Post by Paleheart on Mar 18, 2015 23:38:39 GMT
Paleheart shifted in her spot, finding it awkward to tilt have to tilt her head up to listen to him. It made her feel younger than him, and that just wouldn’t do. Quietly, careful not to disturb his flow of speech, she crept up on to an opposite root. The small she-cat settled on to it and tucked her paws under her chest, remaining alert to what he was saying. Duskstar was speaking of his first gathering, something she remembered also. Hers was just after Smokecloud had taken her under his wing as a medicine cat apprentice. She nodded sympathetically as he described the overwhelming feeling that is common in cats going to their first meetings.
Her sympathetic air slid away as he brought his story full circle. Piece by piece things fell in to place, and Paleheart did not like the image she was seeing. A cat using their position in the clan to threaten younger cats made her recoil, but not as much as the secret Smokecloud had been hiding from her. The feeling swelled in her stomach then tightened uncomfortably. All of the things she and her mentor had shared seemed to lack the substance that it held before this revelation. She had always wondered why Smokecloud hadn’t seemed surprised when Blackshade had left the clan. It was easy to believe that he was just getting senile and couldn’t quite put it together, that’s what she had told herself. Now everything made sense, it was clear just as Duskstar had said.
After a moment, the pale cat seemed to realize that she had been sitting in silence with her small claws pressed in to the mossy bark of the root she was laying on. She inhaled deeply and sheathed her claws, tucking her paws back under chest, before exhaling in a great and unhappy sigh. ”Yes… I think I can sympathize with your distaste to liars even more now. I would never have known what he kept from me, in a way I think it is good to know.” Paleheart shook her head, ”You will be the first to know if I ever find out about something like that going on in the clan. I won’t keep you in the dark. I promise.” Her somber toned echoed the seriousness of her small oath.
Her sympathetic air slid away as he brought his story full circle. Piece by piece things fell in to place, and Paleheart did not like the image she was seeing. A cat using their position in the clan to threaten younger cats made her recoil, but not as much as the secret Smokecloud had been hiding from her. The feeling swelled in her stomach then tightened uncomfortably. All of the things she and her mentor had shared seemed to lack the substance that it held before this revelation. She had always wondered why Smokecloud hadn’t seemed surprised when Blackshade had left the clan. It was easy to believe that he was just getting senile and couldn’t quite put it together, that’s what she had told herself. Now everything made sense, it was clear just as Duskstar had said.
After a moment, the pale cat seemed to realize that she had been sitting in silence with her small claws pressed in to the mossy bark of the root she was laying on. She inhaled deeply and sheathed her claws, tucking her paws back under chest, before exhaling in a great and unhappy sigh. ”Yes… I think I can sympathize with your distaste to liars even more now. I would never have known what he kept from me, in a way I think it is good to know.” Paleheart shook her head, ”You will be the first to know if I ever find out about something like that going on in the clan. I won’t keep you in the dark. I promise.” Her somber toned echoed the seriousness of her small oath.
