The Elvenqueen

The Rise of WillowClan

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WillowClan Warrior's Den

interacting with: @Hazelrah’s Honeypaw, @solokolos’ Moosepaw, @savannahssu’s Sunfur
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Spidernose’s ears flicked backwards as she heard approaching pawsteps, a quick sniff revealing that the cat about to enter the den was none other than Sunfur. Oh good; they’re both back, I assume. Sunfur certainly didn’t look too ruffled, only a little bit concerned, and the reason for that was quickly made apparent as he asked Spidernose to accompany them hunting.

The she-cat couldn’t say she was surprised by the request, after all, they had only caught a few measly prey pieces last time they’d been hunting, before Sunfur had gotten bitten by that snake. So it wasn’t much of a surprise that their fresh-kill had all been eaten already. She was, however, a little nervous about leaving the apprentices by themselves, undefended. “But Stonefall asked me to watch them...” she began to protest in a slightly softer voice, though she knew Sunfur was right; the Clan needed food, too. With a sigh, she glanced down at her apprentice and murmured to the little tortoiseshell. “Stay with Moosepaw. Listen to him. He knows how to defend yourselves, too.” she shot the older apprentice a look next, imploring him to watch over Honeypaw in her stead. “Stonefall, Maplestream and Duskwing are out in the main camp. If anything gets too much, yowl and get them to help you.”

The brown-and-cream warrior gave Honeypaw one last, quick nuzzle, then shifted away from the apprentices to get to her paws and stretch before she padded across to join Sunfur at the den entrance. “Yeah, sure, I’ll come with you! There’s uhh, there are rogues, in the camp, by the way. Just so you know.” she mewed gently, not wanting to leave the tom in the dark since he’d only just got back. “That’s why we’re in here, and why Duskwing’s outside the nursery, making sure they don’t try to sneak off..or into somewhere they shouldn’t be.”

The Rise of WillowClan

Spidernose is literally just like: ANXIETY.JPG rn

she out here like "pls do not hurt the bean I just got her and I love her and want her to be safe ;w;" XD

The Rise of WillowClan

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WillowClan Warrior's Den

interacting with: @Hazelrah’s Honeypaw, @solokolos' Moosepaw
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Spidernose seemed quite content to sit still and allow Honeypaw to groom through her fur, even if it wasn’t particularly dirty, the repetitive motion would be soothing, she thought, for the younger cat. So she made no protest to it and simply tilted her chin down to blink at her apprentice soothingly. Her ears flicked as Moosepaw spoke, and the warrior made a small noise of agreement in the back of her throat.

Of course, she worried about Honeypaw, and whether they could say the same. She hadn’t had time to give her any battle training, this was her first day out of the nursery, the poor thing. Still, she was sure they’d find a way. Clan cats looked out for one another, and that was what Spidernose planned to do for Honeypaw.

“We can hope it doesn’t come to that,” the she-cat repeated, feeling like she’d said those exact words a few too many times. She ducked her head to give her apprentice’s forehead a quick lick between her ears, as if to offer her her own form of comfort, before her bright blue eyes moved across to Moosepaw next. “But I wouldn’t get over-confident, either. They might be scrawny-looking but sometimes appearances can be deceiving. When we were with my mother, before we found WillowClan, we lost many hunts to “scrawny” cats that we thought we could beat.” she sighed for a moment, considering how best to give her apprentice advice.

The last thing she wanted to do was get Honeypaw hurt. Fernstar would never forgive her if that were to happen. Scratch that, Spidernose was pretty sure she’d never forgive herself if something happened to Honeypaw because of an instruction she’d given the younger she-cat. And as inexperienced as she was, she knew she had to give her some advice just in case she’d need it.
“Okay. I know the thought of being in a battle is scary, but remember things like this. This is our camp, our home. We know it in a way these strangers don’t, which means, if we need to, we can use it to our advantage, duck in and out of hiding spots that they don’t know exist to get around them, or surprise them. Now, you’re small...and we haven’t done much fighting practise, and even if these rogues don’t fight much, they had to have fought off...something, to come in as scratched up as they did.”

Which meant, the best course of action for Honeypaw was to not get too close in with them, if she did, these rogues could crush her in moments. And Spidernose didn’t want that. “If a fight does break out, I want you to keep your claws out, and use them as much as you have to. Don’t let them get too close, don’t try and use your teeth, you’re not experienced enough yet. I just want you to focus on doing whatever you have to, to not get hit, okay? Stay close to me, or Moosepaw, and bring them our way, let us deal with the more complicated brawling.”

The Rise of WillowClan

@Hazelrah@The Elvenqueen@PrankFox

Are any of you gonna get a post up soon?

@savannahssu

I was kind of waiting on Hazel/Honeypaw before I wrote anything because otherwise I'd habe to post twice/mess up the posting order but ig I can try get something out this week lmao

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So you wanna start a war
In the age of icons
So you wanna be immortal
With a loaded gun
So you wanna start a war, war
So you wanna start a war
So you wanna start a war

My God, my God
If history is dead and gone
Then how did we get here, my God?
My God

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I'm through feeling sorry
For the things that I can't choose
If I made it this far being who I am
Maybe heaven's got a back door too
When will I stop running
From the things I know are true
If I made it this far being who I am
Maybe heaven's got a back door too
Heaven's got a back door too

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In her heart, there's a hole
There's a black mark on her soul
In her hands is my heart,
And she won't let go, 'til it's scarred
Ha! Try to breathe but I can't
Cause the air she feeds me is damned
Got a touch like a thorn
Cause this girl, she's hidin' horns~

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Feed me promises,
Keep my heart well
I'll sing you songs until the darkness does recede
But if in the end I lose my voice,
Will you forget about your love for me?

But I still hold out hope
That maybe, someday...
I'll be worth more than all the silence
Left in my way

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The earth below is above my feet, when the clock is laughing at me
When copycats and the lazy brats are the last thing I want to see
My enemy is a friend of mine, in a friendly place to be seen
You know, I ran away for a couple years,
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