Chervil Hunting (open!)

Rookpool only just detected Swampfrost as he approached. Suddenly aware of movement to her left, she turned to peer, ears perked. A moment later, and she was able to make out Swampfrost's scent. She was a little rusty- she knew some other warriors would have been able to detect him sooner. Maybe she should get some coaching on the sly...

"Good morning," she replied. Would this take long? She wanted to find that chervil and get to sleeping.

"No, I suppose you wouldn't. Have you seen any chervil around?" She said abruptly, forgetting that Swampfrost probably wouldn't know what it looked like.

Usually the she-cat rose after most of the clan did, but not today. A stray ray of sunshine found its way into the leader's den. Rolling over onto her side, the leader stretched and yawned. Standing to all four paws, Thornstar stretched once again. Shaking out her pelt the dust floated around, it became illuminated when it hit the sunshine.


Padding out of her den groggily she rethought about what time it actually was. With the sun being as red as it was Thornstar asked herself if she had slept through the whole day. She knew that she didn't as more of her clan would still be up at this time. She decided to go out on a walk through the territory. Picking up the scent of two of her cats she walked towards them to see Rockpool and Swampfrost sharing-tongues.

"Good morning." She dipped her head to the two. Thornstar was slightly happy at the moment, even with the burden of poisoned prey running around them. Her face remained emotionless as she took a seat and listened in on the conversation.

This time, Rookpool caught the approach of another cat quicker than she caught Swampfrost's. See, not so hard. You just have to try.

Of course, Swampfrost wouldn't know what chervil was. Twolegs, being the bizarre creatures they were, kept herbs even though they never seemed to use them for medicine. Or at least, that's what Rookpool had heard. She wasn't about to go sniffing about Twoleg yards. Next thing you knew, they'd be calling her kittypet.

She didn't care for the look he was giving her. Was he trying to be intimidating? Well, she wouldn't need to stick around long. The herb stocks were excuse enough.

"Good morning," she replied as Thornstar approached, perhaps with a bit more pleasantness than she had greeted Swampfrost. She was never in a good mood, but it wasn't a smart idea to be short with your leader. Besides, while Swampfrost wasn't much to her beyond another warrior who might need their wounds treated, Thornstar was a cat to respect. She'd been called judgmental by others before, but respect simply had to be earned.

Addressing Swampfrost, she said "Oh, sorry. I'm low on chervil- you could have guessed that, I'm sure. Don't worry about it, I can find it easily without assistance." She was ready to turn primly away, but the other two might have further conversation. 

Thornstar could feel Swampfrost's tenseness. She knew some weren’t incredibly sure about the tom, but he gave her no reason to believe that he would corrupt the clan. The she-cat knew that Rockpool wasn’t the friendliest cat in the whole entire clan and the leader questioned to herself why these two were out her together.

Shrugging it off she listened to the greeting from the two cats, ”How are you doing this morning?” The question was directed towards both Swampfrost and Rockpool. Thornstar noticed the bristled Swampfrost and wondered what that was about. Turning her attention back to the both of them, she waited for their answers.

Listening to the words being spoken by Rockpool gave Thornstar a disappointed feeling in her stomach. Although she understood not taking a liking to all cats, Rockpool needed to try harder as she would have to deal with all sorts of ignorant or oblivious cats. As far as she was concerned Swampfrost wasn’t that bad that the medicine cat apprentice needed to give him the cold shoulder. As a higher ranking cat she, Thornstar felt, that the other she-cat should have done her best to welcome him. Though as the leader Thornstar couldn’t control everyone.