Who are you?(Misa)

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Spottedpaw walked out of camp he was tired of the camp he had to wonder if he would ever become a warrior, he rarely saw his mentor. 'I guess I should try and learn from the other apprentices, I know how to hunt at least,' he thought his thoughts spinning. He didn't really care much for his mentor, he saw his mentor as a flirt who would flirt with any she-cat. 'I find cats like that disgusting,' he thought the tip of his tail twitching. He was so lost in thought that he didn't realize that he had come across territory that he didn't know. He looked around in surprise noticing the pond and the rock in the middle. 'This must be the pond of truce,' he thought remembering some of his clan mates telling him about it after they had come back from a gathering. The tom tom shook himself and moved closer to the pond before laying down and resting his head on his paws.

[:-Misa-:]

So this was what it was like to be an apprentice.
This is what her siblings had felt for moons upon, previous to her own knowing. 
but it was so much work... she just needed a break from it. So that's what she left camp for. It was getting late anyway, so it wasn't like she had much to do. 

Cinderpaw made her way through the territory, not yet quite familiar with it, so at times making turns she wasn't quite so sure of. Little did she know where she would turn up. Though quite frankly, she didn't care too much. She would have to learn the land eventually, and what way better than through experience and wandering. 

The trees started to clear out leaving the young apprentice standing before a stretch of land with a pond in the middle. Scents mixed together wafting from other tree lines that receded farther back. They were all so different. Some smelt of her own clan, others smelt of the borders that she had recently learned were along her clan's territory.

The Pond of Truce

but tonight... she wasn't alone. 

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Spottedpaw had his back towards the she-cat he didn't hear her approach but his noise was able to pick up the stronger scent of a cat from another clan. The Sunsetclan apprentice was instantly on his paws as the scent of another cat registered in his mind. From the scent of the cat he knew that the cat wasn't in his own clan. He whipped around to face the newcomer his eyes narrowed, and the fur along his spine was bristling. Seeing that is was just an apprentice the fur along his spine flattened but he still eyed the other apprentice warily. "Who are you?" he asked the other apprentice the tip of his tail twitching back and forth.

[:-Misa-:]

To say the least Cinderpaw was a little bit surprised. She hadn't expected to wander into an area, here especially, and then meet someone.

This was a little bit awkward.

Her first thought revolved around the possibilities that this cat was aggressive. She hadn't really met one like that yet, but she'd heard of them. And of course she hadn't been taught any fighting skills yet... greeeeaaaaat. 

Especially with how this was unfolding she was a bit screwed. Though in reality that possibility hadn't clicked. "My name's Cinderpaw-" she paused, tilting her head curiously, "-who are you?"

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Spottedpaw continued to watch the other apprentice waiting for her to say something like who she was since he had asked. His ears went up when she introduced herself, 'So I was right, she is from one of the other clans,' he thought. He was so lost in his own thoughts that he almost missed the apprentices question. "I'm Spottedpaw, from Sunsetclan," he meowed fixing his gaze on the she-cat waiting for her to say something else.

[:-Misa-:]

"Sunsetclan, huh?" Cinderpaw tilted her head curiously looking the cat before her- who she now knew to be Spottedpaw. They didn't border her clan, only Stormclan and Leafclan did. "I'm from Midnightclan. I've never met anyone from Sunsetclan, what's it like?" The wonder in her eyes was obvious. Based on her size and looks it was safe to assume she had been an apprentice for some time and had been to a gathering before, but since she was held back as a kit she never had. 

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"We swim a lot, or I would if my mentor had taught me how to swim but I've seen the other apprentices in my clan swim enough to snow how. Of course in leafbare none of us really want to swim," Spottedpaw meowed flicking his ears back and forth. "What about Midnightclan what is it like, I've been to gatherings but I usually stay with my own clan mates," the tom meowed frowning.

[:-Misa-:]

'They swim?' Well now that she thought about it it seemed to make sense. From the information she had gathered on the clans Sunsetclan lived off the ocean and their main supply of food was fish. 'I wonder what it's like...'
Cinderpaw, like many cats in her home clan, would grow up likely never to touch the sea. That only heightened her desire to see it though. To touch it.  She knew it wouldn't happen though. 
"We don't climb or swim much... we're mostly fighters. At least from what I've heard from other apprentices. And you know,you're lucky that you've been to gatherings. I was apprenticed two moons late, so I've never been to one before. What are they like?" 

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"They're great, if you like being treated like a kit when your allowed to go, all the other apprentices can go talk to cats from other clans but my clans want to keep an eye on me," Spottedpaw meowed flicking his ears back and forth. "I'm sorry that you were apprentice two moons late, I'm surprised that didn't happen to me. My clan mates seem set on treating me like a kit," he meowed flicking the tip of his tail back and forth. "When I go to gatherings I really don't get a chance to enjoy them," he meowed dipping his head to the she-cat. "Hopefully you'll have more fun at gatherings when your allowed to go," he meowed.

[:-Misa-:]

"No need to be sorry really. It was just a minor setback after all. I'll still be a great warrior for a clan in the end." Cinderpaw puffed out her chest proudly for a moment, she wanted to make Midnightclan proud... but yet she didn't. She didn't quite feel like she belonged there. She loved her family and everyone there, but beneath the oaks wasn't her calling. That's why she said a clan. She didn't know quite yet what she wanted.

Cinderpaw cocked her head to the side before sinking to a sitting position, deeming this cat not to be a threat, "Well there's nothing wrong with being treated like a kit. It just means that it'll make proving them otherwise all the more necessary." Maybe her comfort was being over trusting, or maybe it was just because she didn't know any better. She hadn't experienced evil and danger that the lands truly held. Either way, this time it didn't make a difference. 

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"Yeah, I suppose so, your taking the delay pretty well, not a lot of cats would take kindly to having their ceremony delayed," Spottedpaw meowed licking his paw and drawing it over his ears. He sometimes thought that he wouldn't make a great warrior because of the way others treated him. He didn't want to be held back because of the way others treated him. He was snapped out of his thoughts when Cinderpaw spoke again saying something about how he was treated. "I suppose so, I just try and do everything that the other apprentices do," he meowed looking around. "If they knew I had walked all the way here by myself they would probably change their mind about me, but I wouldn't ever tell them about going somewhere to clear my mind, then they would tell me to stop slipping out of camp just to think. Sometimes I just need to be away from my clan mates, they aren't all bad but most of them are," he meowed glancing at the apprentice.

[:-Misa-:]

"I didn't always take it this way. I mean yeah, it did hurt getting delayed but having no reason to be, but I mean, there's nothing I could do so I just learned to accept it." Cinderpaw shrugged her shoulders as if it was nothing. Of course it wasn't though. It hurt to speak of it the way she was, but what else could she do. She wasn't going to show someone her weakness. She wasn't going to let it seem like it affected her. Honestly she would act like nothing bothered her. The last thing the young apprentice wanted was for anyone else to look at her as week and helpless because of her late ceremony.
"I feel you there though. It's nice to be able to just walk away from everything every once and a while. I'm looking for a place that I can go to that's not out of the clans' reach, but just far enough to challenge the borders, feel like for just one moment my clan is gone, and I'm free from it."

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"I suppose your right about that, but some cats don't ever get over having their ceremonies delayed and make a big deal out of it," Spottedpaw meowed letting out a sigh. "I've just accepted that life doesn't always go the way you want, the world is always filled with pain," he meowed glancing over at Cinderpaw flicking his ears back and forth. "Yeah, I really don't have much left in my clan I have siblings in my clan that I have nothing to do with, but I've never been big on family or hanging around my clan mates. I usually try and get away from them because they don't really try and get to know the real me," he meowed frowning.

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