Private 🐺🐾first impressions🐾🐺 [Cloudberrypaw]

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AND I AM SORRY MY CONSCIENCE CALLED IN SICK AGAIN

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Deathberrykit. Fragile. Sickly. Spent more time wrapped in cobwebs and poultices than moss and milk. He wouldn't have recognized her if she passed him in camp three times over. Truth was, he hadn't spared her much thought at all– why would he, when her chances of survival had been so slim? He'd written them off weeks ago, assuming Cicadabuzz's experiments to make them better had ultimately failed.

And yet here she was.

His gaze finally shifted from Sablestar, blue and gold eyes dragging across the crowd until they landed on the little wisp standing beside Hemlockpaw. Small. Thing. Dark fur unkept– not because they hadn't tried grooming it, but because it lacked the healthy luster of the typical apprentices. A strong breeze looked like it could knock them flat– and the breeze out here was seldom kind.

He didn't show it, but the back of his mind itched with quiet calculation. She wasn't ready. Not by his standards. She shouldn't be out of the nursery, let alone on patrol.

And now she was his responsibility.

He stepped forward when the chanting died down, crossing the clearing with slow, measured steps until he stopped in front of her. He didn't crouch. Didn't smile. Just looked down, steady and quiet.

"Cloudberrypaw," he said at last, his voice low and even as he regarded the child of their healer. "Let's go. We're heading out."



  • ooc :@cloudberrypaw
  • shadowclan deputy - male - a large, black & blue chimera with moderate white splashing, mismatched eyes, and several scars.