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I SIP A TOAST TO NORMALCY
Magnoliapeak is not the nurturing sort. Regardless of the love that had been given to her by her parents, there had been pressure too. A constant expectation to be the best. An expectation that she passes on to clanmates, apprentices, and to potential future children. She is all hard lines and sharp edges, like hard clay that forces roots to fight for proliferation within its surface. Then again, it could be argued that Serpentberry had not been nurturing either. Her children loved her, but Magnoliapeak had not been so easy to have the wool pulled over her eyes. They had both been so leery of one another it could have been possible they were the only ones who had been privy to the other's true nature. Like a sour reflection. She and Serpentberry, the snake and the hawk, both predatory within their own rites.
The dead medicine cat leaves many grieving children in her wake, a stiff recognition of much of ThunderClan. Magnoliapeak is not the sort to grant much more than pity. She too had lost a parent unexpectedly, and she too had gotten over it. But somehow looking at Rowanpaw had made cracks form in the veneer she had cast over her heart after Bracken had died. There is something tendril-like that reaches out toward the medicine cat apprentice, beckoning her to be with Rowanpaw in the slipstream of her dead mother. It had been obvious enough that Serpentberry had poisoned her children against Magnoliapeak (though she cannot blame her, she would have done the same to her own children), but in her absence...
Magnoliapeak uncomfortably pokes into the medicine cat den. The light in here is low, but the air is more welcoming now that it is not overlaid with saccharine. Rowanpaw peers at her with a gaze that is uncertain as ever, amber eyes glinting in the morning light. She takes a breath, the overwhelming scent of herbs nearly making her eyes water. "I cannot pretend to know exactly what it is that you feel," she begins slowly. Stiff, like a nervous dog. "But I know what it's like." She directs her eyes at her paws, shuffling uncomfortably like an apprentice. Magnoliapeak wonders if there is even a singular maternal bone in her body. "You have already become like a rock for this clan," Magnoliapeak raises her gaze again to meet Rowanpaw's "You may be uncertain of it. But you are well-prepared for it, even if you feel blind and deaf. There is not much else we can rely on right now," she pauses, silence hanging between them.
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✿ magnoliapeak is a thunderclan storm guard with sharp resolve and strict standards.
✿ 30 moons old, ages on the 11th of each month.
✿ currently mentoring flickerpaw and sandpiperpaw
✿ in battle, physically difficult and psychologically difficult
✿ her parents are hazelheart x bracken. she is littermate to honeysucklecry and hyacinthrain. she is gen 2 on the junipersable tree.
✿ penned by carat, see her tags here.
