Put your, put your hands up

Stoicstar, almost mirroring his deputy, sat outside his own den, but he was watching Vitalmedicine. He knew he had made the right choice, she was a good leader. However... he wished she would talk more. Maybe reach out to some of the newer members. It was tricky, alright. How did you assign a cat that didn't like too many others of its kind to be a mentor to a young kit? How did you find a cat that would cope with that? The few that she had mentored had had trouble, he imagined. He couldn't assign another anti-social cat as Stoicstar doubted much would be accomplished that way, but he was quite afraid that Vitalmedicine would murder a social apprentice. He sighed. This was his dilemma. The large brown tom padded over to his second-in-command. "Good afternoon, Vitalmedicine," he said nonchalantly, very Stoicstar-like.

Stoicstar found this all selfishly amusing, however he didn't show it, instead keeping his cool pokerface. "A hunting patrol. Or... as I think you'd prefer, assign someone else to lead one and then go hunt by yourself." he said, gauging her reaction. There was just no pleasing his deputy, and he had to suppress his childhood habit of trying so desperately to please her. He wasn't going to give her all the energy that he had his father. That was the past.

A young apprentice raced through the camp, bumping past other cats. "Sorry," she would yell back at them. She wanted to talk to Stoicstar about being assigned a new mentirnsince her old one disappeared, but when she arrived there, she saw the leader was conversing with the deputy. She started to slowly back up, but as she did so, she bumped into Radiospeaker. Young Revivalpaw squeaked and whirled around, licking her chest to hide her embarrassment.

It seemed that she was able to freak out every living being near here. Hurrah! Vitalmedicine gave Radiospeaker an annoyed growl, waiting to see if he'd scream like a kit. There was an awkward relationship between the two, caught between stranger and boyfriend/girlfriend. There was one thing, like Radiospeaker's fear, that just plain freaked her out. Medicine. The smell gave her headaches and sent her to different worlds, and then there was poppy seeds, which sent you to sleep. That, in turn, made her fear being healed, and Radiospeaker. StarClan, he was scarier then Vitalmedicine if the deputy thought about it! He could send you to sleep with two tiny black seeds...scary. Vitalmedicine turned to Revivalpaw with disgust. She hated apprentices, way too cheerful and (ugh)kind. "You know me too well, but I hate hunting," Vit snapped at Stonicstar. "You lead it, and take that apprentice with you. She looks rather...lonely." Rolling her eyes, Vitalmedicine inched away from the other cats and walked out of the camp.

Revivalpaw, who had taken up hiding on the side of Radiospeaker farthest from Vitalmedicine, was shaken from her brief encounter with the deputy, slowly went to stand in front of the leader. She dipped her head to Stoicstar and weakly mewed, "I- I was wondering if I might have a mentor, sir." She suddenly realized that she had stuttered, and was immediately aphaled. She did not stutter!

[do you have a preference on who mentors her?]

Stoicstar looked at her, amused, then his face turned serious. "Yes, that's right, your old mentor disappeared I forgot about that..." he paused, thinking. Who could mentor this apprentice? The dark tom closed his eyes, mentally going through the cats in WindClan.

/lm

[Hmm... I can't decide if Vitalmedicine would completely murder Stoicstar so I'll have him mentor Revivalpaw]

Stoicstar nodded. "Yes, she was a good warrior," he said absently, not paying a lot of attention to the words. "Hmm... yes yes that will do. Alright, I know who your mentor will be." he said, bounding up to Tallrock with surprising speed for one of his size. "Let all cats old enough to hunt the moorlands come beneath the Tallrock for a Clan meeting!!" he yowled, his voice carrying over the flat camp as there were few things to block the sound from reaching all edges of the WindClan dwelling.

'Oh god, I'm late,' came a light and airy voice following by a surprisingly sleek and alabaster white figure. Two pink eyes raised to her leader and a gentle smile graced her maw as she dived in late hoping that she hadn't been noticed by her mentor especially; but she had been playing around the with herbs and being the organized cat she was couldn't help but fix them up.

Ribbonpaw the medicine cat apprentice, shuffled her albino weight while her milky pink eyes stared up at her leader though her skin was flaring hot in embarassment in case she had been noticed. The stub of her tail thumped against the ground in her self-consciousness; what if everyone stared at her and made a big deal? She wouldn't be able to live it down! Yet the excitement of seeing another apprentice recieve a new mentor.

Radiospeaker's broad brown tabby head to sharply at the soft voice of his apprentice. "Ribbonpaw, over here!" he called softly. He was a bit disappointed she was late but it was no big deal. The leaderhadn't even started talking yet.

He lifted one white paw to his muzzle and licked it casually as his brown tabby tail flicked back and forth impatiently. Impatient for his apprentice to hurry up and get over other spot and impatient for the leader to start talking.

But soon his gaze drifted to Vitalmedicine and he shook with disgust in himself. How could he be staring at her? Gross. But...

[Actually... Dew I REALLY want to make an apprentice for Vit to mentor. You up for it?]

Stoicstar saw that everyone was here, not paying any mind to Ribbonpaw, she hadn't held up the meeting... and she was too fragile for him to get mad at her even if she had showed up in the middle of the meeting. "Cats of WindClan, by now we have all heard that Emeraldorb has been missing for some time now, thought to have left for good. She left behind many friends, as well as an apprentice. Revivalpaw, will you step forward, please?"

Revivalpaw stepped towards the leader. She kept herself from quivering in excitement, but just barely. She wondered who Stoicstar had in mind for her mentor

[Sorry, low muse]

"Revivalpaw, you have been trained by Emeraldorb but now must find another warrior to continue training you. I will finish your training, and I hope to improve you on what you do know, and teach you what you don't." Stoicstar said, touching noses with his new apprentice.

Revivalpaw's eyes widened as Stoicstar assigned himself to become her mentor. She never had expected to be trained in hunting and fighting by the clan leader! The young apprentice did not stop smiling until Vit made her comment. That stupid cat, she thought, She hates every single one of us. I would never choose a cat like that to be the next leader of Windclan!

So what if Vit hated everyone? It wasn't her fault that cats were annoyed by her! Hell, it was their choice to be annoyed. And as far as I can tell, you haven't done more then take on an apprentice. Yippee, Vitalmedicine thought sullenly. She was simply suggesting that Stoicstar might take his overly enthusiastic apprentice along with him, but apparently Revivalpaw was too much for a patrol. With a scowl, Vit sat back and rolled her eyes. She wouldn't speak at all for a while, retreating into grumpy anti-socialness.