[nyme]

AIN'T NO WAY FOR A BOY TO BE

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MOSQUITOKIT . 4 MOONS . HE/HIM . SHADOWCLAN

In all his wide-eyed looking, a stare for darn near every cat assembled, Mosquitokit pauses on Shadekit (first to just blink owlishly at her, then to offer a tenative, fanged grin—drat, maybe he should've chosen to go sit with her?) and then Wildkit (easy to spot with her bright orange fur, and the winner of a considerably easier smile, whether she sees it or not—he definitely could have gone and sat with her!).

He decides, ultimately, that it's much too late to go weaving through the crowd and changing up his spot now. That'd be horribly impolite to everyone trying to pay attention, and to Dawnstar, who's speaking, now, and—oh!

Wildkit's going up? Wildkit's got a ceremony??

Mosquitokit, the dweeb, gasps like this isn't some natural progression that all clan cats get to experience. Like he forgot that he and his friends are all growing. It's just odd, is all, knowing that she's on to the next step...but soon he'll get to ask her all about a bunch of new things, so there's that.

He hopes that whoever her mentor ends up being looks out for her head and her paws. Leaving camp means there'll be dozens more ways for her to get hurt. Maybe he'll have a chance to warn them?

He's so thrown by this development that Dawnstar's continued briefing almost drifts right over his head. That an apprentice was nearly killed by one of their clanmates quite recently is...uh...really not the sort of thing Mosquitokit wants to learn about right after hearing that one of his very few friends is about to become an apprentice, herself. If this was a problem that kept rearing its ugly head, then, what would that mean...?

( Mosquitokit's to-do list at present:
- Warn Wildkit's new mentor about how she gets hurt sometimes
- Very sweetly and charmingly and for absolutely no particular reason beg this same cat to teach his friend self-defense before anything else
- Maybe say hi to Shadekit? )

He swallows thickly, paws shuffling aginst the ground while he works very hard to behave normally about the news for the time being.

@---Bluestar--- ; WILDKIT
@SnowheartTC ; SHADEKIT

li'l character mentions o7