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Despite her distraction, it seemed like Ravenpaw was still pretty set on being hurt, and she found herself huffing playfully in his direction. "Alright...I think I'm going to be fine, let's hope Mousenose doesn't find us now then! I bet he'll punish us by joining in." The little tabby she-cat rolls her eyes, giving a small giggle. If she didn’t know better, she’d always say that Ravenpaw had something against her father. However, that wasn’t the case. No doubt if they’d asked him, he would have happily gone out with them, and likely filled in the blanks about the adders. But they were there alone, and as Ravenpaw finally decided to give up his act, she agreed it was best they had this adventure alone.

Especially as she stared at what seemed to be the sleeping form of one of the infamous snakes. That she couldn’t imagine going down well. The she-cat’s tail twitched behind her as she studied the creature, Ravenpaw’s quiet voice behind her questioning what it was. The quiet lasted for a long moment, as the two apprentices stared at the creature. Tinypaw’s paws itched to move away, as if out of instinct. She’d heard stories these things ate whole eggs. They could likely eat her. "That's it?" The black apprentice’s sudden, louder voice made her jump, heart-rate going up a few beats as she snapped her head around to look at him. For a split moment, she was worried the noise would wake the thing up. However, it passed, and the snake’s striped body remained unmoving.

Tinypaw wrinkled her nose, and straightened, as Ravenpaw moved in closer. "This is what the elders and warriors are so scared of? Look at it!" Okay, it was definitely a bit of an anti-climax in that way. The she-cat wrapped her tail around her paws. She was expecting some sort of… something like a fox or a badger, big and intimidating. Not… a stripe brown thing that for all accounts could just be a very big worm. It was almost absently, despite the tense silence, that she watched Ravenpaw lean forward and poke the creature. A heartbeat passed, and nothing happen, until… "BOO!" If there was a way for her soul to have gone to StarClan right there and then, it may very well have jumped so hard out of her body it went there right there and then. The she-cat immediately flung herself to her paws, and away from the noise, fur on end like she’d just come face to face with a dog, a loud squeak escaping her.

The sound of fluttering birds, taking off from the trees, pierced through the sudden ringing in her ear, as she stared at Ravenpaw, heart trying it’s best to beat hard enough to break free and run back to camp all on it’s own. “Ravenpaw!” She spluttered out, wide eyes securely on him. Until… the moment at the corner of her vision took full focus. The adder had risen, sharp stare pointed straight at them, clearly very much awake all of a sudden. If her heart wasn’t already convinced it was trapped in a hole with no way out, well, now that hole was filled with water, the panic sweeping through her suddenly. What had they done? What if they woke others? What if all these adders were about to turn on them and attack them there and then? It was a snap decision, but despite the urge to run, she said it anyway. “Don’t move!” Not that she was sure her shaky paws could have moved if she wanted them to.

A long moment, almost too long, passed, Tinypaw’s heart still beating up a storm in her chest, and fur on end. She wasn’t about to attempt to flatten it. The panicked thoughts were lessening, as the adder continued just to stare, before, slowly, lowering itself back to the ground. Yet, Tinypaw still didn’t moved, she just kept staring, waiting.

The moment continued, until the adder returned completely to it’s former position, tucked away from the cool night air. Not that her heart had quite caught up to the situation yet. "Tinypaw... I've never seen anything like it." Ravenpaw’s hushed meow did nothing to loosen the tighteness in her chest. That was… Well he wasn’t wrong. It was different to anything she’d ever seen too. The adder had risen with intent, ready to strike them down without a second though. But, it seemed like her plan had worked. By staying still, they hadn’t seemed like a threat, and it went back to resting. She didn’t know exactly why, but, maybe that was something they could eventually find out.

Not right at that moment though. Ravenpaw seemed to have come back to life, calling out from the rocks. "Be careful, we gotta be on the lookout for where they're sleeping. Maybe they won't see us as much of a threat if we treat them like... like... Friends!" Tinypaw swallowed and bobbed her head. She supposed that was the way to handle them, really. If they were gentle, quiet, and didn’t move quickly, maybe they would be okay. However, the little tabby wasn’t sure she could take much more of the situation for the night. The true weight of where they were had sunk in, and it had her paws itching.

"C'mon, Tinypaw!" The apprentice lifted her head finally from the adder and toward Ravenpaw, as he flopped down on the rocks, no doubt near more of the creatures. "Wanna play a game? Let's pretend to be scary adders!"

“Maybe… maybe we should go home, Ravenpaw,” she meowed finally, her voice soft and paws still glued to the same position near the adder. She turned her head back toward it, peering into the shadows toward it’s form. “We can play adders back in camp in the morning.” The weight of the situation was wearing her energy down, that was without a doubt. The she-cat’s shoulder slumped slightly as she finally pulled away, turning from the adder and taking a few more steps back toward the main rocks where Ravenpaw sat. “It’ll be dawn soon.”