[Rose]

Kestrelpaw
She/Her | 5/100 | [ #flocklitterkestrel ]

Overly loud paws crashed after Sproutfleck as her mentor led her through uncharted lands. And then... Aha! Lo and behold, their destination! Kestrelpaw would defeat whatever vile creatures (obviously they looked eerily similar to Shrikepaw) lived in this forest's depths and save everyone from ultimate doom! Speaking of vile creatures... aha, a tail! Kestrelpaw's mortal enemy!

Dropping into the world's most clumsiest crouch and wriggling her haunches for a moment that stretched too long while her tongue poked out from between her lips at a random angle, the creamy furred four moon old lashed her bushy tail against the ground once more for good measure and pounced. She was going to defeat that tail! She was going to chew it off! She was going to... oh, stars, Kestrelpaw was going to-

CRASH. Face-first. Right. Into. The. Ever-loving ground.

Scrambling back into a sitting position, spine straight as a rod and embarrassment warming her ears, Kestrelpaw tried very hard to (discreetly) spit out the dirt in her mouth (spoiler alert, she failed epically and ended up drooling for a bit until she could hurriedly, repeatedly wipe away the moisture with her paws). In the end, it was safe to say that Kestrelpaw had zoned out completely during their entire walk, but she would never ever ever ever admit that. Scout's honor! Um... why was her mentor staring at her...

Oh, yeah! Smelling! Scents! Noses! Kestrelpaw could do that. Hopping back onto her paws, the young apprentice stuck her muzzle in the air and took a very exaggerated sniff. "I smell... forest!" The four-moon-old feline proclaimed, voice laced with all the pride of a toddler presenting their parents a paper filled to the brim with crayon scribbles. It was art, was it not? Kestrelpaw was surely the best apprentice out there, what with her sniffing skills. What was the saying? The smartest cookie in the jar? Sharpest tool in the shed? Mhm, totally.

Take that, Shrikepaw! Kestrelpaw, 1 ; Shrikepaw, 0.

Okay... so maybe Kestrelpaw wasn't exactly entirely sure of herself. "So... um... where are we? And what are we doing, Mr. Fleck?" Hey! She had manners sometimes!

[ @blxze. - Sproutfleck ]