Open Event Territory RC CAW! // scarecrow investigation

[Brookstorm]

{$title} There have been whispers among the kittypets of a twoleg (scarecrow) who never sleeps nor moves from their garden bones. Surely it's a lie. There's no way a twoleg doesn't sleep, right?

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Brook didn't really care whether anyone questioned his interest in the temporary Twoleg camp. After all, even the non-former-kittypets of the Clan would flit over to the Twoleg encampment, curious to find trinkets or gossip with the kittypets that had been brought along.

Brook was no different. The little goodies were tempting, but the gossip even more so. He'd heard a few of them mention a Twoleg nearby the camp, one that stood stock-still day and night. He knew Twolegs were strange, but that was a particularly unique behavior. It stood to reason that she ought to check it out!

Of course, she had to stay on "Pikestar"'s good side during this probation, so she'd gathered a couple other warriors to travel to the weird Twoleg with her. Being on probation didn't stop her from acting as an expert, however.

"Now, I've lived with Twolegs my whole life - and a few different Twolegs at that!" she began. "But I've never, and I mean never heard of a Twoleg who is able to stand still all the time! They get too tired or too agitated. They're always on the move." As they crested a rise in the territory, she spotted the Twoleg in the distance, standing with arms outstretched.

"There it is," he whispered. "Let's be careful, yeah?"

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  BROOKSTORM — SHE/HE ･ 41 MOONS ･ RIVERCLAN WARRIOR ･ PENNED BY PLOT ･ SPEECH ･ THOUGHTS

  A short-furred silver cat with black tabby stripes and scathing green eyes. The carbon copy of his brother Pikestar... only without the scars.

 

[Kuhli]

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Kuhli followed Brook and the others to the human encampment looking for the still "twoleg", as the clan cats called them. They were still new to the clan and Kuhli felt a bit intimidated by all the strange faces, so keeping close to Brook made them feel safer. One familiar face in a river of strangers. Of course, Kuhli tried to get to know them all, but that was going to take time - they were determined to fit in though.

"My twolegs were elderly, they would often sit for hours, napping or just drifting away. But they always moved eventually." Kuhli agreed with their sister.

At Brook's warning, Kuhli lowered their ears and stared into the distance - and sure enough, what appeared like a human was standing there, as if waiting for an embrace. Frozen, unmoving, staring ahead of itself. "That sure is strange..." they meowed, not tearing their eyes from the weird creature. "I wonder if it's hunting?"

Just like cats waiting patiently at the water's edge, waiting for a fish to swim close enough. Sometimes that took a lot of patience and they had to stay still, so as to not cause shadows to dance across the water's surface, scaring all the water-dwellers away. But what would a twoleg need to hunt for?

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[pebbledream.'s icon pebbledream. pebbledream.]

PEBBLEDREAM ──

riverclan | warrior​

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Pebbledream isn't usually one to do anything besides busywork - they don't have much interest in anything else, and they're out in the territory hunting or patrolling more often than they are in camp. But with the arrival of these kittypet joiners, not to mention the twoleg camp, there had been stories and rumors of all kinds of things. One of which being the one they now followed behind Brook to see for themself.

Pebbledream is somewhat familiar with twolegs. They were never a kittypet, but they had seen them out near the shipyard a lot when they were younger, either hanging around the shore or out in the water on their weird lake monsters. But a twoleg that never moves? That sounds like a kitten tale their pops would have told them. Pebbledream refuses to believe it unless they see it with their own two eyes.
"Same here," they concede, "I've seen twolegs before, but they've always moved eventually. I've never heard of a twoleg staying perfectly still."
They slow to a stop when they reach this fabled creature, and they peer out at it with narrowed eyes. It definitely looks like a twoleg… and it's certainly standing very still.
Kuhli wonders if it may be hunting, and Pebbledream shakes their head. "I doubt it. How could it possibly expect to blindside any prey when it's standing up so tall? Anything could see it from a fox-leap away, and it's hardly close enough to the water to be watching for fish." Their head tilts to the side as they continue to watch it do… absolutely nothing. "I wonder why its arms are out like that - I don't think I've ever seen a twoleg standing that way. Then again, I don't know anything about their bizarre customs. Maybe I just haven't seen it until now."

a steadfast spirit, never to stall

the vow resounds: honor above all

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