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It was always a pain to try and get anything out of the other medicine cats, Gullbreeze especially. The she-cat just a general disinterest in conversation, but it always seemed especially bad around Embersky himself. He knew the contempt that some of the other clans had for himself and his family, but he usually just let the dark glares and bitter comments slide off his back. Besides, Whitestar and FireClan were Dawnstar's strongest allies at present. Though that didn't mean the rest of the Clan had the same opinions. He hoped that Dawnstar had some plan to counteract the dissent that would come from trying to merge BreezeClan and FireClan together.

He kept an eye on Albatrosspaw. He knew that his apprentice didn't like the Gatherings, and he didn't want the young tom to feel bothered by the prickliness of the other cats present. He seemed to be looking around for someone in particular as they got settled though. Embersky filed that information away in the back of his mind for later, if Albatrosspaw had made friends with one of the apprentices in another clan, there might be a way to gather information for Dawnstar.

At the clipped response from Gullbreeze, Adderpaw glanced upwards towards her mentor with a similar frown on her face. Though she met her gaze with Albatrosspaw a short moment later and it looked faintly apologetic. 

It was a struggle for Embersky not to let his whiskers twitch in amusement. An apprentice apologizing, even nonverbally, for the actions of her mentor. The small she-cat was the newest apprentice of the bunch and he could tell that she didn't have the same understanding of her mentors disposition around the other medicine cats. [color=f26522][b]"That's good to hear."[/b][/color] He kept his response short to avoid further conversation with the FireClan cat. 

His ears swiveled backwards, followed shortly by his head, as Sagecloud and Eaglepaw padded up quickly. The younger tom briefly bumped shoulders with Albatrosspaw and sent a faint grin at the white and gray tom before settling down next to his mentor. How both of RainClan's medicine cats could always be in such a good mood he had no idea. Eaglepaw was like a miniature version of Sagecloud, in the best possible way he supposed. 

He was about to wave off Sagecloud's apology before the yowl from Whitestar stopped him. He followed every cats gaze in the clearing as the chatter began to quiet down for brief moment to let the leader speak. The silence didn't last long though as Whitestar gave over the first spot in the Gathering to his mother. 

[color=f26522][b]"It's alright,"[/b][/color] he glanced down to meet Albatrosspaw's gaze, [color=f26522][b]"The other clans are just afraid of the strength of our bond with FireClan, so they don't like Whitestar letting us go first."[/b][/color] He also knew that Dawnstar was going to be revealing a part of her plan tonight, but he didn't want to reveal anything in front of the other medicine cats.

He turned his attention back to the ledge at the front of the clearing as the slender form of his mother stepped towards the front. He could see the narrowed gaze of Spiderstar from behind her and felt a brief flash of concern that the broad tom was preparing to lunge at Dawnstar the moment she said something he didn't like. Embersky quickly shook the thoughts free though as Dawnstar began to speak.

[b]"Thank you, Whitestar,"[/b] she dipped her head respectfully to the white tom. [b]"BreezeClan has been doing well this past moon, we have two new apprentices here at the Gathering tonight, Lionpaw and Scorchpaw,"[/b] she waited a moment for the faint calls of congratulations to fade away before continuing. [b]"We've had no troubles around our borders, and while that would normally bring my announcements to a close I have something else to discuss."[/b]

Confused chatter began once again and Dawnstar waited until it died down before continuing, [b]"BreezeClan is strong, as are all of our clans, so why is it that we continue to remain separate and risk our strength being reduced by petty squabbles across borders? Whitestar and I have been discussing the possibility of merging BreezeClan and FireClan into one."[/b] At this announcement the murmurs erupted into yowls of anger and resistance. 

Spiderstar sprang to his paws from where he sat next to Coyotestar, pelt bristling, [b]"You can't do this Dawnstar! StarClan would never allow it! The clans have always been separate for as long as we've been on this island."[/b]

Yowls from DarkClan agreed with their leader and bristling pelts began to rise in the crowd as narrowed gazes and barred teeth were sent in the direction of the BreezeClan cats.