Antpaw's Mentor Change Ceremony

Ashstorm's ears were flattened against her head as she approached Tallbranch that chilly morning.  Her wonderful, innocent niece had disappeared.  She had vanished.  She was just gone.  Ashstorm had no idea what happened to her.  All Ashstorm could do right now was pray to Starclan that Dawnfeather would be alright and that she would one day be able to return to the clan.  Ashstorm wanted to keep hope and wanted to wait for her niece to return... but there was no way that she could hold up an apprentices training for a cat who may or may not even still be alive.

Ashstorm dug her claws into the bark and climbed the tree.  Antpaw needed a new mentor... no matter how much the deputy did not want to give her one because it seemed as if it was a sign that she would not return.  She was deputy now, so she needed to do everything that came along with it.  She cleared her throat and calmed herself so no one would be able to see how sad or mad at herself she was.  "Let all cats old enough to climb a tree, gather for a clan meeting!"

Antpaw had been grumpier than usual. Her mentor had striaght up vanished and nobody had been able to find her anywhere! What in StarClan's name even happened?! It was a whole lotta fox-dung if anyone asked her. If everybody couldn't already tell, Antpaw was not happy in the slightest.

The young tortie sat in front of the assembling cats but didn't look up at the deputy. She knew what this probably was for and something in her ached for things not to change. Alas, it would not be so and the apprentice would be forced to learn under another mentor. She blew out a breath as she waited for the meeting to start. Dawnfeather... where even was she?

"Antpaw, please step forward," Ashstorm called.  Once the apprentice stepped forward, Ashstorm looked at her and sighed.

"Many of you have probably heard of Dawnfeather's disappearance.  It is a sad time, where we can only hope that one day she will return to her clan.  However, you, Antpaw, still must receive training.  Because of this, you will be given a new mentor.  Your mentor will be Rabbit-chaser."  With that, the painful task of assigning a new mentor for Antpaw was complete.  "That is all."  She finished, jumping down from tallbranch, and then closing her eyes.

Although she tried to keep a smile on her face, Rabbitchaser missed Dawnfeather so much. And why wouldn't she? That cat had been a mother to her and Hollowpaw. The only one she could really remember.

But life had to go on, and her mother's old apprentice needed a new mentor. Although there was a slight ache in her chest when her own name had been called.

Stepping forward, she went to greet the molly. "Hey, I know I'm not my mother, but maybe I can still be a good mentor? And we can think of this as a temporary thing until Dawnfeather is back! What do you think?"