Strawberry Avalanche [Alpine]

Galekit awoke with a start, blinking in the dawn light which shone into the nursery. Every. Single. Morning. EVERY morning some cursed sunbeam would glare happily in her face to wake her from her peaceful, dreamless sleep. Goosekit lay snoring away beside her, in his own nest, deader to the world then week old crowfood. Naturally; that cat wouldn't wake up early if his useless life depended on it. At least HE didn't get spiteful sunlight every day.

Annoyed, she stepped past Dawngaze's still-warm nest, which she must have left only minutes ago, and pushed outside. The camp hummed with morning activity, the usual boring routines. Cats trickled out and, less often, in to camp for hunting and patrols and training. She'd seen it all a million times before; there was never anything new in the life of a kit. Apprenticeship couldn't arrive soon enough. 

Hungry, she padded to the pile to snatch a bite to eat. Every day, there was a struggle to mmake a decision concerning an abundant pile. On one paw, she wasn't foolish enough to demean herself by an "attack" from a top piece of prey. But on the other paw, usually only the big prey got left on the bottom and what their was was harder to get out. Instead, this morning her rotten luck changed for a glorious moment.  A mouse left unattended by that fleabrained Palekit, merely seconds after unceremoniously being flattened by the sane mouse. She hooked it with a careful claw and sunk her teeth into it without a second thought, chewing slowly; her  emerald eyes gleamed coldly as she munched her loot.

northy | Kittens are bae <3

That was the moment in which Galekit was certain she had made a dreadful mistake. Palekit was just about to catch the butterly when his wide eyes lit on her with his mouse. Rather than looking annoyed, or even bothered in the slightest, Palekit's face split with a wide smile. His eyes lit up and he instantly began running his mouth. He seemed to be under the impression that he had all but given the meal to her; how could it not bother him?

He plopped down beside her, chattering endlessly about the mouse, the weather, some idiotic "joke" about Rosebush and burrs, anything that seemed to randonly pop into his head. He giggled, finding his own joke just hilarious, before pausing to lick his shoulder. Then he leaned towards her,  jaws apart with a hungry expression. "Hey. You think I could have a bit of that mouse?" 

Without argument she pushed the rest of the mouse, with barely two small bites out of it, towards him. Anything to shut him up; she should have know better than to go near such a naive kit. She wasn't even THAT hungry anyways. "It's about as nice as any other typical newleaf day, and no I didn't sleep well. I never sleep well, in case you haven't noticed, with or without burrs in my nest." She grumbled impatiently.

northy | grump-puss

Palekit pushed the mouse back between them after a few bites, but she ignored it. Let him have his stupid breakfast. Then he continued talking about reasons for not sleeping well. Stress, being too tired. NO DUH. What's the point of sleep if it just gets you into an enless cycle of not sleeping and not being able to sleep?

She listened, knowing he'd be hurt if she walked away. Maybe...just maybe she was being too grumpy. After all, Palekit was so innocent; he may be annoying but even she couldn't hurt his feelings. She wasn't that kind of cat, she decided. She honestly had thought about why she couldn't sleep and decided that besides the location of her bed it probably was stress. Her relationship with Goosekit  wasn't getting any better and pleasing her parents was hard work. Sometimes she thought that her opinions weren't even her own, merely what her parents thought.

Palekit asked if she was excited to be an apprentice, which she was. Any reason to see the territory outside of camp. "I just sleep lightly and my bed's right by where the sun shines in." She lied, not wanting to talk about her family, shrugging noncommittaly. "I guess I am. It would be nice to get out. As long as I'm not assigned to Batwing or anything."

northy | So sorry! Galekit's in a bit of a strange mood. She really does need to talk to someone but she won't.