Between To-Be's (Open)

[☮iSLY]

Water recoiled backwards when Stoneterller flicked her, she had never experianced so much pain!

"OW!!!" She mewled like a kit. "what the-" She started, shaking her head and sitting down, eyes shutting. She was in alot of pain, "that hurt!" She hissed, rubbing the side of her face, ears laid flat on her head.

Just then a fit of coughing occured. What was happening! She was not sick...was it those berries? She hoped she hadn't done something to cause herself pain...other than Stoneteller's method of it!

She winced and felt like beating up someone. She felt horrible! Not just because of what Seth did, she would get over that pain, but her throat was suddenly burning!

[Sheer]

Seth let Water go, pulling his paw away. Pressure points cause pain that doesn't last. The worst she'll get is a temporary ache. "Suck it up will you? You're not a kitten anymore, by the time you're an elder you'll feel worse pain then that. And stop coughing while your at it!" he suddenly caught himself. "Wait...you didn't happen to eat anything strange in my herb storage did you?" Creek shook her furry head, "I didn't, all we did is knock the herbs on the ground and...sort of trampled them." she flattened her ears too, tensing to jump if Stoneteller tried to deal "punishment" to her too.

[Tiki]

Because she was bored, and lonely, but mostly because she was bored out of her mind, Golden Eagle was heading toward one of the only signs of life in the small camp. She could hear a shrill sound of pain and then coughing and sighed. If she had to hear one more time about how Creek and Water got into Stoneteller's herbs she was going to beat them, all of them. After all, didn't they realize that life was too short to spend trying to tick each other off. Ugh.

The sound of coughing bothered her. Sure it wasn't all that cold out but she knew something about healing and coughing wasn't normal. She walked up behind Stoneteller in time to hear Creek denying eating anything.

"Did Water?" she asked suspiciously looking at the other to-be. She didn't look so good and she sort of seemed to be in some kind of pain. Almost with instinct she began thinking of poisonous berries and their remedies. The only poison she could think of was Nightshade and that couldn't be it or the to-be would be dead already.

"Water, did you eat anything?" she asked with authority in his tone. And if Stoneteller says anything I will beat him over the head with his own herbs, I don't have to live here, I can always go...back.

[Sheer]

Seth snapped at Golden Eagle, "Be quiet, there's no point in asking the obvious!" he snarled. With that he tossed down the herbs that he had just brought back, "If you've eaten anything Water then eat this herb. And if I hear so much as one complaint about bitterness out of you-." he raised his paw the motion explaining everything he'll do.

[☮iSLY]

Water remained coughing as she replied. "I...might have eaten some red berry...." She had clear irritation in her voice. "But I don't think..-" She stopped as Stoneteller told her to eat the herb infront of her.

She stopped coughing for a moment, "Eat THAT? No way!" She growled, sending a short glare at Stoneteller, standing up for herself. Why does she have to eat that? She wasn't sick! Or poisioned!

After that thought she started coughing once more.
Okay. Maybe I am sick, but I don't like bitter tasteing stuff! She thought angrily, turning her nose up at the herb, blue eyes closing tightly because of the coughing still.

[Sheer]

Seth sighed, "Let me put it this way for you Water. You ate nightseed, they're pretty much just nightshade berries that kills you slower. So do you want to die or not?"

OOC:Sorry for the short post...again, I've got nothin'

[☮iSLY]

Eyes snapping open, Water looked at Stoneteller with wide eyes.

"Uh, I'd like to live, thank you." She mewed quickly. She looked down at the herb and dipped her head and picked it up in her teeth.

She chewed it up quickly, wincing at it's bitter taste, she was about to spit it out, but saw Stoneteller's stern face.

Once she was done chewing and swallowing she let out a sigh, and noticed that she had stopped coughing. "Okay...there." She meowed, sitting down, and making a face at the after taste of the herb.

[Sheer]

"Creek...you might want to step back for a moment...." Seth warned backing up a tail's length. Creek imitated him not wanting to get into more trouble then she was in already but she couldn't resist asking "Why?" Seth twitched an ear, "Well you see, I gave her the leaves of the yarrow flower and they make you...vomit up anything that's in your stomach at the moment." With that Creek jumped back her fur flying up

[☮iSLY]

Water waited acouple seconds, not really hearing anyone talking. She was feeling alitte sick in the stomach right about...-

With that, she threw up right there on the floor, some red liquid was now on the floor. She groaned slightly and backed away, siting on her haunches.

"Okay...THAT was gross.." She mewed, shuddering. The red liquid on the floor must have been the red berry she ate, atleast she hoped it was just that!

[Sheer]

Seth stood up again, Creek who was leaning against his leg nearly toppled over on the floor. "Well there you go, that's what you get for messing with poisonous berries. Which is exactly why I'm not going to make you clean up the mess you made. I have something else in mind." As everyone knows Seth is not like many healers who weren't that angry as long as nobody ate anything dangerous. First of all Water did eat something dangerous and second of all, Seth wasn't a nice person...cat. "You two are not to leave camp without permisson for a quarter moon. If I hear one complaint then I'll extend it." he snapped. Creek's ears drooped, she probably would've said something sarcastic by now but she'd thought she'd better keep her mouth shut this time

[Tiki]

"Don't you think that's kind of harsh," she asked angrily. Clearly Stoneteller yelling at her had gotten under her skin and she was sorely tempted to attack him. She was positive that she would have had the upper hand but she wasn't keen to be kicked out for attacking the Stoneteller.

"And oh by the way, I doubt that you care but the next time you use that tone with me I will leave. I may not be the best cave-guard you have but in case you haven't noticed we are sort of small right now and you need all of the help you can get. So unless you want to be down one cave-guard you had better keep your trap shut," she said still angrily.

[Sheer]

"Leave if you want to there's nothing stopping you." Seth snarled back. "I don't have time to deal with cats who have to whine about that sort of nonsense. It's pathetic, if you want to leave then go!" Seth wanted so badly to claw her and she looked like she wanted to do the same. Seth was a sadist and if he fought a battle and won, his opponent get's a slow and painful death.

[Tiki]

She glared at him, seered him with her eyes and then deliberately turned her back on him. She wouldn't give him the satisfaction of leaving yet. Oh no, the thing that would bug him the most would be to still live there and be better than he would expect.

"Good-bye Seth," she sneered as she walked calmly, coolly away. She checked her temper and walked faster after she got out of eyeshot. Then she looked back, smiled at the two apprentices and waved her tail as if to beckon them over.

"Come here Creek and Water," she smiled hoping that they would come to her and that they would listen to her plan...

[Sheer]

Creek stared wide eyed at Stoneteller and Golden Eagle's argument. Then she heard Golden Eagle calling her, but she stayed where she was. After a few more moments of fright she calmed down and took a more serious approach. This was what happened to her when something like this happened. She probably inherited some of Stoneteller's strange seriousness for all the times she tagged along just to pester him. Seth himself turned away, he couldn't stand cats who'd hold things over other's heads. As far as he was concerned that was pure weakness. A real fighter wouldn't need excuses to make someone do what they wanted. If Golden Eagle wanted to stay here then she'd need to start understanding that she had to respect her superiors.

[Tiki]

Evidently Creek wasn't going to come. She shook her head in disgust. She was seriously fed up with this place. Where she came from clanmates, tribemates now, supported each other and this sadistic leader was going to get on her nerves. Windstar had always supported her clan like Silverstar before her. She did not like this Seth cat and she knew she wouldn't be happy here.

She growled to herself. She knew that she could attack Seth if she wanted to. She could also throw herself off a cliff for all the impact it would make on the clan. Sure they clan would be shocked but she couldn't kill the Stoneteller, just as she couldn't just walk up and slit a leader's throat. It was wrong.

"Fine, I am going to stand guard. Tell the prey-hunters, if we even have any, that we need prey more than likely. Good night Stoneteller," she calmed down enough to address him respectfully but she kept an edge of anger in her voice to convey strength. She knew better than to fight right now. The time was not right for a fight and she did need a place to stay.

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