[Mica]

 

Originally Posted by Moonraven

Emberpaw! Weepingpaw almost jumped in fright when he felt his branch rock unsteadily underneath his paws. At first thought he was scared it would crack, but a glance over his shoulder brought his sibling into his gaze. Don't ask how he failed to hear her climbing, he tended to get tunnel vision when it came to certain things he was doing.

"Em!" He chips and barely refrains from trying to tackle her in joy. That would be very bad in a tree. A sharp gust of wind ruffles his fur and has him smiling into the breeze.

"Fun trees are." He turns back to look at his sibling, expecting them to share his enthusiasm for climbing and trees. Emberpaw looked as excited as he was with the climbing. He's never felt this sense of freedom before. He felt like he belonged in the trees. Maybe he was part squirrel, but even thinking that thought would insult his mothers, so he shook it out of his head.

"Live in trees with me, Em will?" He asked curiously and then glanced down at the cats below. Weepingpaw had some terribly intrusive thoughts as he wondered what would happen if he jumped from this height. It'd probably hurt, it wouldn't kill him, would it? Weepingpaw didn't want to join the ancestors, he still needed to get his warrior name and collect more parents.

"Em? Weeping down jump, no die, think?" He wasn't going to jump, but sometimes you had to share your intrusive thoughts with other cats. He might try and jump from this height when he was bigger and older. Weepingpaw didn't wait long to listen to Emberpaw, his eyes zeroed in on a bird in the next tree over. He made a soft chirping noise as he stared at the bird. Could he make that jump? He was more tempted to try jumping into the next tree over than jumping to the ground.
@Mica

Originally Posted by Moonraven

Okay, so hanging out in this tree was fun and all, but he should probably figure out how to climb down. Carefully walking around Emberpaw, hoping to avoid knocking her off, he reaches the trunk and attempts to climb down as he had gone up, but quickly finds it's very hard. His stomach does this thing where it clenches up and makes him want to vomit every time he stares at the ground for too long. The thrill was still there, but he just wasn't sure how to manage it when going down.

"Down, how do I get?" He yowls upsettingly from his tree to whoever is listening down below. "Jump, I try?" Weepingpaw settled back onto his branch, tensed his legs, all for trying to jump down to the branch below if someone didn't answer him quickly enough.
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ShadowClan Apprentice
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[Large dark brown tabby with golden eyes]
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Emberpaw peered over the branch at the trunk Weepingpaw had tried climbing down. "I'll go first." She mewed. "And let's come back. We can live in trees. I like it." Emberpaw was quite relieved Weepingpaw hadn't listened to his intrusive thoughts--her own train of thought had left her completely oblivious to her surroundings for a few minutes before Weepingpaw's movement snapped her out of it.

Emberpaw wiggled tentatively onto the bark, head facing down and claws sinking into the soft wood. Oh. Oh no, no he didn't like this. But he had to get down so Weepingpaw could get down too. Maybe he'd just do it branch by branch. Emberpaw loosened their grip on the bark, and yelped when they immediately dropped a few inches. Okay okay okay they were doing this in one fell swoop then! Emberpaw had no choice but to trust their instincts and basically run down the side of the tree, leaping when the ground was within reach. They landed and skidded with a little squeak, but they'd done it! Emberpaw grinned and looked up at his brother, eyes narrowed against the sun. "Easy! Trust yourself!"