Private Thread It Truly Begins [11RP'21]

Don’t compromise yourself - you’re all you have.

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The first couple of days as Tigerrush's apprentice had been both uneventful and a lot to think about all at once, but at least the past few days had been easy enough, doing errends, clearing out bad herbs, fixing up dirty nests, what Robinpaw expected if she was being truly honest.

She had picked up on a few herbs too, not a whole lot of them but enough to keep her on her paws. And she slept in the medicine cat's den now, a nest of her own was unusual and strange, but she supposed that was what followed getting older.

However, now, Robinpaw had been dozing lightly in her den as the sun peeked through the camp, there wasn't much she had to do, not much that Tigerrush had told her about at least. But then, deep down, something told Robinpaw to wake up, something from a place that even Robinpaw didn't know was there. And so, the new apprentice complied.

The mostly white she-cat stretched out her legs and glanced to the small tabby shape outside of the den, Tigerrush, perhaps she requested more chores from her, it was something Robinpaw didn't mind doing, especially when it came to working through the elders' den. She just hoped it had nothing to do with Rimekit. "Morning Tigerrush" she greeting softly, taking a seat beside her and curling her tail over her white paws.

Don’t compromise yourself - you’re all you have.

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The question caught the dappled apprentice off guard, before she was about to ask the question, assuming it would have been herb related or something similar, the real question hit her with the force of a fox bite... why... was she avoiding them? The incident with Rimekit was a fair couple of moons ago and Wildcry had frightened her before she was even a moon old. Childish grudges really, but their personalities now still had her avoiding the Nursery, maybe this went deeper than she thought.

"Incidents in the past that shouldn't matter as much as they do" Robinpaw replied, curling the tip of her tail around herself as she took a more comfortable position next to Tigerrush, hoping that the position would hid her rigid muscles. "Left a bit of a bad impression on the only cats in the nursery right now. Plus they aren't the easiest cats to get along with." 

The last reason was the most probable, at least to Robinpaw, she didn't lie to Tigerrush, it wouldn't do anyone any good. "Both situations were sorted, but the memory lingers, at least a small amount" she added, her yellow eyes flicking down to her white paws as she inspected her claws, she had nearly cut Rimekit's cheek with them, but she needn't tell that to Tigerrush, Sunstrike already spoke to her about it and she still felt guilty about it to this day, even if Rimekit deserved it.

"Why do you ask?"

Don’t compromise yourself - you’re all you have.

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Robinpaw twitched her good ear at the question, the flopped on also twitched but the movement was much less uniform. She took to wondering if Tigerrush wasn’t sure on her abilities, is that why she was asking these questions? However, her shoulders eased, after all it was a question regarding treating cats… in a way.

While she did ease her muscles, that didn’t pull her confidence away from her posture. She turned to her mentor, yellow eyes gleaming with a glint of something akin to determination. "I’d treat them like a medicine cat should, with the same bedside manner as any other. Just because we don’t get along, it doesn’t mean I should avoid treating them" she replied, she wasn’t sure if that’s what Tigerrush wanted to hear, but that is what she felt. "It wouldn’t matter if it was Finchpaw, Rimekit or Gingerthrash, I’d treat their wounds and sickness all the same"

Robinpaw’s whiskers twitched with a faint impression of a smile, not pride, not really, but something that ran deeper than that. While she was happy to train, she was still more than pleased to answer Tigerrush’s questions all day if it meant she could simply be around the striped medicine cat 

Don’t compromise yourself - you’re all you have.

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Ah, so it was a lesson on teaching bedside manner than. Robinpaw didn't feel worried by the question, instead, she slowly curled her tail around her white paws and let out a nasally, smooth breath before speaking again. "Calmly and firmly. Whoever the patient is shouldn't feel stressed in the presence of a medicine cat. And panic makes mistakes" she replied, she wasn't entirely sure of her answer, but she made i sound like she was. It was convincing enough.

"Being firm ensures the importance, if a clanmate doesn't listen, it could make their injury or ailment worse" she added, her dappled tail curling tighter around herself. The more she spoke, the more sure of herself she felt, and in Tigerrush's presence, she felt as calm as she needed to be.

Robinpaw took a glance around the camp, her yellow eyes failed to hide a hint of curiosity, was speaking outside of the medicine den normally how these training sessions would go? Perhaps it was just this one, perhaps not. It was up to Tigerrush a the end of the day. "I'm sure there's more." she added, as if trying to prompt Tigerrush's lesson further.