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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7c14f49863011eacfe32a5ff420b027c"To his surprise, she pressed closer to the clan leader and purred. "I guess I couldn't leave my soul mate after all."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="34e3611de0245f0b3e2c199c2bbdc1b3"Thunder caught him staring and shot him a questioning look. His pelt warmed with embarrassment and he turned away. "Yeah," he finally replied lamely./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="b90d8fa86a5558fd316c6b748a85625e"Boomer was the typical younger brother, too mischievous and too arrogant for his own good. He was loud, cocky, but was also a fun sibling. Lionstar's life was never boring. Until one day, he disappeared after going out to hunt. Some said he drowned- others said he eloped with a mate. But Lionstar didn't know what to think, he didn't know what to believe, so he thought about everything, and he believed everything./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7c14f49863011eacfe32a5ff420b027c"To his surprise, she pressed closer to the clan leader and purred. "I guess I couldn't leave my soul mate after all."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="34e3611de0245f0b3e2c199c2bbdc1b3"Thunder caught him staring and shot him a questioning look. His pelt warmed with embarrassment and he turned away. "Yeah," he finally replied lamely./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="33977b1641fb7b21e265eeed92a3ac34"The three cats stared at him, waiting, for him to explain himself, but he didn't. All he did was stare back, silent, at nothing, as if he was lost in a distant memory./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7e2deff3b620d64598ed6c8d7d06bee9"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Why not? Remember, we are one. If you want something, I do too./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="6d74f4a4ddc7dfcfcb5e8f8009808334""No, Tigerstar. Go find your own plaything. Kougar is a beautiful cat, and she's mine."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="43d399cb2bbbe936c3b7a32f86509da8"Eaglewing could feel the tension rolling off Lionstar in waves. His fur was rising on the ends, and he seemed to be growling lowly at something unseen. No one spoke a word, until Lionstar himself finally sighed, a soft forlorn, "em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Boomer."/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="d075f0bf068f0fe6a1677d97394c479c"Eaglewing shivered; she'd never heard, or felt, so much emotion in one word. The longing, regret was so clearly laced in his brother's name that her own heart ached for Lionstar. She doesn't know anything about their past, but she was sure it was nothing to be proud of. /p
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