[Katara]

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[attr="class","snowymini"]LIGHTNINGCLAN APPRENTICE ✽ 15 MOONS ✽ SHE-CAT

[attr="class","snowytxt"]SNOWPAW

[attr="class","snowymini"]Twilight, again.
No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

[attr="class","snowybody"] Can you stop treating this like some kind of a game?!” Snowpaw snapped as her brothers, Harepaw and Swiftpaw, leaped from pawhold-to-pawhold on the fresh rubble they were surrounded with. She didn’t know how they could still act like their mischievous selves when the moorland behind them looked like a giant cat had clawed it. Climbing up the mountains was hard enough without them acting like fools! And the ground was still shaking! Weren’t they afraid?

The rocks beneath her paws gave a more violent rumble, showering earth and tiny pebbles down on the climbing cats. But it turned out it wasn’t just a shower of dirt—a few rocks dislodged themselves from the mountain side and began bouncing downward, causing those above to yowl out warnings. To her horror, one of the rocks was heading right toward her. She leaped aside, gripping the rocks above her with her front claws but her belly dropped when she quickly realized her back legs were churning nothing but air. She was clinging to the side of the cliff with nothing but her front claws! She tried to open her mouth to call for help, but only tiny noises of distress emerged as she imagined herself falling to her death in moments.

[attr="class","snowyb"]tagged [attr="class","snowybl"]@sable

[attr="class","snowyb"]notes I imagine they’re currently scaling the mountainside on their way to the Tribe! save her! o:

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Nothing like this had ever happened before; so said the elders Valiantpaw was sticking close to, matching his pace to theirs as they climbed the mountains. Thanks to Owlstar's level head, they'd already left the moor before the earth had begun shaking beneath their paws. It hadn't kept them from loss, however, and the long heartbeats Valiantpaw had spent clinging desperately to hard stone as the earth rolled and roared- watching rocks shaken loose from the slopes thundering toward the Clan- some cats killed instantly and some badly injured as the ground heaved and split open with horrible ripping noises. He'd never known fear like that, and he hoped to never know fear like that again.

Every so often the ground shuddered anew, causing a shadow of that same fear to flicker back into life, though not to the same extreme. Their plan to seek shelter with the Tribe was the best thing to do- the moor, as he looked back, had been utterly changed, and the young tom wondered if they'd ever be able to return.

A yowl of warning and Valiantpaw's gaze shot to the rock tumbling downward- not toward him, thankfully, but he still caught sight of Snowpaw as she flung herself out of the way- and when the rock had passed, he realized she had somehow slipped. He could only- and just barely- see the tips of her paws as she clung to the rocks. Small pebbles showered out from Valiantpaw's hind feet as he lunged toward her, only to skid to a halt after only a couple bounds. He didn't want to risk dislodging the rock she was hanging on to- or startling her so that she lost her grip and fell. "Hold on," he called, his voice a low yowl above the quietening patter of rocks. "I'm coming."

Her fear-filled face greeted him as Valiantpaw closed the last few feet, and he wasted no time in planting his paws before leaning over and taking her scruff in a strong grip. "I got you," he promised, voice muffled through her fur; he leaned back, bracing himself as he tried to drag his Clanmate back onto- well, relatively solid ground.
Katara

[Katara]

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[attr="class","snowymini"]LIGHTNINGCLAN APPRENTICE ✽ 15 MOONS ✽ SHE-CAT

[attr="class","snowytxt"]SNOWPAW

[attr="class","snowymini"]Twilight, again.
No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

[attr="class","snowybody"]It was all Snowpaw could do to continue clinging for dear life off the mountainside, and she only faintly heard the alarmed yowls of those around her, as if her ears were stuffed with cotton or the pounding of her heart was too loud. The only cat she could clearly see was a few fox-lengths above her - her mother, Windspirit, her jaws open in a silent wail of horror at the sight of her daughter dangling below her. A few bits of gravel, rock, and dirt showered down around her, and she shook her head frantically, desperate to clear her vision.

That was when a familiar ginger tabby's face suddenly swam right in front of her. "Valiantpaw!" she gasped his name, and didn't have to plead for him to help her. Not a second later, he pulled her up by her scruff and within heartbeats she was standing next to him. She pressed herself to her denmate, trembling against him and the mountainside as her senses began to return to her. "Thank you, thank you, thank you," she said rapidly, hanging her head and trying to get ahold herself. "I thought that was the end of me!" Her vision focused on the ground far below them, and her body swayed as if pulled toward that deadly fate. She once again pressed herself firmly against Valiantpaw. "I... I can keep climbing," she said hesitantly, and shakily. More than anything she just wanted to curl into a ball and try not to think about falling to her death, but she was training to be a warrior. Valiantpaw had been brave enough to save her, and she wasn't going to act like a mewling kit when he'd just risked his neck for her.

"Can you lead the way? I'll follow right behind." She didn't intend to stray a whisker away. Part of her didn't want to tear herself away from him right now - his warmth and his heartbeat against her pelt felt so reassuring - but she backed a tiny bit away to give him room to climb.

[attr="class","snowyb"]tagged [attr="class","snowybl"]@sable

[attr="class","snowyb"]notes this is so late omg sorry

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