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Post by Twilidramon on May 20, 2014 18:15:24 GMT -8
Tigertail's nervousness was beginning to be replaced by frustration. Come on, she thought. It's just a tree! Since when is a cat scared of a tree...? Since when am I scared of a tree?
"I'm going to try coming down," Tigertail called, hoping she sounded more confident than she felt.
Tigertail placed her paws, one after the other, as carefully as she could on the branch. She took each step slowly, concentrating so hard that even the sound of the drizzling rain was nothing but background noise to the two fluffballs she called paws.
She felt her rear bump against the trunk of the tree, and a sense of satisfaction coursed through her. Partway there! She began to carefully turn herself around, thankful that the branch was a little thicker back near the trunk. The trunk was right before her eyes as her spine twisted around in an almost impossible loop.
And then a bird squaked.
Tigertail, shocked by the sound, lost her balance and slipped off of her branch. She couldn't help but let out a yowl of horror as her stomach leapt into her throat, twisting upside-down. Air whooshed past her body for mere moments, and then suddenly she felt the ground and her body crash into one another with a thud that made stars dazzle in the darkness of her eyes.
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Post by Spade♠ on May 21, 2014 16:24:09 GMT -8
Hollowstar was just beginning to calm down as Tigertail backed back along the branch. When she reached the trunk, it seemed she was going to get down safely. And then she fell. Hollowstar echoed her yowl of fear. It seemed like she was falling in slow motion until she hit the ground. He rushed to her side and circled around her once before nudging her shoulder with his nose. "Tigertail! Are you alright?" It seemed like kind of mouse-brained question, but he didn't know what else to do.
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Post by Twilidramon on May 22, 2014 4:19:27 GMT -8
Tigertail opened her eyes what seemed like ages later, to find Hollowstar's face coming into focus. His eyes were round, huge with worry and he had a paw lifted to prod her. It seemed like it took forever for her to get enough air back into her lungs to be able to say anything.
She opened her mouth and coughed, "What's with the look? I'm... I'm fine!"
But then she tried getting up.
Tigertail felt an agonizing pain in her front leg as she tried, and it caused her to yelp and slam back down into the leaf-mold. eyes stinging, she felt every throb of pain from her leg as if it were a wound constantly being reopened. The pain was enough to send her gasping, panting as she lay there in the dirt.
She looked up at Hollowstar plaintively, feeling both ashamed of herself and worried. Am I broken? she thought, panic gripping her muscles.
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Post by Spade♠ on May 22, 2014 8:37:34 GMT -8
She tried to get up and she fell. Hollowstar was trying to remain calm for Tigertail's sake, but he was close to panic. He wasn't a medicine cat, he didn't know how to help her. Should he try and carry or support her and take her back to Hawkcloud and Adderpaw? Should he leave her and bring the medicine cats back? "Can you stand if you lean on me?" he asked. "We've got to get you back to camp..." He crouched next to her, offering his shoulder to lean against. Leaving her alone and injured in the forest was probably not the best choice right now, he had decided.
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Post by Twilidramon on May 23, 2014 6:55:17 GMT -8
Tigertail nodded. Though the thought of standing made her leg hurt more, she knew she had to get back.
With Hollowstar's help she was on her feet, her foreleg hanging in the air as comfortable as she could manage. Planting all of her support on three good legs, she leaned against Hollowstar. Her head was swimming with a mixture of pain and exhaustion that felt like she was trying to swim in mud.
Adderpaw and Hawkcloud can fix me, she thought, dimly. They have to...
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Post by Spade♠ on May 26, 2014 13:39:12 GMT -8
((I'ma make a new thread for them back at camp :>))
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