"Did you hear that argument when the patrol brought Birchfrost back?"
"Yeah- saw it too. Head hunter or not, Meadowblaze hasn't changed a bit in all of these moons."
"That really what you took away from it? If anyone said that sort of thing to me, I'd give them what for!"
Credit: Art Credit to Yuki; Stagcharge design belongs to Yuki; Meadowblaze design belongs to Lake.
"I don't want to hear a damn WORD from you! You and your cursed namesake who did nothing to help us!-"
"-Usually when you do that, you ignore them into oblivion, but leaving them to die is low, even for you.”
At the end of a day already drenched in grief and blood, the recounting of the encounter with the Rotbeast goes sideways when tempers flare between two estranged littermates. Meadowblaze (Head Hunter of BoarClan) was one of the four cats chosen to come with Ashclaw to try and rescue Birchfrost and their escorts. The fight was harrowing, with almost no-one leaving unscathed and new discoveries brewing. But in the end, they failed to save the life of their Cleric, who bled out and delivered a prophecy before passing. Stagcharge (Member of the Leader's Guard of BoarClan), among the remaining cats in BoarClan who were tasked to guard camp, fiercely believes he could've done something to change the outcome if he'd been chosen to go. He marches up to the returning patrol, cutting into their conversation with sorrow and accusation, and Meadowblaze reacts explosively.
Both littermates — friends with Birchfrost before they died — are deeply affected by the death of their clanmate, and the two nearly come to blows before they're interrupted- but it does nothing to quash the growing animosity between these two, and the weight of loss that settles in both of their hearts.
Interested in finding out more about Stagcharge and Meadowblaze? More information on the Wildrest's upcoming opening can be found here.
