#budpelt

why do i feel like these are connected somehow??? Storkocean died moons ago by *checks notes*

WHAT?!?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY SECRETLY MURDERED STORKOCEAN???

istg thats not how Storkocean died???? i would have remembered that??? hello??? BUDPELT WHAT DID YOU DO??

okay.... maybe he did it because this was during Palestar's rule?? and Budpelt is Palestar's kit so maybe they felt forced to, or thought it was okay???

but the really crazy thing is BUDPELT AND HAILSTRIPE ARENT EVEN FRIENDS???

Hailstripe is a mediator, sure, but why tell HAILSTRIPE and not one of the other mediators?? Moontail and Reedskitter also would have known Storkocean, but young Jadetide wouldn't of!!! But Budpelt chose to tell Hailstripe who was VERY CLOSE TO STORKOCEAN AND, IN FACT, HAD A CRUSH ON HER

(side note Hailstripe has. so many crushes on cats lmao. and the ones he has crushes are all the only cats he has, like, friendships with too)

i cannot fathom what Budpelt was thinking.... maybe it really was guilt and they do truly feel bad? idk... but i feel like Hailstripe isn't a forgiving type...? this is so strange...

....oh yeah. Springdawn was murdered. thats what i was supposed to be all excited about!!! Springdawn is the deputy, right! so, who was the culprit??

uhhh, one of these guys probably. i assume it was a group effort since---wait.

wait.

SMOKYSTRIPE IS DEPUTY?!?!?

SMOKYSTRIPE???? BUDPELT'S MATE?!?! BUDPELT THE MEDICINE CAT??? BUDPELT THE APPARENTLY MURDERER?!?!?!

oh my StarClan

"is worried others are judging them"

LITERALLY WHO???? CLANGEN PLEASE TELL ME WHO

I suppose Stoatstar is out of the running but Stoatstar was the only one who actually held any amount of hate towards Smoky?? Stoatflash had some dislike---

---but its seriously nothing compared to Stoatstar's!!

a few cats held like one bar of dislike to him, and the elders Dewbright and Dysnomia strangely had about half a meter of dislike for him, but still?? Stoatstar is really the only option for a murder here??

...unless... does Stoatstar feel a sense of dread because he realizes his clan is trying to kill him...? he knows cats hate him, and that at least two different groups of cat's (Smokystripe's and Stoatflash's) are trying to kill him and instill themselves in power...