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Kestrelstrike

Female Warrior of LightningClan

She needed to ignore the cool breeze and just focus. That wasn't hard for her to do though, her mind was focused, and she had her target in her sights. This bird wasn't going to get away from her, she had a reputation to uphold after all. She was the skilled huntress, able to catch birds mid-flight. She wanted to keep that reputation, it was a good one, and it would possibly help bolster her ambitions. Of course, it didn't help Briarpaw, but Kestrelstrike was already doing what she could for her little sister.

There was nothing else for her to do but tell other cats to stop comparing the pair of them, but that wasn't going to happen. Not until Briarpaw proved herself as a talented huntress or warrior. Kestrelstrike nearly sighed, until she saw the bird leave it's perch on it's branch. She wasn't far from it, and it was flying right for her, that was some luck. She crouched carefully on her tree branch as she waited. One. The bird was closer. Two. Almost there. Three. She leapt from her position and caught the bird between her teeth.

Now came the hard part, the landing. She judged this a little wrong, but, she still had a way to land, kind of. She had originally planned on landing on another tree branch, but she misjudged her jump and went past it. Now, she was flying to the tree trunk. This was still going to hurt, and she knew it. But, she extended her claws and caught herself on the tree trunk, a wince came from her as she felt the pull as her weight threatened to pull her down the trunk.

Instead, she managed to get situated, and was slowly scaling down the tree trunk backwards, her jaw tightly clamped around the bird in her mouth. Once on the ground, she lifted her right front paw and looked at it. It hurt, but it didn't look like anything was injured. She made sure that the bird was dead before she quickly buried it, ready to find something a little easier to catch now. But, she caught the scent of someone else instead. "I know you're there, come on out."

Thinking. "Speaking."

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