This Is Mine

[duckyaisha]

Rainstripe tensed as Amberkit walked up to the black tom. She was suspicious of all strangers and actually kind of liked Amberkit's bravery- she sure wouldn't have attacked a cat more than twice her size just to defend a pool of water. She calmed when he walked to the water, and decided that he wasn't so bad after all. The tabby she-cat took a deep breath, mustered up all the courage she had, and walked back to Amberkit. She wanted to meet Nightbreeze herself, to see if he'd be good for forming a sort of alliance with. Woodstripe's Clan experiment would need a lot of prey to keep ten cats well-fed for ten days. It'd be harder to find prey. Maybe she could find a little group to stay with until things went back to normal. "Um...Hello? My name is Rainstripe," she meowed softly, her tail twitching with anxiety.

[Darky [Megan]]

"My name's Amberkit!" Amberkit said helpfully, feeling pretty good about doing a good turn to this black tom. "Nightbreeze is a really pretty name. Rainstripe, too!" he added, when the she-cat spoke.

[duckyaisha]

Rainstripe grinned; Amberkit's infectious energetic attitude was making her much more comfortable around Nightbreeze. "Why are you alone, Amberkit?" she asked, knowing that it was a personal question, but since a kit all alone was rare, not to mention unsafe, she wanted to know how it had happened.

[Gosh]

Nightbreeze smiled at the kit, but his expression dimmed as he listened to Rainstripe. "You are alone? I thought you were traveling with Rainstripe, although it is true that you do not look alike." These two seemed friendly. He wondered whether they supported a Clan or not, but he decided not to bring it up. Yet.

[Darky [Megan]]

"I am alone," Amberkit began, and his voice lost its energy, its excitement, its life. The kit spoke in hushed tones, as if discussing something very serious and delicate. "My daddy and mummy left me alone not too wong ago ..."

Amberkit's tail flicked towards an area he had been visiting recently; the Boneyard.
"They're there now," he said simply.

[duckyaisha]

"Oh..." Rainstripe meowed, pity and sadness taking the life out of her as well. She drooped visibly, feeling stupid for asking such a question. "I'm sorry. I honestly can't say that I know how it feels to lose a loved one. I'm pretty useless in this situation," she said helplessly.

[Darky [Megan]]

"It's okay," Amberkit said, a wisp of energy adorning him. "They're sleeping nicely. Anyways, why are you travelin' 'lone?"

[duckyaisha]

"I don't have any siblings and I prefer to be alone, actually. New cats are frightening, unless they're kits like you. You don't scare me," she meowed, trying to sound brave, which was something she wasn't good at. But she had to try and become less fearful of strangers if she was ever going to create a group of her own.

[moddy]

After heading away from Frozenheart, she found herself by the wall once again. Clearly, none of the cats over here had even heard about the commotion... yet. Which was good, sort of, for one reason, but it was also bad for a reason, as well.

The good thing was that she could see if any of these cats where cons and merrily invite them to join the rebellion of hers. Well, she saw two compatible cats for her little group, but the kit just wasn't... good material. Sure, he could grow up and become a great cat and all, but most of the kits she'd met were Clanners. Even though she hadn't met a lot of them, that was still her guess.

The bad thing was that any of them could be Clanners. Why make the mistake of inviting a Clanner to her cons-only group? Instead of joining, they'd probably reject and run off to all their other Clanner friends and explain what had happened to them. That was typical of Clanners. Most of them actually cared what happened to their fellow cats.

Upon hearing what the grey cat had said, an interest sparked in her. That didn't sound very Clanner-ly, in this tabby's opinion. Should she take a chance and speak to the other she-cat? Her brain told her no, but her gut told her yes.

She finally decided to go with her gut and began strolling over to the other cats. "Hey," she mewed once she was over there, "with a statement like that, you seem like quite the lonely cat. I'm just taking a guess here, but those words make you seem like you don't like other cats. So, clearly, you wouldn't like the idea of a clan, would you? Huh?" She urged the other she-cat.

Hopefully, her guess was right and she had just found an additional member for her rebellion.

[Darky [Megan]]

Ambekirt recognised Beetlepaw from somewhere and began hopping around, saying, "IknowyouIknowyouIknowyou!"

Amberkit stopped then, looking a little irritated that Rainstripe had gotten the cat's attention instead of him. He frowned and curled into a sitting position.