#dwcasks

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(psst, moon 8 part 11 doesnt link to the next part !!)

fixed, thank you!

also side note update for all: moon 8 now has a set number of pages until the end

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dustypaw, do you have any idea where you go in your dreams if it isn’t starclan? have you told any of the others about this in full?

do any of you sleep well at night?

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frost, have you seen any new ghosts lately?

"...No."

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Swarmwatcher!

Favorite and least favorite clan task/chore/patrol?

he's gonna go sort his herbs now to calm down bc that's his favorite chore

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Frostfire , what happened to you?

there seems to be more to this story...

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@rainsnires requested the sprites so here everybody is! from left to right it's dustykit, frostfire, hawthorntail, and swarmwatcher

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Ahh! Dusty be careful : (

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🍀 for everyone but especially Hawthorntail, 🌌for Dusty, and 🙀 for Swarmwatcher (hopefully that's not too many!) Also, a little late, I think, but I'd totally be interested in prechaos couples

definitely not too many! and excellent choices

for prechaos couples i was thinking about doing drawings of the parents of our current four cats, but maybe i'll put up a poll of some other random ones too!

🍀What is a secret they’re hiding? hawthorn: my beloved hawthorn my favorite char of the og cast <33 hawthorn isn't stupid. she knows that both swarm and frost know things that they aren't telling her. she doesn't know why they won't despite her repeated attempts to let them know they can tell her. hawthorn is not the kind of cat who feels bitter toward others, but she has been doing everything in her power to keep the other three alive and healthy since the disaster. she can't face the fact that she's angry at them, so she's pushed it down so deep that she's convinced herself that she isn't. as confused as she was by frost's decision not to mentor dusty, she is glad that she is mentoring him. it's a full-time job and leaves her little time to dwell on things

swarm: swarm hates and distrusts starclan. he had been receiving omens and signs warning about the flood since he was an apprentice- so about a year and a half prior to the disaster. they were always violent omens that ended with someone getting hurt or dying. starclan was not present at his naming ceremony and he never had any direct contact with them, which has shaped his anger and distrust toward them. he sees them as cruel and uncaring, but he cannot let the others know because he is their healer and (supposed) connection to the stars

frost: frost has been able to see souls trapped in the "prison" ever since he was a kit. because of this, he was apprenticed to a cat named elderpond because his father, gamblestar, was concerned about it and elderpond also was able to see the souls. nobody truly understood what the souls were, so frost learned that overall, the souls were harmless and not to pay them much mind. now, however, frost is wondering if they were wrong about that and is worried that the souls are there to harm them. he refuses to speak with them and has not told any of the other three that he can see them

dusty: as a child, dusty doesn't have a lot of deep secrets, but something he tries to keep under wraps is just how lonely he is. he's heard stories about his parents and the rest of the clan, but they don't really exist for him. they're as real as a character from a storybook. because of this, he is extremely attached to the other three, but particularly frost because frost has been his primary caretaker for as long as he can remember. we'll see this manifesting more over the next few moons!

🌌 What is their relationship with Starclan like? dusty isn't sure that starclan exists. he doesn't think that where he met the dogwood was starclan, and shiveringleaf told him that the dark area wasn't starclan. however, hawthorn has such a strong faith in them and often tells him stories about starclan. he thinks it sounds nice and he hopes that maybe it does exist

🙀 What do they fear the most? swarm knows on some level that the timing of gamblestar's death and creekstar's leader ceremony is suspicious. like frost said, they all knew that creek was going to die of redcough and that gamblestar had almost all of his lives left. swarm tells himself that it was starclan that killed gamblestar for an omen, but frost's vision challenges that in a way that swarm cannot face. canopyholly was a great mentor and a good cat. he would not have killed another cat. swarm clings to this and fears that the truth may be different