[Rani]

Mudhound
Thunderclan Hornet | They/them | 35 Moons
Bilingual T2 | Flock Together T3 | Rapid Recovery | Beefed up T3

It was the state of uncertainty that'd kept Mudhound so out of their own head, so shaken by the whole thing and so kept them almost useless to act. If Bumblekit was dead there was nothing to do, the hunt for her corpse was borderline useless as the hawk wouldnt just leave it laying around and it'd be in some nest somewhere never to be recovered. So going through all of this just seemed like wrenching the new agonized wound open more just to end up with nothing for it. And if she was alive all this waiting around was rapidly dwindling the chance of that but they were sitting around regardless. And if the plan was to go charging in to save her Mudhound should not be taken beyond here, guiding done and disability only a hindrance to speed.

It was a rock and a hard place and the hornet wasnt coping with that thought well, only able to look at Riversong and distantly nod, trying to take in more even breaths but unable to muster a response.
It did help though.

What did muster a response however was the appearance of the riverclan tom and his subsequent words.

The large warrior who'd been sitting so despondently by the waters edge and forcing themself to breath was alive once more, exploding to their paws with a desperate gleam to their eye. "Bumblekit is alive!?! I was sure the hawk had- oh thank the stars, thank the stars! She's alive!" The grief was gone from the hornets frame, a relieved grin breaking across their face as, despite their limp they bounded to the easiest to cross portion of the river and almost bounced in place (barely restraining themself from crossing) their eyes darting to try and catch a glimpse of the kit coming as he'd promised.


Mudhound had never felt any anger towards Riverclan, had even spent most of the raid gently defeating apprentices to usher them away from the battle and only defending their downed clanmates, but now they felt gratitude. Even after everything riverclan had saved Bumblekit and were taking care of her and bringing her home. Strange perhaps, but it was awfully kind of them. Once Bumblekit was returned Mudhound was going to make sure that kid was metaphorically bubble wrapped to prevent this from ever happening again they swore.


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