FrostPaw waited outside of camp, watching her clanmates gathered up prey, and others took down the thristles.
"FrostPaw, congratulations of being with part of apprenticeship. I'm surprised, that you got mentor, even though we sorta had a shortage." HoundPaw skipped toward her, with a couple of mice.
"Anyway, has anyone seen StormStone?" FrostPaw looked for the former deputy.
"StormStone likes to wander, but I saw him run off to the torn down thristles." NightBlair interrupted, while CinnamonPaw skipped ahead.
"I can fetch him, we'll be off traveling soon." FrostPaw turned her head toward the pile, but it seemed a bit far.
"Will you need me to come? No cat wants to delay our trip, if somecat gets hurt." HoundPaw spoke, FrostPaw search for the sound of a tease, but only concern.
"It's just an elder, but thank you for the offer. It'll be quick anyway. HoundPaw turned his head away, to his mentor. FrostPaw trotted away to the broken down nursery StormStone was nowhere to be seen. Then FrostPaw felt a painful tug on her ear, her ear was caught in the thristles. Blood gushed down.
"No! Not now! CinnamonPaw!" FrostPaw yelped. But the medicine apprentice didn't flinch.
"Somecat!" FrostPaw started to claw at the ear, tugging it. Then StormStone arrived.
"You must be FrostPaw, I didn't get a full introduction of you, when you were a kit." He swatted at the ear, blood flowing everywhere on the torn ear.
"You should get NightBlair to fix that, you won't like it having being infected. I remember my first time getting my ear stuck. ThristleStar had no medicine cats to disinfect the ear, and it got infected, and they had to claw the whole ear off. And they appointed NightBlair to fix it, without any experience. But he managed, it was a miracle, then he became medicine cat." StormStone coughed a bit, it seemed raspy, and sounded horrible when he spoke.
"FrogStar wants all cat to be at the borders of ThornClan, so we can travel." FrostPaw yelped again.
"Oh, that? I'm not coming. GorpseStone still some energy left in her, and she wants to watch her grandkits to grow. And LaurelBarry wants to see what her grandkits will look like, and see how her son's mentoring is doing. But me, I desire to stay here, I'm old, and CorkStar walks in the sky here."
"What should I say to FrogStar?"
"Tell her, StormStone isn't coming, and there's no way to change my mind. Now go to FrogStar."
FrostPaw felt sadness loom, another has left the clan. First her father, her brother, her leader, and one of the elders.
"FrostPaw!" A familiar voice spoke.
"ThruhKit?"
"It's ThrushPaw, and you can't leave! I won't let you!"
"I can't leave my clan, you may be my brother, but you live in another clan. I did like as my littermate, but I have to go. We will live on different paths, but I will miss you." FrostPaw fought back the tears. Why did she have to choose? Her clan or her brother.
"You can't do this, you can't! What if I never see you!?" ThrushPaw had a sorrow look, but FrostPaw was getting tired of his fussing, she needed to see NightBlair anyway, she was holding up the clan.
"ThrushPaw, we are no longer clan mates, nor kin. We are rivals to each other's clan. If my clan does something, I agree. Even if it was to attack TideClan." FrostPaw looked over the clan, they were waiting and the sun was setting. Just the right time they planned to travel.
"FrostPaw, your ear! Come with me! StormStone can wait! Where ever he is!" CinnamonPaw insisted.
"NightBlair!" CinnamonPaw looked toward her mentor.
"Go fetch the orchidtails, and bring some spiderstring as well!" NightBlair started examining the torn up ear.
"Must been from the thristles, I haven't seen something like this since we left ThristleStar and the previous camp before this one."
CinnamonPaw dropped a couple of herbs and spiderstring, FrostPaw assumed.
"All warriors get scars or more, their face ripped off by a dog. But we all should know, that warriors with scars are the loyal ones. The ones that thought of their clan more than anything." NightBlair soon enough started dab on the ear with a couple of herbs then started to grab a leave and wrap the spiderstring around it.
"Just a minor injury, but you can travel, your ear will stay torn up, but at least it's not infected, I remember how much StormStone fussed about getting it disinfected."
NightBlair chuckled, and FrostPaw smiled.
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ThornClan (Reupdating / Continuing)
AdventureA young group of cats, that traveled far, no one knows why. This was inspired of Erin Hunter and the series of Warriors I have updated the Book 1 descriptions, chapters: Prologue, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 24. I think...? The story will be different in some pa...
