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**seeingstars** · #1 November 9th, 2024, 11:27 PM

Raccoonkit • He / Him • Riverclan kit • 6+ moons

It'd been a little bit since Beachheart had offered to teach him how to swim, but he finally felt ready and confident enough to go through with it. He hoped that the Riverclan warrior would still be willing to teach him despite his hesitation.

Raccoonkit yawned and stretched, despite being small for a tom, he was still outgrowing his nest at an alarming rate. He couldn't wait to finally be in the apprentices' den with his older littermates so he wouldn't always feel so lonely.

He quickly leaped to his paws, today was the day. He had to ask Beachheart to teach him how to swim.

The silver-pointed tom shuffled his way out of the nursery, still blinking sleep from his eyes as his green gaze scanned the camp clearing. He squinted against the sun, trying to pick the warrior's pelt out among the warriors lounging around camp.

He saw a pelt he thought resembled Beachheart. Raccoonkit took a deep breath before approaching "Hey Beachheart!" He said, hoping more than anything that this was the tom who'd offered to teach him to swim.

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**sylvia26** · #2 Today, 08:21 AM

▁▂▃▅▆▇ his head turned, a smile growing up on his face, he stood up "hello raccoonkit" he purred, going over to lick the top of the small toms head, "you ready for today?" he asked softly, he remembered how he was taught how to swim and it wasn't right so he made sure to watch his siblings when he was little. nearly drowning was n o t a way to learn. ▇▆▅▃▂▁

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**seeingstars** · #3 Today, 11:44 AM

Raccoonkit • He / Him • Riverclan kit • 6+ moons

Raccoonkit bounced from side to side as he nodded enthusiastically, tail waving behind him excitedly as a purr escaped his maw.

"Yeah! I can't wait! I bet my siblings will be so jealous" He said, puffing his chest out as he looked at Beachheart. His older siblings probably knew how to swim, or they should at least, but his littermates probably didn't, if they even cared to learn. They spent most of their time being pawfuls to their parents, whereas Racc tended to generally stick to himself and behave- mostly.

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**sylvia26** · #4 Today, 12:24 PM

▁▂▃▅▆▇ the Tom purred "good to know your eager" he then walked towards the shallow end of the river, checking just to make sure. "okay, when it comes to swimming you have to know what to do, but, firstly you have to get a feel for the water, se get into this and see how it feels to you" he meowed softly, padded into the water and letting his paws sink into the mud a bit. ▇▆▅▃▂▁

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**seeingstars** · #5 Today, 12:42 PM

Raccoonkit • He / Him • Riverclan kit • 6+ moons

The small tom nodded, hesitating momentarily as he looked at the water. He tilted his head, looking from Beachheart, back to the water. He took a few steps back before darting forward and crashing into the water with a large splash.

Raccoonkit never actually considered the distance he'd given himself, the depth of the water, or anything related to this jump. He very clearly also did not know what he was doing. Instead of landing in the chest-high water, as he planned, he ended up face first in the riverbank, mouth full of sand. How many times had he accidentally eaten sand in front of this tom?

He groaned, then spat the sand out before grimacing and slinking into the water in embarrassment. He flashed Beachheart a sheepish smile.

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**sylvia26** · #6 Today, 03:23 PM

▁▂▃▅▆▇ he gently chuckled "you alright?" he meowed with a merrow of laughter and a smile. "come on, stand." he meowed gently "you'll noticed as you go deeper, it gets harder to keep your head over, so that's where paddling goes and if you do go under, don't panic, we're riverclan cats, we own the water" he meowed as he went on the deeper side, diving under and then resurfacing. "try it, if something goes wrong, i'll pull you up."▇▆▅▃▂▁

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