Any Other Day [tagged]

[Glorilyss]

[ooc: Sorry I never replied to the last thread, haven't been able to get on in a bit. Hope you don't mind me starting a new thread!

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It was, essentially, a day like any other day. The same fire in his belly and the glitter in his eyes; the same stone under his paws and the solidity of his ambition were repeated, day after day, so that they all twisted seamlessly into the very fabric of his reality. The tom would have accepted nothing less; he would have wanted nothing but this. The ambition in his belly was enough to carry him forward, more nourishing than food, more restful than sleep. It was, in fact, this very ambition that had him out of his nest with dawn, pacing across to the camp entrance to see in the sun. It started out as a day like any other, but perhaps there was a promise in the air today. Perhaps things would be different.

Determined to make the most of today, the tom turned away from the view of a reborn sky, snowshoe paws carrying him towards the warriors den. He was determined to get an early start on training, even if he had to take control of everything himself. He paused outside of the den, not totally certain whether he should barge right in or whether that would be considered rude beyond belief. Then,  with a tiny inward chuckle, he simply realized that he didn't care, and the tom stepped into the warmth of the den. He waited for his eyes to adjust, looking for the sleeping shape of his mentor, dark ginger body blending smoothly with the shadows.

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(dun mind x3) DoveSong sat in the very back of the den, licking at her paws, grooming down the fur and brushing off the moss that had clung to her long fur during her nightly sleep. Looking up at the Entrance, she spotted her apprentice, carefully she padded over to him with a bright smile on her face, looks like she wouldn't be able to sneak in a later nap.

"You're up early, I bet you can't wait for more training?" She said with a soft smile and nudged her apprentice. "but you should know better than to come into the Warrior's Den, yet I'm sure you won't do that again." She said and raised an eyebrow at BrackenKit, making sure to keep her voice low due to the sleeping cat's around her. "Go get some prey to eat before we head out, you'll need your strength for our training today, I plan to wear you out." She said as if challenging the kit.

[Glorilyss]

Brackenpaw was relatively relieved to see Dovesong make her way towards him; he would have awoken her himself, but that would've been a relatively awkward situation, and things were clarified now. The tomkit backed up as he saw the long-haired female approaching, slipping out of the murky, dark warmth of the den into the lighter openness of the camp proper. At his mentor's scolding, he gave her a look of such utter blandness that he could have been staring at a stone. Of course he'd go in there again if he had to. What was some stupid warning to him?

"Actually, I'd rather not," he replied quickly. "No point in eating if I haven't earned it." He halfway expected her to try to force him to get breakfast. He certainly hoped she wouldn't bother; not even Pebblestar herself would make him do something he was set against doing, and really, he just wanted to train. As soon as he'd learned something new, he would allow himself to eat - but this was the tom that had envisioned a new life of hardened toughness for TalonClan. He was hardly going to be lenient to himself.