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Light blue eyes would have rolled at the older apprentice's "command", but Strawberrypaw hadn't given up the staring contest yet, and Oxpaw was determined to at least win one battle with her. His tail twitched angrily during Frogpaw's words, and really, he was more insulting the younger she-cat than her brother. It didn't surprise him that the older apprentice took her side more than his, even if she attacked him first; the prickly apprentice hadn't bothered trying to "make friends" with the other apprentices.

Oxpaw snarled at Frogpaw's suggestion to take the fight outside, because obviously they couldn't. Cats of the same clan couldn't fight each other, at least to the extent that the tom wanted to. By now, he wanted to shred her. When the she-cat turned her back on him, the tom was very tempted to pounce and show he could use his claws too, but Frogpaw was watching. She'd probably just tell one of the warriors, maybe even Firejay, and that would cause far more problems than it was worth. Tail twitching angrily, the dark tabby cat returned the snarl and stormed out of the apprentices' den. He was far too wired now to sleep; tree-climbing didn't have to wait until moonrise.