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[nyme]

SOMETIMES MY MIND DON'T SHAKE AND SHIFT
BUT MOST OF THE TIME IT DOES

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WHITERABBIT . 25 MOONS . SHE/HER . WINDCLAN
LUCKY DUCK T2

Whiterabbit is sure, deep down, that she is just as good a mentor as she was a mother—which is to say, not. She is not a role model anycat should aspire to and the idea that she might have good advice or teachings for anyone is, frankly, laughable. But these thoughts are ugly ones, and the thing about what's ugly is that you can hide it very easily; nobody else wants to see it, either. Half the work is aready done. That lesson, she thinks, is a very valuable one to pass along. That she hadn't done so yet for Cardinalpaw is a failure on her part—but that's fine. She's fixing it now.

So right now she's got her sternest and most serious expression in place and is giving herself no time to overthink before popping her head into the apprentices' den:

"Cardinalpaw. I need to speak with you, now."

It's the most severe that Whiterabbit's ever heard herself sound. She doesn't know that she likes it, but she knows that it's important. Fake it 'til you make it, and all.

"Spoke to Jaggedpaw a bit ago. Now it's your turn. What happened?"

@olliebones ; CARDINALPAW grins & waves

[olliebones]

꧁ᬊᬁᴄᴀʀᴅɪɴᴀʟᴘᴀᴡᬊ᭄꧂
He/They |~| Windclan Apprentice |~| 17 moons |~| Agatha Kitty (Active!!), Kitty Softpaws (Active!!)
“Be a voice, not an echo.”

Was he half asleep? Yes. He was concious, mostly. Until Whiterabbit scared him. Cardinalpaw practically jumped out of his fur when she spoke. Oh. They could guess what this was about. He stood, slowly making his way towards her. The apprentice bristled at Jaggedpaw's name, but said nothing.

He sat in front of Whiterabbit, ears twitching. "I lost my temper. He had waltzed up to me, demanding I changed my name and making fun of me, calling me mismatch or whatever he said." Cardinalpaw explained simply. What was there to hide? His fault, he lashed out. "It was bloody immature of both of us, really. But anyways, I cuffed him over the ear because he was pissing me off." The apprentice blinked. He was probably missing details, but who really cared.

[ @nyme // oops short post- see! He can me semi mature occasionally ]

[nyme]

SOMETIMES MY MIND DON'T SHAKE AND SHIFT
BUT MOST OF THE TIME IT DOES

── ⋅ ⋅ ── ❖ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──

WHITERABBIT . 25 MOONS . SHE/HER . WINDCLAN
LUCKY DUCK T2

A sharp sigh through the nose, first. She's nodding, going for the whole attentive listener thing, but...but, see...

It's just so. Funny. And small.

"Right. Well. He didn't have anything complimentary to say about your fighting, but that's not the point right now. Listen—no, you know what? Go on and smile for me, first." She prompts. Then waits. She will not be continuing this until they fix a big old grin on their face.

@olliebones ; CARDINALPAW shortpost supremacy :3

[olliebones]

꧁ᬊᬁᴄᴀʀᴅɪɴᴀʟᴘᴀᴡᬊ᭄꧂
He/They |~| Windclan Apprentice |~| 17 moons |~| Agatha Kitty (Active!!), Kitty Softpaws (Active!!)
“Be a voice, not an echo.”

The russet tom scoffed at the mention of his fighting. Please! His fighting was fine. He freaked because the bastard was gnawing his shoulder off, plus a clanmate. They weren't stupid enough to actually attack a clanmate. He paused, and Cardinalpaw gives a grin, his tail flicking curiously. He thought she would at least get mad at him a bit. He was actually her responsibility for the most part. Not stop herself and tell him to smile. Really, what was that about? "Really? No reprimanding or anythin'?"

[ @nyme // I wrote this in like 5 minutes]

[nyme]

SOMETIMES MY MIND DON'T SHAKE AND SHIFT
BUT MOST OF THE TIME IT DOES

── ⋅ ⋅ ── ❖ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──

WHITERABBIT . 25 MOONS . SHE/HER . WINDCLAN
LUCKY DUCK T2

"Nah, I'm gonna reprimand you, but first I'm gonna be uhmm. Honest." Preaching herself blue in the face to Jaggedpaw had forced the realization upon Whiterabbit that she is being counterproductive in her unfairness. Operating against her own lesson. And to be quite honest, a part of her has always known that. That she is an irresponsible, self-serving hypocrite. But these traits, ones she had previously been ashamed enough of to hide but not enough to change, are not ones that she wants to risk teaching to anyone else. Even if she's only the last mentor Cardinalpaw gets, the one to help pull him over the finish line, she wants to think she can still do right by him. That means being honest.

"It is...so annoying, that I'm this late to game. That is, to learning what went on between you 'nd Jaggedpaw. In your defense, what happened sounds stupid. But that you couldn't handle it without losing your cool is, in my opinion, even stupider." She explains, forcing herself to talk slowly and carefully. "But I think I might not be...being fair. And I am trying to be fair. Truth is, I don't like feeling like I've been embarrassed and what happened a little while ago between the two of you? That it might reflect poorly on me?? Humiliating. So I need you to smile reeeeal wide. That way I'll feel too bad to get mean about this." She pauses, then offers a cheeky little smile of her own: "Try thinkin' about that Cedarpaw you've been hovering around so much, if it helps. But not so hard that you can't focus, 'kay?"

@olliebones ; CARDINALPAW