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Open Camp have grown so tired [ low pressure thread! ]

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This thread takes place inside the clan's camp.
swarmswirl

swarmswirl

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Swarmswirl - nested decidedly away from Starlitpath - wakes with the cold seeping into her bones. She grimaces, stretching out her limbs and following the crowd into the clearing. Flowercloud should be announcing patrols soon, if she has any guess. The days are getting shorter, which should be no issue...

"What is... that!?" The tortie molly hears one of her Clanmates gasp in horror. Another replies, "It rolled in here last night! We've been trying to get it out!"

Sat in the center of camp, was a great big pumpkin, with carvings in the side. Swarmswirl grimaces, but joins the cats peering at it.
 
BERRYKIT

Berrykit wakes up before both momma and Rain do and so he decides to stretch his legs outside. What he doesn't expect to see is a bunch of warriors gathered around a... stone? A ginger-colored stone? He spots his auntie looking just as confused as he feels and trots up to her.

"Swarmswirl, what is that stone?" his voice innocent, curious. "How did it get here?"

Maybe some of the mentors dragged it into camp for training their apprentices? Berrykit has no idea, though he is rather intrigued, especially by his clanmates, who seem really puzzled. Berrykit is used to not understanding a lot of things yet, but to see his clanmates facing the same struggle? It's amusing.
SkyClan | Kitten
 

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QUAILSTEP
Oh great StarClan - not another one!

Quailstep padded forward, her tail a little puffed out, sniffing the air suspiciously. How did this plant make it here? Did some Twoleg roll it around and towards the Clan? Why would they do that?

This one also had been gnawed on, it seems, though like the others, whatever had chewed it had incredibly sharp and precise teeth.

"Did anyone see what might have rolled it in here?"
Tagging
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THOUGHTS
 

Yolkkit is close behind Berrykit, golden paws bounding out of the nursery as soon as he wakes up. He carries a slight indignation over his friend being the first to discover the strange stone placed in the middle of camp, but wonder still sparks his gaze at the sight. " Woah! " Perhaps he's more excited about the discovery than he should be, his clanmates' wary gazes going unnoticed.

Big and orange, it's like nothing Yolkkit has ever seen before! Larger than most rocks within camp and marred with funny-looking claw marks against its surface, the boy gets an idea. With a nudge against Berrykit's shoulder, he asks: " Do you think we can climb it? "

 

Answering both Quailstep and Berrykit, Swarmswirl blinks with her confusion, "I have no idea. I just... you know, woke up...!" Admitting as much feels juvenile, and she hopes neither her leader nor deputy will offer her ire for not being alert any sooner. Nonetheless, Yolk-kit joins his friend out of the nursery and suggests that the two of them try to climb into it - it is then that the tortoiseshell molly akins the scrapes and gouges to a hungry maw, and grows worried.

"Boys - boys, why don't you wait for the warriors to take a look at it first, okay?" she doesn't want to quell their curiosity, especially Berrykit's given the alternative is fear and grief. Her tail swipes against the ground and she looks back to the Sun Guard, lips pressed together, "Well - uh... we should, shouldn't we?"
 
BERRYKIT

Yolkkit's excitement gets him excited as well, though his auntie is quick to discipline them - Fair, Berrykit thinks. If even the warriors were left a little...confused... then surely the kittens needed to wait until the strange stone got fully investigated by the older cats. Though it sure does look fun to climb...

Berrykit sat down, watching Swarmswirl and Quailstep's movements closely. Soon, he would be an apprentice, and he wanted to be a good one. What better way to start his training then observing SkyClan's best warriors in action, dealing with something unfamiliar?

Of course, that's what he wanted to do in theory. What happened in reality was more chuckles and giggles with Yolkkit at the warriors' too-careful approach of the large strange-colored stone.

SkyClan | Kitten
 

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QUAILSTEP
"I saw some of these on the hunting patrol the other day," she says. "They aren't dangerous, but they can get stinky. And goopy, if you touch the insides."

They looked to the warrior and the kits, ears flicking.

"I don't think there would be much issue with them climbing it," she admits. "Just so long as they're careful. I'll help you keep an eye on them, yeah?"
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Ears flatten at Swarmswirl's insistence that he and Berrykit wait, and Yolkkit wants to squeak out a no fair! in retaliation. But his friend sits and — with a huff — the boy reluctantly follows suit, stepping back from the brightly colored landmark before them. He hopes it doesn't take forever!

He expects it to be boring, this, watching them sniff at the stone, but soon a snort erupts from his maw at their worried faces as he bounces from paw to paw, and soon Berrykit is laughing too! " Do you think we'll be like them? " he asks, " All worried over silly things? " Oh, how he hopes to be something fiercer than what his clanmates look right now!

Quailstep finally speaks, and she saves the day! " Can we? " His gaze grows with excitement, and he looks to Swarmswirl, wondering if she's deemed it just as safe. " Can we please? "

 
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Swarmswirl is instantly stuck between feeling foolish for being confused and anxious - and annoyed with the Sun Guard for brushing her off. The tabby attempts to make light of the situation by inviting the kits to play, if they want, and that they can supervise them just in case. It's a brief salve to the soreness she feels, though the molly feels it compound further with Yolk-kit's near mocking. She won't get angry with a kit, but it only hammers forth more how silly she must have appeared.

"Don't look for me to clean goop off of your paws," Swarmswirl warns, albeit much more playfully than she was before. Her nose touches Berrykit's head before he sends the duo off with, "Go on. Quailstep and I will be here to watch!"
 

R A I N
​ what a shame we all became ​


Rain jolted awake at the sound of tiny paws scurrying from the nursery. Blue eyes wide, she looked around and saw a notably empty space when Berrykit should have been sleeping with his kin. The corners of her mouth pull down in a small, concerned frown. Where had he gone? She hefted herself to her paws with a small grunt and allowed herself a brief stretch as she padded from the den.

Outside, her gaze immediately sought out the wayward kit, scanning the expanse of camp. She breathed a small sigh of relief when she finally spotted him, alongside Yolkkit and a few warriors, and... a big pumpkin?
"Wow!"
She joined the others with an incredulous laugh.
"How'd a pumpkin get in here?
She took note of the carvings on the pumpkin's face and blinked, cocking her head to one side.
"Huh, Twolegs are so weird."



such fragile
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broken things
  • OOC: local girl who has spent time in twolegplace fails to pick up the 'wtf is this' vibe
  • KEY:
    "speech"

    'thoughts'

    attempted action
    "other character's speech"


  • sleek grey she-cat with white paws, tailtip, face, and chin
    she/her
    loner
    15 moons
    pregnant!

 

"It's not the greatest thing to smell," the deputy said, tail raising high above her as her eyes widened at the sights before her and her nose scrunched. A large pumpkin, and the kits seeming excited to climb it. Flowercloud leaned back onto her haunches, low purr gurgling from her throat.

"cmon, kiddos- that thing is huge! I believe in you though, if you need help let me know." The amber molly raised an eyebrow, casting a gaze over Quailstep and Swarmswirl. "Where did it come from?" She asked, tilting her head. "Did someone bring it in?"

Rain spoke then, her fluffy tail poofing a bit before turning her head gently. A new face, one she welcomed of course. The molly directed her green gaze back to the object- "a pumpkin, is that what your two legs call it?" Flowercloud asked.

flowercloud - 36 moons - skyclan deputy - mentoring none
 
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BERRYKIT

Berrykit jumps up excited - auntie and Quailstep are allowing them to climb the stone! Just then Rain appears, calling the thing a pumpkin - Berrykit doesn't know why a stone needs a name, but as his claws touch the surface and the scents hit his nose, he understands. This is no stone, it's more like a... more like a... plant?

With claws outstreched, Berrykit jumps up, clinging onto the pumpkin's side. It's slippery, but he climbs up until he reaches the top...- well, if there was a top. He tilts his head confused, still hanging from the side of the pumpkin, as he stares at what would have been his landing spot, were there anything there. Instead, it's just a hole leading into the inside of the plant.

Berrykit shakes his head and jumps back down. He's not going to risk getting his fur dirty, lest Swarmswirl flicks his ears, he thinks light-heartedly. "The pumpkin is empty!" he calls to the watching warriors. "It's...hollow."

SkyClan | Kitten
 
HOLLY

SHE / HE
14 MOONS
SKYCLAN WARRIOR
PENNED BY SATURNID

Holly has hardly been here a few days, and already he is finding new bounds of what he thought possible. A strange orange thing, like some large and terrible fruit, with gashes in its skin. It sits right in the middle of camp. He lets the confusion of the clanfolk wash over him as she leaves the warrior's den, blinking at it with some amount of interest. "
How odd!
" The tom exclaims, tail held high in excitement.

A pumpkin. "
In all my days and all my travels I have never seen anything quite like it. Twolegs, twolegs... Hah, what strange creatures!
" He bounds over as the consensus moves towards kit-climbing. She stands at the ready. "
Worry not, I will hold it steady should the little kit-paws send it rolling!
" She calls to the caretakers, shooting them a very trustworthy grin.
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