[center][fancypost=background:;width:50%;padding:3px;line-height:1;text-align:justify;]The feline moved quickly, bouncing from one stepping stone to the next. On the slippery rocks the she-cat was finding it hard to maintain her hold, teetering with every move she made. Around her swirled the river, looking rather chilly as it rushed past the rocks emerging from its depths. In truth the water wasn't rushing nearly as fast as she made it out to be, the biting wind that whipped through her fur causing her to dislike the idea of a swim much more than she usually would. Truth be told the tabby cat didn't have a problem with water, but on a cold evening such as the present one she certainly did prefer to be warm.
Crouching on the stone her grassy coloured eyes were on the one ahead of her. It was only a small leap away and it was the last jump before she would reach dry land. The girl's muscles tightened and released, propelling her body forwards. She could feel the smooth granite under her paws and yet the rock had been much wetter than she had anticipated. Unable to find a hold on the slippery surface the feline found herself skidding forwards, slipping into the river with a hiss of surprise escaping her lips.
As she hit the water her whole body was taken over by the cold, the water immediately soaking her through. For but a second she was under the water before natural instincts kicked in and, finding that the river's current wasn't nearly as strong as one might think, she pushed herself to the surface. Propelling herself towards the bank with a paddle-like motion, a look of surprise could still be seen in the green of her eyes, even as she pulled herself from the water and up onto the island's sandy shores. Her brown and white tabby fur was drenched through, sticking to the girl's athletic and well-muscled frame as she moved. Pausing with her paws sinking into the sand of the island, the eyes of the girl caught a flicker of movement up ahead and her head snapped up to lock upon a stranger approaching.
She was intruding. She knew that. She was sure that her scent and unfamiliar appearance would certainly alert the approaching clanner of the fact, too. A slightly nervous expression crossed her face and her brow furrowed slightly. Would RiverClan take kindly to her intrusion when she gave the reason why she was here? She certainly hoped so. The stranger was getting closer now and the tabby could feel the need to speak. She was sure that RiverClan wasn't hostile, yet she didn't want to be attacked for her intrusion nonetheless. Grimacing slightly the girl pushed a small and nervous smile up onto her maw.
"I'm sorry, I know I'm intruding," the girl's spiel began with an apologetic look at the clanner. "but really, I don't mean any harm by it." Surely her drowned-looking appearance would show that she was no threat as she didn't seem to be able to cross a river without falling in. Speaking of falling in, she felt her cheeks grow hot with embarrassment at the thought that the RiverClanners could have seen her clumsiness. "I'm just here to join. My friend told me that I could find RiverClan here. I'm sure you wouldn't have heard of her before as she's not a clanner, but she told me I could find you all here and I did mean to get here much sooner than this," here her green eyes flickered up to the darkening evening skies and the readily rising moon. "but I'm not really the best with time management." She was vaguely aware that she was rambling, something the chatty feline tended to do when she was nervous. Here her voice trailed off, her seemingly endless flow of words coming to a halt as she finally took a breath in order to look out at the clanner. One thing was missing of course for she hadn't even bothered to off up her name, not that she'd noticed of course.
