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Gracklefire

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Yeah, I was in the dark I was falling hard
With an open heart I'm wide awake
How did I read the stars so wrong?

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Two tail lengths ahead of Shadowpaw, Gracklefire kept a slow meager pace toward the border. She was slightly distracted, they were coming up on the place where she woke up some hours later, after the battle her kits gone...

Flicking her ears she did her best to rid herself of the thoughts of that day. Her belly distorted in uneasy but it hardly stopped her from walking, until the thick heavy scent of the NightClan border markings did she pause.

Turning elegantly on her hind-paws she stopped and looked toward Shadowpaw with stern but warm eyes. "Now as you can tell this is our border with one other clan, can you tell me who that is?" Gracklefire asked flicking her tail in a drumming pace. She figured that from other apprentice's stories that Shadowpaw would have some idea where they were, not to mention the terrain. However it never hurt to test one's apprentice on their first day, Gracklefire's own mentor never missed a moment to test her and fault her harshly on her mistakes. Still Gracklefire didn't feel it was fair ro Shadowpaw to ever be treated unkindly, it was a hard life she was given, a mother dead and a father without a kind word for his child, it sickened Gracklefire to the core, and pained her on another level, the level she shared for her dead unborn kits, all the dreams she had for them even if their father didn't want them.

Clearing her head but looking up toward the sky she waited for Shadowpaw to answer her.

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I wish I knew then What I know now
Wouldn't dive in Wouldn't Bow down
You made it so sweet Till I woke up on
On the Concrete

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Shadowpaw trotted after her mentor with her ears going in every direction and eyes opened for everything she soaked in everything she passed. She then saw her mentor stop and turned and faced her. Before she knew it shadowpaw was getting asked what clan was on the other side of their border. Flattening her ears she was already showing she didn't know the answer. She opened her mouth a bit and took in the sent that clearly wasnt her's.

Thinking long and hard about it she knew she would get it wrong. Shaking her apprentice head she didnt want to make eye contact with her mentor and mewed, "I'm really not sure Gracklefire.. if I would have to give a guess I would say.. Rainclan?'' She could feel her face get warm from the embarrassment she already felt by knowing she was wrong.

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[atrb=width,400,true][atrb=cellSpacing,5,true][atrb=border,0,true] [/style][style=width: 400px; height: 250px; background-color: #000000; margin-top: -15px;] [style=height: 200px; width: 350px; background-color: #000000; padding: 13px; text-align: justify; border-left: 2px inset #660000; border-right: 2px outset #660000; overflow: auto;] Text Talk Thought -------------------------------------- The response that Shadowpaw gave her brought a little pout to the hardened she-cat's face. She looked at her apprentice trying her best not to show annoyance. As she waited she looked from the sky then the ground below, her nose flaring as she drank in the surrounding scents. The earthy smell of TreeClan wafted over her nose and a faint nearly unnoticeable snarl on her face, TreeClan was the reasons she lost her kits. She quickly cleared her head as Shadowpaw finally answered. Sitting on her rump, Gracklefire exhaled to calm herself. "Incorrect, however it's good that you know RainClan shares one of our borders. " Gracklefire flicked her tail and rolled her shoulders to ease her anger toward TreeClan. "Take a deep breath in, sort out the scents. There is a deep earthy one, that smell of a forest it's different than our damp earth smell we know so well. Remember, TreeClan smells like a forest and soild ground and our clan smells like damp earth." Gracklefire spoke trying to keep her words clean and clear, so Shadowpaw understood them. "Now what do you know about TreeClan?" Gracklefire asked, trying to keep a warm attitude toward her apprentice however memories with this damned place haunted her.

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Shadowpaw thought for a moment. What has she heard about the other clans? Thinking really hard and not wanting to upset her mentor again with the wrong answer she started,

"Stoneclan. I hear they are tend to acceot any cats that just feels like walking into the clan.. hearing about their fighting they will use their hind legs more when it comes to battles so thats something you want to go for when in a battle with stoneclan. Rainclan loves the water. When a warrior was visiting I heard they line their nests with bird feathers! That must be really nice and cozy.. let alone pretty. Treeclan um I think they also accept cats of any kind and they hate being in open areas. So if you want to battle them put them in an open area. They feel threatened when they are out of their comfort zone and Lightningclan.. they are very quick and also tend to protect their clan very well. They arent very nice to intruders..and do a good job of border patrols..''

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