IC: Twire sighs, not wanting to be here anymore, she tried to listen to the blowing wind and the faint sound of the warriors doing their daily practices. I shouldn't be here. She then finishes with her daily chore of organizing the fresh meat from the slowly rotting meat, getting fresh herbs for the medicine cat, and spent the night with the kits. The medicine cat meows to her and smiled. She licks her paws clean and bolted out of the little cool cave into the summers heat and shine. She smiles and purrs to herself when she meets up with some of the hunters in training. Today they are learning the ways to hunt fish. Twire was known for her lack of swimming abilities but known quite well for her ability to fight off an attacker. They all got together and head down stream where the little fish was innumerable.
"All right!" howls Stonepelt, "Remember to keep your reflection away from the water. When the fish comes, wuickly hook you paw into the water and scoop the fish onto the surface." While describing so, he uses his big clawed paws and swipes a good chunk of dirt from the damp forest floor, leaving three clawed marks as a sign of his strength. The other cats meowing in amazement. Twire just rolls her eyes. "And then..." he smirks and looks over to Twire, "finish it off with a quick killing bite". They then find their own area by the stream to practice. On her third try, Twire was able to catch and scoop out a fish. She looks around with a smile on her face, looking to see if anyone witnessed the amazing and flawless catch, but finds that everyone is too concentrated in their own fishing. She then turns her head to find the fish still desperately flopping on the forest floor. Getting closer and pawing at it to make sure it didn't find it's way back into the water, she crouches by it and stares. How much pain are you in. How desperate do you want to live. Is it worth going back into the water and again becoming a mindless fish? Her focus was now on the gills its self. Watching on how when the fish tries to breathe in, the gills sucking tight together and then flapping wide when trying to breathe out. The fish began to slowly loose its tight grasp of life. Twire slowly crawls closer to the fish and watches as the fish's eye looks up at her, watching at it goes from a muddy brown to a cloudy night sky.
Twire looks from the fish carcass into the eyes of Stonepelt before he pads off to another cat who's struggling.
Finally getting through the rest of the day with Stonepelt and the others, Twire pads past the hunting group who will be heading out quite soon and slyly passes the cave where her, her brother, and her father sleep. Quickly picking up speed, she bolts up the big tree and leaps onto the top of a great stone which overlooks the camp. Huffing in satisfaction she then pads her way upstream, making sure not to get too close to the river.
Getting to where she normally goes to look for a snack. She quickly finds a mouse, getting down into a crouch she starts to stalk it. She focuses on it even when the wind and the faint sound of the thunderpath constantly demand attention. She she gets closer she gets a whiff of something off. Without thinking she stands up and raise her nose to find a sharper scent, meowing in frustration when the mouse notices her and scurries away. Twire finds herself on the boarder of the Riverclan. Without crossing it she looks deep into the forest while following the scent now of something fresh yet rotting.
Her paws picking up speed, eating dirt with every flick of her paws leaping off the forest floor. The scent coming to her like a deep slash from another cat in battle, sharp and lingering. Getting closer to it's source she stumbles on a root and catches her fall, only to find her paws landing on something wet and warm. Looking down thinking it to be an animal's feces, only to let out a cry of unwanted surprise.
A pile of warm organs lying underneath her now bloody paws.
Twire jumps over them, looks at her paws when she starts to back up, horror in her eyes. She panics and turns to run for help, only finding her muzzle stuck in an empty and lonely pelt of a fallen cat. This time she doesn't run, doesn't meow out, but slowly backs away and looks from the organs tot he cat who now slightly blows with the wind. Not even able to put a name to its face. What did I gotten myself into, what did I just find...
Taking only a few moments to look at the crime scene, she starts to look for any sign of an attacker. Finding another cat demolished with no eyes in its sockets but in its mouth, she finally picks up a scent of another. Something to hold onto for questioning or revenge. Twire stands straighter with confidence and looks in the direction on where she thinks the attacker walked away with satisfaction