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MAplebROOk

23 Moons || She-Cat || TreeClan

Despite the weather being terrible for a greenleaf day Maplebrook was still in high spirits, returning from her hunting trip with a squirrel  and two mice hanging from their tails as she took delicate steps towards the freshkill pile. Her focus blissfully on the pride she felt at catching, three pieces of prey and her favourite food, a nice tasty squirrel. Maplebrook left the two mice on the freshkill pile with a satisfied nod before she picked up her well deserved meal and moved off to eat her treat. 

The camp was alive with activity so while she ate Maplebrook could not help but notice the way some of the apprentices ran around, each claiming to being the best warrior along with their weary mentors following along looking very unimpressed at having been woken up so early in the morning for training, Maplebrook had left her own apprentice under the supervision of Thornpaw for the day, with a warning that if he returned Fawnpaw worse than the state he received her in then he would be answering not only to Maplebrook but his own mentor as well. 

Maplebrook hummed softly to herself as her throughs drifted to that day on the border of LightningClan with that incredibly rude tom that she had never gotten the name of. Oh how he annoyed her so with his arrogance, like he expected every she cat to immediately fall and kiss his paws in gratitude for not barrelling into them while they took a few seconds of rest. 

She was a princess,
with the strength of a warrior

@shadow ( Hawkchaser), Fawn & BlooRey DVD ( Fawn and Thornpaw references) 

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Morning. Time to get up and make sure he started his day off right. By that he meant getting rid of this hollow feeling haunting him. Even with all the time passed the only real way he could get rid of it was by doing something else, something productive. So after unleashing a massive yawn the white and tabby tom exited the warriors den. It was a bit latter then his usual starting time but for today it would have to suffice. Most warriors and their apprentices where just heading out. Good timing. His dark amber gaze wavered from side to side scanning the camp for any source of action he could come across yet he found none. What he did find however was Maplebrook enjoying the rays of light that engulfed the forest floor as she ate her meal. After a moment the tom then padded towards her greeting her with a "Hello, Maplebrook." 

His large frame came to a halt a tail-length away as his eyes swapped between the she-cat and the rest of the moving came and he soon found his haunches lowering to the ground as he reclined back taking a seat. "How are you today?"

@kahani

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MAplebROOk

23 Moons || She-Cat || TreeClan

Maplebrook's attention shifted from the prey in front of her paws to the tom who had spoken,whom she immediately recognised as Hawkchaser, the larger tom had greeted her with the typical polite greeting and deciding that she could not be rude and tell him to leave her alone to stew over that irrational tom by the border, Maplebrook managed her usual bright smile and opened her maw to speak  

" I'm fine Hawkchaser, I was just thinking I need to speak to Lionstar about  the Lightningclan border needing to be remarked, I was there only yesterday and the scent markings are getting weaker" She admitted to the fellow Treeclan member, of course she would never admit to knowing about the tom that had caused this lapse in the borders. As far as she knew it was treason to fraternise with a cat outside of your clan, unless under formal settings, like a gathering or patrol but those were usually just hissed words and a great desire to watch the other group disappear into the terrain, at least in Maplebrook's mind. Her clanmates were not all the passivists that she was.  " Anyway how are you? Found a pretty she cat yet ?I am sure many are lined up at the possiablity" she could not help but tease the tom, a few moons ago she would have gone bright red if he had so much as glanced at her, being the niave she- cat she was but after all this death and distruction amung the clan's ranks, Maplebrook had to grow up in the last few moons and focus on teaching Fawnpaw all that she knew.

Admittedly her little tease of Hawkchaser was sort of a nod to her apprenticeship days, where she though him the most handsome tom around but since getting her warrior name and having seen no evidence that any tom liked her Maplebrook had retreated into herself, asking Lionstar for more patrols, more hunting trips, anything to distract her from that lonely feeling at night, if she was to tired to dream then she would be to tired to fantasise about things that could never be. 

She was a princess,
with the strength of a warrior

@shadow

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" I'm fine Hawkchaser, I was just thinking I need to speak to Lionstar about the Lightningclan border needing to be remarked, I was there only yesterday and the scent markings are getting weaker"

Well that was something he mentally noted as needing done and would likely volunteer to join that patrol when it came up. Unless they found something else for him to do. "Unfortunately with the coming rain it won't do much good to do it today." he commented. Keeping his dark amber eyes on the she-cat while his brain began to think more and more until it all stopped at a simple teasing tone.

" Anyway how are you? Found a pretty she cat yet ?I am sure many are lined up at the possiablity"

Instead feeling caught off guard he felt his fur become increasingly hot with embarrassment and his whiskers twitched noticeably before his maw parted and the words just fluttered out of him like a butterfly from a jar.  "Um.. Well if they have I honestly haven't been paying to much attention to them.." His tone obviously embarrassed and guilt ridden as he tried to think about the she-cat's around him in Treeclan yet the quickest one to come to mind was Maplebrook. Funny  how they landed in some of the same patrols and hunting trips. Was she following him? He was pretty much dumbfounded and couldn't resist teasing her back. "Why are you spying on me for someone? Or do you have one yourself, hmm?" Curiosity to her response made him more patient for her response wondering just exactly which was occurring at this point in time. 


@kahani

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MAplebROOk

23 Moons || She-Cat || TreeClan

He teased her back, Maplebrook was perhaps a little to excited when he did so, it was like nothing had changed, he was still the handsome warrior she could never have and he was still as adorably awkward on matters of the heart. " I have my eye on someone, but he will never notice me so I talk to you' she added, this was teasing to a more severe form, as if she was trying to throw him off the scent that she may like a tom or even worse, realise that tom might be him.

Maplebrook had guarded her heart closely all her life and while her parent's had a happy mateship and retired to the elder's den to relax for the rest of their time on this earth. Maplebrook was convinced that love was something that made the strong weak and the pure do devilish and fiendful things. 

"No, in all reality, I have little time for romance, life is hectic, with the recent epidemic wiping out nearly half the clan" she added, a subtle attempt to change the topic, despite the fact that she was enjoying seeing the male get all flustered about her question on she cats and his change at romance. Half the clan may be a little bit of an exaggeration but she honestly did not care all that much, she would always be who she is despite what anyone might say about her. 

She was a princess,
with the strength of a warrior

@shadow  

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" I have my eye on someone, but he will never notice me so I talk to you"

At first he couldn't tell if she was just continuing to mess with him or if there was actually some truth to it. Or maybe both. While curiosity clawed at him he let his amber optics study her closely looking for the slightest hint of conformation. Nope, nothing.


"No, in all reality, I have little time for romance, life is hectic, with the recent epidemic wiping out nearly half the clan"

The words she added to the previous statement actually got the tom thinking again. "Yeah I understand that. Reminds me I need to pay my brother a visit. If I were him I would probably have lost my mind." He smiled amusement rippling through his tone as he easily transferred off of the previous subject slightly relieved. The loss of their clan mates had been huge and truthfully he didn't know how his sibling could handle dealing with all that death and sickness. For healthy cats that meant more patrols and hunting and simply trying to keep afloat as more and more cats became ill.