Dearly departed - Dig to find where my heart is
The tunnels offer him not reprieve from his worries, his fears. In the darkness the silence is a constant hum, muffled and reverberating in his head continuously - there is a comfort in it, like being back against his mother newly born, remembering her heartbeat and that of his brothers alongside him. Swaddled in earth rather than warm furs, not quite unlike a grave. It is this thought that sends him clawing and clambering out of the hole, his lilac pelt streak muddy and dark in places where he rubbed against the walls. There is thunder now in his head, he smells smoke and it unsettles him in such a way the itch that makes his legs tingle with the need to run can not be quelled. Petalpaw runs. Petalpaw runs across the camp and out across the rolling hills, drooping wild flowers dying as the cold creeps ever closer remind him of the memorial for those fallen in the flames, the flowers wilted across smooth stones; crying cats left behind like smoldering ash. Maybe he liked the tunnels because it brought him comfort being closer to the dead, or maybe he knew he belonged there instead.
The mute apprentice kept running, curved claws raking over the ground to gain traction, his lungs burning - Am I not good enough?! - the wind screams as it tears past him, his ears folded back and head low.
Ooc- In an effort to cut down OCs and focus on a few, Petalpaw is going missing! The clan is welcome to assume he died or just took off depending on preferences, but he will have wandered back to the old burnt down barn house instead to remain there.
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Cause I'm buried beneath all the dirt & debris - the only flower left in your garden.
✿ Petalpaw
—⊱ Tunneler Apprentice of WindClan
—⊱ He/Him
—⊱ SH Lilac Tabby w/blue eyes - Is Mute.
