teach me to smile [deertail/blue]

teach me to smile [deertail/blue] Apr 10, 2016 17:34:24 GMT

Post by feeling kinda blue on Apr 10, 2016 17:34:24 GMT

Deertail hadn't slept well at all. For the last several hours the brown tom had watched as shadows gave way to weak early sunlight. It crawled into the warrior's den, creeping across the floor to alight on the pelts of the warriors sleeping closest to the entrance. Currently Deertail's amber gaze was tracking the play of the morning light over Honeysplash's ginger fur as the she-cat slumbered on, half in and half out of the light. Beside him, Deertail could hear Barkstep's soft snores though his uncle would never admit to snoring. All around him Deertail could hear the echoed chorus of his clanmates as they snored, snuffled and breathed in the quiet morning light. No one seemed in a particular hurry to wake up, not since the dawn patrol had roused themselves a while ago to slip out of camp. Deertail had watched them go, though he kept his head down and pretended to sleep when they'd walked past.

Dreams about his mother and the nervousness of a new apprentice were all tangled up in Deertail's mind, drawing tension into his muscles that was normally reserved for when he had to be around Lynxheart or his half siblings for patrols. It had plagued him through the night, leading to on-again-off-again dreaming, strange half nightmares of failure and falling from trees. Tawnygaze would have a field day if he went to her den and shared his dreams so Deertail had eventually decided to stop trying to sleep. Now with tired eyes the long-limbed tom crawled from his nest, barely noticing when Barkstep stretched out his large bulk to take up Deertail's warm vacated spot. Instead he focused on putting one foot in front of the other, sliding out of the den and into the softly lit clearing.

He shouldn't have been but Deertail was a bit surprised to see Creampaw already up and waiting near the apprentice den. Embarrassment flashed hot and fast through his body. Warriors were supposed to be punctual after all and here he was dragging himself out of his nest when it looked like Creampaw had been up a while. 'Well, no one else is really awake either,' Deertail thought, glancing back at his slumbering clanmates. Hopefully Creampaw was just a natural early riser. Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Deertail tried to shake the fugue of an unrestful night from his head before padding toward the young she-cat.

"Morning Creampaw," Deertail meowed as he got closer, his voice it's typical soft tone though perhaps a bit rough from the long night. Hopefully she wouldn't notice. "Hope I didn't keep you waiting long...Are you ready to start training?"

Notes: omg i forgot i was tagged in this i'm so sorry </3
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Tagged: alpine

Post by alpine on Mar 30, 2016 20:35:01 GMT

Post by feeling kinda blue on Apr 10, 2016 17:34:24 GMT