Beautifully Wounded(closed to bear's group)

It was only just after she had returned with bear and the enforcers Bear had went his own way leaving her two suffer from her wounds that marred her pelt chest and the wound on her cheek. She winced blood had welled up and in some spot clotted up and clumped up in her once nice pelt. She couldn't move any farther so thankful for her already being in the barn She collapsed laying down her moss green eyes looked around.

Pepper rushed as quickly as her crippled body could to the she-cat who had come in. She dropped a bundle of herbs to be made into poultices and got to work with the wad cobweb on her paw. "What happened to you?"

Deisel bounced to the apprentice with a curious gaze. "Ohh! Did you battle lions?" He prodded at the she-cat's nose lightly with a soft paw.

Her moss green gaze landed on pepper and she blinked trying to get to her paws but that wasn't happening. She lifted her head somewhat weakly."B....bear..h..h..happened"She mewed her ears went flat against her head as she said his name. She then blinked looking at diesel"I..wish I had...but no"she mewed mustering a bit of kindness into her voice despite the huge amout of pain she felt.

Pansyface opened her dark green eyes when she heard the pale calico apprentice collapse nearby. The scent of blood and....was that ThunderClan? The mixture intrigued her, but the patched she-cat merely twitched her sleek tail in a half-hearted gesture. Lately, the young warrior had been loosing hope, and energy. The mix of work and stress had begun to weight heavy on her soul, and Pansyface had embraced it. She longed for home; for SkyClan's tall trees, her family, her friends. Her most heartfelt, and secret, desire though, was to bury her face in Bouncepaw's thick fur and forget this was happening, that she would soon wake up from this nightmare in her familiar warm nest back home. The tom she loved was so close, she could see him from here, but yet so far from her reach. She had made her choice.

Glancing over, she watched as Pepper and the young tom Diesel began to revive her. From the she-cat's fresh forest scent it was obvious she had gone back to the territories. With a disdainful snort, the slender molly raised her head to speak to the apprentice. "Heh....I have to respect your efforts kit, you've got guts. Going back to the clans under Bear's watch must have taken a lot of courage. Reckless courage, but none the less." The brief spirit that flashed in her eyes trickled away, and she once again rested her head on her paws.

"Y...yeah well..I...i had to do a..something....n..no one would"She mewed her moss green gaze looked to the she cat."Help is coming I can say that now"She mewed proud of herself but also ashamed she couldn't have stayed with Leopardpaw and devised a plan with them. No she had to get captured again and wounded. She looked to pepper relaying on her to keep her from falling apart pretty much.

Pansyface's head jolted up at Lichenpaw's last few words.  With a wide-eyed gasp, the bi-color she-cat jumped forward and stood over the inured she-cat, her face all at once desperate and hopeful.  "What?!  How do you know?"  Suddenly fearful, she gazed around to make sure none of the 'enforcers' had heard, before continuing in a whisper.  "Did you meet someone, a ThunderClan cat?"

Lichenpaw flicked her tail slowly and managed to keep her head lifted."yes...I ran into a Thunderclan cat....my friend Leopardpaw....he made back to camp I believe and I'm sure help will come soon"Lichenpaw mewed looking at the she cat.

A beaming smile on her face, the young warrior could barely contain her joy. Someone outside knows! Praise be to StarClan! We'll be free from this hell soon! Though she wanted to purr, she forced herself to only nod down at the young apprentice. She hoped her murky eyes could portray the true depths of this discovery to Lichenpaw, when her words could not. Leaving the injured she-cat be, she trotted back over to her resting spot in a much better mood than before. Laying down, she began to groom for the first time in many days. Things are finally looking up!