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[.feather//oceana.]

xx.//So you think you've been through it all.]]

A young RageClan apprentice bounded out of camp in pursuit of an orange femme who had departed moments earlier. The sun felt good on her jet black pelt and she paused to stretch her limbs and shake off the sleep that had encased her. Dawnpaw knew she didn't have much time to catch Lucidhope before she reached the border for the dawn patrol; and she knew she didn't want to be wandering around alone with all of the reports of vicious rogues running around.

xx.//But I can't help but wonder now.]]

As she had been trained, Dawnpaw immediately picked up Lucidhope's distinct scent. Dawnpaw recalled the time when she first had caught a whiff of Lucidhope and her brother, Tranquilbreeze. She remembered scenting RageClan, but there was something else there too...

xx.//Yesterday I found my worst regret.]]

Over time, it became harder and harder to determine a difference in Lucidhope's scent compared with the other cats of the clan, but Dawnpaw recognized the faint foreign smell well enough to track Lucidhope today. As a young apprentice, she still had not mastered her scenting, and could not tell one cat in her clan from another quite yet in most cases.

xx.// I'll hide it away so no one ever knows.]]

Up ahead, she spotted Lucidhope's vibrant orange coat and felt a brief surge of satisfaction with herself for correctly identifying a scent. "Lucidhope!" she murrowed loudly as she bounded over to the warrior.

xx.//I'm dying...]]

"Ah Dawnpaw!" Lucidhope meowed happily as the apprentice approached. "Did Shadowstar send you out to patrol with me?" The coal colored apprentice nodded and the two padded hastily towards the border, knowing the importance of silence so close to enemy territory.

xx.//I'm trying to leave.]]

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A rustling came from a sideways bush, making all the sound in the world. As Duskpaw slsithered out, her vivid, violet eyes glimmered with anticipation. She had blood around her maw, and cleaned it off with her tongue. She licked her paws, eating the remains of a mouse. She had gone off earlier in the day, away from everyone, hunting for herself. When she spotted two clanmates, she walked over, knowing they were on patrol, but could care less. "What are you guys doing?" She asked, feinting curiosity.

[rem<EMBER me]

Ravenwing trotted up behind Lucidhope, Duskpaw, and Dawnpaw, making sure to be as quiet as she possibly could. Her light blue eyes were focused on their figures as she came closer to them. The femme had long legs, so her strides brought her up to them in no time. Her black fur shined in the sunlight, shades of purple and green visible. That was her namesake, as the color of her fur was nearly identical to that of a raven's feathers.

"So Lucidhope," She murmured, keeping her voice quiet so they were able to go undetected, "What border are we patrolling today?" She looked at the femme, waiting for her answer.

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xx.//Let me slip away, I'm barely holding on.]]

Dawnpaw nearly jumped out of her pelt as the other apprentice approached, and was quickly embarrassed. She didn't want Duskpaw to think she was so easily frightened! The coal colored femme abruptly bent her head to smooth the out of place fur on her chest before glancing at Duskpaw cooly. "We're going to patrol the border," she mewed, taking a slight notice of the dried blood near Duskpaw's mouth. "What have you been doing?" she ventured with suspicion.

xx.//Every now and then I feel the end of us.]]

"Hello Ravenwing," the sun colored she-cat purred as Ravenwing joined their group. "I think we're going to the AshClan borders today, that is if we don't get attacked first, because two apprentices I know don't know how to keep their big mouths quiet!" Lucidhope joked playfully as they trekked on.

xx.//I never meant to say I'm sorry.]]

[dove]

Duskpaw instantly stiffened. She wasn't commiting murder or anything, but she wasn't doing what she was suppose to do. "Hunting," She replied coldy.
Raindrop came up behind them. "Hey," He mewed cooly; he was easy to be with and is so outgoing. He spotted Ravenwing and his eyes warmed up. He turned to the rest of the group, "Mind if I join ya?" He asked.
Duskpaw turned to Lucidhope, glaring. "It's you friend who has the fat mouth. Leave me out of this." She spat.

[rem<EMBER me]

Ravenwing chuckled at the comment the other femme made. "It reminds me of how I was as an apprentice." She murmured, a far away look in her eyes. She was quickly snapped out of her daze by Duskpaw's reply. "Woah, easy there!" She meowed. "She was just joking."

But the femme did not allow herself to be too distracted by the apprentices. Instead, she looked over at Raindrop and smiled. "Hello." She meowed. "I don't mind if you join us. What about you, Lucidhope?" She asked, turning to the femme who was leading the patrol.

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xx.//And I'm not sad to see you go.]]

The golden warrior nodded happily, "Sure that's fine Raindrop, the more the better!" On the other hand, Lucidhope was taken aback that an apprentice would speak so rudely to her, most of the other apprentices knew that they should respect their elders. "Actually I was refering to the both of you," the femme snarled at Duskpaw. Someone needed to put this apprentice in her place!

xx.//We're human shapes burned on concrete walls.]]

Dawnpaw flinched at Dustpaw's comment to Lucidhope. Who was she to talk to a warrior like that? Dawnpaw hissed at the other apprentice, "Watch your mouth!" The onyx cat still felt that there was something that Dustpaw was hiding. Dawnpaw was able to scent fresh mouse on her breath...

xx.//These days the sun don't shine here anymore.]]

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[dove]

Raindrop purred. "Thanks." When he heard Duskpaw, he turned, and frowned. 'What is she doing?' He wondered.

Duskpaw hissed, feeling a sudden rush of hatred. Flashes went before her eyes, of memories of the one who haunted her mother before she was born. Memories of death, cruelty, of murder. She enjoyed it; she was entirely taken over. "Don't mess with me." She spat, her violet eyes darkening.

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xx.//I'm dying.]]

The shadowed apprentice unsheathed her claws in a mere instant. "Don't tell me what to do!" she spat. All of a sudden, Dawnpaw put two and two together. The blood on Duskpaw's maw and paws, and her stiffening when she was questioned...she had eaten before she'd fed the clan! "You selfish mousebrain! You ate before you fed the clan didn't you?" Dawnpaw huffed.

xx.//I find it pulling at me.]]

Lucidhope whipped around to face Duskpaw. "What, is this true?!" Come to think of it, she could smell the scent of fresh kill clinging to the violet eyed apprentice. "I can't believe this, how could you do something so selfish!" Lucidhope was rarely one to yell, but this enraged the sunny colored she-cat.

xx.//A sea of troubles drowning.]]

[dove]

Raindrop started to bristle. He used to remember Dawnleaf scream into the night, screaming of a dusk colored cat with violet eyes. It use to scare him when he was an apprentice, now he felt a forbidding.

Duskpaw glared at them, feeling no remorse. "So what? I was never on hunting duty and why should I? Hunt for the queens, I understand: kits are the future, but why the elders? We'd be better off without them. And I only look out for myself. Not selfish, but survival." She snarled.