TW: Sensitive Content Open Camp better days || returning with injured [open]

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This thread takes place inside the clan's camp.

AND I AM SORRY MY CONSCIENCE CALLED IN SICK AGAIN

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Trigger Warning For Injuries/Blood!

The slope into camp was slick with last nights rain, but Wolfpack didn't slow– just dug his claws into the slick mud as he began to slide, letting them snag on the sticks and rocks and pine needles that were in place to help ease a cats descent into the hollow. His legs were already caked in mud from the run back to camp anyways, Marbleshines blood smeared across his shoulders like war paint. Her injuries overlooked his own– a shallow tear above one eye and stinging of lines across his flank.

He hardly even felt them, too distracted by the sticky warmth of her blood matting his fur as he did his best to keep her balanced on his back. He'd tried to find something to use to slow it– cobwebs, like she'd said– but a cursory glance had offered him nothing and he wasn't sure how much time he had to spare on it. Between treating her himself, and risking the rush back to Cicada, he knew which one he had to bet his luck on.

He hit the ground of the camp hard, spraying grit and muck underpaw and not sparing a single glance at any of the heads that turned in his direction to complain or watch. "Cicadabuzz!" he called, not breaking his stride as he rushed toward the healers den. "There's been a fox attack."



  • ooc :@Marbleshine @cicadabuzz !! Wolfpack's injuries are fairly minor - he got clipped on the face right above his eye, and on the flank! Fox retreated after Wolf got a very lucky claw in it's eye.
  • shadowclan deputy - male - a large, monochrome chimera with mismatched eyes and several scars

 
In the morning when I wake and the sun is coming through
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweetness and you fill my head with you

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Trembling weakly atop Wolfpack's back, Marbleshine could feel herself slipping every so often, but just as quickly, he would shift, steadying her without a word. Each time it happened, she murmured a soft, breathless "sorry," but he didn't answer, didn't slow. His steps were relentless, focused, driven by the single need to get her home. All she could do was hold on with what little strength she had left. Her shoulder throbbed with sharp, pulsing pain. She was still bleeding. No cobwebs, no herbs... she hadn't even managed that. And... Oh. Oh, Stars. They'd left their prey behind. All that effort... someone else would find it now. Some fox or badger or rogue. Not the clanmates who needed it most.

Her head lowered slightly, cheek pressing faintly into the warmth of his fur. I'm sorry. The words swirled in her chest, too tangled to form on her tongue. She had tried. She really had. But it hadn't been enough. Eyes fluttered shut. Everything ached. Her pride. Her body. Her heart. But then... Movement. The camp. She felt it before she saw it. The way the air changed. The faint scents of home. Pawsteps muffled by familiar paths. Her ears folded back as her stomach twisted in shame. They were here. And everyone would see her like this... Bloodied, broken, useless. I'm sorry, she wanted to sob. I'm sorry, I'll do better. I'll be better. I promise, I will.

" Wolf... " Her voice was a whisper, barely audible above the thundering in her own ears. She heard him call for Cicadabuzz, firm and clear. Strong, like always. She wanted to thank him. She wanted to say something... Anything... But she didn't know how. Didn't know where to begin. Her chin dipped lower. A breath hitched painfully in her throat as her lips parted in a tiny murmur... A single word...

" ..Sorry. "

Whether it was for Wolfpack, for Cicadabuzz, for the Stars above, or for herself she wasn't sure. All she knew was that it sat heavy in her chest, aching and quiet. The only word she could offer.

Speech, thoughts/emphasis


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You Say That You Are Close
Is Close The Closest Star?


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There's a wailing that echoes around camp, aghast and fearful, that's only silenced when Sealpaw shoves her face into Marbleshine's cheek to muffle the sound. What had happened. What had happened? Wolfpack's words don't reach her, not really. The word 'fox' echoes in her mind like a dirge and the tabby apprentice vaguely recalls Leopard mentioning in passing once that the reason her father was no longer around was because of a fox. As a kit she hadn't really understood what that meant but now seeing her adoptive mother in this state it was all entirely too real.

"M-marble- Mom!" Her breath caught in her throat, painful with guilt. She'd been avoiding the other since their fight, any conversation had been cold or dismissive at best. Outright ignoring her at worst. If that was going to be her last conversation with her mother she was going to kick herself. "Y-you're ok... Please be ok..."

Her gaze briefly shifts to Wolfpack properly, noting how compared to Marbleshine he hardly had a scratch on him and somewhere within her chest a growl is dragged out. "Why didn't you do anything to stop it?" It's quiet, barely above a whisper before Sealpaw finds herself in the tom's face with teeth bared and fur bristling. "YOU'RE THE DEPUTY AREN'T YOU!? AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO PREVENT STUFF LIKE THIS!?"

Reason had flown out the window. She couldn't lose a mother a second time.

Be okay... please be okay...


You Just Feel Twice As Far
SEALPAW

— Shadowclan Apprentice
— She/They
"SPEECH", 'THOUGHTS', ATTACK

— Grey Rosetted Tabby With Blue Eyes And A Bobbed Tail.
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