[I]nto the Cactus Fores[t]

[chocolatefur]

The heat was unbearable, it's in a disbelief that any cat could live in the desert. There's no way, it's impossible. Even the plants looks like they're dying. Only the cactus seems to stand strong and well in this death land.

A pair of striped ears twitches, the amber eyes brighten by the light of the sun. A head pops out from the hole of an abandoned burrow whole of a jack rabbit.

It's Servalfur, exotic she-cat warrior of Duneclan.

Servalfur's eyes narrow with disappointment, all day she has been looking for food, but no look. She knows she can't find much food in a desert, but jack rabbits are plenty, usually.

She sighs unhappily, she pulled herself from the rabbit hole. She shakes her fur from sand and dirt, she starts to wash herself clean. She doesn't like to have her unique fur to be dirty.

Servalfur decides to take a break from hunting. She goes over to the cactus, she learned from her mentor that cactus contains water inside of them and perfect to drink from if there's no water source nearby. Carefully, she digs a hole inside the cactus, she made she she didn't scratch her paws over the needles.

As she digs through the last layer, waters starts to pour out from the cactus. Servalfur lowers her head and drinks the refreshing water. Nothing is better then cool water to ease the heat. Though, tasteful meat of the jack rabbit will complete this day.

[rem<EMBER me]

The green eyes of a lithe tom watched as the femme broke open the cactus to take a drink. He began to pad over to her, a piece of prey in his mouth as his black paws made tiny divets in the sand. Ebonysky came to a stop beside her, dropping the prey on the ground. "Hello Servalfur." He murmured. "Not having luck with that prey today? I only managed to catch one jack rabbit. Would you like to share it to keep our strength up?"

[chocolatefur]

Servalfur looks at Ebonysky. "Hello, Ebonysky." She dips her head, her eyes blink. "But that's your catch, Ebonysky, you deserve to eat it whole..."

Then she thinks. "Unless... you can't eat the whole rabbit, I can eat some. No use in wasting good meat." She nearly want to lick her lips. "Anyways, I'm having a hard time finding any jack rabbits. Even the burrows here are abandoned, the scents are faint, days old."

[rem<EMBER me]

"Yes the prey seems to be scarce now due to that drought. I'm beginning to think our territory will never be bountiful again." The tom looked out at the horizon, his green eyes burning with sorrow. He shook his head, then looked down at the scrawny rabbit he had caught. "At least this is better than nothing." He murmured. He bent down to take a small bite out of the rabbit, then nudged it toward Servalfur. The tom's sharp teeth quickly chewed the meat until he could swallow it.

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[chocolatefur]

"I don't understand how this drought can carry out for so long. It's newleaf, yet everything seems to be dead as the coldest leafbare. Not even the cactus blossoms grown, and thats usually the first sign that newleaf." Servalfur meowed.

She looks at the bare cactus, only needles stuck out of the unusual green plant. No beautiful flowers that appears at the start of newleaf and stays around until greenleaf.

"I wonder if Dreamclan given up on us..." She mew in a low voice, mainly to himself.

Servalfur shook her head. No, Dreamclan isn't that cruel to strave us, they need us to carry out the generation of the Warrior Code and tradition. The ten clans can't die off or lose faith in our ancestors.

Servalfur lowers her head, she took a small bite of the scrawny rabbit. The sight of the nearly straved creature was enough to sicken her to the point to loss her hunger. She chews on the dry meat and swallows it. "Newleaf will come soon. I'm sure this isn't the first time that this happen."

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"Yes we have had other droughts before within my lifetime." Ebonysky meowed, bending down to take another bite of the rabbit. After he chewed and swallowed it, he continued talking. "But none of them seemed to last as long as this one." The tom took another bite, chewing slowly as he looked out toward the horizon. He swallowed the meat with a big gulp, then looked over at his fellow warrior. "Here, you can finish it." He meowed, nudging the rest of the rabbit towards her.

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