#snowsoul

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“Hello again, Webstar.”

The scarred white tom sat unassumingly at the entrance of the den, slowly flicking his tail. If Webstar wouldn’t have known better, he would have thought him completely harmless.

“Snowsoul.” Webstar returned, with a curt nod.

“Snowstar, mind you.” He corrected, his tone icy. After a pause, he narrowed his eyes, crouching low to the ground. “Let’s get to business, shall we?”

And with that he barreled the Tideclan leader over, claws ripping into his fur.

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By the time Webstar could think clearly again, Snowstar had been dead for several minutes.

Webstar blinked, wincing. His whole body burned like it never had before, and he struggled to stand, every muscle under his pelt throbbing in pain. He blinked again, raising a paw to rub at his eyes, but nothing would come into focus -- all he could sense was blurry, bewildering, darkness.

“By Starclan, what has happened to me?”

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reconnaissance mission ; part 4

Riverpaw V.S. Opalstone ; Riverpaw is heavily wounded, Opalstone is heavily wounded

Falconblaze V.S. Snowsoul ; Falconblaze is wounded, Snowsoul is somewhat wounded

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Snowsoul had quickly scooped the kits to his side protectively, and all at once, shoved Thrushskip out of the circle of Infernoclan cats.

[ read Part 1 and 2 first! ]

Without even glancing back at the Tideclan cats, he called to his own cats, “Back to camp!” He picked up one of the small kits and Opalstone the other, and they were off.

As the rival clan departed, Webstar let down his guard, eyes flashing with anger. “Crowfood-eater ... I should have killed him.” He hissed under his breath.

“It’s done.” Flowerscar sighed, crouching as if the weight of the decision just made weighed down on her shoulders.

“We’re not going to leave them there.” Barkbriar growled. “Right?”

“With your permission, Webstar ...” Cedarpath twitched his tail. “I’d like to begin planning a rescue mission right away.”

“Of course.” Webstar agreed, turning with an agitated sweep of his tail and entering the camp once again. “They’ll hear from us yet.” He paused, glancing back. “Flowerscar? Would you take a look at Thrushskip’s wounds?”

The medicine cat nodded quickly. “Please, come to my den, dear. Barkbriar, get some herbs ready, would you?”

Barkbriar trotted off with a wave of his tail to the medicine cat’s den, and the Tideclan cats all slowly filtered back into the heart of their clan for the night, raw emotions heavy in the air.

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Webstar raised his head to meet Snowsoul eye-to-eye. “I agree to your terms.” He called evenly.

[ read Part 1 first! ]

Snowsoul nodded in satisfaction. Thrushskip started to step forward, and in a flash he turned on her, hissing furiously. “Stay where you are! You won’t be going anywhere until I have my kits.”

“Dawnclaw, please, could you fetch them?” Webstar turned his head to ask the lilac mollie, where she sat beside her mate.

“Of course.” Dawnclaw’s voice broke as she replied, vanishing into the brush of the camp’s entrance. Not minutes later she returned, Shiverkit in her jaws and Galekit stumbling sleepily ahead of her. She set them down, her face clearly showing the sorrow and anger she felt, though her voice was quiet and soothing. “There’s your father, little ones. Go and meet him.”

Snowsoul’s eyes lit up as he saw the two, moving toward them as they were ushered in his direction.

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after a couple days, Thrushskip is escorted out of the room she was captive in, as promised.

“We leave for Tideclan now.” Snowsoul announced, obviously quite happy with himself. “You’ll do the honors of keeping an eye on our guest, won’t you, Opalstone?”

Opalstone nodded silently, his face neutral.

“Sugar, Briar!” He called to the two sleeping cats, who roused and climbed out of their nests to join him. “Come along. I’ve waited long enough.”

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hmm, wonder what these two are up to 👀

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Snowsoul is escorted out of the camp and left with a few farewells from his escorts at the western border

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a meeting is called to discuss Snowsoul’s actions -- going behind his clanmates backs and becoming Owlpaw’s mate, which in turn, ultimately led to her fate during kit-birth.

after some discussion between clanmates, Webstar concludes that Snowsoul is to be exiled from the clan, ordering Kestreltalon and Leafrush to escort him to the border.

Snowsoul argues fiercely, pointing out that his own kits had just been born the previous day and he couldnt leave them. Webstar refuses, reassuring Snowsoul that they would be better of with Tideclan until they could make their own decisions.