RiverClan Skyridge

[Captain]

❄ Snowleap (he/them) ❄ [ @~Oakpaw3441~ ]

➢ Upon the Riverclan deputy’s command, the dark-furred oriental longhair stood up, leaving Raccoonear and Lynxfall for the moment. “Yes, Sparrowskip,” He meowed, sending a narrowed glance in Cloverpaw’s direction, “It would be my pleasure.” Snowleap gave a sigh and walked over to the loud, rude apprentice with his bushy tail lashing behind him. “Come with me, I’m not asking,” The tall shield growled lowly, “You’re going to the apprentice’s den until this clan meeting has concluded. You obviously cannot be trusted to act accordingly during a time of grieving.” He ushered the young molly away from the mourning party with a sharp huff, rather disgusted by Cloverpaw’s actions. Of course she’d ruin this for him. Starclan forbid he was able to say goodbye to his respected leader and dear friend. As Snowleap drew himself away from the group of his beloved clanmates, his long ears twitched to Sparrowskip explaining what happened with Kestrelstar. Drowned over and over again at Lionsbeach. How dreadful... The mere thought of it made the blue-eyed shield shudder.

( This RP will continue in the Apprentice's Den thread. )

[stardust.]

(CLOVERPAW/SHE/HER)

"Yes, Snowleap" She mewed sadly, she nodded her head and went with Snowleap to he apprentices den

[taillow]

Otterfluff
Well, that was a shocking turn of events. Otterfluff was certain the troubled leader would have lost his lives to something more of a "noble" cause such as locked in battle with ShadowClan, or tussling with an aggressor from ThunderClan. Not... simply falling off the cliff. They clicked their tongue, their expression remaining a careful mix between neutral and sorrow.

Though he had not been close with the now-deceased RiverClan leader, he had enough sense to keep his mouth shut. More outbursts from Cloverpaw earned the she-cat a fierce glare from Otterfluff, the young cat shifting his gaze over to where she stood. One brow raised in shock, but he hadn't been called to remedy the situation so still he sat. The fluff of his tail danced on the ground beside him as his head moved back to watch Sparrowskip. He was also calling for the kits to be rounded up and that was maybe something Outterfluff could assist with!

Shuffling to his paws, the lean tomcat made his way over to where Daystripe was beginning to usher the kits back towards the nursery. "If you need any assistance, I am happy to lend a paw," he offered with a flickering smile and a glitteringly warm gaze.

[ @Shootingstar, any kits! ]

[Hopeless]

~ Icekit ~
@marshall

The silver-blue tabby had been sitting quietly, watching the drama unfold before him. Watching Cloverpaw being an idiot, and a disrespectful one at that. And Icekit could feel his fur bristle slightly as he heard the apprentice's word, claiming and demanding attention when the clan's leader was laying there, dead. Goldenpaw (a cat he had begun to respect more and more) luckily seemed to put an end to most of it, and Icekit nodded a little in agreement when he heard Goldenpaw's (half)suggestion about a punishment.

The Sparrowskip finally spoke, and Icekit's ears pricked to listen, but he stiffened as the golden cat ordered Daystripe to take away the kits. Quickly he stood up to protest, but Sparrowskip's talking went on, not giving Icekit time to speak his mind. But he did get an answer to how Kestrelstar had died, presumably having drowned, many times over, until all the lives had run out.


Then Sparrowskip had finished and seeing his chance Icekit quickly made his way towards the cat. "Wait, Sparrowskip, can't you let me join the vigil after this? Please." His voice was calm but much less aloof than usually. He needed to come, he would be five moons of age in a bit, and while that was still not apprentice-age, he didn't want to be grouped in with some of the other kits, cats who spent their days chasing therír tails.

[dino.]

>Boarskull<

A wince twisted Boarskull's expression as the chaos began to rise up around him, yet he forced himself to keep his eyes shut and his head bowed. Adding to it would do no good, he knew, even if it was only an attempt to help. It seemed Sparrowskip knew the same, and one ear flicked as the deputy - rather, leader, now - snapped at those who caused it. How disrespectful could cats be? They knew their leader had just passed, and yet they insisted on causing such a ruckus. What cheek, he huffed silently.

As Sparrowskip started to explain, he lifted his head and opened his eyes to watch the tom and listen intently. What he heard made his heart twist. Oh, what a horrific fate... to die, alone, in one of the most painful ways possible.

Boarskull would join that vigil later. It only made sense.

[Kunaisoul]

{Nightleap of RiverClan}

"p-p-please.." Nightleap cried. "Moonfrost.. I- I."

@RiztheHuntress

[JusticeRabbit]

Originally Posted by tulle

Otterfluff
Well, that was a shocking turn of events. Otterfluff was certain the troubled leader would have lost his lives to something more of a "noble" cause such as locked in battle with ShadowClan, or tussling with an aggressor from ThunderClan. Not... simply falling off the cliff. They clicked their tongue, their expression remaining a careful mix between neutral and sorrow.

Though he had not been close with the now-deceased RiverClan leader, he had enough sense to keep his mouth shut. More outbursts from Cloverpaw earned the she-cat a fierce glare from Otterfluff, the young cat shifting his gaze over to where she stood. One brow raised in shock, but he hadn't been called to remedy the situation so still he sat. The fluff of his tail danced on the ground beside him as his head moved back to watch Sparrowskip. He was also calling for the kits to be rounded up and that was maybe something Outterfluff could assist with!

Shuffling to his paws, the lean tomcat made his way over to where Daystripe was beginning to usher the kits back towards the nursery. "If you need any assistance, I am happy to lend a paw," he offered with a flickering smile and a glitteringly warm gaze.

[ @Shootingstar, any kits! ]

×Daystripe| With Otterfluff×
Her mind was still on the idea of a mossball tournament when she heard a Tom's voice. "Oh! Hello! That would be nice. I'm thinking about a mossball tournament to keep them busy while that's going on." She said, calmly. Her eyes drifted over the nursery as she counted the kits.

She hadn't really known Kestralstar, but she had heard about him. Quite often, actually. She looked at the kits. "I think we're missing a few. Let's see if we can find them." She mewed, quietly. She stood up and shook out her fur, before starting to walk forward.

Her paws made little sound as she found more kits. More then a few, actually. Quite a bit. She gently encouraged them to come to the nursery, hoping she wasn't missing anyone. "Think we're missing anyone?" She asked, counting them again.

[Pitou]

**Codwhisper**

His trance seemed to crack as Sparrowskip's voice sounded again. He took a deep breath, suddenly realizing he'd been stuck to shallow inhales, and took slow, tentative steps closer to the crowding Riverclanners and tried to swallow the lump in his throat. Drowned...over and over agian... different thoughts and emotions flooded Codwhisper. He was confident in his swimming abilities and his first irrational wish was that he was there and could have saved Kestrelstar, but surely Kestrelstar was a far better swimmer than he. Then he felt betrayed. A Riverclan leader drowning felt like the ultimate betrayal. The water gave them food and life and it was the soothing cool that satiated Codwhisper's insatiable need to keep moving. Yet it had now taken the life of his leader. He crouched down, his belly fur brushing the ground, as close as he dared to get to the leader among the other cats who were closer to Kestrelstar.

[Mango]

Originally Posted by Iris.

@Zesty Mango

Hazelstorm
Her chest rose and fell, sighing, turning away from Ploverkit just to hide her face. It was so insensitive, but it was only a kit.

"Well... when you're dead, you're gone forever and you can't come back unless you have nine lives like a leader does," the mackarel tabby meowed. She didn't mention the part where you could potentially be revived. She put a blank expression on her face and lifted her head, to be greeted with a disrespectful apprentice. Urgh. What made it worse was that it was Cloverpaw, seriously, didn't that se-cat have discipline or something? Hazelstorm resisted the urge to snap and yell at the darned apprentice as she glared at Cloverpaw.

Hazelstorm went back to Ploverkit, but then Cloverpaw's screechy voice filled her ears again. She scrunched her eyes shut, grinding her teeth, setting her jaw.

Shut up, she longed to say. She breathed out, a small, quick spurt of breath.

"Cloverpaw, learn some manners," the warrior snapped irritably, just loud enough for the apprentice to hear. Under her breath, she added, "for StarClan's sake."

Hazelstorm sat down on her haunches, curlng her fluffy tail around her paws and did nothing.

@Shootingstar (She's kinda traumatized and like frozen in fear, probably gonna need to be carried out. She's like not even a moon just discovered death exists)

Ploverkit's went wide in shock, someone could just stop existing? That sounded awful. The little kit wanted to cry in horror at that concept but didn't know how to let herself cry. She just stood there, shocked. Unfortunately the kit was young enough she knew nothing of Starclan. The idea of ceasing to exist scared her. She was completely frozen in fear that she could just suddenly cease to exist. Eventually perhaps someone would carry her off to the nursery as she stood there not really processing any other words happening around her.


@masquerade @RiztheHuntress

Blizzardsky watched as Cloudpaw's mother, Moonfrost and gave her a sad smile," I think you'll be able to comfort her better than I can." he meowed he'd definetly in a few days check in with Cloudpaw and see if she was up for a swimming lesson. He wanted to keep comforting her, but he understood that right then, Cloudpaw wanted her mother far more than him, the cat no one trusted around apprentices comforting him. He was amazed to learn Kestrelstar just drowned. He couldn't figure out how he ended up falling into the ocean. He wasn't dumb like him, he would have seen the cliff and not jumped off.

[R0WAN]

Spiderpaw [OPEN]

The apprentice sat in silence. This wasn't the first loss in his life, no, but it still hurt. He was tired of the cats around him panicking, and the air became heavy as all of the cats grieved. He wasn't super close to Kestralstar, but his friend Cloudpaw was. He felt his legs shaking, and he laid down to try and hide it. Oh dear god... Cloudpaw! He was worried about how she was doing, since she admired the leader so much. He leaned his head down and covered his face with his paws. Spiderpaw didn't know what to think of the situation. He was confused and hurt; he felt like he was taking on the emotions of the his clanmates that he didn't want to deal with whatsoever. He just decided to get up and limped over to the apprentice den. He needed quiet and time to think.