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Smokestorm

This gal right here's gonna rule the world
No, I won't sit still and look pretty

Smokestorm padded into the camp with a sparrow in her jaws, a slight spring in her step from the pride of a successful hunt. It was a cool day, which she couldn't bring herself to mind; after the intense heat of greenleaf it was welcome. There would be plenty of time to worry about the chill later. Dropping her bird on the freshkill pile, Smokestorm glanced toward the nursery, briefly considering a visit to her sister and the kits... no, not right now. Maybe she'd look in on them this evening.

Her gaze landed on Pigeonpaw, sitting alone next to the apprentices' den, and she turned toward him, lifting her tail in greeting. "Hi, Pigeonpaw. Everything going okay? Has Cobrashadow taken you out today?" She wasn't going to get too nosy; a mentor knew his responsibility to their apprentice, but she was the deputy and she looked out for all of the apprentices. She didn't keep track of them to the point of knowing everything they did, but she still liked to make sure that they were learning plenty from the warriors assigned to teach them. "How's your training been going so far?"

Deputy of StoneClan

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Pigeonpaw had been sitting idly, grooming his pelt that never seemed to be tidy and thinking over the past few moons events, finally an apprentice after six agonising moons of boredom. He was excited and eager to learn, and show off a little of course, but was a little worried that he wasn’t always as good as he should be.

Thankfully he was distracted from his thoughts by a voice greeting him. He took his gaze from the clearing and followed the greeting. He soon learned that it was Smokestorm, the clans deputy that had taken his attention. In a rush he straightened his posture and acknowledged her. Ecxited to be talking with the deputy, it wasn’t often that he got to talk with cats that weren’t other apprentices or his mentor unless there was a reason.

“Oh! Hello Smokestorm! I’m okay!” His shiny yellow eyes glanced around the camp in search of Cobrashadow but could not find him. “No actually, we went out yesterday though. I just went hunting at little woods today.” He racked his brain for a moment to try and remember what he had caught. Maybe a mouse or two? With the season soon changing prey would be getting scarcer.

“It’s been going well, I think I’m better at hunting than fighting though.” He admitted. “But I’ve been learning a lot!” He happily exclaimed. “How have you been?”

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Smokestorm

This gal right here's gonna rule the world
No, I won't sit still and look pretty

The apprentice jumped to his paws as she called to him, piping up eagerly. Her whiskers rippled in a small show of amusement- typical young cat, thrilled at the attention the deputy was showing him. She waved her tail, motioning him to settle again and sitting close by. "That's good, I'm glad to hear you're coming along. There's no trouble in being better at one thing than another; even if you’re better at hunting, I'm sure you're just fine at fighting."

She couldn't see Cobrashadow around; he might be resting in the warriors' den? "I'm well, thank you for asking. Perhaps you and Cobrashadow could join this evening's border patrol?" It was good to keep apprentices busy- kept them from getting bored and getting into trouble. "Unless he had plans already?" She didn't want to get in the middle of them; Pigeonpaw was Cobrashadow's apprentice and she wasn't going to stick her nose in where it didn't need to be. The warrior seemed to be doing a decent job by the young tabby, so she didn't need to get involved.

Deputy of StoneClan

@pigeon Notes

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Hoping not to embarrass himself in front of the deputy Pigeonpaw calmed himself down, settling on the grass at the deputies motion. He listened intently while glancing around the camp again before turning his gaze to Smokestorm, his striped tail flicking from side to side slightly as he thought up a reasonable response.

“Oh uh, thanks, I hope you’re right! Though i’ll probably be even better by the time that I’m a real warrior!” As any apprentice would he had to mention the end goal of his apprenticeship, his bright yellow eyes lighting up at the prospect, the excitable young cat he was he soon started rambling in response to the green-eyed she-cat once he had been spoken well of. The calm he had previously tried to collect now given up on.

“Maybe we could, I’m not sure what he’d suggest, I never know what he’s thinking, I don’t think I’ve been on many evening patrols, usually just the morning ones, sometimes the day patrols-” He continued, unaware of how talkative he was, though still excited.

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Smokestorm

This gal right here's gonna rule the world
No, I won't sit still and look pretty

"I'm sure you will be," Smokestorm replied with humor glinting in her eyes. She liked apprentices, for the most part, amused by their enthusiasm and their willingness to learn. She didn't have one at the moment, and perhaps she might not for a while: Hawkstar probably would give Mistcloud's little kits to other warriors. But hopefully she would get another chance soon to guide a young mind to be a warrior the Clan could be proud of.

Her ears swiveled back to Pigeonpaw as he rambled on about the patrols he'd been on, and she gave a quiet purr. "Why don't you go find him and ask him, then? I'll sit here and wait for you to come back. Hopefully you'll find him and he'll be agreeable." Lifting a paw, Smokestorm beckoned the apprentice to head off to the warriors' den, where Cobrashadow ought to be after taking his turn to watch over the camp- unless he'd tagged on to a hunting patrol. If so, she could find someone else to accompany her and Pigeonpaw, but she'd rather the apprentice's mentor be the one to come along.

Deputy of StoneClan

@pigeon Notes

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Pleased with the humourous glint in Smokestorms eyes, his striped tail swayed from side to side as he listened intently to the green eyed deputy who soon motioned for pigeonpaw to go and find his mentor.

“Cobrashadow is never agreeable!” The tabby apprentice playfully stated with mock dramatics as he jumped up from next to Smokestorm. He searched the clearing with his eyes once again but he quickly realised that finding his mentor would be harder than just looking and waiting for him to appear, so he bounded off towards the warriors den. Stopping himself just before he collided with the walls of the den. He lowered himself into a hunting crouch and peered around.

The den was rather empty, it was daytime after all and most cats would be out somewhere exept those who were out last night. He wasn’t sure but the grey tabby thought that he could make out a couple vaguely cat-like shapes. Even if Cobrashadow wasn’t there another warrior might know where he was.

“Cobrashadow? Are you in there?” He spoke into the den, after a few seconds of silence he thought to add some more. He continued as eager as ever.

“Cobrashadow, Smokestorm told me to come and find you.” 

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Taxx  Ghost the Undead Goddess