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<sub>Otterpaw grinned, "It doesn't mean that I can't start judging cats! Anyways, Haloheart's not that bad..." She smirked, "You're just disappointed 'cause you didn't get Stormstar as a mentor." The she-cat smiled, never would she lose her personality. It's much too fun. Then she looked around, "I wonder where Silentraven got off to..."

Dapple'gaze' grinned, "OK, Tansy'star'!" The kit bounced around her mother, "Where should we patrol first, Ma- I mean, Ribbontail?" she giggled as she corrected herself.</sub>

[KURI. (happy birfday to me :D)]

For some reason, Barrenpaw felt hurt that Otterpaw was looking for another cat. Shaking his mind to clear it - which only made his unkept pelt even more matted and tangled - he kneaded the ground with his forepaws. What in the name of StarClan was making him so nervous? Anxiousness was welling up inside him, so he delt with it the best way he knew how. "I am not upset I didn't get Stormstar! Who do you think you are, anyway?! Do you think you can just read cat's minds?! Well, you can't! Shut up!" his tail was lashing and his fur was bristling furiously as he spat the words at Otterpaw.

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Ribbontail smiled at her little daughter, licking her between the ears. "We will let Brokenskull decide, Dapplegaze," she mewed gently. "He is the deputy, after all." The she-cat turned her head, narowing her sapphire eyes as she noticed Barrenpaw's angry expression. "I will be right back, Tansystar," she murmured, getting to her small silver paws. The beautiful queen padded calmly towards the rowing apprentices, and stood beside Barrenpaw. She placed her tail tip on the cream coloured tom's unkempt shoulder. "Hush," she mewed, voice quiet but firm. "You should know better than to hiss at Otterpaw." Ribbontail had helped to nurse the new apprentice, as she had shared the nursery with Tansykit, Dapplekit and Frostkit.

// Sorry for the crappy post. Dx

[Wolf]

"Its....ok. You can decide where....we go, Dapplegaze." Brokenskull meowed, nodding his head vigorously. "I....don't mind." He smiled happily, his eyes slightly unfocused.

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<sub>Dapple'gaze' sat down for a second, thinking. "Oh! I know! Let's go patrol the elder's den! Come on!" The little golden kit marched off towards the Elder's Den. "C 'mon Ribbontail! We're going patrollin' over by the Elder's Den!" she called gleefully.

Otterpaw jumped back for a second, hissing and her fur puffed up as Barrenpaw snapped. Then she smoothed her fur and watched Barrenpaw with a new interest. "You don't like to show your feelings... I know how that is," she muttered, sitting down and watching as Ribbonail came over to speak to him.

Blissclaw watched from afar as her daughter conversed with Barrenpaw. She stood up, bristling, as the apprentice spat at Otterpaw. But she sat down when she saw her friend, Ribbontail walk over there.

((it seems Barleypaw has dissapeared mysteriously -spy music- doo-doo-do-doo-doo))</sub>

[KURI. (happy birfday to me :D)]

[ooc] I feel bad... Barrenpaw, it's Christmas! Don't be so meaaaan!

Barrenpaw curled his lip at Ribbontail, but his fur had flattened as much as it could and his tail was no longer slicing through the air like a whip. He breathed out slowly as he felt his temper die down inside him, but he moved away from Ribbontail's touch anyway. "I can if I want!" he protested, scrunching up his nose in disgust. Why was everyone so worried about stupid Otterpaw? But as soon as Ribbontail, who in Barrenpaw's eyes was just as useless as Haloheart, left, he sighed and tried to find the words to apologize. That search was soon ended, however, as Otterpaw fired up his temper once more. "I am not!" he exhaled, exasperated. "I don't care what anyone else thinks. No one cares what I think, so why should I give a mouse's tail?" he shifted from paw to paw, suddenly realizing that Otterpaw was the first cat he had said anything like this to.

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<sub>Otterpaw looked up at Barrenpaw, "I care what you think," she said solemnly. She watched Ribbontail for a second, then her gaze flew to her mother, Blissclaw, then back to Barrenpaw. "And I'm sure Barleypaw and Treepaw care what you think too." She smiled, "Don't judge a cat by it's fur."

((Like, "Don't judge a book by it's cover." ^___^))</sub>

[KURI. (happy birfday to me :D)]

Stop treating me like a stupid kit! the words echoed in Barrenpaw's mind, but something kept him from saying them aloud. Maybe because it would be a foolish thing to say, maybe because his throat was too dry from shock for him to speak at all. Or maybe because he didn't want to say hurtful things to a cat like... Like Otterpaw.

"Oh." his meow was emotionless, not betraying the storm of emotions prickling at his pelt. His bright blue gaze tumbled around the clearing. Where were his siblings? They had both run off somewhere.

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_{Otterpaw grunted, "But I do!" she whined, her youth coming back. She started to run around in circles chasing her tail. Sooner or later she became dizzy and had to stop. When everything came back into focus she meowed, "Come on! Let's go hunting!" Then she pranced off in teh direction of the woods.}

[KURI. (happy birfday to me :D)]

The matted brown tom looked at Otterpaw like she was missing a brain when she started chasing her tail, but his whiskers twitched with amusement. How could a cat be so serious one moment and then be running around in circles the next? Honest and truely, Barrenpaw knew no cat like Otterpaw. He twitched, feeling strange that he was thinking things like this about a cat he had just met and shouldn't even like, but he decided to ignore the funny pricking feeling in his paws. Otterpaw was like a loaded cannon, no one knew what she would say next. And, as expected, as soon as she was able to see clearly again, she said something unexpexted. "Hunting?" Barrenpaw meowed. He was not the most popular of cats, but that didn't matter - he was better than them all anyway, he'd embarass all the other apprentices if he went hunting with them. Well, that's what his arrogant personality told him, anyway. He had never been asked to go hunting with anyone other than maybe a new warrior or Barleypaw and Treepaw. "Okay," he decided. How bad could it be? he thought as he bounded after Otterpaw.

[ooc] Will you make the thread?[/size]

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<sub>((okie-doke ^___^

edit: it's in Cloudy Hills))</sub>