Breaking the Ice, With Fur!! [SHC SOCIAL+FLAYING EVENT]

[Rani]

Originally Posted by alec

ROOKFIRE
[ he/him | shadowclan warrior | early 20s ]
[ purrks ]

once bleedingpaw had done his part, rookfire shifted forward to take a hold of the prey himself. for his first time, the apprentice had done pretty alright, especially with his eh limitations? he nodded in bleedings vague direction before setting a claw to the rabbits throat and cutting across in a curved line. moving the rabbits head with his free paw, rookfire quickly joined both ends if his first cut, making sure to seperate the skin from flesh a claw length into the cut to ease the skinning later.

"eh" rookfire chuckled, face contorting into a joke-y grimace, "i gifted mistlewhisker quite the nice pelt a while back so i gotta up the drama for a gift ta' dawnstar eh?.. lemme tell ya a secret, i have a traitor buried in the outskirts n im gonna go dig up his skull ta' give to dawnstar eventually" with relative ease, one couldnt really call it practiced given it had been moons since his last flaying, he moved down the animals shoulders where he cut around the forepaws and ultimately met bleedingpaws cuts.
"just refreshin' my skills, mistlewhisker taught me when i came ta' shadowclan cuz i thought it'd make me blend in better hmm" the former medicine cat confessed, mildly surprised himself that he was offering bleedingpaw this much about himself. but well, he was a nice fella, who could blame him? not like the information mattered anyway.
"pretty good for yer first time"

[ pardon for the extremely late reply oop ]

Bleedingpaw
Shadowclan Apprentice | He/Him | 8 Moons
Just a Scratch | Shadow Fiend | Hulk SMASH!

"A skull?" Bleedingpaw hadnt heard of trophy skulls but thinking on it they were pretty reasonable if less pretty then a pelt. More permenate and less likely to go bad then a pelt. "Huh that is pretty cool. Mama used to have a full skeleton in the medicine cats den, scared the pelt off of me when I was a kitten. I dunno if its still there after so long and a camp change....." It was, having been transported later and still nestled in the back of the medicine cats den as a learning aid, not that Bleedingpaw was particularly nostalgic to encounter the damn thing again.


Regardless, "You having done this before makes sense now, I thought you were awfully good for your first time. Thank you for the compliment though and honestly? I dont think anyone thinks of you as anything but shadowclan anymore. Youre like me, we're meant to be here." All their past was was a time in their life and a distant memory that if anything reminded them why they were better off here.


Soon enough the rabbit pelt was skinned and with a light purr the bengal rubbed his face on the soft fur, excited for his new nest addition.
"Alright looks like we're done. Want to share this rabbit somewhere quieter? I wanna pick your brain if you think I can swim without drowning. Climbing is not an option but balance doesnt matter in swimming, right?"
Bleedingpaw always wanted all the skills ever so if Rookfire had any ideas the tom was gonna absorb them like a sponge.


[Np! I think we can call this here with a fade to black and they had a nice lunch lol]