xx because we have the sky . . .

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

barrenclaw.

Barrenclaw opened his eyes.

I know what you're thinking. Big deal, right? All cats open their eyes, right? Well, you can hardly appreciate the wonder of that four-word, twenty-three-letter sentance unless you knew that Barrenclaw hadn't opened his eyes in moons. Glued shut by scars, he'd been blind, but even if he could have opened his eyes in the world of the living they would probably have been too damaged for him to see anything, anyway. And now he could see, and the things that he saw were more beautiful than anything he had seen in life.

In life. That was when he realized that he was dead. He turned his head, looked down at his body. It shone gently with a milky, starry light.

"So, I'm dead?" he called out to nothing. "That's it? You give me back my eyesight, and I can't even see my family? My kits?" Barrenclaw was more curious than bitter, which was odd for him.

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[SHADE. :D]

lemonzest

Her wings beat the air as though she had been called forth. In fact, she had. That mental shout had hit her, that mental beckoning. She was needed. A CloudClanner had died, and she had been chosen to welcome them to StarClan. She had done this many times by now, but it still hurt to see her former clanmates die. Still. She hadn't had to greet either of her daughters, or their kits. She had watched as Tawnysky gave birth recently. She knew the warrioress was getting herself into more and more trouble, seeing that MoonClan tom... But she couldn't help loving her grandkits from up above. Lemonzest landed with a slight flap of yellow-washed wings. She blinked her huge, gold eyes and finally caught sight of the newcomer. Her heart thudded painfully. It was Barrenclaw. The dark brown and white tabby padded forward. "Greetings, Barrenclaw," she mewed, her voice the same bubbly, friendly voice of her living moments. "Welcome to StarClan."

[cheshy says grace]

grieverstone

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"Not another..." the medicine cat whispered in despair as she floated down besides Lemonzest. Barrenclaw was a CloudClanner and Grieverstone had grown up in MoonClan but she recognized the tom. He looked like his father, Octoberlies, whom he'd never know. The spotted she-cat smiled sweetly - sadness tracing the outlines of her upward mouth. "Yes, welcome to StarClan,"

[/color] she mewed along with Lemonzest before picking up the tom's questions.

"That's it? You give me back my eyesight, and I can't even see my family? My kits?"[/color]

Grieverstone's eyed glinted a bit with tears - a tom who had never seen his own kits? It was outrageous and sad at the same time. After the moons she had spent in StarClan she had become a quiet, cheerless, delicate cat. She approached Barrenclaw and touched his nose with her own, first granting him his wings. Then she moved away from him and - with a quick movement as if she were going to swipe a mouse's neck - she made a small hole in the cloud. It immediately filled with sparkling cloud water. "You want to see your kits? Here,"[/color] she whispered in a gossamer-like tone, summoning the faces of Spadepaw, Mirrorpaw, Pixiepaw, Rhymepaw, and Oppositepaw. Then she brought along Otterspirit's solemn face, dry tear tracks running down her cheeks. "I'm sorry..."[/color] she said, her silky-soft voice cracking.[/size][/blockquote]

[SHADE. :D]

// I thought Greiverstone was a MC cat...? *is confused*

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

barrenclaw.

Two she-cats came to greet him. The first was no use, but she was of CloudClan, and he recognized her. "Lemonzest, there's got to be a way for me to --" he was cut off by the second she-cat. Hadn't she been of MoonClan? The tom backed up a few steps, but her quiet, gentle voice brought him foreward again. Seeing his kits... for the first time... he slowly crept foreward to the pool. And oh, how he wish he hadn't.

He couldn't take his eyes away, of course. And at first they were kind images: he saw what he instantly knew to be Rhymekit's face - there was a happiness to it hat he couldn't quite place, she reminded him of her mother when she was an apprentice. And then Pixiekit, her jaw open in a bit of a smirk. Mirrorkit, a mix of the two, with the striped brown pelt that he'd asked Otterspirit to describe for him over and over again. And then Spadekit, more shy, more thoughtful, looking like a lanky copy of his mother. And Oppositekit... the oddball of his kits. He loved him for that. And he saw Otterspirit, loving each one of them in her own special way. He smiled.

But then the images changed. Now it was the present. And he saw Otterspirit's teary face, Rhymekit - now Rhymepaw - running to the nursery in shame, Mirrorpaw trying desperately to cheer their mother up, and Spadepaw, doing the best he could to be strong for his family. The smile broke, so did his heart.

"I have to help them," he whispered to Grieverstone and Lemonzest. "I can't leave them like this."

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[SHADE. :D]

lemonzest

The chocolate and white tabby blinked her bright yellow eyes as Greiverstone arrived. Usually, only one cat attended this ceremony, and it was a cat from the dead one's clan, or somebody they had been exceptionally close to. Shrugging it off, the former CloudClan warrioress watched as Barrenclaw padded to the pool Greiverstone had created. She gazed at him whilst his face grew happy, then fell. He had never seen his kits before, and now he would see them sad and depressed. The she-cat padded closer to Barrenclaw, and brushed her starry flank against hid. "I'm sorry, Barrenclaw," she mewed. "I know you don't want to leave them, but... You have no choice. You are of StarClan now." She waved her wings for a moment, looking downwards. "If it's any consolation, I know how you feel. I left my daughters as young apprentices. But they learn to cope, Barrenclaw," she told him earnestly. After a moment, she spoke again. "How are Dewstep and Tawnysky, of you don't mind me asking?"

[cheshy says grace]

ooc.

ohgod I feel like a n00b D8 *headdeskheaddeskheaddesk* But I wanted to be apart of Barrenclaw's StarClan thing and I don't have any dead CloudClanners v.v Let's just say Grieverstone was bored. XD[/blockquote]

[SHADE. :D]

// Fair enough. xD