Post by Rainytalon ♆ on Feb 15, 2023 1:02:00 GMT -5
rainytalon
former deputy of lightclan
Willowclaw's optimism was not unnoticed by the emerald-eyed molly, and in spite of herself she couldn't help but feel a small smile edge its way onto her face. It was something to be grateful for, despite the cold, that at least they weren't buried by the mountainside's snow. "You are right, Willowclaw," she beamed, forcing herself to shake the negativity from her mind. She took another labored breath, the chill of the cliffs burning in her lungs. "I pray that will mean that, despite their silence, Starclan will have blessed us with good favor if they were to throw themselves right at us." A soft chuckle escaped her lips as she darted a quick glance to the sky.
As for Willowclaw's next question, she by no means had certainty for what lay ahead. It was an uncomfortable feeling, to have no knowledge of the world they had found themselves in. She missed the comfort of home; the familiarity that their camp and forest had brought her, and she felt simultaneously guilty for not having been more grateful to have felt that while they'd lived there. "Truly..." she mewed softly, "I am at a loss to say, am am uncertain of both what dangers lay beyond the mountain range and what the future has in store for us." Grinning, flashing her toothy smile to Willowclaw, she continued, "It is best we find out sooner than later." Quickly picking up the pace, the peak of the slope within strides, she rushed to meet the crest of the hill and look out into the world beyond them.
The molly gasped, strides abruptly halting as her lenses shifted from place to place at the sight of what lay south of the range. "It seems... so much larger than our home forest," her words hushed from sheer surprise, "I've never seen a land quite like this." All the lands they'd seen together were new and quite unlike home for Rainytalon, but this wasn't a detail she knew was worth mentioning; Willowclaw would surely understand the feeling of strangeness she held in never having been anywhere outside of their previous home. "It seems as if there is a forest just below, and a dead place just beyond that. An ocean as blue as the sky ahead."
Lowering herself to her hackles and resting her rump on the ground, Rainytalon absentmindedly wrapped her tail around her frame, the tip of her tail brushing over her front paws. "Maybe this is our destiny, maybe this is what Starclan has in store for us." Her words running quickly new, more inspired than she had been the last several moons. "Maybe this is what Starclan has planned for us; a new home. As Lightclan's deputy, this is the path they have chosen for me, to bring Lightclan into a new valley and give our ancestors new skies to roam, a new land for us to thrive in and this time, we shall choose our own borders without the other clans to cast their own lots." Finally, she let her face turn from all the new sights to see the face of Lightclan's healer, and her most trusted friend. "What do you say, Willowclaw? Do you believe this is the cause for Starclan's wrath? Will you join me in restoring our clan and our home?" She held her breath in anticipation, wondering if after the tumultuous journey they'd had to reach the borders of this valley, if the other molly would agree, if this was what she also wanted. After all, Rainytalon wouldn't blame her if there was no reason to think as the blue-gray molly did, if the Medicine cat believed in a different future for herself.
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