The Crack Of Dawn

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[bg=black][cs=7] Dainty stretched herself and yawned. She blinked as she looked at the sun and sighed. Great. Time to get up for that patrol,she thought bitterly. She didn't even know who she was meant to be going with. She might be stuck with those new apprentices and their mentors; the apprentices probably knew more about hunting than she did and then she'd be shown up by a pair of kits. Great. But since Snowpatch was deputy now, she supposed it was up to her to sort out patrols. She'd better go find her. Dainty stretched for the last time, and got up slowly. She couldn't believe she had to get up this early to hunt. Pfft. She spotted Snowpatch quickly, in the middle of the camp. She walked over to her resignedly and sighed again. "So, Snowpatch," Dainty said,"I'm here for the dawn patrol. Who am I going to-"she had to refrain from saying 'who am I going to be stuck with' because she didn't want to be rude to the deputy,"be going on the patrol with?"

[sandfire]

Snowpatch stretched slightly, licking her paw absently as Dainty asked who she was on dawn patrol with. She was stiff and tired from staying up half the night, so she was planning on relaxing a bit longer, taking a bit more of a catnap. Hm, though... Who to go on patrol with Dainty? She looked around to see who was stirring.

"Um, take Spotleg, Fleetfoot, Memorypaw... and... hm... Anyone else who wants to, I suppose... I'll be starting a boarder patrol soon, but I think the new apprentices will be exploring... so they'll have that covered. I, however, am going back to sleep. Good luck hunting, Dainty," she meowed the last bit through a yawn and curled her tail over her nose as she settled her head back on her paws.

[Twilight]

Having heard his name, Spotleg looked up from washing himself, his eyes locking on Dainty. Ugh... I have to go with her? Why, StarClan, why?!?!?!? He hauled himself up, and trudged his cold body over to the little cat, and he sat down beside her, waiting for Fleetfoot. He knew the older warrior was coming because he could scent him on the breeze coming out of the warrior's den. Whether or not Dainty could he could care less about.

Fleetfoot was awakened by a rude paw, and not wanting to kno who woke him he headed towards the entrance of the warrior's den, and heard his name for dawn patrol. Truthfully, Fleetfoot was not a morning cat, especially when he had spent the entire night up with his mate. She wanted more kits, and he was happily willing to oblige. When he saw Spotleg sitting by Sainty, eyeing her with undusguised disgust, he knew she was on the patrol. He sighed inwardly and was at leasdt trying to act nicely to the she-cat, but it was hard. He had finally made it to the pair, and sat down. "Whoe else? If it's an apprentice, Spotleg can wake them. I'm in no mood to go waking a moody apprentice." he laughed at his own joke, and looked to the sky, analyzing it. Absentmindedly he meowed, "We might get some snow today. Not just a little either,, a lot. We better hunt what we can and bring it back for the clan."

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Dainty nodded to Fleetfoot then turned to Spotleg. At least Fleetfoot was trying to be nice; but Spotleg was obviously just being rude. She made up her mind to ignore Spotleg. "Well, Spotleg, you heard Fleetfoot. Go fetch Memorypaw," she said icily, her eyes narrowing. She glared at him for a bit then looked at the ground. "Hurry up then. I just want to get on with this."

Dainty wondered what she was going to do on this patrol. Perhaps she would just ask Memorypaw to help her; Fleetfoot probably didn't like her much and seemed tired anyway and she had already made up her mind to ignore Spotleg. It wouldn't be ideal to learn how to hunt from an apprentice but she would know more than her. She wondered if she would be living her whole time in WindClan being shown up by cats younger than herself.

[Silky]

Dustfeather hauled herself up when Fleetfoot moved. She stretched out and yawned, moving to see who was up. "Morning." She meowed, and sat next to Fleetfoot. "Going on patrol? Mind if I pop along with yous?" Dustfeather asked with a smile. She seemed awfully happy today. That was because she was meeting Drydusk tonight; or so she hoped.

[Twilight]

Spotleg grumbled, but did as he was bid. He went over to the apprentice's den, poking his head in, and calling for Memorypaw.

Fleetfoot looked back to Dustfeather and nodded. It was good she was getting back into the swing of clan life after what she had been through.

[[Fail post I know... I have major writer's block.. ]]

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"Uh, okay. So Dustfeather's coming too. We just have to wait for Memorypaw and Spotleg to come back now and then we'll go, right?" Dainty asked. She was getting impatient now. They better not be long,she thought grumpily. I wanna get going.

((okay, fail post, sorry D: ))