[Empress Of Evil]

@Charmer @Aurora Borealis @2018 Okapi @Deranged Llama @Broken Madness
The ebony deputy let the the medicine cat slip away to go wherever he wanted to go and focused her attention on the surrounding territory. Her eyes and ears looked relaxed from a distance but up close you could see that they were alert and ready. Anytime she heard a noise, the deputy would flatten her ears against her head and whip her head around to look for the source. Most of the time it was just one of them stepping on a twig and making it snap. Maybe she was overreacting but she knew of what danger lay in these woods. Even though the clans had destroyed the Dusk Syndicate, she still didn’t trust those ruthless cats to stay away.
Upon hearing Shinefang’s call, the she-cat scurried forward quickly and beckoned to the other two cats, making sure that they didn’t get left behind as they kept an eye out for enemies as well. She found the tom picking at some kind of red wood. It looked somewhat familiar to her however she couldn’t name it. The she-cat stood there trying to figure out what the bark was called but eventually came to the conclusion that she wasn’t curious enough about the bark to stop keeping her eye on the territory. She could just ask Shinefang but in all honesty, she would prefer to avoid exchanging any words with the tom. Auroraflame quickly forgot about it and overheard Kestrelshade’s muttered words. “Stay close to the group and make sure nothing can get even close to us then,” she advised. “He’s not having us patrol here, we’re simply here to make sure that nothing hurts Shinefang,” she continued. She didn’t say it out loud, but she knew that aside from protecting the medicine cat, she was actually here to do a bit of patrolling. She didn’t want to tell her clanmates though. As guilty as she felt about hiding things from her clanmates, she didn’t want them to worry. She suspected that there were still Dusk Syndicate cats in the dark territory, but it would be best if the others believed that they were here for a simple herb-collecting patrol.