Post by Kitty on Sept 6, 2011 17:19:04 GMT -6
The moon was only a small sliver of a crescent, providing little light over the ThunderClan camp. Everything seemed to be painted in hues of blue to the she-cat. She stood out perfectly despite the night; her white pelt was quite visible against the darker colors of the camp. The good thing about the moon being so small, she decided, was that almost all of StarClan was visible.
Cloudheart was up there somewhere. Are you looking at me now? Frostflower thought towards the sky. She wondered what he thought about her joining ThunderClan. (It wasn't exactly official yet. Ashstar had given her permission, however; she just had yet to make the announcement.) He was probably disappointed that she didn't go back to their kits. But her kits were grown and didn't need her anymore, right?
That's what she told herself when she lay awake at night, curled up alone in a small ball when the other warriors were being particularly rude. Her kits needed her. She was here for a reason. She could endure the hostile glances and mutterings.
Tonight was a particularly bad night. That was why she was out here in the first place; she didn't make a habit of sitting in the dark. Especially when the weather was cooling and chilly breezes were blowing through and ruffling her fur, like tonight. But the displeased stares had grown to be almost too much to bear, so when one of the warriors growled at her, she was perfectly content to move outside. They needed her nest, he'd said. She didn't know what for, but she wasn't going to risk angering one of the Clanborn warriors.
Frostflower had ended up relatively close to the camp's edge, near the gorse barrier. It provided decent enough shelter from the chilly breeze and there was enough grass and wildlife still growing there for her to make a suitable nest to sleep in tonight.
She'd rather stare up at the stars and moon, anyway, she decided. StarClan might be disappointed with her decisions, but they wouldn't talk down to her or glare at her.
Outside was much safer than in the den.