The Awakening Storm

02 | settled

**TW: Self harm**
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S I L E N T

"Did a cat ever tell you, you eat like a hungry wolf in leaf-bare?" Mewed an amused voice and I felt a pelt brush mine to sit besides me.

"No, they didn't. Thank you for that, Snowpebble." I mewed coldly while continuing to bite slowly into my water vole. Snowpebble laughed awkwardly before he began eating his own smaller water vole.

A patrol had left this morning and came back with enough of them to fill the whole clans bellies and no cat was complaining.

The clan was quiet this morning, Finchstar was sunning herself on the meeting ledge outside her den with Leapflight and Petalshade while Driftkit, Splashkit, and Nectarkit were racing all over the clearing. Silentpaw had to admit it was nice to have kits around, they seem to lighten the mood during these dark days.

Foxwhisker and Flakenose were sharing a squirrel while Flowerheart was sleeping inside of the elders den. Ravenwing was stretching outside of the warriors den while Ivypaw ran from the thorn entrance towards the medicine cat den with a mouthful of weird leaves.

Ever sense Leafpaw, Dawnsky, and Embernose returned to camp with Lizardstripe, a Thunderclan elder, who was nearly drowned in Skyclans break off of the SilverPelt river Parsleyseed and Ivypaw had been working hard to get the elder to regain consciousness and it seemed to be working.

The elder had only been here for less then a day before rumors started to spread around the camp and curious cats were eyeing the ThunderClan border suspiciously.

Parsleyseed thrusted his way out of the medicine cat den and stalked over to the fresh kill pile rather slowly, the older toms paws seemed to step into as slow as a sick mouse and his tail traced the ground and dragged leaving it ungroomed and dirty.

I watched Parsleyseed finally get to the fresh kill pile and slowly pick up two small water voles before he turned his gaze up towards Finchstar, I couldn't see what Finchstar did but I saw Parsleyseed nod slowly before retreating back to his den.

The medicine cat seemed so old and slow, his gaze was lost in his thoughts and his movements were unstable and rocky.

Finally he was back in his den and I turned to Snowpebble, the gray toms eyes were also peering at the medicine cat den entrance. "Is he ill?" I asked in a worry mew and Snowpebble turned to me with a look of surprise, What did he think I turned mute for Starclans sake?

"I'm not sure," He replied before looking down at his paws. "me and Parsleyseed don't exactly have a kin relationship like you do with Leafpaw and Mouseclaw." Snowpebble mewed before he shifted his gaze from the medicine cat den to the elders den, and then finally back to his water vole.

I shifted in my loaf form self consciously at Snowpebbles statement. I had been avoiding all interactions with my clanmates and kin since Thunderclan was taken over by the rouges, my mind has been foggy and I can't seem to focus on anything without my mind adding onto it.

new emotions and feelings have awaken inside of me and its overwhelming dealing with them all at once. My mind seems to be fighting itself and my heart is latched to outside of the territory border. Too a cat not even my own sister, my best friend, accepted.