Cold {Hazel & Two}

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Frog legs

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MALE | gay | taken | 23 moons

i am not throwing away my shot!

   The sky was growing darker by the second, giving the clan a sense of time. It was going to be night. But, there will be no stars in the sky. No moon. No crickets chirping in the grass. Only fear. Fear of how much longer this storm will last. A shred of hope. Hope to survive another day. To defeat the hunger that gnawed at the stomach, to rid the mind of hopeless thoughts, to find faith that Starclan was still watching over them. For all the clans knew, they were being punished by the gods. 

    Inside the warrior's den, Froglegs lay peacefully, huddled up close to his mate, Fallenfox. His flank rose and fell steadily, and his paws flicked as he slept. The wind that howled outside brought snowflakes into the den, which soon melted. Though it was as cold as ice outside, the warrior's den was bearable. It wasn't too cold, but it definitely wasn't a cozy, nice warmth like new-leaf. But, it was better than freezing everyone's asses off. 

    Froglegs was jerked awake by a sharp kick in the rib. He looked around and realized that Fallenfox, his own mate had done it. Rolling his eyes, he gave the tom a rough lick on the head before sitting up. Every bone in his body ached. His throat felt like somebody had run their claws up and down the inside multiple times. His nose was dripping. His eyes were groggy. 

    After a couple of attempts to get comfortable again, all of them failing, he stood up and padded to the entrance of the den. Damn. It would be so nice if I could just take a walk around the camp to wear myself out... He thought indignantly, his olive green eyes staring longingly at the white powder that covered the camp. The snow was coming down so hard it was hard to see even three fox-lengths in front of the den. How the hell are we going to survive here? We're just sitting ducks to this storm. We are starving. Thirsty. Sleep-deprived... I just want this to stop. The tom took a paw to his nose and wiped the drippage away and sighed. His whole heart and lungs burned from the cold. 

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Their happiness... Marbledbirch had starved before. He'd known hunger before. He'd known what it was to watch a world you wanted be placed at your paws and then ripped away, leaving behind nothing but the jagged shards of an exit wound. Like a bullet, starvation had torn through him once before. But no he had no one to depend on, no one to turn to when the night grew long and the pain too great. Only the hollowness of his stomach down to his heart kept him company and in the present. The ice was nothing new to him. The ice and the cold had long since enveloped his heart in its burning grasp, pumping shards through his freezing veins. Every second a new agony. The vast wasteland of white abyss was not new to him. For his mind had been such a thing for many a moon now. The cold, the ice, the hunger. This was Marbledbirch's dominion. This was his home, existence, domain. He was king of all the ice and cold. And he wore the crown of broken shards upon his head, a crown that brought with it all the weight and suffering bestowed onto the lost and abused souls of Shadowclan. As snow drifted through the sky above in a thick splurrying blizzard, it embraced his lean form, kissed and melted against his fur. And even as the crystaline droplets began to freeze and burn in fractals against his skin, each droplet like a blade held to the flesh of a lamb's throat, he continued to feel nothing.  Breathing a long sigh, Marbledbirch tilted his head back slowly, vapour traversing through the thick snowy air like dragon's breath. Though what wealth and treasure he could possibly be guarding he was unsure. He was a man with nothing left. Plain to see. His head lolled back, rolling out his shoulders, leaning his chin back until his throat ached with the constriction. Only when it finally cracked deep in his bones did he finally lift his head back from his zenith to his horizon, pale gaze boring blankly ahead of him, splitting through the air like headlights. Though his gaze had been aimed at nothing nor no one in particular, it had come to fall upon Froglegs who stood in his way. Yet another Shadowclanner that Marbledbirch did not heed his time with. What was the point? Living in this place was like dancing at a masked ball. You could only ever pirouette with a charade. You never knew the real man behind the mask until it was too late, he already had you in his arms and he-  Marbledbirch averted his gaze sharply. He did not need to dance again. Lifting to his paws, he set about his daily pacing. From one end of the camp to the other, paws scratching against the thawed earth that lay heavy and dense beneath him. The pads of his fleshy paws were cracked. Each step sent a jar through his leg, settling into a dull ache in his shoulders. And by Starclan did he welcome it. Welcome to actually feel something, to actually feel the wind in his fur, the hot sting of blood against his pads as the cracks blistered and broke, to feel the ice and snow around him. He was king. King of his own domain. King of the ice and snow. But deep down, Marbledbirch knew the truth. Knew Daytail's truth. For deep down, it was not that Marbledbirch felt nothing.  It was that he felt too much. W O R D S 590 LIARS

MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOXOGRAPHY 2.0

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Frog legs

template by punki of adoxography

MALE | gay | taken | 23 moons

i am not throwing away my shot!

  Froglegs' chestnut colored ears swiveled at the sound of another cat waking from their slumber and rising out of their nest. Without turning his head, he glanced sideways at the tom to try and see who it was, but it was too dark in the den to merely make out a shadow. So he directed his attention back to the clearing, backing up a bit out of the way to make a path for the tom.

    A marbled tom padded into the clearing, and Froglegs' eyes were locked on them, completely flabbergasted. How can they just walk out there in the storm? Their fur wasn't nearly as long as Froglegs, and he was greatly astonished as he kept walking, pacing around the clearing. Narrowing his olive eyes he tried to think of why any sane person would do such a thing. Who knows, maybe he's not sane!

    "Hey!" Froglegs padded out of the den, sinking in the snow, and yelled again. "What do you think you're doing? Its fucking cold out here, do you wanna die?" His eyes were wide and his ears were pinned back to his head.

    For Froglegs, the winter winds had nothing on him. But this cat was scrappy with no meat on his bones. The last thing the clan needed was more dead warriors. They already have enough of those. "Please, come back inside, man!" He yowled into the howling wind, clearly agitated and concerned for this cat.