Redwater looked up. She stared back at Goldfish. The Molly had made the Lionheart team. Red hadn’t. Red doubted that she would be able to be nice to this cat anymore. But she had to. Or else her dream was just a pipe dream. “I-I have an apprentice. Just haven’t seen her in a while.” she murmured, ‘cause her role-player forgot that she had an apprentice *oops*.
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The large warrior listened attentively, glad to hear that cats were moving up in rank. Riverclan would return home stronger than ever, and for this he was happy.
And then his spirits were promptly dimmed. His name was heard from Fadingstar's mouth, followed by an apprentice's. What? He was a mentor? He hadn't mentored an apprentice since Floodsight, and that was about ten moons ago. Frankly, he'd expected to never be assigned one again after his disappearance. And even more frankly, he'd been rather glad about that. He was notoriously terrible with children. Thankfully, Floodsight had been a relatively easy apprentice, cool-natured and similar in many ways to himself. And now it seemed she had her own apprentice. He made a mental note to congratulate her later.
For now, he needed to find this Salamanderpaw. His eye scanned the crowd, finding the calico she-cat after a moment. She looked...rambunctious. With a poorly concealed sigh and gruff thank you in Brokenstream's direction, he hauled himself to his feet.
As he approached the younger cat he reach out with his nose to offer the customary tap. Then, he sat back, looking her up and down with a blank expression. "Howdy, furball," he rumbled, sitting beside her. "We'll get started shortly."
A-ha! She doesn't have to hunt for the hulking tom at all. By the time he reaches her she's blessedly quiet, hushed by an uncharacterisric moment of googly-eyes awe. The final dregs of her irritation from earlier are still sticking, still have her fluffed up and reproachful-looking, but now she's got something new to fill her brain, something to smother all the thoughts of her mother's whereabouts. Now is not the time to spiral over missing mommy dearest. Now is the time to meet Beastflame!
This cat is big. Not as big as Salamanderpaw's going to be of course*, but pretty big, and pretty scarred, which probably means he's been in lots of fights. And a big cat who's been in lots of fights has probably won a bunch of them, which basically means he's awesome but more importantly it means that Salamanderpaw's going to learn to become big, awesome, and a winner by association. Because that's how it works.
How it also works is that she's going to get so good that she can whoop him, someday, but Beastflame doesn't need to know about all that yet. Salamanderpaw sets this private goal with a vicious, giddy grin.
( *We are rapidly approaching the period in this young cat's life where it shall be revealed that she's not going to grow very much at all—but in the meantime, this delusion of physical grandeur persists! )
It's not subtle, the way Salamanderpaw's up on her tippy-toes and puffing her chest out to try and look that much bigger, that much more impressive for their li'l nose-tap. She's not achieving the desired effect by any means, but the effort is there.
"Okay! Just so you know, I'm already basically the best. I bet Fadingstar just wanted you to have an easy apprentice. Hey, what happened to your eyeball? Did something eat it? Eugh. Can you make sure you show me how not to get my eyeballs eaten?" Salamanderpaw asks, tipping her head to ogle the gouged bit of Beastflame's face with an unabashed look of horror—tinged, of course, with excitement.
Moonpaw was still watching Fadingstar, and Grimpaw was having to literally tug at the apprentice's ears to get her attention.
"Moonpaw. I think that's Caveclaw over there. Go on, go over." He meowed to Moonpaw. She snapped out of her little trance and began looking around before noticing Caveclaw and approaching.
"Caveclaw, right? I'm Moonpaw. I'll try to be a good apprentice." She meowed softly.
[so sry, never got notif for this!]
Caveclaw-She/They
26 Moons(as of rp) LionHeart
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Caveclaw gave a short nod to Moonpaw.
“Glad to hear it.” She said “We’ll start training soon.”
She thought for a moment.
“What do you already know?”
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Floodsight ◆ she/her | 20 moons | Mind Reader ; Beefed Up T1 ; Empty Slot
"Yes yes, of course not. Not little at all," Floodsight mewed softly with a hint of humour at the apprentice, "At least you won't be after I'm done training you."
Even though it seemed as if Aspenpaw accepted her as a mentor easily, Floodsight knew her previous mistake probably sticks at the back of Aspenpaw's mind. 'Oh how the narratives spin...' Floodsight mentally sighed, but you can't expect everyone to know the full story. Then again, the young warrior should've brought them home as soon as she saw them outside. Take...was an overstatement. But wrongdoing is wrongdoing, Floodsight needed to move pass that. Just make sure everyone is in line next time.
Floodsight nodded at the apprentice with messed up fur. She smiled a little, humoured from the way it stuck out from Aspenpaw's rashness. He was almost a complete 180 from the cat she was. Prideful, loud and quite the chatterbox. But even better for Floodsight, it would be nice for the apprentice to be actively asking questions and does their best. Hopefully, he listens... Slightly wincing at the mention of Fadingstar, Floodsight looked at Aspenpaw with appreciation, "Let's sure hope so."
"I'll make sure you'll know all there is to know," Floodsight mewed thinking of the way her own mentor has taught her. Beastflame was rather the calm nonchalant type of mentor, and perhaps Floodsight had inherit some of that trait. But he taught her well and she's sure Fadingstar would expect her to past down Beastflame's knowledge and skills.
[ @burntToast if there's any one Aspen would like to group train with, i'm sure we can find a way to set that up in the future ]
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