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tweetpaw was laying in her den, she had been since a few minutes. the neon blue she-cat knew that she had to get up, the dawn patrols would start soon yet tweetpaw couldn’t bring herself to move a single limb. the last moon had been an exhausting mess, ever since muskstar has become leader of twitterclan things started to deteriorate quickly. originally some hoped he would be the one to restore twitterclan to their old glory, how wrong they turned out to be.
tweetpaw worried, a few of her clanmates had already left to join other more stable clans. would she have to leave too? ‘no, it wouldn’t come to that.’ she thought without much enthusiasm, really only to comfort herself. with much effort and strength, she managed to finally sit up, it was still dark outside, she glanced back into the den, trendpaw was still sleeping soundly. ‘at least someone is getting rest, good for him’ she thought, trotting out into the clearing.
tweetpaw was about to leave camp to take a short walk through the forest when she heard a voice behind her.
“Why are you up already?”
tweetpaw jumped in surprise but quickly relaxed when she saw that it was just bluebird, the medicine cat.
“ Dawn patrols don’t start until dawn.” bluebird meowed, worry shining in her blue orbs.
tweetpaw sighed “ yes I know, it’s just everything that's been going on, it's so triggering.” she explained, tears rising in her orbs as she remembered her, now dead, parents.
Bluebird nodded, “ I understand, I could ask cancelclaw to take you off the patrol if you need some time.”
tweetpaw shook her head “ no I’m fine, really. I could use the distraction” she meowed “it’s not like cancelclaw would let me anyway.” she added somewhat amused
bluebird only sighed in response turning to leave again before tweetpaw stopped her.
“Wait, if twitterclan truly,” she paused for a second and gulped, searching for words inside her soul “ if twitterclan truly dies, where will you go?” tweetpaws blue orbs shined neon pink, as the early morning sun crept over the edge of the highrock.
bluebird snorted in response, “ where will you go?”
tweetpaw furrowed her brows but before the neon blue she-cat could answer a blue shining smoke engulfed bluebird making her disappear.
in a dramatic shot, tweetpaw looked up to the sky, the gathering was tonight. She had to talk to blogpaw.
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tweetpaw followed her clan up to the gathering, she felt nervosity prickle in her paws, as soon as they reached the inland she started looking for blogpaws gray pelt. she followed closely behind cancelclaw, trying not to fly off the fallen tree leading to the island while searching the island with hawk eyes. spotting blogpaw a little further away, talking to two of her clanmates which tweetpaw recognized as anonpounce and tagfur, she quickly jumped off the log that lead to the island and made her way through the masses to her friend. blogpaw saw her halfway across and excused herself from her clanmates.
“oh me gosh, tweetpaw!” blogpaw shrieked “i was so worried ye left!”
tweetpaw gave her a puzzled look “why would i do that.” she said, bumping her head against blogpaws as greeting.
blogpaw lowered her voice nodding with her head at two cats tweetpaw most definitely recognized as the twins checkpelt and markfur. “they showed up not long ago, they are lucky sansstar is a kind and fair leader.”
tweetpaw nodded glancing up to the leaders, sansstar was currently chatting with his deputy and mate reigen, her orb fell onto muskstar, who was just sitting there. I,f you asked him, he would have told you he was waiting for the crowd to calm down but tweetpaw was sure he just had no leader friends. blogpaw followed her orbs, furrowing her brows.
“is that talonmusk?” blogpaw asked “is he leader now?”
tweetpaw nodded,” yes he took over right after jackstar died and the deputy too.”
“Wow, that must be hard on him, didn’t he have a litter of kits just a moon before too? how much work that must be.”
tweetpaw thought back to teslakit and moneykit, just before the gathering they were begging their father to take them to the gathering as well, and he almost did.
Their conversation was cut short when muskstar started the gathering.
“prey is running well, “ is the only thing tweetpaw heard before zoning out, nothing had really happened this month in twitterclan really, nothing the other clans had to know of anyway. tweetpaw didn’t care about what the other leaders said and instead orbed the floor.
“what would happen if i tried to join tumblrclan?” she suddenly asked
blogpaw orbed her from the side, “ why tumblrclan? why not instaclan? postpaw and reelpaw would love to have you i’m sure.”
tweetpaw looked a little further down where postpaw and reelpaw were drinking out of a muddy puddle, tweetpaw made a face “no they’re cringe.”
blogpaw sighed “ i don’t know, there are only so many cats a clan can handle.” she meowed
“ but tumblrclan is one of the smallest clans around the lake?”
when tweetpaw turned back, the only thing she saw was shining purple smoke engulfing blogpaw.
“blogpaw no!” she started running after the smoke that was slowly flying east, she was quickly leaving the clans behind when she suddenly fell down a cliff, landing on her back. tweetpaw could only watch in horror as the smoke flew into the dark shining sky.
“i love you tweetpaw! I’ll be back!” she could hear blogpaws voice echoing through the air.
tweetpaw closed her blue shining orbs as she hit something.