One Faith and One Restart

Subject: One Faith and One Restart Wed 11 Apr 2018 - 13:38

A single kit lifted her head from the safety of her nest, opening mismatched eyes to gaze around solemnly at the mostly empty nursery. The other kits were running around camp with their friends or mothers. Lambkit, however, lay curled alone. She had been here much longer than most kits. Her illness kept her bound to her nest. The aches every morning and every night, the vomiting when it got to be too much... everyone here thought that she wouldn't be around much longer. The sickly kit was repeatedly being moved between the nursery and the medicine cat's den, and she faced the harsh possibility of meeting Starclan each and every night. The way things were going, she might never become an apprentice. That weighed on her. All she wanted was to explore like the other kits in the nursery. The small kit knew however, if she ever wanted to venture outside the nursery she had to get better.

So she had waited.

She started getting better.

Well, that was a lie. She just started to learn how to hide it better. Her stubborn attitude and will to live drove her to adapt to the constant pain, the constant suffering. She didn't whine about it, she just hauled herself out of bed and stretched slowly, letting the pain arc mercilessly through her frail frame. She should have become an apprentice long before now. In fact, one of her few friends, Ferretkit, had become an apprentice almost three moons ago. Lambkit refused to lay in bed any longer. She would prove to the clan that she really could do it. She wasn't about to let her condition hold her back ever again. The thin she-cat stepped proudly from the nursery, head held high as she forced her body to stand strong. She was strong. She could do this.

To any cat looking at this internal struggle from the outside, they would just see her determined gaze and confident pawsteps. Her frame was thin, but ultimately that was the only tell of her condition.

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Subject: Re: One Faith and One Restart Wed 11 Apr 2018 - 22:16

Ratpaw was lying in a quiet corner of camp, inspecting a bramble twig between his paws. It was a fascinating one -- with little spikes jutting from its body and a gray color that matched Ratpaw's eyes. He had found it in the marsh the previous day, and had brought it back after seeing its perfection -- and unintentionally deserting his patrol in the process, but... It worked out in the end.

Nodding, Ratpaw decided he would need to keep the bramble twig safe, lest one of the queens thought it was litter and swept it away.

Ratpaw had enough of that when he was a kit. As an apprentice, the stoic tabby had vowed to find better stashes than beside the nursery.

The dark tabby yawned with a little stretch, flicking his tail, when he heard it. A shuffling.

Flicking his ears at the sudden, muffled noise, Ratpaw's eyes darted to the nursery. It was normally never so quiet, when the kits were moving around -- at least not in the many times Ratpaw rested near there.

But then the apprentice saw the white kit.

She was little, and frail, and Ratpaw stared intently, wondering if he had seen her before. He had been a kit not too long ago himself -- although it seemed an eternity -- but it took Ratpaw a moment. He blinked.

Was it... Lambkit?

No. Ratpaw blinked again. It couldn't be the little, sickly she-cat... could it? Ratpaw remembered -- faintly -- a weak slip of a thing, in the nursery so long ago; brought to the medicine den coughing and vomiting, close to fading away...

But... it couldn't be.

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Subject: Re: One Faith and One Restart Thu 12 Apr 2018 - 8:36

Ferretpaw had the bleakest duty of them all. Cleaning the elders' den, listening on to their droning voices and half finished sentences. It was nice, in a strange way, but it got to her nerves. Sighing, she finished patching up the last of the nests with fresh moss and moved to dispose of the old one. Dipping her head in farewell, she was off through camp. Maybe she should check on Lambkit, bring her some food.

Lambkit's life had been unfair from the start. Sometimes, when she wasn't around, she heard the saying of the other cats. "She is going to die soon, isn't she? I mean what else?"

It made her stomach lurch and she immediately tried to move away from those kind of cats, but what if they were just saying the blunt truth? It hurt so much but she had to admit it as well. Not every kit in the forest would make it to apprenticehood, and she was lucky to be one of the ones that did. Soon enough she would even join the warriors in their den.

Something moving near the nursery pricked her attention. Her first instinct was to think it was a danger, but it was too unusually colored to be a resident of ShadowClan territory, and too small to be an enemy loner or a cat sent by the Clans. It was...

Lambkit.

Without thinking almost, the older cat dropped her pile of foul smelling moss, jaws parting into one sound of a mixture of feelings. Disbelief, shock, anger. A storm of ginger and black, the she-cat almost barreled over her sensitive Clanmate. She wanted to say something, but all of the words escaped her mouth. She caught Ratpaw's eye, giving him the same look that made her eyes seem twice as big as usual.

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Subject: Re: One Faith and One Restart Thu 12 Apr 2018 - 9:41

Head held high, the small she-cat stared down the sun before sliding her sharp, mismatched gaze over the surrounding clearing. A sort of deep-seated strength showed in those piercing eyes that didn't seem to match the fragile face they were framed by. The cat honestly looked like she was going to be blown over by a leaf any second now, but... she wasn't. She stood strong, tail lashing as she took a few more steps out of the darkness of the nursery. It occured to Lambkit that her unusual outing had drawn the gaze of more than one cat in the camp clearing as she noticed Ratpaw's expression of raw disbelief, but just as the thought crossed her mind a rather unnatural cry not too far from her drew her attention to a frantic blur of black, white, and ginger hurtling towards her.

Well, that explained where Ferretpaw was.

She had half a mind to step back in order to avoid the mass of fluff gunning for her like a starving dog towards a piece of fresh-kill, but decided against it and chose instead to smile at her best friend warmly. It was strange seeing the apprentice's pelt in the light of day. She had only ever seen her in the darkness of the nursery or medicine cat's den. It was... nice. "Yeah, it's me."

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Subject: Re: One Faith and One Restart Thu 12 Apr 2018 - 20:27

Ferretpaw seemed to nearly trip over herself as she rushed across camp -- the noise of several other cats in camp also interrupting around him -- but Ratpaw didn't blink. He had only risen himself to sit still.

Staring.

His dark eyes traced the little creature -- from the tufts of her white ears to the sharp outline of her rib-cage, visible even from a distance. He pictured the Lambkit he remembered, so faintly; how tiny she was, cradled against the queens' bellies for warmth -- a wisp of a she-cat.

This kitten wasn't so small, even if she was thin -- thinner than even Ratpaw, who was used to being fussed over for his lanky, bony frame -- as if her body did not have the strength to fill her. Ratpaw flicked his ear, considering.

Could it be?

Deciding he couldn't be sure from an inspection so far away, Ratpaw rose, paws stepping around Ferretpaw to bend closer. He breathed in her scent -- a tinge of something bitter, like illness, and a tinge of herbs -- but it was really seeing her eyes right before him that triggered a memory.

They were mismatched -- one gold and one blue.

"It is you," Ratpaw mewed quietly, unaware of Lambkit's words just a few moments before. "I thought you had died."

He said it in wonder; a bit amazed that she had survived, after so long. The warriors had always whispered how she wouldn't have made it; that the little kit would slip away any night to join Starclan.

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Subject: Re: One Faith and One Restart Tue 17 Apr 2018 - 13:26

Ferretpaw's usually gentle, brown eyes shone with uncertainty, a palpable tension in camp, making the air crackle. A wave of relief couldn't quite describe what passed over her. It was more like a torrent, and the way it crashed down on her, it hurt. The dark tabby apprentice knelt down to look the little kit in the eye, her intense gaze fixing into her mismatched one. For a moment the entire world froze and it was just the two of them, all of the other sounds blocked out.

"Are you sure you can do this? No one's forcing you to." she whispered, hesitating as she spoke. She didn't want to sound patronizing, but the ShadowClan cat couldn't help but think that something wasn't quite right with this whole ordeal. She lifted her head and gave the same look, heavy with confusion, to Ratpaw. His words were quite blunt, they made her fur stand on end for a couple of moments before she forced herself to calm down but...

They weren't untrue, were they?

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