far from home [tagged testing]

[owl]

    Flykit bounced around the warrior's legs as they attempted to set a piece of prey down at the fresh kill pile. It was a nice fish, and Flykit wanted it. He wanted it bad. The hunting in Leafbare was hard, and it wasn't easy to find his favorite food. His ma had given him some fish for his first prey, and he had loved it ever since. He once joked to Skykit that it would be all that he'd eat. He nipped at the warrior's heels and jumped up to try and bite the fish's tail that was hanging out of the cat's mouth. He was using the "annoying kit" technique that he had perfected a while ago to get food. He would ask for scraps, and badger cats when they came into camp until they relented. C'mon, c'mon. It seemed this cat had wills of steel, though, because Flykit had been going for a good 30 seconds without a sound from the warrior. Then, with a sigh and a grunt, the cat dropped the fish and it hit the frosty hard ground with a flop. With a grin, the young tom licked his lips and started to take a bite out of the silver creature. His meal was interrupted before it even started, however, since his ears pricked up at the sound of another warrior coming back to camp. So soon? This time, they didn't have prey in their jaws. At least, no prey Flykit had ever seen. Leaving the fish and walking towards the cat as if in a trance, he confirmed that the thing the cat was carrying was not something for him to eat. It was another kitten. "Hey, hey! Let her down let her down I wanna see!" He mewed, putting a skip in his step and hopping excitedly once he got to the warrior's side. The cat's eyes slid to him and stared for a moment, before they bent down and set the little kit down. Be gentle. The cat signed with a few flicks of their ear and shake of their paw. The tuxedo nodded vigorously and stepped carefully towards the kitten. She was mostly black, with little ginger splotches. She looked a lot like a lot of other RavenClanners, but he decided she was special. "Hi." He whispered in his upmost calm voice, which was only a slightly less sped-up version of his normal one. "My name's Flykit. Who're you?"

Tags: PikaJoker
Notes: that was so much fun to write haha

[PikaJoker]

The dark tortoiseshell she-kit couldn't help but whimper as the bouncy kit approached her. She curled in around herself, her pale green eyes on him. The den she was in was warm and it was different than always being on the road trying to catch up with her mother. Her mother. She left me because I was too much trouble. The she-kit lowered her head, deciding to answer the tuxedo kit's question. "I...don't have a name," she said. Her mother never called her anything. When the tortoiseshell inquired about it, the she-cat would box her ears and hiss at her for being a bother. A bother. Maybe my name is Bother! Wanting to please the tom kit, the tortoiseshell opened her mouth again. "I-I think it was Bother? I was called that a lot." She watched her reaction, waiting for him to attack her for talking too much. She lowered herself to the ground. She missed her mother's warm belly. Why was she left behind? She remembered crying for her mother, shivering from how cold it was until a strange cat picked her up without saying a word to her. Now, she was here surrounded by a bunch of strange smells. At least, she wasn't being attacked...yet. The tortoiseshell wouldn't put up a fight being so young and even smaller than a kit her age. No, she was thin, malnourished. A queen was already shooting her a glance and whispering how she probably wouldn't last past this leafbare. 


owl,


Notes: Same. If you want me to change anything, just tell me. I was playing around with the thought of Petal's mother and the reason why she was abandoned. Petal doesn't blame her mother because as she looks back, she realizes her mother wasn't getting enough food to make milk. I was also thinking she had lost all her other kits already and was probably suffering from postpartum depression. She loved her daughter but she knew how things would continue, they would both end up dying. She probably knew about the RavenClan cats and so she left Petal on their border hoping they would pick up a stray kit.