[Fawn]

➳ Sunpoppy 🥀

"Think they got any poppies out here?" Sunpoppy inquired dryly to Hareflood as he kicked up a dusting of snow. The barren landscape didn't have much to offer except physical distance between themselves and everything they hated, and that was acceptable for now. It was easier to dodge duties and slack off when outside the boundaries of the camp, beyond the prying gaze of senior warriors and authority figures desperate for respect.

Hopping onto the stump of a long-dead tree, Sunpoppy cleared his throat to do a brief, high-pitched imitation of Buckstar's familiar call of clan meetings before leaping to the next one with wavering grace. It wasn't often that he engaged in an impromptu game of don't-touch-the-ground, and it was a clumsy attempt at best with his twig legs and long body crammed into a tight space.

He heard the pawsteps racing toward them before he turned his head, a nasty "go away" on the tip of his tongue before he registered the figure as Sunchaser. With a flower arrangement, no less, and his eyebrow quirked.

Sarcastic, he greeted, "Wow, man, you shouldn't have." That was prior to their unfortunate demise by method of Sunchaser's paws, but the statement remained. Sunchaser was a perfectly nice guy, and the implication that he'd been turned down by some prissy feline merely Sunpoppy's pre-determined notions about the selection of she-cats in their lame Clan. Kestrelflame was different; besides, she knew they were meant to be together by the order of the universe.

"Yeah, they're stupid fake assholes," he agreed in a nonchalant shrug, returning to his mindless movement between the stumps. "Freaking jerks who don't know who they're messing with." Sunpoppy didn't know how, but he resolved to show them someday. He'd make them regret every biting remark, each taunt carelessly thrown at his friends.

His gaze settled on Sunchaser, searching. A hunting patrol rejection didn't exactly explain the flowers--well, he was sort of weird like that--unless it'd been a hunting patrol. One with someone he like liked. Posed as a teasing comment, he asked, "But really, trying to impress someone special, Chaser?"


@BILL. @spade