Nursery « Thread Started on Aug 22, 2005, 10:03am »
I crawl quietly over to Littlekit, who is pretending to be asleep, leaning right up to his ear, I whisper a sound somewhat like a fox's whimper. He yowls and jumps up from his bed, wrestling me to the ground.
Lay off, Littlekit,, would ya?
Oh, sorry, don't do that, I coulda killed you.
Yeah, right, and I'm a wolf. Honestly, Little, you're still a kit that's scared of night despite your good night vision.
I grin slyly.
Hey! That's not very nice, you said you wouldn't tease me about that!
Littlekit leads me back to camp. We trudge into the nursery and collapse on the mossy beds.
Little? What are your biggest goals?
Well, I'm gonna be the best warrior this clan has ever known! And every she-cat is gonna like me, every other warrior is going to respect me, all the kits are going to want to play with me, and all the apprentices will want me to be there mentor. Is that too much?
I roll over to look him in the eyes.
You're not kidding, are you? Those really are your dreams. Well, I wanna be a good warrior. And of course I want the clan to respect me, but I don't wanna be like Shadowtail over there, always gloating over everything and boasting, taking advantage. I wanna be good. Maybe a little troublesome. I don't know. Goodnight, Little.
I close my eyes to the will of Starclan to protect me in my sleep.
I wake, crying out to the morning light. Some dream has awoken me. The morning stillness envelopes what bravery I have and I huddle in to the wall, shivering. Littlekit yawns, looks up, shakes his head, and goes back to sleep. I concentrate hard on the dream.
Memory, Memory
, I mutter to myself. I gasp as the image of fire crosses my face. Lightning. Power. There's something out there. I start crying to Littlekit to wake up. He looks up at me sleepily, I describe the dream to him.
Fluffy, it was just a dream. Go back to sleep.
he mutters and rolls back up. I take his advice, but look cautiously around the nursery before settling back into my safe, warm nest.