**Cougarivy**
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An audible sigh left her throat as Shadowfur got into the reason for calling the meeting. That apprentice's death, she
had heard about it, but where? Reluctantly she moved back in her mind, searching for instances surrounding Willowpaw. The meeting, when Dawnstar had made mention of it, confidently saying the apprentice had been murdered. That had been the meeting where Dawnstar had decreed that all warriors and apprentices would be subject to the buddy system when leaving camp, not to be out of one another's sight. There had been something else about that meeting. Cougarivy played back the meeting. The drama with Vixendance, Windclan had interrupted the meeting, Elmshadow had dealt with that other loud apprentice,
Pinepaw? Oh, then the chaos around the initial announcement. Cougarivy paused for a moment, lost in her own memories as she worked through them, paying little attention to the other enforcers around her. There'd been something else she'd made some mental note about during the chaos of that announcement. There had been a warrior who'd had a different sort of reaction than everybody else.
Deadwish, an amused smile flitted over her face and she nearly laughed. She was nearly sure now, it had been that some obnoxious tom. What had he done? She remembered side eyeing him before Vixendance had come through the entrance but had otherwise let the tom fall completely from her thoughts and concerns. But in that brief moment she'd noticed his look of outright smugness following the announcement of Willowpaw's death. It had only been after the announcement of no unsupervised leaving that he had joined in everybody else's outrage. Even for a cat who didn't much care for the supposed value of the clan's youth lives, she'd found Deadwish's positive reaction odd. Not paying attention to Sorrelflare's comments, Cougarivy broke from her memories and piped up,
"Deadwish." She let the name sit for a heartbeat then explained,
"He'd been acting funny about the announcement of Willowpaw's death. I'd start there." She shrugged.
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Link for the post where Cougarivy made note of Deadwish's strange reaction. Also, Elmshadow would've overheard
this little interaction as well (although he was a little preoccupied in the moment), though Cougarivy would have no knowledge of this since she was focused on Windclan. If anybody would have logically noticed Deadwish being near Elmshadow while he was pinning Pinepaw maybe they think to ask Elmshadow if he'd noticed anything odd from Deadwish?]