nothing last forever [c or solo, depends]

It was rare that Spottedfrog woke up early after spending a night out, but this morning, she had... unable to sleep after a restless night full of bad dreams. She could see Cedar, and Blizzardkit, and Quailkit... up ahead and together for the first time... but each time she took a step forward, they looked further away. Eventually, she ran, and ran, and ran, desperate to close the gap, but she was never able to. She called out to them, but her voice died in her throat.

She woke, chest heaving, heart racing as if she'd actually run from one end of the forest to the other. As she blinked away the last remaining dregs of sleep, she caught glimpse of a mottled coat curled beside her, and two bright eyes that disappeared together almost as quickly as she'd seen them. Attempting to calm herself, she kneaded the ground with her paws, a nervous purr rumbling in her throat. It didn't help, though, and her restless limbs eventually cast her from her nest and into the cold morning.

Muttering a halfhearted hello to the cat who was guarding the entrance, Spottedfrog shoved past them and into the forest proper. She didn't have a destination, and didn't particularly care where she ended up, either... it was the walking, and the solitude, she needed. She felt guilty about leaving Willowpaw in camp, but the apprentice needed a break, surely, anyway, so today would be the day.

At some point, she simply gave up and sat down, pressing against a tree and sinking there, listening to the sounds of bugs and birds, the very distant sound of a dog barking, a monster whooshing by in the distance. What was she even doing, out here alone? And where even was she? Flaring her nostrils, Spottedfrog drew in the scents... Twolegplace. Now that she looked, past the trees she could see the unnaturally straight Twoleg dens through the branches. She hadn't come back here since returning to the clan. Curiosity drew her forward, until she was standing at the edge of the forest, looking out. She sat there and watched, for quite some time... still enough that she went unnoticed by even the little birds that flocked around Twolegplace. Sparrows, and starlings, and robins... eventually a few landed before her, not a whole fox-length away, and even though she wasn't really hungry - in fact the thought of eating made her quite nauseated - she couldn't resist.

She sprang forward, attempting to bat down one of the little birds and succeeding as the others flew off in a hurry. Lifting it by a wing, she sighed quietly and turned to leave.

The member 'JJ' has done the following action : Dice roll

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'Hunting Dice' : 3