A Strange And New Friendship (Turtlepaw)

[Firefly]

Timberkit had snuck out of camp early that morning wanting some alone time. She knew it was against the rules to leave the camp before she was made an apprentice but she was feeling really down today. She had been with Cardinalclan for a whole moon now. She was safe and happy while her parents where dead and so where her brother and sister most likely. She wandered the territory barely paying attention to where she was going. She wasn't afraid of being attacked she was bigger than a cat and half the size of a full grown wolf. Another four months or so and she would be fully grown. 

Eventually her wanderings led her to the border of the clan the border that met with Stormclan if she remembered correctly. She sniffed the air and furrowed her brows. She could smell cats on the other side of the border it was strong probably several cat lengths away but she could still smell it. Was the clan living near the border? If so why? Where they planning an attack? Or was their camp flooded to and this was high ground for them? She began to calm down realizing it was probably the later. Lying down she decided to relax and keep an eye open none the less. Even if she was just a pup she was larger than the biggest cat no one would dare attack her she was sure especially since she was on her side of the border. 

Resting her muzzle on her paws she wished she had a friend she could talk to. She felt like an outsider in her clan. Even if she had learned how to speak cat and Cardinal treated her as if she was her own kit it didn't mean everyone else felt comfortable around a wolf like her. Opening her jaws and lifting her head she let out one long piercing howl as she finally let herself mourn for everything she had lost. She didn't like mourning in front of others so she kept it in. Now that she was alone she let it all out. Her howl lasted for very long period of time and it was filled of all the sadness and fear, joy and anger she felt in her heart. Sadness for the loss of her pack and family, fear for she didn't know if she would ever truly be accepted into the clan, joy for being taken in by Cardinal. If she hadn't than she would surely be dead and than anger towards the twolegs who took away her family.

Lilygold

[Lilygold]

TURTLEPAW STORMCLAN TAG Firefly WOUNDS N/A WORDS 355 NOTES ahem - turt's got a bit of baggage

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urtlepaw hadn't slept last night. Her dreams, now that she was in training, were filled with water being filled with blood. Sometimes it was from wounds on her own body, sometimes it was on her claws and dark figures in the distance were wheezing and stumbling. And always, Lakepaw was in the river, choking on the red of the water in her gills, and it was always half one fear and half another and one hundred percent painful to watch. And she'd wake up after them to the sight of Sagepaw up early helping grow herbs, Lakepaw still happily asleep but obviously having snuck to the river in the night, Echopaw's pelt rippling as she collected the aforementioned herbs... and in that one moment she'd feel so alone, and... she just didn't need that this morning. So she didn't fall asleep, and she rose from her resting place with creaky limbs and heavy eyes, and the dawn seeped into her vision and she padded out to the nearby border with CardinalClan. Her waterlogged paws and belly fur were far too reminiscent of the flood. She was snapped out of dreary thoughts by... a howl? Were there wolves in the moorland, escaping the floodwaters? The sound of it was to hear someone voicing their burdens. Heck, Turtlepaw almost envied that ability to just make one, drawn-out noise, and feel infinitely better. Still, she wasn't one to randomly yowl. With a bit of hesitation, she padded to where she could see the source. An extremely large grey wolf - but, as far as she could tell, still a juvenile. She continued to howl, and Turtlepaw just watched. When she finally finished, the tortoiseshell, wide-eyed, meowed a somewhat shocked deadpan of "I feel that pain, my friend." She knew the wolf wouldn't understand her, but it felt nice to say it. And she... had a feeling this particular wolf wasn't going to attack her. It was just a hunch, and probably a misinformed one, but what did she care if she got hurt here anyway?

ISHY of THQ & ADOXOGRAPHY

[Firefly]

Timberkit put her heart and soul into the call releasing her past, her family, her hopes and dreams for the pack. Letting go of everything that happened before she met Cardinal. Her head was raised and her eyes where closed so she didn't see or hear the cat approaching her until she spoke up. She opened her eyes and looked to the cat. She had to be about Crowpaw's age. "You could tell what I was howling? Normally only another wolf could tell what another was howling." She stood up from her sitting positing and looked at the cat. She padded towards her and gave her a sniff. "Huh you're not Cardinalclan, but you're not a loner, rogue or kittypet either there are scents of other cats on you. What clan do you come from?" It could be Stormclan but there was a chance it was another. "I'm Tehya.....I..I mean Timberkit who are you?" She was still getting used to her new name and sometimes forgot.

[Lilygold]

TURTLEPAW STORMCLAN TAG Firefly WOUNDS N/A WORDS 376 NOTES "so, how about that anguished howl, huh. what a laugh"

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he wolf seemed to be only mildly fazed by Turtlepaw's appearance, but had a very cat-like surprise on her face. There was a calculating recognition in those eyes, and Turtlepaw mentally, but oddly enough not physically, prepared herself to bolt. It seemed somehow more warm than expected, however. And the most shocking thing came right after - the wolf meowed. The meowing was only awkward for singular moments, where a sound or a word would snag on the different anatomy of her mouth and throat, but really? It was almost perfectly articulated. "Well, I could question you just as much as you could question me. Your grasp on cat language is extremely impressive." The wolf came closer, and this time, Turtlepaw didn't make any move to step back. She was very clearly intelligent, and seemed rather friendly... from first impressions, at least. And if she knew cat, was she an ally of CardinalClan? The whole 'lynx argument' that she'd heard about from those who went to the first Gathering was controversial enough. If their neighboring Clan brought a wolf, there would almost certainly be an uproar over it. The wolf mentioned them, so there was no doubt that she knew the cats. She knew all the Clan terms as well - double impressive. "I'm from StormClan. Just taking an early-morning stroll on the border." The wolf - Tehya - Timberkit - stumbled over her name. So she was... part of CardinalClan? That was what the name implied, but that was... something. A step further than LynxClan. "Hey, I'll call you whatever suits you. It's still weird having to call my previously single-syllable siblings these unwieldy two-syllable names, and I call them their old names all the time. I'll be better with it when they're warriors, or when Echo finishes training - maybe. I'm Turtlepaw, although I'll answer to just Turtle fine enough." Not to mention that Indigo dropped her suffix all the time. They'd all been loners at one point. It'll be up to their children one day to carry on the ancient naming tradition, because they'll hopefully never know single-syllable names, but for them, it was fine to still be loners at heart.

ISHY of THQ & ADOXOGRAPHY

[Firefly]

Timberkit raised her head proudly as she commented on her being able to speak her language so well. "Thanks I worked hard but it seemed to come fairly easy for me. Maybe it's because Cardinal found me at such a young age?" This cat seemed different some how but she couldn't put her tail on it which couldn't seem to stop wagging. "I should take you to Cardinal but your not on our territory and I'm not on yours though we're both really close to crossing. Besides if Cardinal found out I left camp I'd get into trouble. So she was a Stormclan cat she was right." When the cat said she'd call her whatever she wanted she tilted her head and thought on it for a moment. "Call me Tehya but only when there is no one else around when others are around call me Timberkit or Timberpaw when I become an apprentice." So she and her siblings were new to their clan which meant they weren't born into their clan that was interesting. "Well Turtle it's nice to meet you. It will be nice to have someone calling me by my old name so I won't forget where I come from. I may talk cat and be in a cat clan but I am still a wolf and proud of it."

Lilygold