#almondback

Skykit (3) has always been a bit jumpy, especially with her wind-blessing allowing her to jump extra high.  Now, Pebbletuft (24) has determined that it’s actually partially due to the fact that cats have been approaching her on her bad side.  She was born with one bad eye and no one picked up on it until now.  Also in the nursery, Kestrelcreek (80) is not healing from giving birth as well as Lakepelt (99) had hoped she would.  It’s a little worrying, considering that the last cat to give birth in the Clan, Whorlstem, died from it.  Kestrelcreek doesn’t want to leave her kits and mate (and Brightmouse-66).  Before she realized that she had an infected wound, Kestrelcreek was having a fun time playing with Brightmouse.  They might have to postpone that, now.  With Kestrelcreek not feeling great, Almondback (62) spends some time with the kits and tells jokes about the other Clans to Rimekit (2).  Cherviljumble (96) is impressed with how well the Ground and Sky kits are doing (that’s what I’m calling them now).  The four of them don’t have a parent in the nursery, and Petalkit (3) has been really brave about telling his siblings to give the younger kits some space.  Basalkit (3) is missing having an adult around to cuddle with.  Sweet Marmalade (76)  is just so fluffy and he just wants to cuddle.  Peatkit (3) works together with Basaltkit to sneak into the warriors den to surprise Sweet Marmalade.  With Downgaze (72) out of the healer’s den, he and Alderflight (47) are taking some time together.  They go on a ‘training’ patrol and have a great time racing each other through the woods.  Meanwhile, Dawnfreckle (74) and Burdockpaw (7) continue to not get along.  Dawnfreckle thinks she’s annoying and wishes that she would just do what he asks without trying to undermine him.   Copperpaw (7) feels like Hoppaw (9) has been acting stuck up and rude lately.  Just because she’s a mediator, doesn’t mean she’s better than all of them!  Echopaw (9) really likes spending time with his older sister, Hatchswipe (36).  It’s a good way to get information.  He keeps asking why.  Why do they catch prey like that?  Why are the days getting longer?  Why is there a strange cat talking to him in his dreams?  Hatchswipe doesn’t have an answer for most of them, and is a little worried about the ‘strange cat’.  Creekstar (145) has also been having strange dreams.  She’s worried that it’s Yuccawillow trying to reach her from the Dark Forest.  It’s actually Echomoor, who has decided that the time for silence about Auburnpaw’s death is over.  He hopes to be able to reach either Creekstar or Echopaw soon.  

Healer’s Den: Kestrelcreek (infection after birth), Aries (running nose), Sofanthiel (small cut), Emberpaw (small cut)

Minnowpaw (14) has finally been made a warrior!  She is given the name of Minnownudge in honor of her intelligence.  Hopcurl (40) is proud of xer last kit to become a warrior, but worries that she’s grown too cold and distant from her siblings.  What happened to xer sweet little girl?  Dawnstar (106) seems to be encouraging the pranksters in the Clan and heckles ChaffinchClan with Burdockbeam (38) at a gathering.  He’s. . .not very mature for a leader, is he?  At least he seeks out wisdom from Cherviljumble (127).  She’s survived a few more harsh leaf-bares than he has.  Anyways, Burdockbeam’s latest pranks include: not telling Croucheye (33) about the feather stuck to her face and taking Tanglechirp’s (69) favorite nesting materials for herself.  Embershell (40) is out of the healer’s den, although she does take some time to chat with Pebbletuft and Flailvalley.  The two older cats really appreciate how hard Flailvalley’s been working lately.  Flailvalley (14) still enjoys going to visit the elder and curls up against Cherviljumble to help her combat the leaf-bare chill.  Meanwhile, Croucheye is a little wary of Pebbletuft (55).  She thinks the healer has been acting strangely lately.  That whole deathberry thing is still concerning. Peatfeather (34) is worried about Petalfrost (34).  He’s just not trying very hard to make friends in the Clan.  Aries (88) gives her advice and tells her to just be there for Petalfrost.  Being consistent is the best thing she can do.  Meanwhile, Petalfrost is developing a small crush on Mitemask (23).  And it looks like she reciprocates.  So, he’s not doing all that badly.  Croucheye watches as her younger sibling seem to constantly fight with each other.  She wishes that they would treasure what they have with each other.  She misses Rimepaw and wishes she were still there.  Along with Almondback and Brightmouse and Troutpaw.

Healer’s den: Dawnstar (whitecough), Bumble (broken bone), Tanglechirp (yellowcough), Dapplemuzzle (bite wound)

Bluestripe (80) is not recovering well from giving birth.  This seems to be becoming more common in the Clan, and Lakepelt (113) is wondering why.  She’s determined to stop this from happening more.  In better news, Kestrelcreek (94), Almondback (76), and Brightmouse’s (80) kits have been apprenticed!  Mitepaw (6) is apprenticed to Cavecatcher (63), as the warrior has yet to train an apprentice to a full warrior.  Hollowpaw (6) is apprenticed to Burdockbeam (21).  The star-blessed cats need apprentices if they are ever to be deputies.  However, both Hollowpaw and Burdockbeam being trouble makers could have some. . .interesting consequences.  Hollowpaw has graduated from harmless troublemaking to something grander.  He starts a fight between Croucheye (16) and Peatfeather (17) and watches giggling as they fight.  Mitepaw is also proving to be a little bit of a problem-causer and argues with Sofanthiel (94) in the middle of camp.  She ends up revealing that she saw Sofanthial eating some kittypet food.  The Clan doesn’t know if she’s lying or not, but they decide to keep a closer eye on Sofanthiel anyways.  Burdockbeam is already messing with her apprentice’s sister.  She convinces Mitepaw to pull a prank on a clanmate with her, and then blames the fight on Mitepaw, leading to a big argument that Hopcurl (23) has to break up. Downgaze (86) seems to be working through his feelings about Echomoor and Echoarch (23).  He acknowledges his son with a twitch of his whiskers for what feels like the first time in moons. Boulderflood (21) has taken to spending time with Bluestripe’s kits.  She knows she’ll most likely have one as an apprentice and wants to get to know them.  Aphidkit (2) doesn’t seem too enthused with her, but Dapplekit (2) has grown to like her.  She appreciates that Boulderflood is a lot quieter than either of her sisters.    Petalfrost (17) seems to have noticed that Longpelt (19) has also felt like a bit of an outsider in the Clan and waves to her with his tail when they cross pass.  She returns the favor.   With Creekstar (159) getting older, Dawnfreckle (89) knows that there’s a good chance he’ll become leader.  He wonders who will give him nine lives.  Aries (71) gives some advice to Creekstar on how to prepare the Clan for her passing.  The Clan is full of pranks these days, with Bluestripe playfully pranking Aphidkit.

Petalpaw (12) has been made a warrior with the name of Petalfrost in honor of his observance.  Lately, the Clan has been having some tensions with StumpyClan over recent hunting disputes.  Aries (66) goes to them to try and resolve them but doesn’t make any progress.  Being a mediator is harder than it looks.  With Almondback (71) to watch their kits, Brightmouse (75) and Kestrelcreek (89) go on a nice moonlit stroll.  Back at camp, Mitekit (1) has grown to be very demanding of attention.  She wants all the young warriors to pay attention to her all the time. She even convinces Dawnfreckle (84) to sneak her out of camp, shielding her with a coat of darkness.  The two groups are a little shocked to run into each other.  Even though they’re mates with the same cat, Brightmouse and Almondback don’t get along very well and disagree with each other about certain things.  Including how they feel about a certain cat.  Brightmouse is annoyed by Skymoon (12) and ignores her.  Meanwhile, Almondback makes a point to spend some time with the young warrior.  Despite being a warrior, Burdockbeam (16) makes sure to still learn.  She picks up a helpful skill from Greenrapid (56) about how to form small spikes of ice on her pelt so that attackers slice their paws on it.  And hanging out with the senior warriors gives her a chance to stick a thorn in Brightmouse’s bedding as a prank.  Brightmouse is determined to find out who the culprit is and prank them back. She decides that it must have been Copperheart (16) and scares her on a patrol. Aries appreciates Hopcurl’s (18) help in mediating issues between their clanmates while she has to deal with interclan issues.  It’s nice to be able to have someone to rely on.  Hollowkit (1), is paying close attention to how Pebbletuft (33) cares for her patients.  Creekstar (154) is feeling more spry than she has in moons and plays a prank on her deputy, letting Dawnfreckle oversleep.  It’s nice for Downgaze (81) to see his mom feeling better.  Tanglechirp (47) is excited to have a niece and nephew.  He spends so long telling them about morals that they fall asleep.  Crouchpaw (11)  continues to have visions.  Alderflight (56) finally figures out that that’s what her dreams are.  It’s unusual and he’s not sure what to do.  He’ll try asking Downgaze.

Healer’s den: Pebbletuft (dislocated joint), Sofanthiel (frostbite), Kestrelcreek (recovering from birth), Cherviljumble (joint pain), Brightmouse (small cut), Copperheart (small cut), Longpelt (shivering)

Kestrelcreek (88), Brightfalcon (74), and Almondback (70) have had their kits!  The first is the daring Mitekit (0), who’s powerless, and the second is the troublesome water-blessed Hollowkit (0).  What is it with this Clan and troublesome cats?!  However, soon afterwards, a tragedy strikes the family.  Rimepaw (10) is playing with her siblings when a snake comes out of nowhere.  She protects the newborns, but is bitten and succumbs to the venom.  Kestrelcreek and Almondback mourn the loss of yet another kit from their first litter.  Crouchpaw (10) can hardly believe that both of her sisters are gone.  They were always the rambunctious ones, the brave ones.  How is it that she is the one that survived while they died?  It doesn’t make any sense.  However, in a bit of good news, Peatpaw (11) has been made a warrior.  She is given the name of Peatfeather in honor of her honor (hah).  Skymoon (11) is, as per usual, feeling annoyed with the Clan.  She hisses at Tanglechirp (46) when he steps on her paw.  Why does no one in this Clan respect her, or her littermates?!  Said littermates have actually started to fit into the Clan.  Peatfeather appreciates how willing Almondback is to work and Petalpaw (11) sees Tanglechirp doing his best to bring back a lot of prey during leaf-bare.  Additionally, while on patrol together, Cherviljumble (104) and Petalpaw manage to drive off a group of rogues!  Very impressive for two powerless cats. Creekstar (153) knows that Alderflight (55) is interested in her son and spends some time around him.  She supposes that he’s nice enough.  Downgaze (80) is annoyed with his mom for being so invested in his life and complains about her.  Lakepelt (107) wishes that Embershell (17) would be more helpful around camp.  She complains about her as she shares prey with Longpelt (13).  Echoarch (17) is feeling lighter now that he’s gotten his namesake off his pelt.  And he has an admirer.  Longpelt has just noticed how beautiful his eyes are.   

Healer’s den: Sweet Marmalde (bite wound), Cavecatcher (dislocated joint, joint pain), Kestrelcreek (recovering from birth), Cherviljumble (joint pain)

The Clan had a bit of a scare this moon when Creekstar (149) was struck by lightning and lost a life.  It’s a reminder to them all that she’s getting old.  None of them have ever been in a Clan without her as leader.  Creekstar hopes that Dawnfreckle (79) is ready to step up into leadership, because she feels that she’ll be gone within the next twelve moons.  In better news, Kestrelcreek (84) and Almondback’s (66) kits have been made apprentices!  Rimepaw (6) is apprenticed to Cavecatcher (53), just as he had hoped.  Crouchpaw (6) is apprenticed to Alderflight (51) to help her gain some confidence.  Troutpaw (6) is apprenticed to Bluestripe (70), as she did well with her previous apprentice.  Now that Cavecatcher is more mature, Brightmouse (70) has noticed how kind he is.  She corrects his hunting stance and brushes up against him, purring.  Dawnfreckle, as a new deputy, makes sure to spend time with the younger cats in the Clan.  During a break from training, he and Troutpaw play mossball with each other, using his wind powers to play it with a flying mossball.  He also makes some time to share tongues with Hopcurl (13).    The Ground and Sky kits are still feeling a little left out.  Basaltpaw (7) doesn’t get the joke Burdockpaw (11) was telling Boulderpaw (11).  She said it was something only star-blessed cats could understand.  Skypaw (7) was also rude to Alderflight.  Petalpaw (7) and Peatpaw (7) seem to be getting along with the other cats better, though.  Peatpaw and Cavecatcher have become friends and enjoy spending time with each other.  Petalpaw also covers for Rimepaw when she wants a break from training.  Even though  Kestrelcreek isn’t the most senior warrior, she has been in the Clan the longest.  She gathers up the apprentices and tells them about what times were like when she was an apprentice, and all the cats she used to know.  Alderflight and Downgaze (76) are still close friends and are getting closer.  Alderflight thinks it’s amusing how grumpy Downgaze manages to look all the time and teases him about it.

Kestrelcreek (78) and Almondback’s (60) kits have arrived!  They have three of them.  First there’s the daring Rimekit (0), who’s powerless like her mom.  Next up is the insecure little girl, Crouchkit (0), who inherited her father’s wind-blessing.  It’s nice for him to have more wind-blessed cats in the Clan.  There was a time when it was only him.  Finally is Troutkit (0), who manages to be even more daring than Rimekit and is fire-blessed, which tends to leave the ground slightly scorched in her wake.  It seems Bluestripe (64) has taken Rabbitfur’s place as the heartthrob of the Clan.  This moon, Lakepelt (97) confessed her feelings to her and got rejected.  Nettlestripe (58)  thinks she should join his club.  Creekstar (143) seems to be oscillating from doing alright to doing terrible.  This is an alright moon.  She enjoys getting to know the new members of the Clan, such as Aries (55) and Tanglechirp (36).  She hopes that the Clan will remain large for the rest of her time as leader and vows to protect it with her life.  Downgaze (70) is excited for his grandkits to leave the nursery.  Again, caring for six young cats is a lot.  He does get along better with Boulderkit (5) today than he did yesterday.  He thinks he would like a break from caring for kits for a while once his current ones grow up.  Sweet Marmalade (74) would like more kits, though, and the two get in a small fight over it that Aries mediates.  Nettlestripe is not a fan of Pebbletuft (22).  He just doesn’t trust her.  He wouldn’t be surprised if she faked signs from StarClan.  The Clan is feeling like some of the kits are a little annoying.  Sofanthiel (78) doesn’t like Peatkit (1) or Crouchkit (0) much, and Alderflight (45) thinks Petalkit (1) is rude.  The older kits are trying to be nice to their denmates.  Burdockkit (5) surprises Skykit (1) with a pretty flower that she grew.  Skykit is glad to have something new to play with.  Copperkit (5) is also spending more time with her aunt, Hatchswipe (34).  It has been a little hard for Whorlstorm’s kits since their mother died.  Copperkit gets frightened easily and has to hide in her nest after hearing a scary story from Cherviljumble (94).  Boulderkit feels like all of the cats around her are too in awe of her powerset for them to come up to her and really get to know her.  She wishes she had some cat to talk to.  But that’s not going to be Burdockkit, who is growing thorns to put in people’s nests.  It would be a lot easier for her to avoid getting caught if she didn’t glow so brightly, though. As for the kits found last moon, Basaltkit (1) loves spending time with the older kits and takes tells Copperkit more than she ever wanted to know about snails.  Peatkit feels like the older cats are paying too much attention to the newborns and is mad that no one will listen to him when he tells them what to do.  Echopaw (7)  knows what it feels like to be abandoned by a parent and makes sure to check in on Longkit (3).  He’s always happy to hang out with the younger cat.  Longkit is annoyed by the younger kits in the nursery and thinks that Crouchkit (a newborn) should be more quiet.  Hoppaw (7) is proud to have been adopted by the leader’s son and wants to make Creekstar (her grandma) proud.  Emberpaw (7) is also hoping that Creekstar notices her.   

Healer’s den: Creekstar (whitecough), Cherviljumble (dislocated joint), Tanglechirp (yellowcough), Kestrelcreek (recovering from birth), Downgaze (sprain), Skipneedle (joint pain), Sofanthiel (stomachache), Cavecatcher (stomachache)

The Clan mourns Streamhiss’ loss, but, well, she was pretty stand-offish.  There are a couple cats who will miss her more than others, though.  Almondback (45) misses his sister and prays that she’s safe in StarClan with their mother.  Rubbleheart (70) misses his friend and the warmth that Streamhiss brought to his life.  In better news, Stonepaw (13) has been made a warrior with the name of Stonetuft in honor of his initiative.  Dawnfreckle (57) is feeling like Stonetuft is having a much easier time than he did, just because he’s star-blessed and Dawnfreckle’s dark-cursed.  Dawnfreckle complains that Stonetuft never does anything useful.  With Lakepelt sick, Hollypaw (13) is struggling to care for the whole Clan.  Downgaze (55) hopes he knows how grateful he is for his treatment.  He doesn’t know if he would have survived his injury without Hollypaw.  Downgaze also enjoys being able to leave camp again and goes on a nice moonlit stroll with Sweet Marmalade (59). Additionally, Treepelt (14) and Hatchswipe (19) have become mates!  They’re young, but they know what they want.  Brightmouse (49) hopes they have better luck than she and Shinebreak did.  Meanwhile, Brightmouse is developing a bit of a crush on Kestrelcreek (63). . .and Lakepelt (82) is developing a crush on her. Creekstar (128) is finally feeling back up to working after Vaxxstreak’s death.  Much to Primcrest’s (116) relief (she needs a break).  Bluestripe (49) is dissatisfied with how Creekstar has been leading the Clan lately.  And not only because she thinks that Creekstar should just declare her proven.  She feels like Creekstar should retire and let Primcrest take over.  Primcrest has been doing all the work in camp, after all. While Creekstar will always love Vaxxstreak, she’s decided to move on.  It helps that her son has healed from his mangled tail. Greenrapid’s (30) been struggling a bit lately with worries that things have been good in the Clan for too long.  She feels like disaster is just moments away.  Rubbleheart comforts the young warrior after she has a nightmare.  Tumbleswoop (63) and Hopedawn (63) both agree that they’re not fans of Whorlstorm (19).  Hopedawn hisses at her over something minor (once more proving to not be a good grandma) and Tumbleswoop doesn’t want to patrol with her.  For him, it’s a little hard seeing the same tail signals that Smokefoot used to communicate.  He misses his sister.   

Healer’s Den: Lakepelt (greencough), Hopedawn (whitecough), Archdapple (broken bone), Cavecatcher (whitecough), Whorlstorm (broken bone), Hatchswipe (mangled leg)