sand bio save

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SAND- was chosen by teaselstar to commemorate the battle that the former loner fought on sunningrocks alongside skyclan, as well as the pale, sand-toned shade of his brindled fur.

DESIGN →
he wears a simplistic, dull creme coat. the colour a sandy riverbank on a sunny day, his mother might have remarked. darker, broken stripes wrap around his frame. white dusts his muzzle, blended into a pale, soft creme that envelops his throat, chest, stomach, and the areas beneath his lean appendages.

BUILD →
standing among characters with broad, muscular frames and hefty, powerful appendages, he stands a sharp antithesis. living with a lean, well-muscled physique, sand could be considered a large cat by means of height. however, his shoulders are neat and slim like the rest of his structure. he harbors squarish features, solid shoulders and hips, and a mature, grizzled face that wears beyond his years.

PELT →
short, uniform, and relatively thin, sand's fur is no true sight to behold. it is slightly coarse, and could be considered bristly to the pickiest of characters. this, however, makes for easy and fluid transportation and less for both enemies and the forces of nature to latch on to.

NOSE →
tough-skinned and freckled with black-freckled lentigo, sand's nose is a pale rose-salmon.

EYES →
cool like the tides yet as inquiring and warm as a curious sun, sand's eyes are a pale sage-green. he tends to keep about him a level, easy gaze, non-intimidating but reserved.

EARS →
lacking the cleanly semblance so many bear, sand's ears are torn and frayed after seasons of battling hostile felines and other creatures alike. the most notable cuts were, in fact, scored while defending himself and another from an eagle in the rugged mountains

SCENT →
apart from the prominent musk of feline and wilderness, sand has always carried an intriguing wake of vintage leather and dry grass, as though he's spend his evenings baking in the afternoon sun upon a heathland.

VOICE → ben kingsley
deep, accented, and with a remote gravelly tone that lines every word, sand's voice is easy to discern from others. he tends to speak softly, in calm, courteous manners.

CUSTOM PLAYLIST →
→ 8tracks playlist
rather than selecting one song to accomodate to sand's personality, listen instead to a compiled playlist of relative songs that paint who he is as a character, if you ever have the time!

HEALTH → 93%
despite his grizzled and well-traveled frame, sand is a healthful cat. he has a notably strong immune system, and a remarkably clean illness history aside from deliberate food poisoning issues.

SCARS & INJURIES →
scars have long since healed and been concealed by his wiry yellow fur. those that do show through his thin coat, however, are so minuscule they are nearly imperceptible to the casual eye.

• an old yet fully healed leg wound from confronting a rabid mutt in the streets of twolegplace.
• consumed a poisoned rat. the poison has been out of his system for many years, thanks to a kind old twoleg who rescued him from certain demise.
• attacked by an eagle while traveling through the mountains; earned deep scratches in his ears.

PRESET → link, created by magpei + tahari

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mbti, isfj, the defender
alignment, neutral good

deterremts, water, adders, predators, eagles, prickles, discrimination, unfairness, rain
lures, high trees, thin branches, white sparrows, shrews, spruce, heather, knowledge, acceptance, open areas

thoughtful →
if silent, it's almost always likely that sand is engulfed in deep thought. it takes him a bit to comprehend things fully, but once he understands them, it's as if he's known the information his whole life. and when he finds that he cares for a matter, he cares deeply. he also believes that he was destined for something greater than his skin.

allocentric →
not unlike his pensive disposition, sand harbors a protuberant sense of solicitousness. he is incredibly mindful of what he says and does, though can sometimes be rash if his moral codes are questioned or muted. he is an incredible team player despite some unhealthy self-reliant tendencies.

curious →
sand is very interested in learning and trying new things. what he doesn't know he longs to know, and what he hasn't done he longs to do. he is a respectful learner, often keeping his more negative opinions to himself.

wise →
sand has an old soul, a consequence of a life of solitude and self-preservation. he has a deep and profound intellect, with a quiet reverence for everything and, for the most part, everyone.

fatherly →
despite never siring offspring of his own, sand has about him a prominent and notable ambiance of paternal qualities. while not open with his affections, sand portrays his fondness in distant albeit unique, somewhat awkward ways. there is never an instant where sand will pass up the opportunity providing sage encouragement and support.

independent →
undoubtedly a byproduct of living for many, many moons as a solitary traveler, sand is independent and self-reliant. he's hesitant to ask for help, letting himself experience the strife of defeat before finally reaching out for assistance. he does enjoy his time alone, though will gladly set his desires aside if it means helping someone else.

proud →
a major blight to his demeanor, sand is a very proud character, unwilling to bend or yield to others if it can be helped. he's proudest in regards to asking for help: he's lived a very self-preserved life, depending only on himself and to need to reach out for help is a personal hit to his conscience.

earnest & serious →
a key term to describe sand would be stoical. he doesn't like letting others see that something is getting to him, and can appear cold and calculating without the veneer of emotion over his broad yellow face. however, this doesn't make him any less intense; in fact, it adds to him even more of an authoritative and knowing pretense.

phlegmatic →
in especially tense moments, sand has a stolidly cool disposition. an aftermath of using frigidity in conflict with other outsiders, he's always found it easier to intimidate and speak with laconic elegance when troubled. in general, though, he manages to maintain a stoical air about him.


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→ trivia;

→ sand has two biological fathers. one was a commonplace rogue of the human civilization while the other was a nomadic passerby from the sea. he takes primarily after lewis, the rogue.

→ he hails from scotland rather than great britain. he began traveling at an adolescent age, and through years of trial, conflict, and most importantly travel, he has found himself traipsing across the great forest.

→ sand has lentigo, a unique condition in which a feline's nose obtains dark, freckle-like spots. it is a harmless condition, commonly linked to cats with red genetics.

→ he was born at the end of the cold season, the season clans know to be thaw at the end of leaf-bare, and is a pisces. he was born on march seventh.

→ sand has moderate aquaphobia, the fear of water. he was sucked into a riptide when he visited the seaside, and has been frightened of the currents in water since.

CONNECTIONS & TIES;

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→ immediate family

fathers,

• lewis; lithe marbled ginger tabby male with brown eyes
• seagull; brindled silver tabby male, green eyes

mother, bailey; small tortoiseshell-and-white female with yellow eyes

littermates,

• apollo; ginger-and-white male with green eyes
• anastasia; sleek diluted tortoiseshell female with green eyes

maternal grandparents,

• aspen; dark grey-and-white tabby male with green eyes
• warbler; dappled amber tabby female with yellow eyes

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→ love life

sexual orientation,
sand aligns subconsciously as a heterosexual. he experiences sexual attraction specifically to those of opposite sex. additionally, he is also heteroromantic, abiding by similar laws of attraction.

however, he has never experienced attraction of any sort in the past, so it would take a bit of time for him to understand it himself altogether.

sexual affiliates, none

former mates, none
current mate, none

offspring, none


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→ education

current status, skyclan trainee
past statuses, temporary kittypet, loner

current mentor, duskstorm; large diluted tortoiseshell she-cat with amber eyes


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→ bloodline
34% kittypet, 57% loner, 9% rogue


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→ religion,
after bearing witness to vulturestar's death, where the leader died and came back to time before his very eyes, sand is now open to the belief of starclan. while the belief is minuscule, he no longer believes the stars are empty.


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→ politics,
he has learned for the strengthening rift in the forest, the divide poised by a challenge: to deflect and rebel against the warrior code, or stick to the ancient founding traditions. currently, he sticks to traditions-- but is open-minded, as he has not yet seen the issues plaguing the forest, having been living, sheltered, in skyclan.

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→ personal,
sand, as of recently, has learned the unvarnished meaning of being there for another, and vice versa. he is keen to pursue and seek out these relations now, enjoying the sentiments they leave within him.

HISTORY;

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→ synopsis a character who has never given up his search to find the missing piece of his heart, of his very soul, he has traveled to the ends of the british isles in pursuit of something not even he seemed to know.
perhaps, at long last, his journey can be put to a contented end?

→ before the forest

→ misha is the eldest kit to a dependent loner called bailey alongside two boisterous littermates. misha by default is the most sage of the litter, preferring independence over tussling with his siblings apollo and anastasia.
→ at five moons of age, after venturing a tad too far from their campsite, misha meets an older traveler named duck. duck tells misha tales of exploration and finding oneself through it, and immediately the young kit is intrigued. he returns home to his mother to tell her about duck and his adventures, but bailey is swift to put down his hopes, stating that he is safe with her and his littermates.
→ misha grows more defiant as he gains maturity. he makes numerous attempts to run away, but is usually chased back by an irate predator or an eagle-eyed anastasia. however, when he finally reaches eight moons, he manages to escape from the dense grove where his family lives. he doesn't look back when he races across the moor and into the hills beyond.
→ misha encounters ample strife in his earliest moons of solitude. he knows only the minuscule methods of hunting and self-preservation; he finds human civilizations and feeds on scraps until a friendly old female notices his struggle and offers him lessons for only a moon. however, the moon of intermittent training is enough to help misha find his way in the cycle of hunting.
→ inspired by his recently developed skillset, misha wants to travel for moons. he is still searching for the part of himself he feels is missing, but still, to no grandeur avail. the cold season arrives far too soon, however, ransacking the young and vulnerable misha as he rushes to find suitable, appropriate shelter for surviving the snowy months without the warmth of his mother and littermates.
→ he found a large twolegplace and survives on a whim, escaping larger, older, and much fiercer street cats. misha made a mistake and devoured a poisoned rat found in the dark alleyways, and promptly becomes incredibly, gravely ill. an old male twoleg found misha beneath a pile of rubble, and before misha could find the strength he didn't possess to run away, he was taken into the twoleg's quiet custody.
→ the day after, he wakes in a stark white room, inside of a silver, metal meshed cage. his first instinct is to fight his way out of the small confine unit, but each time he tries a rogue across the complex hisses at him to stop making such a racket. irate, misha relents, and a strange-smelling twoleg eventually removes him from the unit. he does not dare try to fight the twoleg, instead letting it handle him with the exception he was able to growl.
→ the twoleg seemed to examine him. foul substances were forced down his throat. by the end of the evening when misha was at his finest limit of patience, the same old twoleg who had taken him from the ally picks him up, and he is taken into his residence.
→ numerous attempts at escape were made in misha's first days in captivity. he is unused to the cool, moderate climate of the insides of a twoleg nest, and all the strange sights and scents that accompany it. an odd kittypet lives in the same dwelling, a plump, lethargic tom called bates. misha is incredulous when he learns bates loves the spoiled, well-fed life of a kittypet.
→ after he makes a recovery from ingesting the poison, partly due to the healthy environment and partly due to the medicines he received in the strange white twoleg place, the twoleg allows him to leave. the old creature opens the door to the nest with misha in plain sight, and without wasting a beat the loner surges out the door and into the cold. he doesn't look back.
→ unfortunately, the cold season is upon the land. prey becomes scarce and other means of nutrition vile and unsanitary. in his plight to find proper nourishment before starvation, he becomes desperate enough to enter what he knew to be a twoleg rogue trap: a cage with a tin of soft food inside. he becomes trapped, but within hours two young female twolegs frantically retrieve the cage, speaking in quick, worried voices, before taking him into their monster.
→ daunted that he was once again captured by twolegs, he is for the most part still and silent as the two female twolegs fawn over him-- one refuses to leave the cage's side until the monster cruises to a stop outside of their dwelling. he is taken inside. they allow him to move around inside their home, though he spends the majority of his first two suns hiding and being adamant to avoid twoleg contact. but he is not the only animal in the nest.
→ one of the twolegs introduces him to a long-bodied cream creature which he recognizes from kittypet tales as a ferret. he does not spend much time with the twolegs and their supposed ferret; they are much more mindful of misha than the old male twoleg and bates, seeming to understand his feral albeit steady nature and giving him the space he needed. he even manages to somewhat "befriend" the ferret.
→ as the season warms and the sun begins to shine more amply, misha begins to portray his desire to leave. silence was doing him no good. he would sit by the window pointing out towards the sunlit gardens, cauterwauling and mrrowing his woes to the couple. he stumbles upon the two twolegs later, speaking in hushed tones shortly after one of his more vocal mornings.
→ one stands, opening the main door to the nest, and beckons for misha. sand is puzzled, only understanding a few select terms of the twoleg language after hovering around their lifestyle for so long of his life, but understands: they're letting him run free. he speeds out of the open door with no hesitance.
→ misha lives in the thick coniferous woods beside the twolegplace for a bit, regaining strength as the thawing season arrives and melts away the last of the snow.
→ once the climate has shifted into a temper fair enough for bountiful hunting, misha begins his aimless journey once more. he travels through fields and farmlands. while doing so, he stumbles upon a small grove of trees where another rogue is struggling, caught up in the chicken wire from the nearby farm. misha learns his name, lion, and vice versa. misha helps lion out of the harmful mesh, albeit coolly, before leaving.
→ he hops on the back of a large, winding train, traveling for many, many miles. he hops on-and-off this train for moons, learning its time schedule and where it travels to.
→ he eventually reaches a fabled sight, a colossal pool of water that felines all across the countryside called the sea, or the place where the sun drowns at dusk. he leaves his train, lingering and exploring the hollows and cliffs of the seaside. he finds that he highly dislikes water after an irate seagull chases him into the riptide and he nearly drowns.
→ he is prompt to leave the seaside after that traumatic experience, instead taking to the nearby mountain range. follows a long, winding river to an acre of woods, flanked by a large twolegplace, before he reaches the mountainscape.
→ he moves through a deep rural land, filled with fields teeming from harvested crops. he is nearly torn apart by a long-clawed farm monster, one he learned later was used to cut down the stalks of corn somehow utilized by twolegs.
→ he passes through another large twolegplace, this time dwelling in alleys and passing through streets at night to avoid confrontation with the twoleg populous. he escapes the harsh place without so much as a glimpse of twoleg. however, he does get into some scraps with other much more aggressive cats on his plunder through.
→ misha crosses the mountains. the weather had harsh, whipping blizzard winds as he crossed mounts and precipices and hid from large birds of prey. there was an instance where misha was required to battle an eagle, earning the deepest nick in his ear, when they went after the same mountain hare together.
→ he reaches jagged peaks, with spires of stone that rise high into the sky. they have reached what the clans refer to as the high stones.
→ after much trial, error, and scarce hunting, misha successfully leaves behind the mountains. before him, in the true spirit of the thawing season, meadows and fields roll out luxuriously before them, filled with field mice and other small creatures. the forest now awaits him.

→ the forest awakens

51 MOONS;
misha's first encounter with the clans that dominate the new land he's discovered involves two shadowclan apprentices: rowanpaw and flurrypaw, though he never does learn their names, but they do his. he learns about the five clans through them, if only by name, but his interest in the concept of this 'clan' piques. he leaves them wishing for more.

while sticking to the rocky footfills of highstones, as the shadowclan apprentices he met said no clan dwelled there, he spots three cats traveling. he watches them vanish into a square hole in the earth, one he himself tried to venture into but experienced an unearthly thrill of fear that made him retreat. when they emerge, he asks them if they are clan cats. they react in hostility but misha is steadfast: he asks again, adamant to get his point across he is harmless. they eventually do relent after much auxiliary defense, and the leader of the small group, a brown-and-white molly, gives him one question. she tells him that the forest, upon his request, is home to the five clans. he leaves them be then, satisfied by the brisk albeit informative answer. he leaves wanting to know more.

he, knowing well what he is getting into, travels onto the moorland where the she-tabby said windclan lived. a patrol of three find him, and he is able to get more out of them regarding the clan's hostile viewpoint on loners. he empathizes for them, understanding the stereotypical perspective-- he knows he's a much more mellow stray. he learns one of their names, dawnwhisper, and leaves for the distant treeline thinking of how odd clan names are.


52 MOONS;
misha enters skyclan territory, remembering what the brown-and-white molly from the mountains told him. he is resting in a tree when a patrol passes beneath him and locates his scent. upon the threat of confrontation, he grounds himself, and introduces himself first as harmless. this seems to mollify the skyclan cats, all of male specimen. misha betrays nothing in particular, but recognizes one of the cats on the patrol as lion, the tom he saved from a farm's chicken mesh wire seasons ago. he leaves shortly after, reflecting on how an outsider became a clan cat. he thought it was an interesting feat, to say the least. an intriguing one.

a week later he is found by teaselstar and duskstorm, two skyclan cats. he is briefly questioned and asked to leave, but misha asks if he can return back with them to their campgrounds, so that he might be able to learn more about clan life without being an outsider looking in. teaselstar frostily rejects his appeal, and misha is ordered to leave skyclan and not return. hesitantly, he agrees. but he isn't ready to leave the forest's vicinity just yet.


53 MOONS;
days later, he hears the sounds of war from downriver of the territories. he rushes back to the forest to see war breaking out just outside skyclan territory, and he leaps into action alongside duskstorm after he notices her leg had been injured. he fights well, but ends up receiving a forehead wound that requires some minimal attention. teaselstar, upon duskstorm's insistence, allows misha to return to camp with them. he soon feels like he's overstayed, and is turning to leave when teaselstar stops him. she asks him why he helped skyclan, and the two speak until teaselstar offers him a place in skyclan. he readily accepts, and she gives him a new name: sand, to represent the sands on which he fought and the hue of his fur. they go out into the woods together, and teaselstar entails what clan life will mean for him, and what it will change for him.

his first two weeks are filled with him learning how to fit in amongst the clan. there are many different things he struggles to atone to, such as the constant presence of other felines around him. even reaching out to speak to them is a challenge at first. however, a few choice felines help shift his perspective: amberblaze, flintsong, and wolfmask, all being cats who were amicable to him in his first days as a skyclan trainee. he even speaks with laurelnose, who is incredibly fascinated by his backstory and how he is fitting into the forest.


54 MOONS;
after a gathering gone wrong (albeit one he did not attend) duskstorm relays to him that starclan, real and palpable, came down to the fourtrees. sand is hesitant to believe, due to his non-religious outlook on life, but inwardly begins to reconsider after seeing just how raw and genuine duskstorm's reaction was. he later is approached by wildpaw, moosepaw, and briarpaw, who are all keen to know how the former loner is getting along. on an especially hot evening, he goes down to the riverside with flintsong and laurelnose, finding that he likes and appreciates both of their companies, but is frightened to go too close to the water.

he and laurelnose, accompanied by briarpaw, badgerfrost, and marigoldface go out into the forest. sand and laurelnose work together to better his abilities with the 'sky-crusher' technique, but soon must stop when marigoldface and badgerfrost begin to fight. they promptly shut the two down, sending marigoldface back to camp and leaving briarpaw to console the irate badgerfrost.


55 MOONS;
skyclan is tense after the gathering, which sand learns is due to the windclan medicine cat lifting up a proposal for another change to the warrior code. he is indifferent, as he does not know the she-cat or the law she hoped to change.

he and duskstorm travel out of camp to train, as per the usual, but things dip into more the emotional realm before sand can try to stop it. duskstorm is worried about sand's equality to his clanmates, as it's still common faire for him to be given hostile glances or commented at. he tries to dispel her anger, claiming that the remarks could be ignored, that he didn't mind them (when, truly, they did hurt a bit, when he was trying so hard to become a warrior). duskstorm doesn't listen, and they finish on a soft, affectionate note, before they return to camp. he heads to his nest on the outskirts of the warriors' den, and laurelnose tries to cheer him up upon noticing his sullen, quiet state.

he is basking with duskstorm a few suns later when a booming roll of thunder shakes the forest. it wakes to an entire orchestra of thunder and lightning, but no promise of rain anywhere in sight. fearing a lightning storm, albeit a very powerful one, he speaks to amberblaze briefly before another thundering sound, more droning, monotonous than the ones from the sky, takes hold of the forest. timberpaw rushes up beside sand, asking with huge eyes if he knew what was going on. he dryly relayed that he didn't, now concerned. a stampede of deer then storm into the ravine, and sand is quick to call out to seek cover at the cliff sides as they trample dens, plants, and unsuspecting cats alike. when timberpaw goes after her elderly mentor, stuck in the clearing, he rushes out and saves her in the very nick of time, right as a large buck would have raced over her, giving her the same untimely fate as her mentor.

under bramblethorn's orders, skyclan flees the ravine, but not before suffering more casualties. sand adheres to carrying the shellshocked timberpaw, from skyclan to thunderclan's camp, after doestar finds the skyclan cats taking refuge at tallpines. he offers silent, stolid support to timberpaw as she wails into his arm, unsure of what to do, but wanting to help nonetheless. a thunderclan warrior, birchheart, approaches him bearing the gift of a squirrel which he tepidly tries to refuse, but she insisted.


56 MOONS;
he ends up speaking with laurelnose, and the two go on a quick hunt together. the she-cat leads him to a creek in thunderclan territory, and he quickly expresses his leeriness towards water, especially when laurelnose tries to splash him. they end up hunting and bringing back a magpie together.

in wake of bramblethorn's death, caused by the stampede, teaselstar appoints lionflame as her newest deputy. sand is astonished, but glad for his companion, as they had recently talked together about how they might never truly fit among the clan cats. he decides to ignore yewthorn's sharp outbursts against former outsiders.

sand tries to approach foxstorm, remembering how he had seen her with teaselstar and owlpaw at mothermouth, but he is quickly turned away by the hostile tortoiseshell. he tries to make any amends, and even congratulate her on her warrior name, but she throws soil up into his face and eyes to chase him off. stormbreeze comes in to intervene, even siding with sand and ambling after a departing stormbreeze to spray dust all over her back. lionflame comes up to sand after and apologizes for foxstorm, but sand is easy to forgive her, not believing she was bad, but misinformed. he sees that laurelnose had seen the scene and goes over to speak with her. he ends up leaving the conversation in lighter spirits -- she told him his nose was freckled, something he'd never known.

for the next few suns, he is dutiful, determined after his conversation with lionflame. he speaks to a few new faces, including thunderclan's deputy gorsetalon, overcome a little barrier of adversity when it's evident the other tom is put off by his former life.

after returning to camp from a sole hunting expedition, he retrieves his own prey to consume (he had forgotten to eat all day) and ends up sitting with mintshade and teaselstar. but mintshade is quick to depart, and sand is left in teaselstar's almost tense company. she asks about his training, and he admits that he is loving each and every thing he has to learn. he tells her that already, he would be ready to die for the clan, and he'd be happy with that so long as the clan could go on, even without him in it like he wants to be. he gets up to leave, but teaselstar stops him, telling him that a true clan cat would stay with the clan, in mind and in heart, and in starclan. he feels guilty that he can't yet believe, but thanks her and goes.


57 MOONS;
to his astonishment, teaselstar invites him to travel with she, moosepaw, and molepaw to the mothermouth to speak with starclan. he's silently dubious, unsure if he should be walking on sacred clan soils, but he is allowed entry into the moonstone cavern regardless. he doesn't speak with starclan, but watches as light and dark warp around him, and an unseen presence brushes against his side, softly taunting him when he asked if the clan's ancestors were there. he's disturbed and speaks to rowanwing the next day, which helps ease his troubled mind.

he leaves camp for a walk, scales a birch tree and is surprised when laurelnose climbs up beside him. she probes him, and sand relays to her his thoughts about starclan, his doubts about acceptance, and the white she-cat is quick to console and comfort him. he struggles to try to show his gratitude for her, approaching, but getting cold feet when he draws too close. the two return to camp in a comfortable silence before the gathering.

he speaks with duskstorm after he sees her alone on a stump in the sandy hollow, and the two end up growing even closer than before.

sand rests beneath a clump of ferns when shadowclan invades thunderclan's camp. the entire camp is stirred, and sand engages in conflict with duskfrost, unbeknownst to him, shadowclan's deputy. the battle is stopped, however, when duskfrost notices vulturestar dying in the middle of the clearing after fighting teaselstar and doestar. sand is shocked to see a cat dying and then reviving, and perhaps, it was this that solidifies his belief in starclan.

laurelnose comes up to sand a few suns after, asking about the ambush and how he faired. when she notes on how he was fighting with shadowclan's deputy, he's astonished, wondering how this new feat would stand with teaselstar -- or if she even knew he fought against shadowclan's deputy, and now, leader. the conversation sadly sours, however, when he thinks she makes a remark towards his past, but after she ails he quickly tries to rectify it. the two end up learning more about each other.

58 MOONS;
sand is walking along the southern treelines of skyclan territory when he happens upon a vacant sunningrocks. when he approaches, he realizes it isn't so, and meets dipperheart of riverclan. he converses candidly with the younger tom, who seems intrigued by sand's reveal of being a former loner, now a skyclan trainee. dipperheart asks to meet sand again. sand dubiously agrees.

he speaks with duskstorm the night before skyclan is due to return to their camp, and after talking briefly of his training, and how he fought during the ambush-- him revealing that he fought against duskfrost, now duskstar. duskstorm promises to tell teaselstar about possibly awarding him a warrior name, and the two grow even closer, stolid, trusting confidants in a wavering world.

the day after, skyclan moves back into the ravine after the final reparations are completed. timberpaw is the cat to welcome him when he does finally enter the campsite, and the two grow a bit closer than before. after the full moon gathering, he hears of a rift formed, although no one dared give him specifics. however, he does sense the tension in the ravine, able to detect taut gaits and visages.


59 MOONS;
he gladly watches moosepaw and molepaw, two apprentices who had been exceptionally kind to him before, earn their warrior names: mooseblaze and moleflower. timberpaw, beside him, remarks on how soon it will be she and sand getting their warrior names.

sand is approached by laurelnose in camp, and the two end up going out to hunt for sparrows come nightfall, when sand admitted he was partial to them. they proceed to the ruins, and laurelnose grows wistful as she stares out beyond the landmark, into the wilderness beyond. they eventually catch a sparrow together in an ancient oak tree, but laurelnose nearly falls from a branch, and they are quick to return to the earth, sparrow in tow. at the gnarled roots, sand and laurelnose share a moment of confession-- confessions of guilt, hopelessness-- and the tom vows to stand by her side. the two return just before the dawn patrols were sent out, in each other's private company.

he wakes late, and emerges into the clearing and speaks to rowanwing briefly about the division in the forest. wrenpaw is with him. it isn't long until marigoldface barges in, and starts confrontation, which results in teaselstar's intervention. he openly disparages sand, as well. envious of rowanwing's relation with wrenpaw, he attempts to murder his clanmate, and sand is quick to move and hold marigoldface down when teaselstar publicly exiles him. sand chases marigoldface out of the territory.

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S K Y C L A N

☀ teaselstar,
[ respect / wary ]
you did the right thing. i can't imagine it having been easy, but there was no other choice to be made.
if. . you ever need anything.

lionflame,
[ neutral / respect / trust ]
the way you phrased it, you made it seem so impossible, becoming one of them. but you seem to have overcome that, quite easily; you're skyclan's deputy now. maybe, then. . we-- i, really do have a chance here.

duskstorm,
[ deep trust / confidant / respect / affection ]
i'm not quite sure what i would do without you here with me. never in my life have i had a cat to turn to, to listen and trust and be able to depend on; i realize now what i was missing, then. thank you so much, for all that you've done, for skyclan and for me.

amberblaze,
[ neutral / likes / thankful ]
i have to thank you for being so generous with me. the first cat to be so willing with me, really. to eat with.

☀ wolfmask,
[ likes / acquaintance ]
i've not seen much of your litter, though i'm partial to older cats, admittedly. i never quite know how to go about small litters: it's never been a pleasant experience for me before.

☀ laurelnose
[ confidant / promising / loyal / trusting / protective ]
you aren't all of the things you say you are, laurelnose. i want you to understand and know that. this forest,
living here isn't going to become any easier, if this past moon is anything to go by. please, promise me that you won't let things weigh down, as if you're alone in this world. you're not; i promised you that, and i'll promise it a hundred times more.

foxstorm,
[ neutral / unsure / hopeful ]
i don't believe you're bad. being brought up like this, under those beliefs about us, you can't help it. but maybe, i can help dispel a few of them.

☀ rosekit,
[ neutral / amusement / curiosity ]
from what i've been able to discern, you still have quite some time and quite a few things to learn before you can become a leader. i didn't mean to offend, though.

owlpaw,
[ neutral ]
you didn't say much.

☀ redlark,
[ neutral / sadness ]
i'm sorry for your loss.

wildpaw,
[ neutral ]
i'll be here if you ever do want to hear more. i don't mind dusting off some stories for younger ears, especially ones who only know the forest.

☀ rowanwing,
[ friend / concern / trusts ]
marigoldface deserved his fate, but every cat here knows that you did not deserve yours. not any part of it. heal, would you? it's loathing to have to see that scratch on your face.

timberpaw,
[ likes / thoughtful / proud ]
don't put yourself down, it's not a good look for you. you're stronger than you realize, timberpaw. . . i'd be elated if i could become a warrior beside you, if, she allows.

mooseblaze,
[ respect / like / neutral ]
a fitting name. although, i think i'll pass on the, ah, swimming.

moleflower,
[ respect / like / neutral ]
congratulations on your warrior name.

briarlight,
[ neutral ]
i wonder what you said to badgerfrost.

badgerfrost,
[ neutral / wary ]
i thought it odd of you, to keep the interplay going between you and marigoldface. at the very least, you were quick to leave it be.

☀ wrenpaw,
[ neutral / concern / inquisitive ]
you shouldn't have needed to be involved in that. what made marigoldface seem so kind, to you? he is anything but.

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T H U N D E R C L A N

doestar,
[ respect / neutral / wary ]
it was kind of you, to let skyclan take refuge here.

gorsetalon,
[ neutral / thoughtful ]
an outlier i might have been, but it doesn't make me any less of a cat than the rest of those in the forest,
or in my clan.

ravenwing,
[ neutral / thankful ]
it never fails to surprise me-- how different the clans are from before.

tansypaw,
[ neutral / concern / curious ]
my, you were small.

birchheart,
[ acquaintance / trust / enjoys company / slight sorrow ]
it's a shame, that we may not see each other for a few moons yet. here's to hoping.

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R I V E R C L A N

pinecreek,
[ distrust / wary ]
it was a dirty trick, biting a hackle.


dipperheart,
[ neutral / curious / sadness ]
what is it that makes you so fascinated? . . regardless, i agreed to it, so i shouldn't be admonishing the choice we made. i don't want to paint it in golden light, dipperheart. make your decision for yourself, lest i have to.

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W I N D C L A N

sheepleap,
[ unsure / dubious ]
i've only ever heard of you, what you did. i'm indifferent, so to speak, but i can't help but be inclined to fall in line with my own.

meadowcloud,
[ thankful / neutral ]
ahh. i could see where the clans get their aggravations towards. . . cats like myself, one could say.

dawnwhisper,
[ thankful / neutral ]
you've been the most affable cat thus far. an odd name, you've got, but i suppose mine could be just as odd in your eyes.

oakpaw,
[ neutral ]
you look the same age as the other young cats i've seen in the clans. an apprentice?

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S H A D O W C L A N

duskfrost,
[ neutral / unsure / distrust ]
loyalty. i understand it's not something to follow to a fault here, but what of when it strays too far? shadowclan invaded and it ended in its own undoing.

flurryfrost,
[ surprise / neutral / unsure ]
i saw you - during the ambush. you stood by them?

rowanbreeze,
[ wary / distress / sadness / neutral ]
i didn't want to fight you, let alone kill you. but i've chosen my side in this forest, my clan. and, they've chosen me.

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O U T S I D E R S

☀ marigoldface,
[ wary / hostility / distrust ]
ironic, the word is: so quick to put down when you were less of a clan cat than i am now. should you know what's good for you, steer clear of skyclan, the forest. i'll chase you back out.

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T H E D E C E A S E D

☀ flintsong,
[ neutral / friend / sadness / sympathy ]
i. . never thought to imagine, what it must be like, to lose someone. we weren't close, and yet, i still feel some obligation to help your family. i'll do what i can, if you're up there.

bramblethorn,
[ respect / concern / curious ]
even though we seldom spoke, you were a good cat. a good deputy for the clan. i. . don't quite know how to feel of starclan yet, but, i hope that you're happy now. if you can be. if it's. . possible.

vulturestar,
[ unsure ]
i don't understand. how could you have. . . died, and then returned? it's like what i saw, of doestar during the battle of sunningrocks.