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Apr 23, 2021 19:06:33 GMT
Post by violetdawn on Apr 23, 2021 19:06:33 GMT
hey youngblood i'll raise you like a phoenix
the sunningrocks currently belonged to riverclan.
good, violetdawn thought, shaking the water off of her pelt as she emerged from the presently calm waters that otherwise split thunderclan territory from riverclan. moons upon moons of bloodshed were spent over these stones - she oft thought that if she looked long enough, she could make out the stains of long-dried blood, of warriors long since passed. the stones were warm beneath her paws, the sun warmer on her pelt, and with confidence she settled on the sunningrocks, close to the water. her eyes were narrowed into sharp, thin slits, watching as shadows began to crowd under the water.
she would wait, she decided, for more fish to gather under the surface of the rippling waves. she had chosen this side of the river so that the sun did not cast her shadow into the water while she hunted, but she was sure that any minnowbrained thunderclan cat wouldn't understand that, and that the second the nearest patrol caught wind of her scent, they would be challenging her in mere heartbeats. violetdawn's eyes rolled at the thought alone, and she settled down onto her stomach, stretching her forelegs out before her and tail twitching across the surface of the rocks.
it would be pleasant, she thought, for one of her clanmates to accompany her. there was always work to be done - but productivity had certainly picked up since she was named deputy. even before yellowstar selected her, she had been wrangling warriors and apprentices into extra patrols, dissatisfied with the way some cats seemed perfectly content to lounge about camp. now, though, she had the proper authority to tell them all to get off their lazy haunches and go patrolling. what with the fall of windclan's leader, she wasn't about to let her warriors relax and think things would be alright between the two clans for the time being. no, if anything, this was a time to tighten up on patrols and not let a single piece of grass be misscented. the same went for thunderclan, she thought, flexing her claws idly.
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Post by ❈Yellowstar on Apr 24, 2021 3:25:01 GMT
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I took a little journey to the unknown[break]
And I've come back changed I can feel it in my bones
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Yellowstar hadn’t found the time to relax since becoming leader merely a few sunrises ago. Constant worry plagued his mind; the nagging thoughts robbing him of a decent night’s sleep. Emberstar’s demise hadn’t meant all was well and peaceful like they had originally thought it would. [break][break]
The large brown tabby’s lip curled in disgust at the memory of coming back to his camp after being granted leader privileges only to find out that the deceased rogue leader’s followers had struck yet again while he was gone. He wondered grimly how long it would take until it all blew over. Until he could rest and know his clan was safe from immediate threats.[break][break]
Wary pawsteps made their way across the twoleg bridge as the leader made his daily rounds of inspecting their territory. Today a calm seemed to exist that was almost too good to be true. Nothing was out of place, no strange scents drifted on the breeze. He continued to walk along the bank of the river, stopping only when he noticed the vibrant pelt of his new deputy resting on the sunningrocks.[break][break]
Yellowstar took a deep breath, noticing the tension he held in his shoulders that donned fresh scars from the recent battle. Maybe he just needed to take a short break, too. The tom made his way over to the sunningrocks, settling in a tail-length away from her. The warmth of the stones soothing him and his aching muscles as he lowered his body toward the ground.[break][break]
”The weather is beautiful today,” He commented. Yellowstar never had the reputation for being good at small talk. He shot a glance in Violetdawn’s direction, as a feeling of gratitude stirred in his chest. He knew she’d make a great deputy with her drive and work ethic. He was confident in her ability to lead beside him even if they hadn’t interacted much before.[break][break]
”We haven’t really gotten a chance to talk properly since your ceremony. How are you doing?” He meowed. Though it was a gesture of formality, he genuinely cared about his deputy’s well being. These were certainly trying times that awaited them.[break][break]
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Apr 24, 2021 21:16:40 GMT
Post by violetdawn on Apr 24, 2021 21:16:40 GMT
hey youngblood i'll raise you like a phoenix
she scented him before his arrival, one ear swiveling towards the approaching tom in quiet acknowledgement of his presence while her gaze remained sharp on the fleeting waves. as yellowstar began to speak, violetdawn narrowed her eyes, her haunches tensing up, and she lunged forwards, off of the rocks and into the water, a blur of tawny fur until she arose from the shallows with a fattened perch thrashing in her jaws. she bit down until suddenly it's writhing stopped, and with a satisfied expression, she crawled back up to the shore, dropping the fish between the two of them before shaking her pelt out once more. the deputy ducked her head briefly, to lick a few tuft of chest fur back into place, then settled down on her hind legs, focusing a sharp look on yellowstar's form.
"keeping busy," violetdawn mewed, and if one didn't know any better, they might have taken her sharp tone as a slight against the tom rather than all it was - a response. she looked over the battle-marred tom, taking note of the scratches and keens that split his fur and gleamed with red, the taste of blood fresh in her mouth from her perch but bleeding the memory of the battle all the same in the back of her throat. she was not much older than him, but even now, with him before her as her leader, she couldn't help but still shrink him down to that raggedy little kit she'd helped to pull from the water as a newly named warrior of riverclan. how disgusting, she thought it was, for twolegs to toss a cat to the unforgiving rapids.
regardless, he was a kittypet. that knowledge would not leave her mind til the day she disappeared from starclan once and for all - how soft starclan must have grown to allow tainted blood to lead what was once a good and strong clan. for now, she would hold her tongue, but once yellowstar was gone...
"we need to double down on our border with windclan. emberstar's rogue followers are bound to strike again at some point as vengeance for helping to take their pathetic excuse of a leader down, but i don't want to see even a single strand of fur misplaced from those moor cats, either. this doesn't make our clan friends. if anything, they owe us."
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Apr 25, 2021 10:37:55 GMT
Post by ❈Yellowstar on Apr 25, 2021 10:37:55 GMT
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I took a little journey to the unknown[break]
And I've come back changed I can feel it in my bones
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Voiletdawn suddenly launching herself from the rocks and into the shallow waters caught Yellowstar by surprise. Droplets of water sprayed back at the tom as the fish that was locked in her jaws thrashed aggressively before it’s life was swiftly taken.[break][break]
The deputy crawled back onto the shore, dropping the fish between them, and Yellowstar couldn’t help but to admire what an impressive catch it was. ”Keeping busy,” she mewed sharply in response. [break][break]
Keeping busy? Isn’t that what they all had been doing to ensure their clans safety in the days following the battle? The brown tabby found himself nodding in agreement. Her response had been short, to the point, and relatable. Slowly, he was finding himself comfortable in her presence. Maybe there existed compatibility between them in terms of leading their clan.[break][break]
"we need to double down on our border with windclan. emberstar's rogue followers are bound to strike again at some point as vengeance for helping to take their pathetic excuse of a leader down, but i don't want to see even a single strand of fur misplaced from those moor cats, either. this doesn't make our clan friends. if anything, they owe us." Violetdawn quickly added, with a sort of unapologetic bluntness that a tom like him couldn’t help but appreciate.[break][break]
”I wholeheartedly agree with you,” Yellowstar meowed with a sigh, his yellow eyes narrowing as he focused on the churning waters across from them. ”You’re in charge of assigning the patrols now, and I trust whatever you deem necessary.”[break][break]
”If it were up to me, we wouldn’t have even lended a paw to help WindClan take care of their own problem. When Emberstar demanded those half-clan kits at the gathering, I would have given them to him along with the queen,” he meowed, the note of irritation unmistakable in his voice.[break][break]
”I’ll never understand why a cat would look outside of their own clan for romance. Look at the damn mess it caused. WindClan’s problems didn’t concern us, yet we got dragged into it,” the tom exhaled with a flick of his tail before he added, ”Whitestar’s softness eventually led to his demise. You won’t ever find me being sympathetic toward betrayal.”
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Post by violetdawn on Apr 27, 2021 2:16:12 GMT
hey youngblood i'll raise you like a phoenix
"if it were up to me, we wouldn't have even lent a paw to help windclan take care of their own problem. when emberstar demanded those half-clan kits at the gathering, i would have given them to him along with the queen."
she can't help herself. the very statement in and of itself makes violetdawn snort, the kind of chuckle that makes her shoulders tremble as she tries to stifle it in her throat. did he really not see the irony in his words? had the tom truly forgotten his origins, where he had come from? if he really cared so much for keeping riverclan blood clean, then he would have picked his sorry tail up and left riverclan as soon as he'd realized what a mistake it had been for him to be there. he might have convinced himself that he was a warrior, but violetdawn would never be so easily fooled.
still. she knew now was not the time nor place to feed the tom's own hypocritical words back to him. clearly he'd seen through to her dutiful passions to the clan, and she fully intended on keeping him that way while he was still spry and youthful, full of the hopes and dreams every new leader had at the start of their reign.
"i'm glad to hear you think so," she mewed clearly, stretching her forelegs out in front of her, long claws scraping over the smooth, warm stones before retracting back into their sheathes. sparing a glance around, she parted her jaws and strained her ears, testing the air for a whiff of the putrid stench of thunderclan cat before crawling closer to the tom, hushing her voice to a whisper.
"i would hope, though, that you see how useful our leverage is over viperstar. since our clanmates felt so inclined to help him... i should say that he might start to feel a little inclined to help us, when the opportunity arises. let's just make sure it's us cashing in that favor on our own terms rather than our paw being forced. do you understand what i mean?"
it would be crude to say that violetdawn was itching for another battle. but the thought of giving thunderclan a reminder not to step out of place when it came to the sunningrocks, to have another clan reinforcing that boundary - not that they needed the help, but it was all in the message it put down, wasn't it?
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Post by ❈Yellowstar on Apr 27, 2021 6:43:54 GMT
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I took a little journey to the unknown[break]
And I've come back changed I can feel it in my bones
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”I’m glad to hear you think so,” Violetdawn meowed, stretching her forelegs out. Yellowstar gave a faint nod before turning his head away, focusing back toward the water. It seemed they were on the same page and understood each other. Hopefully their pairing would be one with minimal friction.[break][break]
The she-cat moved in closer before adding, "i would hope, though, that you see how useful our leverage is over viperstar. since our clanmates felt so inclined to help him... i should say that he might start to feel a little inclined to help us, when the opportunity arises. let's just make sure it's us cashing in that favor on our own terms rather than our paw being forced. do you understand what i mean?"[break][break]
Yellowstar’s ears twitched as he shot a glance back toward his deputy. For as much as he hid it, her words elicited an uncomfortable feeling inside of him. After just recently losing Whitestar, and all the bloodshed of the battle and smaller attacks afterward, the last thing he wanted to think about was adding more conflict to their clan.[break][break]
No, not with how many lives they lost and with all their injured apprentices. Certainly, there were delayed warrior ceremonies in RiverClan's future. They needed to conserve their strength and energy. They needed time to recoup and recover. They also had to prepare to defend themselves against Emberstar's rogue followers. StarClan only knows how much that situation was going to evolve.[break][break]
”What exactly do you mean? Elaborate.” The tom mewed, his tone becoming more straightforward. ”Because adding more conflict to our current situation is not in our best interest right now.”
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violetdawn
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Apr 30, 2021 18:14:41 GMT
Post by violetdawn on Apr 30, 2021 18:14:41 GMT
hey youngblood i'll raise you like a phoenix
an exasperated sigh was withheld from passing her maw, but she couldn't resist the irritated twitch her ears gave at his response. of course the tom would be favoring allowing riverclan to heal - but violetdawn saw nothing wrong with making a show of their strength even when they might have been kicked down a notch. she let her thoughts roll in her mind, mulling over her next choice of words carefully.
the deputy drew away from her leader, for a moment, pacing on the sand. each pretty white grain shifted underneath her delicate paw steps. sparing a glance to the water, she narrowed her eyes, and lurched forwards again, dragging a fish out of the water as she nipped it's spine between her jaws. it was a chub - not quite as large as the perch she'd caught moments before, but certainly suitable enough for any newly named apprentices or older kits to get a meal out of.
"of course i don't mean now," she mewed, after holding the silence for a moment longer. "but it's something to keep in mind, is it not, yellowstar? when the clan has healed, but before any of the other clans get any funny ideas."
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Post by ❈Yellowstar on May 8, 2021 6:56:40 GMT
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I took a little journey to the unknown[break]
And I've come back changed I can feel it in my bones
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Yellowstar silently observed his deputy as her ears twitched at his response. What was Violetdawn honestly thinking? A part of him began to worry if they were really on the same page. It was a feeling he forced down; now was not the time for conflict within the clan, either.[break][break]
When Violetdawn drew away to pace the riverbank, the brown tabby allowed his shoulders to relax a little. A sigh escaped his maw as he moved closer toward the rushing current. His mind was so preoccupied with thought that he almost didn’t hear the splash caused by the she-cat catching another fish.[break][break]
”of course i don’t mean now,” she finally meowed. ”but it’s something to keep in mind, is not, yellowstar? When the clan has healed, but before any of the other clans get any funny ideas.”[break][break]
The tom did not respond. His yellow eyes narrowed into slits and his whiskers twitched as the rest of his senses suddenly became alert. Below the surface of the water his eyes caught the shimmer of scales weaving through the stream.[break][break]
In a sudden, fluid movement, Yellowstar shot a forepaw into the water, hooking up a trout. The fish landed before his paws, flopping on the rocks. It was soon followed by the tom delivering a bite to the back of its neck. A life swiftly taken.[break][break]
He was silent for a moment longer as he mulled over her words. ”I do agree WindClan owes us a debt, but I’m not sure if we agree on how to spend it,” Yellowstar meowed, his brow furrowing thoughtfully.[break][break]
”I’m not saying you’re wrong, I just want to understand what it is exactly that you think we should do. ThunderClan hasn’t caused us any problems as of late. The sunningrocks are ours. Are you suggesting we take more territory than we already have, then?” He mewed, carefully assessing the risks of such an idea.
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