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Originally Posted by woly

the medicine cat raised a brow,¨youve acted like i dont know what a leader ceremony is like. gaining eight more lives takes it out of you, i can feel your discomfort from here.¨ the enby replied bluntly. it was hard to get things past daypaw. maybe it was a sixth sense, maybe it was the observant nature of being a medcat, but they knew goldenstar was feeling anything but ¨indifferent¨, bull crap. They stood up now, giving a small stretch. this was the first step for shadowclan. after this, they would be walking back home to their own territory. it would be a new chapter of rebuilding. they could remember what it was like to take kestrelberrys place. perhaps it was sort of like a new start for both of them. they walked towards the leader, leaning forward and pressing a lick to the toms head. geckoleaf said that was a thing they had to do after ceremonies like this or something, weird. but they did it anyway, licking the leaders forehead and pulling away. ¨Youre now Goldenstar,leader of Shadowclan,¨ it was a rarity, but daypaw smiled. a small, crooked but genuine one. ¨lets go home, ill get you some prey and herbs that will make you feel slightly better.¨

Goldenstar tried not to flinch as Daypaw saw past his sort of mask. He hadn’t been aware that some medicine cats could figure something like that out that easily. Then again, he had never really interacted with a medicine cat before now, except for maybe one or two times. He was still extremely awkward, no different than any other interaction. It was painful, the way all of this had happened. He had honestly thought he would have more time as deputy, but no. Now he was leader. He had nine lives, as weird as that sounded. As Daypaw licked his forehead, he hid his confusion, it was probably just something medicine cats did, too bad he couldn’t ask Halestar what it was like at her ceremony. He really needed to stop always coming back to Halestar. She was gone now, and there was nothing he could do about it, so he might as well deal with it. He smiled back at the enby, as he couldn’t think of anything else to do, so his smile turned out awkward, though it didn’t look forced, which it wasn’t. “Let’s do that,” he murmured, “Thanks Daypaw,” he added, as he was really greatful that they had sort of been there for him, even with all the craziness that had been happening for the past couple of days.