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What Is The Meaning Of The First Frost By Rowanpaw
[b]frost- →[/b] [i]a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing.[/i] her mother was unable to name her, and her father wanted nothing to do with her. her elder sister - who also acted as her mother - decided she would name her little sister. she looked down at the small kit, her pelt reminding her of the frost that collected on the branches of shrubs during leaf-bare, and so, she named her frostkit.

[b]-wave →[/b] [i]a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore.[/i] her presence among her clanmates became overwhelmingly noticeable as she grew into the warrior she was meant to me. she had no shame, no filter, and emanated power wherever she
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casting a questioning gaze in rowanpaw's direction, the tom explained the situation as quickly as he could: while out with his brother, he'd heard this kit's cries for help. he'd aimed to save it but had no clue how to do so.

gears began to turn in the she-cat's brain and she sent her denmate off to find something that would help. in his absence, the she-cat herself dropped down into the hole, murmuring words of comfort to the frightened kit and awaiting rowanpaw's return.[/i][/font][/blockquote]

[div align="center"][font size="1"]frostpaw's first moon as an apprentice was rather... eventful, to say the least. she'd brought rowanpaw back, alongside a malnutritioned, terrified kit. her father was not pleased - but when was he ever when it came to her - that she'd brought something so impure back to camp, but the queens flocked to her defense, spitting at erminestrike and saying that any cat with a heart would've done the same. frostpaw was praised for her quick thinking and resourcefulness when it came to saving the kit, but both she and rowanpaw received a moon of searching the elders for ticks and fleas as punishment: rowanpaw, for disappearing from his elder brother's presence without a word, and frostpaw for easing her way out of camp and going on a solo rescue
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during a border skirmish with riverclan, her father was fatally wounded. he was brought back to camp on the verge of death and, their differences forgotten, the white she-cat raced over to her father. and as she begged for him to hang on just a little long, told him that riverstorm was going to make him all better, he begged for her forgiveness in the same breath. but there was nothing to forgive and as he took his last breath, a heart-wrenching wail broke from the young apprentice, a cry for the father that she never really

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