xXx. Medicine Cats' Den .xXx

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Current RiverClan Medicine Cats'

Medicine Cat:

Medicine Cat Apprentice:

[Bluepaw]

Well, I guess I might as well sort these herbs while I wait for my mentor to get here.

[Luna Chi]

Rays of light weave their way through tall swaying reeds, a shimmering clear liquid trickles in a stream on the edge of the aquatic plants. Where the shadows rest soft sand stretches over the ground, small divest dug out and perfectly placed are plants of all different variations.
Yellow orbs catch drifting light in the natural den, breathing echos off of the soft floor. A shadow moves from behind the reeds where the stream was. Paw prints etched the sand where the figure once lurked. The eyes caught the sight of a feline with blue fur, it walked closer. The den was well lit towards the front, a white paw was placed in the warm rays of the sun. As the shadow emerged a silvery crescent shaped scar was well noticed across its left eye. Moonshadow. The reeds whispered, the she-cat sat down a tail length away from the apprentice sized cat. White fur ran down the shadow black fur like a river upon her underbelly.
The gentle feline scanned the ground, eyes tracing over each individual hole with herbs of sorts placed in them. "Hello Bluepaw" she finally said looking back up to the tom. A white paw ran across the scarred face, flattening ruffled fur. Taking in a breath the Medicine Cat spoke again "I see that you've been sorting herbs, that's good. Have you noticed if we have been running low on anything?" the words left from her lips soothing and not at all intimidating. The medicine cat waiting for a response, her long black tail curled around her paw.

[Bluepaw]

Looking back at his mentor waiting for his reply, Bluepaw counted off all of the herbs he had been sorting.

"Well, I'm not quite finished yet, but I noticed that the catnip, borage, and honey stocks are low. We don't have a steady supply of catnip that I remember of, but we don't really need any of those right now since its Greenleaf.
The juniper berries are getting to get low, so we should probably get those soon. The yarrow leaves are getting a bit stale and I'm worried that they might need replacing. I think I've heard rumors of there being more snakes so I looked for snakeroot as an anti-poison, but I couldn't find any. Do you think we should go get some?"

He checked every pile to make sure that he hadn't missed any of the herbs, he did that sometimes due to his forgetfulness. He sighed and waied for his mentor to tell him what to do next, hopefully it wouldn't be a lot.



(On a slightly related note, would it be unreasonable to ask if you could make your speaking text a less hard to read color? It hurts my eyes....Thanks.)

[Luna Chi]

Moonshadow nodded as her apprentice spoke, her soft golden eyes tracing once more over each herb. "Very good observation" she said when the blue tom stopped speaking. "Honey is going to be slightly harder to get since of Greenleaf, those bees can be quiet fiesty, so it might be better to go restock that earlier in the morning when the bees are still drowsy from sleep. " the sun was already almost to sun high.
The warming rays that found their way through the reeds soaked in the medicine cat's shadow colored fur. As another moment passed she spoke once more "Now when your done with sorting the rest of the herbs, I want you to go collect some Borage leaves and Juniper berries. Those should be found not to far from eachother in the grassy fields. You can have another apprentice come along with you but make sure they mentor is okay with it." her words came out like a worried mother "Be aware of snakes, the yarrow leaves can stand for a bit longer. And as for the snakeroot, it wont be necessary at the moment but if you find some while collecting the other herbs then feel free to grab it." with those final words the she-cats gaze drifted out towards the camp her left eye closing making the scar into a full crescent moon. As a bird flew by ahead loose feathers feel down from the avian.
A white paw came down on the soft feather, Moonshadow picked it up then imprinted it into the sand "Feathers are a very nice touch to a den don't you think?" she whispered.

[Bluepaw]

"Feathers? Well they're soft, but they make me sneeze more than usual." It made him sneeze just thinking about it.

The tom sighed thankfully in his head, that wasn't too much. He could remember that, right? Just in case, he repeated the instructions out loud to his mentor.
"Right, so you wanted me to keep working on the herbs, *sniff* then later I have to bring somecat with me to look for Borage and Juniper in the fields and collect some snakeroot if I find it. Yarrow and honey we look for later...wait, what about Catnip? I'm sure I've seen it before in our stocks, weren't there?" Bluepaw went further into his memory but came up blank either way. Oh Starclan, he'd forgotten again! How was he supposed to be the future medicine cat if he couldn't even remember the past stocks of herbs!

[Breezy~Chan]

Patchpaw and Mistpaw

A black and white tom followed by a snow white she-cat with an orange tail walked in to the Med Cats den with the tom limping. It felt like something was sticking in his paw pad and it was very painful. He had walked through some bamble near their territory. he came limping out after steping on one of the vain's and looked at his paw to see something sticking in the pad with blood on it "Hi Moonshadow I need some help here" he said in a tone that said he didn't like the idea of asking for help with something this small. Mistpaw his sister walked in with him and they both sat down next to each other looking around for the Meds cat and her apprentice.

[Bluepaw]

It had been a little while since Bluepaw had told Moonshadow about the stocks. He had just finished up with sorting the rest of the herbs. Since he wasn't able to make a complete report before he also had to tell his mentor that they were also running low on poppy seeds, which were invaluable in the line of healing. But before he could find his mentor he ran into Patchpaw and Mistpaw, who seemed to worried about something. Before he could ask why he looked down to see that Patchpaw had stepped into a rather nasty looking thorn. He decided to ask later about what happened since it seemed Patchpaw was a bit ashamed to be here.

"Ouch, that looks bad." he mewed. "Do you want me to take a look at it or do you want to wait for Moonshadow? I'm sure I can handle it, it's only a little wound."

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[Breezy~Chan]

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Patchpaw and Mistpaw

Patchpaw looked at Bluepaw with green eye's filled with pain and shame that he was stuped enough to walk through Bramble when he knew there was a risk of getting a thorn in his paw pad. He sighed as he saw Mistpaw was worried like always and he was the one to make her worry. Patchpaw hated to make his sister worry "Just take it out of my paw, Please, it really hurt if you havn't noticed" He wasn't really meaning to be rude to Bluepaw about this. He was angry at Bluepaw, but angry at himself for getting himself in this kind of position. He was going to be a WindClan Warrior soon for StarClan's sake and he was doing stipud stuff like this. What next rushing in to a fight with a fox or another Clan Warrior and getting himself badly wounded or worse. Patchpaw sighed again as he thought of that.

[Luna Chi]

The air started to have a warmer touch as the sun peaked through drifting clouds. White paws padding back to the Medicine Cat's den. Moonshadow looked up from gazing at the sand to see that two apprentices had entered the den since she had wandered off for a moment. As the medicine cat was a tail length away she watched as Bluepaw had offered to help Patchpaw. Her walk slowed only now to a casual movement, the crescent shaped scar across Moonshadow's left eye reflected off some of the light.
"Well hello there Patchpaw, that thorn does look painful." her eyes looked over the wound then back to Bluepaw "Now after you take the thorn out whats the best thing to put on the wound?" the Medicine cat said directed to her apprentice. She always found opportunities when she could help her apprentice by testing him. The caring Medicine cat looked at the siblings, Moonshadow saw worry in ones eyes and pain an the others. Memories flashed in the Medicine cat's mind. It was of her when she was real little, and no scar resided on her face. Another pure black feline was there, only slightly bigger then the small Moonshadow.
Her thoughts broke she shook her head only slightly to get the last bit of that memory out of thought. A shiver ran down her spine, Moonshadow focused back on the wounded apprentice and waited for Bluepaw's answer.

[Bluepaw]

The apprentice did his best not to jump when he heard his mentor's voice behind him. Moonshadow always seemed to daydream as much as he did, or at least that was the impression he had gotten. He then redirected his attention back to the other apprentices so that he could help Patchpaw.
"Right, so I yank out the thorn like this." Bluepaw emphasized this by yanking out the thorn and then licking the blood away that creeped out of the small wound. "Then after cleaning it we need to actually heal it. I don't think I need to put a cobweb on it since its only a thorn, plus we need that in case of an attack. For herb use we can use either goldenrod or dock, but I find that dock seems to work better. So we take the leaves and chew them up, then I think we put it all on? or do we throw away the part of the leaf that wasn't pulped? No wait! We chew the leaf, lick the juices on the pad, then spit out the whole leaf!"

Bluepaw then proceeded to do as he said, hoping to Starclan that he was right. Moonshadow was a kind cat and would probably forgive him, but he would beat himself up on the inside all day if he didn't get this one right. At the very least he hoped Patchpaw would forgive him if he had failed on this. He was hoping to ask either him or his sister if they would come with him for those herbs he had to gather...after he remembered what those herbs were...

[Breezy~Chan]

Patchpaw and Mistpaw

The black and white tom had sighed in relief when the thorn was taken out. He had hear-ed everything that Moonshadow said to her apprentice. She took any chance given to help Bluepaw since he has a bad memory. Patchpaw some times wished he had a bad memory and then maybe he wouldn't remember ShadowClan taking his older Sister away like a gift for the leader. Green eye's watched as Bluepaw tried his best with remembering the herbs needed. Patchpaw was being patient for someone his age and even though he didn't have a very good temper some times. He'd forgive Bluepaw if he messed up once, it's not like the apprentice was meaning to mess or anything. Mistpaw looked a little less worried now that her brother wasn't in pain. Her orange tail rubbed his back after he had seem to get angry at Bluepaw. But she knew he was angry at him, but himself. The snow white appretnice looked just like her missing sister who was kidnapped by ShadowClan. Her misty blue eye's saw that Patchpaw was watching Bluepaw with patient green eye's. They had trained so hard until patchpaw had been wounded by a fox four moons ago. They were suppose to be getting the warrior names really soon.

[Luna Chi]

Deep golden eyes watched as her apprentice took out the hinderence from Patchpaw's pad. Even before Bluepaw named off the herbs that he thought best would help she had a list of herbs running through her mind. A slender black tail twitched slightly back and fourth behind the Medicine Cat. Moonshadow's white whiskers quivered as she felt a small cool breeze against her scared face.
The medicine cat knew no matter what Bluepaw said, right or wrong that she was there to help him with the right. Her expression stayed the same, calm and caring as Moonshadow got her answer from her apprentice. Immediately after the thorn had been taking out she noticed the mood changing in her den. When the blue furred tom stopped speaking her words flowed out "Dock is one of the best herbs for this kind of wound. And also your exactly right about not applying cobweb, since its such a small wound it would stop bleeding easily on its own. But for applying the delicate dock leaf you chew it up and apply the entire thing, leaf and all. For if you were to just apply the juices it could drip and drizzle everywhere. Also its not only the juices that has the healing touch to it. But very good with remembering which herb should be used and which ones shouldn't. " Moonshadow was proud of her apprentice, and hoping now that he will always remember and apply the knowledge that she has given him, even though she knew it might be difficult. Her eyes looked up at the siblings sitting in her den "Now try not to get to much dirt in the pad for the time being. But other then that you should be perfectly fine." she directed towards Patchpaw.
The shadow black and white feline's attention turned back to Bluepaw "When your done fixing up the wound you can go and collect the herbs I told you, you remember then right?" Moonshadow said in a kind tone "Also remember to take another feline with you and watch out for snakes." now her eyes drifted to the herb stocks that the little holes held in the soft sandy ground. Her ears still perked waiting for any response.

[Bluepaw]

"Thanks for the help Moonshadow, I'm glad I don't have to go through this without you and your wisdom." Bluepaw then turned to look at the soon-to-be-warriors.
"Right, um, Mistpaw, can you help me with that thing with the herbs? I know that Patchpaw probably doesn't even want to get close to another herb for a while after this. But before that I'm just going to check the stocks to make sure I didn't miss anything. Plus if we do run into snakes...yeah."
Embarrased at his own words he then walked away with a slight burn in his pelt. He had to stop doing that, why couldn't he just get the words out to anycat without having any trouble? It's like his mother said, sometimes when he opened his mouth someone should cringe in fear and worry. He sighed and thought,'Well I hope Mistpaw will say yes and help me, because I really don't want to have any awkward silences with Pathpaw after what I just said!'