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Birdflame- old people are cool. Just a fact, teehee.
Snowfall16- I would feel the exact same way!
AOTD-
Taking these words from Snowfall16, I would love to go on an adventure, but I would hate to leave my friends and family behind.
We walked until Sun-Down, finally resting beside a dried up streambed, under a small overhang in the bank.
Emberspirit hunted and caught a vole, his eyes gleaming hungrily.
He turned to me. "Want some?" I shook my head, answering.
"We just need water to survive, kind of like it's replenishing our starry forms." he looked slight a taken-back but nodded and tore into the prey.
The sun was sinking into a pink, orange and blood-red sky, and I leaped to the top of the bank to watch it disappear for the night.
As I sat in the darkness, a night breeze stirring my fur, I heard pawsteps and turned to find Emberspirit at my shoulder.
"May I join you?" he meowed, dipping his head at me. His light green eyes, like Clovergaze's, I notice, glowed in the gathering darkness.
A slight spark of nervousness shot through my stomach.
I brushed it away; what was getting into me?
"Sure. Sunset was beautiful, wasn't it?" I said, licking a paw meditatively.
"It was." his voice was soft.
A thrush sang out the last notes of it's song before falling quiet.
The silence surrounded us, broken only by the faint sound of the each other's steady breathing.
I closed my eyes. The awkward silence between us was unexpected and, well, awkward.
I leaped to my paws, starting down the hill. N
"I'm going to my nest now," I flushed, why had I said that?
The rest of the night passed uneventfully. Emberspirit slid into his nest near the front and curled into a ball, the tip of his tail resting on his nose.
I rolled over, now facing the back wall. I was so nervous, so awkward.
I had never had a crush when I was alive. I had been so focused on training and becoming the best warrior I could.
While the other she-cats in the apprentice den had been off flirting with the toms, I had been in the training clearing, practicing my frontal paw swipe.
Was this a crush? Again, when I had been alive, I had heard my den-mates talking about their crushes, but I had never had one before.
I'll ask Redstrike tomorrow.
I soon realized one thing: it was going to be a long night.
I was up at dawn, a small breeze blowing through my fur.
Padding a slight distance away, I spotted a puddle and bounded over.
Lapping at the water, I didn't notice Emberspirit until he crouched by me and started drinking as well. I jerked back, droplets flying.
We were drinking form the same puddle! Then, shaking my head at my own foolishness, I leaned back down.
"Good morning!" Redstrike's cheery voice rang through the early morning air. Her red-and-cream fur seemed freshly groomed and shining.
I rose to my paws, the question burning in my mind. Then, Emberspirit brushed past me, and I froze. He stopped, throwing me an embarrassed glance.
"Sorry." he meowed, a flush spreading over his face. I cleared my throat, shrugging.
"That's- that's fine, Emberspirit." I cleared my throat again.
Redstrike looked from me to the ginger tom's retreating form.
"What is goin' on, girl?" she meowed, arching a brow and sitting, sweeping her long tail around her paws.
"O-oh, Redstrike! I'm so confused!" I leaped forward, burying my head in her chest fur. She nuzzled the top of my head before pulling back and looking me straight in the eye.
"Tell me everything."
"When I first met Emberspirit, he was practically nothing, just a cat who could see me. Now, when I talk to him, touch him, just look at him, I freeze and this awkward silence seems to be following me around!" I wailed, covering my face with my paws. Redstrike stroked my head with her tail, sitting close to me.
"What you are feeling is your first, if I'm not mistaken, crush. Just let things get easier between you guys and you'll find your rhythm." her expression grew almost severe. "Do not fall in love, Rainflash. Not with a living cat. It will break your heart." and with that, she padded away, disappearing into the den.
I sat up, confusion whirling in my mind. Fall in love? How can that even happen?
Oh StarClan! I can't fall in love!
QOTD
Who, out of the Five, do you think you are most like?
