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Hawkstar, if they were anything at all, was a creature of habit. She liked all of her clanmates neatly ordered, precisely counted, and within her scope of mind. She liked her fresh-kill pile stocked and correctly sorted into gamey, feathered, and scaled (one could notice that Hawkstar did not have a category that neatly included frogs, and that was because she did not like frogs in the least. Therefore, they would never have a place in her fresh-kill pile. Easy! Neat! Ordered!
However, the business of moving her clan from one end of the earth to the other meant that "neat" and "orderly" had been thrown .... well, not even "out the window", but off a cliff into a fiery ravine. She had hoped for some level of tact and class in this mess, but ... but of course, she had been a fool to believe that StarClan would allow anything to be so simple, so ... familiar.
Of course, it was the familiar that would bother her the most now, she thought bitterly as her patrol alighted against the edge of a canyon, its great maw opened to greet an unsuspecting cat who looked with their eyes across the moors beyond, instead of their feet.
"Hold back," the painted king called back to her clanmates, the greedy gurgling of the river below accentuating the hard consonants of her command. "It's a near tree-length drop straight to the rapids. A clear border, and a warning," as if the great kings of old - the leaders of LionClan and TigerClan alike - had scored the earth with one massive claw, marking the physical distance between themselves some centuries before.
"Fan out. I want to see how far this goes in either direction. More than seven tree-lengths and I'll consider this sufficient guard enough." She flicks her tail, decisive, kingly, ordered, as was the natural way of things. As it should be.
/ up to FIVE other skyclanners allowed in this thread ! windclanners go crazy go stupid c: this will contribute to the STARS ALIGN SkyClan / WindClan requirements !!