#swallowfeather

The last of the GorseBeech kits! She looks the most like her dad but she's a different colour so shhhhh it's fineeee no one noticed

She was originally interested in Antpelt but ends up with Harestar, complete opposites 😭😭. Antpelt probably would not have been a good mate, at least atp.

Born: Pre-Po3

First Appeared:

Mother: Gorsetail

Father: Beechfur

Littermates: Thistleheart, Sedgewhisker

Mate: Harestar

Kits: Branchleap, Leafcurl, Grassfur

Mentor: Bushtail

Snowpaw glared at the piles of herbs stacked against the cave wall. She knew that Sunsplash had them meticulously organized, but she struggled to tell mint from catmint, parsley from ragwort, and tansy from thyme, even now, two months into her apprenticeship.

She sat down heavily and started reciting names and uses as she went down the line.

“Blackberry for bees, Daisy for joints. Elder for sprains, and Heather and Honey to taste. Juniper for... for... Ugh!” She set her head on her paws and glared at the small blue berries. “I should have been a warrior.”

She closed her eyes for a few moments, focusing. She let images swirl around in her mind until she could pick out the one cat that she needed, a slim gray and white molly.

Snowpaw heard a sigh, and opened her eyes to see a ghostly figure, transparent enough that Snowpaw could see the opposite wall, but not so much that light passed through the figure. The medicine den was wreathed in a ghostly green light, that Snowpaw had learned was light from her eyes whenever she used her power.

“You can’t keep calling me down here,” the molly said. She was prettier in person than Snowpaw ever got from the images in her head. She wasn’t long-furred, but her pelt was thick, and her amber eyes shone with humor.

“Sunsplash is going to be angry at me again if I can’t get my herbs right.”

The molly sighed. “Of course he won’t be.” She brushed her tail along Snowpaw’s spine. “He might be your mentor, but he was my apprentice, and he’s more nervous than he lets on. He just wants you to do well.”

“Yeah, sure,” Snowpaw snorted. “And hedgehogs have wings.”

“Maybe not here, but...”

Snowpaw’s eyes grew wide. “Do hedgehogs fly in StarClan?”

The molly smiled. “You’ll have to wait to find that out, dear. Quick, Sunsplash is coming. Juniper is for bellyaches and strength. And remember, Wintergreen for Wounds. Send me away, quickly now, so he doesn’t see.”