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Post by Wargrace on Sept 19, 2011 17:52:25 GMT -5
A paw poked forward, nudging the wriggling earthworm carefully, heterochromiatic stare unfaltering on it. It squirmed more when touched, recoiling from the offending paw so quickly. If she set her pad on one end, the other seemed to become the leading portion, inching away from her. If she switched ends, it did too. It was so strange. If, by chance, she set her paw firmly enough it couldn't escape, the worm would wither and coil against itself and the paw, poking her in return feebly.
What did the earthworm know..? Eyes wide as she observed it, Earthkit tried to imagine the places within the ground it had went. Had it went far? Or stayed in one spot most of it's life? It moved beneath their paws, unseen. Sensing their movements, without seeing. She shut her eyes, trying to feel movement, too. Perhaps Earthkit was abnormal. No, she was abnormal. But it might've been best not to tell her that.
Finally, the earthworm was set free; the kit setting to digging into the moist soil, loosening the ground, and pushing it into the ditch and covering it over. It would die if she didn't bury it again, she knew that. So, once it was hidden, Earthkit settled her paws on the churned soil, staring off across the camp with a strange, distant focus.
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Post by halfkat101 on Sept 19, 2011 19:40:15 GMT -5
Riverpaw looked to Earthkit with eyes that showed his interest. Whatever she was doing, it seemed fun. Part of him didn't want to go play with her... playing was a its game...
How ever... it DID look like fun...
he shrugged, finally giving in with the thought of , if he where to be confined ehre for a moon, he may as well make it worth his while and have fun.
"Wh-What are you up to?" He asked, a little on the polight and nervous side.
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Post by Wargrace on Sept 19, 2011 20:02:36 GMT -5
After a moment of deep focus, the kit removed the worm from the ground and resumed her prodding. Then, setting a paw down, she watched it squirm off, trying to find it's way back wherever. She was quite focused until Riverpaw approached. Then, she paused in her observations red-orange eyes blinking at him suspiciously. He asked what she was doing. Was she going to respond? For a moment, it didn't seem the kit was planning to.
"Learning." A simple response, and she peered at the worm for a moment, prodding it lightly so it would move again, and glancing back to the apprentice. Suspicion? It was definitely present. Why was he questioning her?
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Post by halfkat101 on Sept 20, 2011 13:54:13 GMT -5
Riverpaw looked at her, then the worm. His brow furrowed a she tred to make sence of it. He paused, her answer had been dismissing if nothing else, had she wanted him around?
"Am I bothering you then? Or can I join in...? It looks like fun." he meowed, trying to sound kind incase somehting in his tone before had set her off. He didn't want to sound unfriendly... but being with Tidalpaw he was unsure sometimes of wether or not he sounded like that or if cats just didn't like him... he did want to be liked....
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Post by Wargrace on Sept 20, 2011 14:11:54 GMT -5
Peering at the apprentice quietly, the aloof kit debated the words for a moment, resuming her light poking at it for a moment. Why did an apprentice -- atleast three moons older -- want to join her worm-prodding game..? A glance over the camp. Had some warrior sent him to try to find out what was 'wrong' with her? The idea irritated her; but she kept her brown fur smooth.
"I guess? If you wanna'." The worm was edged forward a bit towards him. Earthkit didn't dislike him. She didn't know him. She simply wasn't the most social. Only a select few made it into her friendly-circle. Well, for right now, Soilkit, her sister, was the only one. She was quite close to the other kit; it was strange she wasn't currently with Soilkit. But.. she was learning important things. About worms. Clearly, very important.
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Post by halfkat101 on Sept 20, 2011 16:21:04 GMT -5
Riverpaw looked at her, and prodded the worm with his paw, actually suprised at how it felt wiggling under his paw and he let it go, trying to supress his suprise. he felt her eyes on him, was she wondering about him? Was it good? Was she weirded out about him? Was there good reason for her to be?
He was inquisitive, but less inquisitive about the worm.
He let it go, pawed it again, this time hitting it lightly towards her.
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Post by Wargrace on Sept 20, 2011 17:09:24 GMT -5
Whatever was going on in Earthkit's head was presented through a relatively blank expression. No visible liking for the apprentice; but, likewise, no visible disliking, either. She wasn't quite sure what to think. Still, she saw no signs of someone asking him to come try to be friendly -- no concerned warriors or queens wondering why she was so very strange. So, had he just honestly decided poking the worm seemed like a fun game?
It was set back to her and she batted it carefully; she didn't want to damage it. It was just so.. squishy and amusing. Back towards the apprentice it was sent, rolling gingerly. For a moment, the kit eye'd the worm, than glanced back to Riverpaw. Awkward silence? Probably. Not so much for her; she rarely felt awkward in social situations. She just wasn't social.
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Post by halfkat101 on Sept 20, 2011 20:11:40 GMT -5
Riverpaw took it and batted it, pausing. Silence, should he fill it? Did she want him to? He knew that some of the queens and warriors fretted on ehr not being social.. but he hadn't seen anything to prove she went out of her way NOT to be...? So surely anything that wasn't UNsocial was just a chance waiting to happen?
Mind you, he was a very social tom, so, in teh end, he filled the silence.
"My father said I'm to stay here for a moon, did you hear that? because he thinks I took Cherrykit out of camp, which I didn't." He meowed adding "I found her out there... but I guess shes young and since we both got a bump on our noggin I'm the one to blame." he meowed, nonchalantly. His words didn't express how bad the sitatuation, or being punished, was. Just a simple amusment. Riverpaw tended not to fret over things like that. It wasn't like him.
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Post by Wargrace on Sept 20, 2011 21:10:23 GMT -5
While Riverpaw had the worm, she took a moment to lick down a tuft of fur promptly, focus watching the squirmy critter be pawed at. It seemed a good way not to have to start a conversation. Riverpaw, however, didn't stay quiet. That was fine -- she wasn't being forced to begin the conversation. Ears pricked, the kit listened. Forced to stay in camp for a moon because he had supposedly taken a kit out of camp? Interesting.
"That's why you don't get caught." The kit spoke matter'o'factly. She'd left camp more than once in the past. Not for too long -- even the presense of an antisocial furball as herself didn't go unnoticed for some reason or another. But it was nice to leave camp -- stretch the legs, move, run free. "How are you going to train, then?"
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Post by halfkat101 on Sept 21, 2011 14:12:20 GMT -5
((Ha ha I have a feelings they're going to be mutual friends rather then enamies wat do you think?))
Riverpaw scowled at his paws, passing the worm towards her again. He was silent for a moment, thinking about it... or more how to say it.
"Well maybe we wouldn't have gotton caught if the fox came around, which meant EndlessStar ahd to save us.... So because I 'failed' " He said the word some what sarcastically. "I'm cleaning the elders den and other things I can do in camp for a moon..... So thats why when I thought you where having fun I'd try adn have some to! I don't want to sit aruond moping!" He piped, cheering up back to his ear to ear grin at the end.
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Post by Wargrace on Sept 21, 2011 14:48:07 GMT -5
(( Yeah xD ))
One more pawing the worm when it was passed back to her, the kit listened carefully. A fox..? Endless-star had to save them from a fox? That wasn't good -- but she was rather glad to find out about it. Least she find out the bad way when venturing out of camp. She wasn't one of those kits who thought themselves a warrior -- she knew she was just a kit; and if she encountered something big like a fox, she'd be killed.
"A fox..? Where at? Did Endless-star kill it?" Foxes. She'd never seen any; but from what she'd been told, they were large, orange and white things with pointy snouts that could kill cats. "You're really going to stay in camp for an entire moon?" That sounded unpleasant. Of course, Earthkit was supposed to stay in camp until an apprentice -- but she was stubbron as a rock. She'd leave camp if she wanted to. And nothing short of being carried back by the scruff would stop her.
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Post by halfkat101 on Sept 21, 2011 21:04:28 GMT -5
Riverpaw sisn't know wether to shake his head no for teh first thing or nod yes to the other, so he tried to do both but it looked like an ackward swivel of his head which did nothing more than make him embarassed so he trued to cast it off with a shrug. nonchalant, easy. Shrugs where good. He smiled, looking at teh worm with eyes that where more focused on his thoughts and words.
"EndlessStar chased it off the territory, which is good... but to be honest I'm hoping he will let me go back to training if I'm really good." He meowed, then he looked at her. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I lvoed being a kit in cmap personally but... but I want to be with my siblings who are already ahead of me because I was held back due to sixe...." he wondered if telling a small kit was really going to change anything... she may BE to small to understand... then again, maybe he was more telling himself.
"I would like, at least, to be made warriors with them."
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Post by Wargrace on Sept 21, 2011 21:23:52 GMT -5
The kit listened quite attentively. She wasn't a bouncy, playful, naive furball as some were at her age. Quite the contrary, she was a bit.. serious and focused for her age. That could be seen as she halted her worm-prodding, ears twitched forward, debating the words carefully. He was talking about something important. And as of currently, Earthkit found him perfectly tolerable. Not annoying. So, she was focused on the words, too. She was still a kit, but really, not that far from apprenticeship, either. Soon.
"Well, you can still train. Train in camp. There's other apprentices, and the older kits, too. You could spar them off in a corner of the camp. Or work on tracking skills by having someone hide something in the camp and going to find it." Thoughtful, the brown kit gave the worm a poke, sending it over to Riverpaw. "I could help. I'm almost an apprentice. I'm not supposed to leave camp, o'course.. although that really doesn't stop me.." A glimmer of mischief. Fleeting, and gone to the usual piercingly focused stare. "But I could hide things, or try to battle practice. Though I've only ever kit-fought." She felt like she was talking too much, and stopped, quieting promptly. You know, before a queen sees and throws a party that the antisocial kit actually -wasn't- trying to maul someone.
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Post by halfkat101 on Sept 23, 2011 13:58:52 GMT -5
Riverpaw listened carefully, thoughtfully, as the shecat spoke. His ear to ear grin , if at all possible, continued to grow as her words finally clicked in. Hope flared in him for teh first time since he bumped his head. Of course! His bump didn't have to knock out his common sence! Here he was finding hope adn inspiration form a kit, mind you a kit he hoped to soon be joining him in the apprentices den.
"Your right! I'll train, and I'll train hard. If you want, you know, I can help teahc you. You AND your sister. We can all train in the clearing little patch thing by the apprentices den! You two will be joining me there in no time anyway!" He purred.
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Post by Wargrace on Sept 24, 2011 0:44:57 GMT -5
Ears pricked, the strange kit listened to the reply. She automaticly liked the idea. Early training? A head start. It could be the edge needed for her sister and herself to gain power witin the clan. Start learning sooner, then as an apprentice, already know the basics, atleast, and progress from there. Then, perhaps learn even more than she would've under normal circumstances, or, be made a warrior earlier. Being a young warrior was a thing to be proud of.
Apprentices that were made warriors earliest were the talented ones. The ones who would one day be great. Her paw pads tingled with excitement at the idea; red-orange eyes brightening for once. "That sounds great~ I'm sure even though me and Soilkit haven't had training yet, we can find something to teach you, too." Like.. learning from the earth. It might've sounded crazy, but the kit was convinced power could be received from it. "Perhaps with an early start, we could even all become warriors together~" It sounded like a nice possibility; considering Riverpaw seemed to be her first.. friend? Was he a friend? Seemed like it..
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