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Post by Willowishness on May 8, 2008 22:33:28 GMT -5
ShiverPaw was sitting in the swiftly darkening forest, watching light bugs zoom around. One settled on his nose, tickling him, and he sneezed. In shock, the bug lifted off his nose and crashed into a tree, then slid to the ground, dead.
A dead light bug? How appealing.
ShiverPaw curled his lip up in annoyance. Stupid bug.
He sunk his claws into the ferns below him only to realize that they werent ferns after all; they were a clump of chervil. His mentor would reward him for bringing back useful herbs for Alchemy, he'd just take some back with him. He began to scrape some of the stalks off the ground, leaving the roots to grow back later in the season.
((EmotionPaw?))
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 10, 2008 12:55:49 GMT -5
Emotionpaw crept out of the darkness, her pawsteps as silent as the night. The cool breeze felt like a slap in the face. She gritted her teeth in unknown anger and annoyance. She could see Shiverpaw doing some simple alchemist task.
"Shiverpaw." She meowed, letting him know that she was there. She knew that Shiverpaw didn't have the best eye sight, and Emotionpaw's pawsteps were always undetected. Well almost always. She sat down beside him, looking at the roots with little interest.
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Post by Willowishness on May 11, 2008 12:50:35 GMT -5
ShiverPaw meowed a greeting without looking up. There was no point to, really. His sight just kept getting worse, and EmotionPaw knew that. She wouldnt be offended if he didnt look up at her.
"How's life?"
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 11, 2008 21:03:37 GMT -5
"Blah. Boring. I should be a Warrior by now. If only Heatherstar were here instead of thick skulled DeathStroke." She hissed, and watched as Shiverpaw scraped the roots. "Need any help?" She asked. She hated sitting there, just watching Shiverpaw work.
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Post by Willowishness on May 13, 2008 19:12:48 GMT -5
"I thought you and DeathStroke were pretty tight? And yea, you can help." He moved over to make room for her by the clump of chervil.
"So what did he do to make you hate him?" ShiverPaw curled the claws of one of his paws around the stalks he'd gathered. He held them up, analyzing how much he had and how much more he should gather. His paw shook like a cocaine addict's; ShiverPaw had always been like that, even as a kit. All shivery and whatnot.
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 14, 2008 19:08:40 GMT -5
"I just didn't like the way DeathStroke always treated me. When I was young I thought of him as my father, mezmoriezed by his skill and evil cunning. But I just kinda learned the hard way that that's not the kind of tom I should hang around. And what makes it worse is that all my other family members are dead or wound up missing." Emotionpaw meowed as she began to harvest the Chervil.
"So what's Chervil for any how?" She meowed.
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Post by Willowishness on May 14, 2008 19:20:05 GMT -5
"The roots can be chewed to help with belly ache and the juice of the leaves stops infection." ShiverPaw said that with certainty. He wasnt ready to be a full blown Alchemist yet, but he was close.
"Chervil isnt very interesting, really."
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 18, 2008 17:21:46 GMT -5
"Who's your mentor again?" She pondered out loud, she was finished with her Charvil and watched as Shiverpaw finished up with his own batch.
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Post by Willowishness on May 18, 2008 20:17:53 GMT -5
"HeatherStar vanished and Lord-Of-The-World-DeathStroke never gave me one. All of the Alchemists act as my mentor, in a way." ShiverPaw yawned.
"So how'd you learn the hard way?"
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 18, 2008 21:05:01 GMT -5
Emotionpaw hesitated, clouds of worry covered her eyes.
Where could I even begin? She thought to herself.
She scooted closer to Shiverpaw, and let her head fall on his flank, "I know where Heatherstar is..." She mewed at last.
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Post by Willowishness on May 19, 2008 20:13:20 GMT -5
There was no shock in ShiverPaw's marble-like deep blue eyes; only a dull half-interest.
"Really?" He invited her to go on, while scooting a bit away from the she-cat. He wasnt really into girls and EmotionPaw was just a bit too close for his liking.
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 20, 2008 9:00:08 GMT -5
"She's dieing...shiverpaw." She whispered, a tear spilling out of her eye. "Slowly... i can't help her. I tried to get Deathstroke to save her but he won't do it." She flicked her nose uneasily.
Why should I be telling you this anyway? She thought. She shook her head, about to pad away.
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Post by Willowishness on May 20, 2008 17:38:50 GMT -5
"What's wrong with her?" ShiverPaw asked, picking up the chervil and preparing to follow EmotionPaw back to camp.
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 20, 2008 17:56:22 GMT -5
"She's poisoned. Slowly... I can't fix her." She growled. "I'm going to find SummerBreeze and MintyCreek." Her pace increased.
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Post by Willowishness on May 20, 2008 23:19:53 GMT -5
"Wont DeathStroke find out if you run into the Alchemist den yowling about HeatherStar??" ShiverPaw haulted her by running forward to stand in front of her.
"I've got a plan. DeathStroke will never find out if we do it this way. Are you listening?"
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 21, 2008 18:26:31 GMT -5
Emotionpaw curled her tail around herself, "I'm listening." She meowed as she stopped. Her gaze intensely fixed on Shiverpaw.
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Post by Willowishness on May 22, 2008 18:24:23 GMT -5
"We can look into curing her ourselves." ShiverPaw's blue eyes were fixed intently on the blurred shape of the she-cat in front of him.
"I already know everything any of the other Alchemists know. I even know some Rogue cures." ShiverPaw had lived amongst the Rogues before he came to the clan.
"You can take me to her, I'll evaluate her, then start experimenting with herbs to cure her. All we need is an excuse to be away from camp for so long. And an excuse to be around each other much more than usual." He was going to need her help. EmotionPaw knew more about DeathStroke and his poisons as well as HeatherStar's condition better than any cat other than DeathStroke himself right now.
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 25, 2008 19:42:18 GMT -5
Emotionpaw nodded, "This way." She meowed.
She lead Shiverpaw down a small twisted, rocky path. Most cats wouldn't have seen it before because it was well hidden in the thick gorse and bramble patches. Emotionpaw knew the way well, because she often spent most her time visiting Heatherstar. Telling her how sorry she was and what not.
Soon the path stopped and there was a dark tunnel ahead. Emotionpaw pushed through it with ease, it was a small tunnel that opened up to a big cave. Emotionpaw's whiskers skimmed the surface of the rocky walls, the air was denser here.
There was a small patch of light up ahead, a couple more pawsteps and the tunnel would open up. THe scent of death crashed into her, and lingering in the death scent was heatherstar's.
Emotionpaw made her way towards the feeble leader. "Heatherstar." She meowed respectfully. The leader didn't move, but simply blink.
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Post by Willowishness on May 25, 2008 19:56:06 GMT -5
ShiverPaw was reminded strangely of his sister, Echo. Maybe it was because Strife used to hurt her a lot too, and the similarity was that HeatherStar, too, was merely hurt.
He sniffed her and instantly picked up the scent of a poison he recognized. He had to think for a minute before he could name it.
"Phosphorous. White Phosphorous." Phosphorous was insanely deadly; 15 mgs could kill an adult male human. A speck could make a cat sick like HeatherStar was. It would have been easy for DeathStroke to hide some in HeatherStar's prey or something...
"And..." He paused for a moment, inhaling deeply, trying to pick up any other scents.
"Tetrodotoxin(even more deadly than White Phosphorous!). Where the hell did he get a puffer fish from?" ShiverPaw paused for a moment, then chuckled to himself, as if imagining the possibilities.
"We'll have to go to the Rogues to get a sample of that. We can find a phosphorous sample in certain mushrooms." They needed samples of the poison to poison prey with so they could test out cures on prey.
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Post by ellegantillusion on May 25, 2008 20:05:58 GMT -5
Emotionpaw nodded, "Shall we go?" She meowed.
((How about we make a seperate thread, you can start it. For like finding the right herbs and mushrooms and everything. And I'll prolly role play Echo for a short time, so that she can see her brother again. Then we'll post back here when everything is collected. Kay?))
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Post by Willowishness on May 25, 2008 20:26:13 GMT -5
((Sure. U start the rogue post and I'll start the post here.))
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