Hellos readers! Another challenge for whispers of the past. Oh I think I'm suppose to be an apprentice now too (two weeks active).

Creator: Rainstorm

Challenge Title: Wintry Streets

Word Min/Max: Greater than 300

Description: Write about a cat experiencing his or her first leafbare in the forest. It does not necessarily have to be an apprentice. It can be happy or sad.

Other: None

Snowpaw was awoken by the harsh wind. Blinking her eyes open blearily, she shook out her white fur, fluffing it up against the cold. She knew she was on dawn patrol that day, and wondered how early it must have been for her mentor not to have come get her. Lifting her gaze from her fluffy white paws, a difference in detail caught her eye.

Through the gaps in the sturdy den wall, she was surprised by what she saw- or rather, what she couldn't see. It seemed like the world was being bombarded by small white flurries that swirled with no pattern, although a certain grace, through the clan territories. Snow? Was the first word that came to mind, from a last time of tales from the elders, and perhaps the forgotten memory of it itself. Turning around, ignoring her friend's hiss as she accidentally whipped the following with her tail, she gazed out of the entrance, only to be greeted by the same storm.

Hesitantly, she stepped one paw outside, only to quickly bring it back inside the den to ease the burning sensation of the cold. Still curious, she ignored the buffeting winds that were swirling around her. Squinting her eyes against the startling whiteness, she took a moment to evaluate her new surroundings. She knew that cats had been worrying about an upcoming blizzard se soon after leaf-fall, but somehow she couldn't bring herself to feel threatened by the raging flames, delicately settling on her fur and blanketing the ground below in what she remembered as being described as shining like a million diamonds underneath the sun and moon's light-not that she knew what diamonds were,but she had to assume it was something that looked nice.

She had heard of how bad leaf-bare was for the clans, but she wasn't going to let that stop her. No-snow was not her enemy, she would learn to use it as an advantage.

So, please read and review!

(This was 329 words).