Alone Again [Open]

Batsong laid in her nest not moving for a long while. It had been a couple days since anyone had seen or heard from Birchgaze. They went missing without a trace. Patrols were sent to look but all came up empty. A deep pit of worry and anxiety was eating away at Batsong again.

She thought back to when she was a warrior. Her first apprentice Rosepaw... Rosepaw and her were such good friends and Rosepaw disappeared just like this too. She pushed herself up to go and retrieve the rock that Rosepaw had given her so long ago just wanting to look at it in her quiet time alone.

But seeing it was gone she closed her eyes remembering she had given it away to Burrkit as a gift.

The afternoon light cast long shadows in her den blending her in perfectly. That was alright, she didn't exactly want to be found right now. The introverted med cat knew that if Birchgaze was not found soon that the odds of ever finding them again would decrease significantly. She had already looked anywhere she could think to have. It was a repeat of Rosepaw all over again. Loosing two apprentices? She had promised herself this would not happen to Birch back when she agreed to train them. Promised that she wouldnt lose them like she had Rosepaw and now she was fearing that it had repeated itself.

She rested her head down on her front paws in dismay. She wanted to jump up and run across the moor-lands looking again all over for them double-tripple checking places just in case she had missed something but she did not have the energy to do it... she also didnt have the spirit left to come back empty handed. If she went out and didnt find him now she would just be crushed. Not to mention if she went out again she wasnt so sure she could get back having already spent so much energy looking for them. She was exhausted and leaving Windclan with no medicine cat was the last thing she would wish.

"Birchgaze? C-come home" she whispered in a quiet little prayer.

Sparrowthorn almost never went to the Medicine Den. It wasn't quite her favorite place in the camp, with the strong scents and the correlation with injured cats... though she would go with her siblings to see Vulturepaw on occasion. Regardless, she limped in, light green eyes searching for Batsong. It took her a moment to find the dark pelt of the Medicine Cat, curled up in her nest. "Batsong. Sorry to disturb you, but I got a few thorns in my paw, and I was wondering if you could help me get them out." Honestly, the molly wasn't even sure that Batsong was awake, but she was, and she would rather not resort to asking her brothers to help her.