem even lighter on her paws; and she had been so light on her paws before that she was practically floating on the ground.