Hoshi
She/Her | Loner, 12 Moons | No Purrks
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Hoshi, after having gone on the little trip from the burrow she had slept in last night, found a spectacular looking patch of trees. A densely packed, stretch of pines and oaks, mixed in with other trees.
The oaks would probably scare off any unwanted guests, and the dense trees would make it easy to scare off any unlucky cats, and make them never want to come back.
But when she stepped into the opaque dark, she stepped on a twig. The twig - was irritating.
Her eyes raked the ground, and she squinted.
Fox dung, she thought as she saw the amount of mud and twigs and other messy things that were scattered about. This place probably hadn't been touched in a while.
Sighing, Hoshi padded around, eyes now locked to her surroundings. She rubbed her scent on the tress as she went by. After a while of scent marking and looking around, her eyes caught an abandoned badgers den. It would certainly do. She started her way over to the possible home.
That was until she fell. Fell down a hole covered by the white snow. The feeling of being trapped struck her the second she sunk down.
Hoshi's closed eyes dilated with fear, wondering what in the world was going on. She flailed, which did nothing. Her paws tried to climb her up, but that failed miserably.
Panic was now slowly ebbing into Hoshi's brain, but adrenaline seemed to take its place a few seconds later. She tried digging, but it only made her tired. She felt something in the snow;.......... the corpse of a rabbit. If a rabbit could die here, then so could she. Her thrashing grew more desperate.
Just when she thought she was trapped in the snow for the rest of forever, she fell through deeper.
She was in a tunnel now. The rocks smooth and hard as ice. Hoshi tiled her head in confusion and curiosity. Her claws were unsheathed as she hesitated, looking back the snowy mess behind her. Then she slowly and warily walked along the shallow cave.
The tunnel split. After wandering for a few minutes, the tunnel arced to either side. She had to bite her tongue to stop herself from snapping at the walls around her. She stalked along the one to the right.
Her eyes widened and she huffed in surprise at the enormous cavern at the end of the path, the damp air filling her lungs as her eyes adjusted to the new light level. Long, painful-looking stalactites billowed down from the ceiling high above. The stalagmites rose wickedly from the ground of the cave, challenging their look-alikes at the top. Multiple huge stones lay around the cave, and a small glow-worm population was just beginning on one of them. The three glow worms shone dull, but she kinda liked the dark atmosphere in the rocky hollow. A set of dens caught her eye as she looked around. She sniffed the air for danger, and then padded over.
The biggest indent had a small rise in the stone. Hoshi swiped the dust away from it, which would most likely gather back after only a few days. Laying down, she sheathed her claws. She felt like falling asleep, she had eaten two shrews an hour ago, and she wasn't hungry. Her eyes lids begged to fall, but she got up from the comfy rock, and went back to exploring.
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[OPEN FOR WHEN SHE GETS BACK UP!]