RiverClan Skyridge

[JusticeRabbit]

Originally Posted by Zesty Mango

@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.

(Alr!)

~Daystripe~
One left. She walked over, standing next to her. "Sweetie, can you come here?" She asked, kindly. When she didn't get a response, she thought she might need to pick her up. She earned over Ploverkit and lifted her up by the scruff. She was gentle not to hurt her, and walked away from the previous leader's dead body and towards the nursery. She set Ploverkit down inside of the nursery. "Ploverkit, are you alright? You're okay. I'm here." She mewed, quietly. She groomed her fur, trying to calm the kit down.

[taillow]

Otterfluff
As Daystripe accepted his invitation to assist the young tom gave a gentle smile before sweeping his gaze across the clearing. Most of the kits had already been gathered, except for one who appeared rather traumatized. But yet Daystripe was retrieving them as well, so that left zero left to gather. Or, so the brown feline thought.

His gaze was caught by an older kit - Icekit, he recalled - stepping up to ask about remaining at the meeting. Sparrowskip had called for all kits to be gathered, so off Otterfluff padded, coming up behind Icekit with his gaze directed towards the deputy. There was a lingering question there, whether this kit should be swooped up as well or if he was alright to remain out here. Truthfully, Sparrowskip had made a good choice in asking for the kits to be taken into the nursery.

But Icekit was almost the age of an apprentice, and would soon be thrust into the real world of claws and fangs and blood and death. What difference would a moon make? The decision was not up to Otterfluff though, so patient the tom awaited further instruction from Sparrowskip.

[ @Shootingstar @Hopeless @marshall ]

[QueenOtter]

Otterstorm wailed. Why did StarClan do this to them? Kestrelstar, dead. They had never been close but still, Kestrelstar was the leader. Drowned, over and over again... No. Kestrelstar.... Otterstorm wished she could race away into unknown territory and die, rather than watch her grieving clanmates. A lump was forming in her throat. The water was meant for RiverClan, yet Kestrelstar... had died of it.

[OPEN for any cats who wants to comfort her!]

[corgigirl]

Pebblepaw sat crying. How could there leader who was so strong just, be gone, dead.

[corgigirl]

Originally Posted by RiztheHuntress

Finally catching sight of the young cat, Moonfrost sprinted to Cloudpaw's side, sorrow in her eyes.
Oh little one, I'm so sorry.
She began covering the apprentice in comforting licks, pausing only to blink warmly at Blizzardsky, her heart full of gratitude for the tom. She lifted a paw to invite Cloudpaw to burrow into her belly fur, as she had at the Gathering.
Oh the Gathering... No apprentice should have to go through so much tragedy, especially one so young.
Tears filled her eyes, both with anguish of the loss of their leader and empathy for the little cat she had come to adore as a daughter.

[ @/masquerade @Zesty Mango ]




Wolfsong finally caught sight of her sister and started towards her, before seeing her apprentice frozen in place. Sadness filling her heart, Wolfsong padded up to Pebblepaw. "Come with me Pebblepaw, you can sit with Nightleap and I for the meeting..." she mewed softly, laying her tail on the apprentice's shoulder before walking up to where her younger sister was laying next to Kestrelstar's body.
"Nightleap, I'm so sorry," she whispered to the she-cat, settling down beside her. She pressed her flank into the fur of her sibling, eyes misting with tears.
"I know how much he meant to you," she said sorrowfully, giving Nightleap a comforting lick on the ear. She paused to look back at her apprentice, patting the ground beside her with her tail to invite the young cat to sit on her other side with a soft, comforting blink.

[ @/Kunaiskrill @/corgigirl ]

Pebblepaw nuzzled against Wolfsong. She tears wetted her thick fur.

[versailles]

@~Oakpaw3441~ (for mention of cloverpaw, no interaction) //

➵ brindlefeather | she/(they)/it

the warriors ears burned with embarrassment as cloverpaw started screaming at them. what type of insult was brindlestinky? who's kit was this?! brindlefeather stepped back, brows furrowing together. clearly, cloverpaw thought highly of herself, too highly. at sparrowskip's words, they simply shuffled away from the apprentice, watching snowleap come over and take her to the apprentices den.
they sat down, long tail wrapping around their paws. kestrelstar had drowned, over and over again until he lost all of his lives. a shiver went down the torbie's spine. they didn't even want to imagine how horrifying that would be.

they'd join the vigil - what type of warrior would they be if they didn't?

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@Shootingstar (just so daystripe knows swan went to the nursery) //

➵ swankit | she/her

a large ear gave a twitch, and swankit glanced over her shoulder at cloverpaw. the apprentice seemed to be desperate for any type of attention she could get, even the negative kind. blinking, the kits gaze returned to the leaders body, almost looking as if she was..studying it. whatever reason, her staring would come to an end it seemed, as sparrowskip spoke up and according to him, kits should not see such a thing. she looked around and noticed that maybe he was right, considering some kits were acting as though they'd seen a ghost. am i just being weird? the kit wondered before deciding that no, she probably wasnt so weird. loonkit would most likely react the same. with a small flick of her thin tail, swankit turned and made her way back to the nursery.

[WhitesilverQueen]

Spottedpaw was shocked. She stepped back. She couldn't hold it in any more. She felt awful. Like, somehow, it had all been her fault. She ran as fast as she could out of camp. The apprentice ran where her paws carried her. She couldn't stop. It hurt too much.
{open}

[Rizo]

Originally Posted by Kunaiskrill

{Nightleap of RiverClan}

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

@RiztheHuntress

Originally Posted by corgigirl

Pebblepaw nuzzled against Wolfsong. She tears wetted her thick fur.

~Wolfsong~

Wrapping her tail around her apprentice, the silver she-cat paused the grooming of her sister's ears and turned her blue gaze on Pebblepaw. She didn't have any words, so instead she gave the young cat a lick on the forehead. It was all surreal, to think that Kestrelstar, a leader who she had come to respect deeply, was gone. She turned her muzzle back to look at the pelt of the fallen leader, watching his still form for a moment before she managed to find her voice. "I'd like to sit vigil with you after the meeting, Nightleap," she said softly. "Would you join us, Pebblepaw?" she asked, leaning slightly against the smaller she-cat.

Originally Posted by Zesty Mango

@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.

~Moonfrost~

As she saw the tom begin to turn away, Moonfrost reached out with a paw, placing it on his shoulder.
Please don't leave. She needs you too.
She couldn't use words to convince him to stay, so she hoped that he would understand. Cloudpaw only had the two of them now. The black tabby she-cat would gladly fill the role of mother, but she couldn't take up the hole that Kestrelstar had left. She wasn't able to.
Help me help her. Please.
She looked down at the little apprentice and smiled softly before looking back at Blizzardsky. She was not at all practiced with forming her muzzle into words, having no ability to use them anyway, but she gave her very best attempt to mouth the word "stay."

[ @masquerade for the Cloudpaw mention and presence ]

[poppy]

| @QueenOtter @/anyone else ig haha ( @Luminous @masquerade for mentions of Mistypaw and Snowleap )|

The screams and wails from the clearing made the senior warrior burrow deeper into his nest. Yet another tragedy. He didn't even want to go out and look. So he didn't. The commanding voice on the Streamstone didn't even register, but the faceless sounds of grief made Blizzardwind finally rise to his paws. His whiskers trembled and his paws tingled with nerves. this couldn't possibly be good. Someone was dead, and with his luck, it would be someone important, close to him. His ears twitched and as he neared the den exit, the pit of his stomach dropped into a chasm, face darkening with dread. As the muscled old tom shouldered his way out of the den, he couldn't help bellowing, "Mistypaw! Snowleap!" Blizzardwind roared their name, the only thing powering the sound emitting from him was raw fear. They couldn't be dead. Not another apprentice of his.

But he recoiled at the scent of death and the voice atop the Streamstone that just registered. Sparrowskip. Everyone was huddled around a body. A limp, gray body. A body that was ruffled by touch and still musty and sodden. A body with dark gray markings. One would expect the tom to shout, to howl, but he just slumped backwards. Kestrelstar. Stormtalon's brother. Snakeheart's brother. RiverClan's leader. StarClan newest member. His jaw clenched, and he closed his slate eyes. Numbly, he looked back up. He could mourn whatever the young tom was to him later, but things needed to be done. Straightening his head as Sparrowskip announced the vigil, Blizzardwind exhaled softly. Okay. Emotions could be sorted out later, but right now, younger cats needed strong words.

He saw Otterstorm looking sickened and horrified. Padding over to the molly, he lowered his large head to hers, his mouth near her ear to be heard but not be creepy, and murmured, "He's happier now. With Stormtalon. With his mother. With all his lost ones. Try and find peace in that. He was hurting, but now he's in a paradise, and will never hurt for the rest of eternity." Even though it hurt to know that this cat he had known through Stormtalon, this dead cat that was his leader but also something more to him, he knew that the tabby leader wouldn't want his grieving Clanmates to mourn lone, but rather stand united. He nodded to the molly, as if welcoming her to cry into him, to hug, to do something, and tried not to be awkward.

[flopsy]

Wrenpaw | she/they | open

It was chaos the clan had descended into total madness. Her eyes started to spill pearl-like tears as she sat by herself in a sea of chaos. The was fighting, crying, arguing, and in the middle of it all the loss of a leader. She clicked her tongue in anger at Cloverpaw, who did she think she was! The most special cat in the clan she said, Cloverpaw was crazy and delusional, it wasn't the first time she pulled crazy stunts like this. She stared back at her tear-soaked paws before looking back at the deputy, or was it leader now, she didn't even know why she was crying she and Kestrelstar had never been particularly close. But she felt like she owed it to that tom.