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Eternalera slipped slowly through camp, looking for one bright auburn pelt in particular, looking for Cardinalheart. Time was of the essence and she needed to be in the toms ear before someone else managed to get there first. Mismatched eyes alighted on the tom, lingering in the shadows of camp and she padded over in a clear smooth stalk. Softening her posture as she drew closer, seamlessly sliding into the role she needed to play for this to work.
"Cardinalheart." She hummed, sounding all the right parts of sympathetic and consoling. "Are your alright? I know this must be a lot for you. Right after we escaped Sunclan and everything as well." She paused and nudged a step closer, ready to be the friend's shoulder to lean on and the companionable ear.
Cardinalheart was still in denial about everything that had just taken place from the Clan being taken prisoner to Peachstar stepping down and leaving the Clan, and essentially leaving him in charge. He was not ready. Not at all and truthfully he had no clue what to do about it. He heard his name and it pulled him out of his own head. His bright green gaze focused on Eternalera. He had never been particularly close with her considering her recent return to the Clan but it would be nice to have someone to talk to. He sighed before answering. "Is anyone alright? I mean no one blamed Peachblush for what happened to SpringClan, there was no reason for him to leave. I thought he'd be around for quite some more time. We both survived Tarantulastar's wicked leadership as deputy and co deputy and then now it seems like it's just me. It's a..... lonely feeling." he blurted out.
Eternalera affected a sad smile, adding just a tad of wistfulness to the edges. "Sometimes loneliness isn't felt because you're alone but because you miss how things used to be." The observation was said softly as she watched the tom, ear twitching as she puzzled over his words. Her own reply slow, almost hesitant as she obviously thought carefully over the words to say, ones that she felt would fit best. "I can't claim to know how hard it must have been, with Sunclan, Dayclan, with everything that happened. Nor can I claim to understand the loss you must feel at one of your closes confidants leaving. But I can say that now that I've returned I'll do my most to help where I can. And that includes being here for you if you need it. If you want me to be here." She hoped she wasn't being to forward; but she felt the tom was in a vulnerable enough spot to accept it.
"Thank you, Eternalera." Cardinalheart replied with a defeated sigh. There were only a few cats he could name off the top of his head that he could count on within the Clan at the moment, not because they weren't loyal but because they had also just suffered through the same ordeals, maybe even worse than he had when the Clan was captured and they needed time to heal too. "I'm not ready to receive my lives or take my place as leader." he stated flatly. "The Clan was so easily defeated the last time we were attacked and I fear we have so much to work on. What if I can't make the Clan strong?"
Eternalera nodded, not sympathetic just agreeable. After all the tom was right, Springclan did have much to work on. So much so that it almost made her think starting over completely might be the way to go. The warriors had stagnated, they only had one queen in the camp, and the kits were few. Saying these things though would just overwhelm Cardinalheart, though she was sure he was aware of them in the back of his mind already. "I just returned but even I can see Springclan needs new life. Sort of like myself, new eyes, new perspectives, maybe me coming back just now was a sign towards a new start in Springclan. Maybe it's time for us to rise like a phoenix from our ashes, to shed our skin and become something new?" She looked towards him questioningly, implying nothing simply using key words to hopefully get the thoughts she wanted.
Cardinalheart was silent for a few more moments before responding. "It doesn't matter what this Clan becomes. I am not ready to lead it. Maybe Peachblush had the right idea by leaving." he said quietly. Regretting the words the instant they left his mouth. But he was right about one thing, he wasn't ready to lead the Clan. He had been chosen as the co- deputy at a young age, and he was still a young warrior, relatively inexperienced with most things other than ordering patrols. The one major struggle the Clan faced... they lost... badly. Tarantulastar hadn't done much to help prepare him or Peachblush for leadership but Peachblush at least made it work, but he was also slightly older, more experienced. "I learned so much from Peachblush and I hadn't finished learning from him. Me taking leadership of SpringClan right now would be doing all of them a disservice." he stated, his gaze scanning around the camp, looking at his Clanmates, attempting to continue on and get their lives back in order.
"Sometimes taking that first step is that hardest." Eternalera agreed, "sometimes you need to just build up enough to take that leap." She thought back to simpler times, thought back to when she was an apprentice; before she had her kits too young and the pressure of being a mother so young drove her to make even stupider mistakes. But she wasn't that cat anymore, she was better, wiser, more experienced. Some might claim it had made her jaded and distrustful but Eternalera would argue it simply made her smarter. "Starclan will guide you, guide us. Surely if you don't feel ready they recognize that." Her own faith in the higher powers was faded, a distant thing, tarnished by her blood and experiences but she knew how to use every card possible to a future play.
Cardinalheart just shook his head, letting his stubbornness take over completely. "My faith in StarClan has been greatly diminished in the light of recent events and I do not believe they will give us any help. If that was the case they would have never let any of this happen. I stand by what I said. I will not take leadership of this Clan."
"Who will then? Eternalera questioned. "You can't very well go out and ask for candidates, if the clan finds out you don't wish to take leadership now they most likely won't let you stay deputy and will want you gone. Even telling me is a risk." She stared at him, trying to convey the severity of what he was saying. "Not that I will repeat it, as it is I am basically a stranger among them I've been gone so long. But if you really don't want leadership I can help you come up with a story and some kind of solution."
"I'm open to ideas at this point." he stated flatly. He knew he was taking a risk in confiding in Eternalera but at the same time, it was nice to have someone to confide in, and she was at least offering to help the situation instead of just simply offering sympathies.
"The easiest lie to pass off would be something to do with Starclan, there is not much they can do to check such a claim." She hummed as she considered the possibility. "You could claim Starclan came to you in a dream and told you to wait, to grow wiser, before taking the reigns. Or something along those lines. You would need to find a cat to collaborate your claim though, one that could step forward and say 'I got a dream from starclan telling me it was my time.'" Blinking mismatched eyes she glanced over towards him, waiting to hear his own thoughts on the suggestion.
"That would work if there was a cat in the Clan who was ready to take over." Cardinalheart mumbled quietly. Then a thought hit him. "What if you were to take leadership?" he suggested. "You have plenty of experience, even though most of it isn't within a Clan. Which could greatly benefit the Clan in the long run."
Eternalstar paused, tilting her head as she seemingly considered the idea. "I suppose it could work, since it is only the two of us who would know any differently." She paused, rolling her shoulders as she thought. "And this way as soon as you're ready to step in as leader I can just as easily come up with an excuse to step aside and let you take your rightful spot."
"Then that settles it, then." Cardinalheart replied. He wasn't sure he'd ever be ready, explaining this to the Clan would be hard enough. He hoped he was making the right choice.
"Well, now that's settled can you tell me something." She asked and then paused giving an airy little laugh. "I mean can you tell me something else I suppose. What was it like being imprisoned within Sunclan? I wasn't here and my brother does not want to talk of the time." Eternalera needed to know what sort of trauma the clan went through, what she would be trying to mediate and deal with.
Cardinalheart meet Eternalera's gaze evenly. "It was awful." he said bitterly. "They tried to force us to conform to their ways and if we didn't some of us were killed or tortured." he answered, his mind wandering back to the recent past that had so badly shaken his confidence within his own ability to lead. He'd watched several Clanmates and friends die or be harmed and it wasn't something he'd really wished to think about again.
[ can you send me a pic of cardinal for the layout? big enough for me to crop to 300x400? ]
"Sorry," she apologized even if she wasn't that sorry at all. If anything she was a little annoyed he hadn't gone into more detail but knew better than to push at this avenue. She would have to try and approach Electivememory again. "Do you have anyone else you can talk to about this?" She asked softly, mismatched projecting concern. "I of-course am hear to listen and help where I can. But it is always best to have multiple opinions." Truthfully she was curious who else he had in his life, wondered if it was possible to make it so he only had her.
(Yeah!! I'll try and find one lol XD I had one saved and then lost it )
"I talk to Lightstep about it occasionally but it's not something anyone really talks much about anymore. It's like one of those memories that your mind does what it can to block it out so you can move on with life and forget it happened almost." At least that's what it felt like to him, after all Lightstep was expecting their kits and he was looking forward to putting the past behind him and moving on with life.
"remind me, who is Lightstep? I don't mean to offend I just don't think I'm putting the right face to the name.." she hummed, trying to remember how she knew the name to begin with. Having only just returned to the clan she was still sorting things out in her mind and catergorizing what she should remember for later and what wasn't important. She couldn't place what category Lightstep was in.
"She's my....." Cardinalheart began, but stopped himself. They'd been on again and off again and he'd just recently found out they were expecting kits. "my mate." he finally finished his sentence. It was odd to publicly call her his mate, as they'd never referred to each other as that before. Cardinalheart fixed his gaze onto the light grey she-cat who seemed to be intent on her conversation with another Clanmate.
