{$title} peony and cricket have to work together to capture prey! things dont go quite as planned however.
'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread
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Cricketpaw walked with a certain tenseness in her shoulders, her paws pressing into the damp earth as the wind carried the faint scent of rain. The weather hadn't let up much, but it was bearable for now, just enough for a little hunting practice. Just enough for Blossomtail to send her out with another apprentice. Normally, she would've been thrilled. She liked hunting, liked learning, liked showing what she could do. But when she'd learned who she'd be hunting with everything inside her had crashed like thunder.
She didn't know how to feel about him. Didn't want to, maybe. Everyone said it had been an accident. That he hadn't meant to cause the fire. That it wasn't really his fault. But that fire had taken everything.... Her mother, her father, her home. It had left her with the scars on her face and the hollow ache in her chest that no shiny trinket could ever fill. And she didn't think Peonypaw understood that. Didn't understand what it meant to watch everything burn. She tried to keep her chin up, like always. Tried to smile, to act like the cheerful, bouncy apprentice everyone knew her to be. That was what her parents would've wanted, for her to live, to be happy, to make them proud. But sometimes… sometimes the hurt crept through the cracks she'd tried so hard to patch over.
" Ugh! " she suddenly burst out when Peonypaw lunged too soon, sending their prey darting away into the brush. Her fur bristled as she turned on him, her one bright eye narrowed in frustration. " You were too quick to go after it! " The words came out sharper than she intended, but she didn't take them back. Not this time. " Now we have to find another piece of prey. " she muttered, tail lashing as she stomped past him. Her chest heaved, her throat tight as tears pricked at the corner of her good eye. She blinked them away furiously, not even sure what she was angry at anymore. Him, herself, the world.
" Why do you make this so hard...? " she whispered, voice cracking. She wasn't sure if she was talking about the hunt anymore, or everything that had happened between them.
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