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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:57 pm
Lightpaw lifted her head in concern when her friend Hazelpaw left so quickly but when Smallstar got up after her she relaxed. She could sympathized with her. Lightpaw never knew her mother. She knew nothing about her. Except that she had died the night of Lightpaw's birth. Hazelpaw was one of her best friends and she felt terrible that she couldn't do more to comfort her.
She came abruptly back to reality when she turned her head and saw Lightface's eyes again. She looked at her paws and then rose slowly. "Lightface..." she said softly, "... Minxpelt...." She made the smallest motion towards Minxpelt's lifeless body but did not take more than a glance at her. She turned her eyes back towards Lightface and then at Dragoneyes. She didn't want it to come out in words. She was not good at words. She and Dragoneyes would have to take Minxpaw's body into the camp for the vigil. And it might be too hard for the others to watch. It had to be done, but not everyone needed to suffer more than need be. She closed her eyes tight for a moment and then moved toward Dragoneyes. This would be the worst part.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:23 am
"It's hard but it was her time to go. This is the fist of many..."Hawkpaw said sadly. He felt Lightpaw get up and turned to her. Hawkpaw got up to help Lightpaw take Minxpelt's body into the clearing.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:33 am
Hazelpaw looked up at her leader. "I just can't stand this!" she wailed. "First my mother, then Minxpelt. Smallstar, I don't know what to do anymore." Hazelpaw sat down mewed helplessly.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:30 pm
Lightface briefly snapped out of grief, and open her mouth to yowl to Smallstar not to move, but shut it, and got up. "I'll help with Minxpelt..." She grabbed Minxpelt by the scruff, and brung her to the middle of camp as gently she did when she had to bring her back from the dog attack.
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XThe Lily Of The ValleyX Crew
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:36 pm
Agent Tabool Hazelpaw looked up at her leader. "I just can't stand this!" she wailed. "First my mother, then Minxpelt. Smallstar, I don't know what to do anymore." Hazelpaw sat down mewed helplessly. ((This post reminds me of the Lion King. "He lives in you... He lives in me... He watches over, everything we see. In your reflection, he lives in you."))
"Death is a natural part of life, for life cannot go on forever. We must accept that the ones we love go on to StarClan, but even though they are not here with us physically, they will always be with us spiritually. The spirit of your mother is in you. As she is in mine." Smallstar took his blue gaze down from Silverpelt to look at Hazelpaw. He saw Mousepelt look back at him.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:52 pm
((OMG! I LOVE LION KING! <3333))
Hazelpaw felt better now that Smallstar was there to comfort her. For the first time in her life, she didn't feel like she was talking to her leader. No, she felt as if she was talking to a friend, one-on-one. She didn't care at that point if Smallstar was her leader, all that mattered, is that someone still cared about her. All this time she'd felt so alone. Lightpaw was a great friend, but to the whole clan, she just felt like a burden. "T-thank you, Smallstar. she mewed, pressing her muzzle into Smallstar's pelt. "I want to go back now. To camp. Minxpelt needs us." she said, and her regaining courage was shining in her eyes.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:39 pm
Smallstar nodded and walked along side of Hazelpaw to the camp.
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:36 pm
Lightface glanced at Smallstar, and whispered, "She thinking about Mousepelt, huh?" She bent down, and mumured only to Smallstar."I wish we could tell her we just saw her..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:06 pm
Hazelpaw padded back into camp silently. She sat off to the side and didn't take her eyes off Minxpelt.
Take care of Minxpelt, mom... please, she deserves the best.
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:56 pm
Lightpaw walked silently behind Lightface as she carried Minxpelt singlehandedly to the middle of the camp. She wanted to help carry her but was a afraid that if she touched Minxpelt Lightpaw might lash out at her. So she walked behind them in respect.
When they reached the middle of the camp, she gently touched noses with Minxpelt and Lightface and sat down beside Hazlepaw. She saw smallstar come into camp limping, and she felt a pang of admiration and respect. He had chased Hazelpaw, even with a broken paw. To make sure she was alright and to comfort her. He really was a great leader.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:42 pm
Lightface gave a small sigh. "She really would be a great warrior..." She looked at Lightpaw, eyes dull with grief. "StarClan told me. Told me she'd be an honest and loyal warrior..." She shook her head slowly. "She didn't have time to prove herself..."
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:52 pm
"Starclan has a plan for us all." Lightpaw said to no one in particular. She looked at Lightface with thoughtful eyes. Lightface couldn't blame herself for Minxpelt anymore. She did all that was possible for a Medicine Cat to do. Minxpelt was a good warrior. She had all the potential and all the characteristics of a great warrior. But Lightpaw believed that Starclan had some other reason for sending Minxpelt to them. There was something else, something Starclan had intended to happen, not when Minxpelt was here but maybe because of her death. She didn't believe that this was the end of the line for her place in the clan.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:53 pm
Lightface looked at Lightpaw. "I know...but, we still grieve her.....it will be the same when Smallstar dies, Dragoneyes dies, I die, and go to StarClan. We don't want to, we'd much stay here." She sat down. "Minxpelt, Minxpelt, Minxpelt...I know you're in StarClan..but...why?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:18 pm
Smallstar wished he could comfort Lightface, but anything he could say wouldn't help. How odd, he thought. Death is harder on the living than it is on the dead. All he did was softly muzzle her side.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:48 pm
((OMIGOD I am so sorry! I haven't posted in forever! -sobs-
Wow, you guys really kicked up the angst. Oh well, might as well go along with it!))
Dragoneyes stared into nothing, her eyes dull and blank. Maybe if I hadn't said anything about her mother... Or maybe if... Dragoneyes shook her head and stuffed the guilt deep into her mind. She walked over to the limp Minxpelt and touched her nose briefly before laying down beside her. Nose in Minxpelt's pelt, Dragoneyes took a deep breath and then let it out. Her nose filled with Minxpelt's scent, the guilt came rshing back, and with it, all of the horrible 'What ifs'.
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