TW: Sensitive Content Private Territory ShadowClan honey, don't feed it, it will come back // timber

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levi

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Freshkill
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he/him
Played by
teddy
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tw for Vague mentions of dog attack/a wound

You've really done it now, Levi thinks to himself as he hurdles across the fence, dog still hot on his heels. He had made an in hindsight highly questionable decision to forgo having to hunt in favor of… borrowing some food from a dog. Although to be fair, the dog was usually leashed to a post or inside, and the fact that it was just running around like a wild animal was a completely unforeseen complication. By the time Levi had hopped down from the fence, the dog was already on him, and though as far as dogs go it was pretty small, so was Levi. The wound it left however… painful. Very painful. Especially when you're also running for your life, as the dog had followed you out of its garden where it's usually tethered by a chain!

Finally, after what feels like hours of running, he spots a road in the distance. Not that he intends on killing the thing, but… if it just so happens to get flattened, well, all the better. Levi makes a sharp right, bee lining for the road. He only lets himself linger for a second before he crosses, just to be sure he doesn't get flattened. He chances a look over his shoulder on the other side and sees the dog barking and pacing angrily on the other side of the road, too afraid to cross. Hah!

He takes a moment to orient himself– where the hell was he? He'd crossed the road before, but never this far from the two leg place he usually haunted. It was… dim, to say the least. And his shoulder continued to ache. He'd need somewhere to rest, to clean the wound… but… ah, to just lay down right here. But no, that dog might change its mind, cross the road, try to find him. The things had the damnedest sense of smell. So he hobbles on, eyes searching for a particularly comfortable looking bush or abandoned hole to crawl into, when suddenly he catches a whiff of the scent markings of cats. Unfamiliar cats. Huh…

Then, suddenly, a rustle in the bushes, a flash of fur. Yep, he thinks again– you've really done it now.

"Listen sweetheart, if you're gonna kill me, could you make it fast? Don't fancy I'll be sticking around for too long with this wound anyway."


ooc @Timberfrost <3
 
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It was day, and of course Timber was off doing his daily chores. The tom hummed a gentle tune to himself around a mouthful of moss, a sort of skip in his step as he carefully took only small mouthfuls from the places he always perused. Nests only needed to be refreshed, and he learned quickly how slow moss grew back when he had first made a nest with it. The next batch he was looking for was not far from the thunderpath, so it meant he didn't have far to go.

Suddenly he paused, instead dropping the moss he held in his mouth and instead opening his mouth to drink in a new scent. An unfamilar scent, something metallic, something that scared him. Immediately, the tom ducked into the undergrowth he had come from, gold eyes wide as a strange figure stumbled into the clearing he had just been in, eyes looking around intently... almost as if they were looking for someone. Looking for him. Thoroughly put off by the scent of blood, the chocolate tabby began to shuffle backwards from whence he came

Well, until the tom spoke to him.

"I'm sorry???" The tom spluttered, head immediately popping up from the top of the bush he was hidden in. Warmth erupted across his cheeks, though from embarrassment or being flustered, he wasn't sure. "I- You're bleeding-" Timber continued to trip over his words, clumsily pulling himself out of the bush as the branches he had stuck his head through in his shock pulled on his fur. "And- I mean, I'm not planning on killing you or anything. And I sure don't want you to just... die out here or anything." Looking at the wound, Timber could tell it was from some big animal but he wasn't quite sure what. Coyote, maybe? Thankfully, he had gotten away from his close calls during his time alone with only minor scrapes, but it meant he was unfamiliar with the gashes that were left in this poor tom. "And I don't want whatever caused that to come snooping around either..." Timber thought outloud to himself.

  • Timber
    ✦—Shadowclan Caregiver | 26 Moons
    ✦—He/Him
    ✦—"SPEECH", 'THOUGHTS', ATTACK
    ✦—A large chocolate tabby with pale gold eyes
    #9A775A
 

After Levi has spoken up, a tom pops out of the bushes, stammering and staring at him wide eyes. Interesting… he's certainly pretty, and he's tall and lithe, pale gold eyes shimmering under the sun. He continues speaking, and Levi listens with his usual intensity, blue eyes locked on the other tom as if to hold him captive there. Seems he wouldn't meet his end just yet.

He sits down on his haunches and tilts his head curiously, a smile playing on his lips– "you're not planning' on killin' me, and you don't want me to die? Well, I must remember to thank my lucky star for sendin' me you…"

And I don't want whatever caused that to come snooping around either...

"Oh, don't worry your pretty head about that," Levi purrs. "I left the bastard on the other side of the road– and I don't fancy he'll be crossing it anytime soon. However, I do need some place to rest tonight… maybe a poppyseed or two to take the edge off. Don't suppose you know a place, sweetheart?"

 
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The tom had no idea how to react to the tom's intent stare it reminded him uncomfortably of the stares he would get on his travels with Stoat, a look that meant he'd be in big trouble if he showed any sort of weakness. This cat didn't emanate quite that level of danger, but perhaps Timber had just gotten a bit too comfortable being within Shadowclan's borders. He didn't exactly want to test his luck... it'd probably be best if he could drag the tom to camp somehow. At least he didn't smell strongly of any other clan as far as he could tell, but then again the smell of blood tended to overwhelm things like that.

Timberfrost couldn't help but laugh at the cat's next words. "You best be happy it was me and not another one of my clanmates." The tabby chuckled, tilting his head to the side in a subconscious mirroring of the other. "I take care of kits and things, so I've never been one to run a cat out immediately." Immediately, he said, as if he would chase anyone out of the territory in really any circumstance. He'd rather leave that to the warriors, it was their jobs after all. He was more than happy with his own lot in life.

"Other side..." Timberfrost echoed, furrowing his brow and glancing past the cat towards where the monsters roared, not all that far from the duo. "Can never be too careful. What got at you? I wouldn't want anyone else to run into it..." His mind automatically wandered to the two young daughters of his, both apprentices and both just as likely to get into trouble, just for different reasons.

Stars, this cat was either just a natural flirt, or perhaps he just... talked like this to everyone. Timber was far more comfortable believing the second option. He didn't know how to deal with attention on the best of days, much less that sort of attention. Rolling his shoulders in an attempt to shake off the feeling of warmth in his face, he bit his lip for just a moment in thought. "...Really depends..." Thinking aloud, he found himself rocking back on his own haunches. "If you're planning on keeping moving after you recover, I wouldn't hang around here for much longer." The tom smiled apologetically. "Sablestar isn't the fondest of... y'know, cats that don't belong here. Ones that don't stick around and pull their own weight." The tom had to stop himself from saying freeloader, though the demotion of Possumgrin did come to mind. If Sablestar treated a cat that had been in the clan for that long in that way, he didn't want to sit and think about what could happen to outsiders.

  • Timber
    ✦—Shadowclan Caregiver | 26 Moons
    ✦—He/Him
    ✦—"SPEECH", 'THOUGHTS', ATTACK
    ✦—A large chocolate tabby with pale gold eyes
    #9A775A