~Ashstripe forces a grin. "I won't, Willowstar." She lays down on the edge of the marsh and flicks some of the algae off her pelt diffidently. I just made a complete fool of myself and then, MY LEADER had to save me! she thought miserably. What kind of Medicine Cat does that make ME if I am the one needing to be saved?! She stubbornly persisted to get up and finally she clumsily tripped after Willowstar.~
(WaterfallClan)~ "Catmint and poppy seeds and thyme. Catmint and poppy seeds and thyme," Ashstripe weakly droned on in a monotone for the hundredth time since she had been freed by Willowstar from the guile bogs. Willowstar was just veering around the waterfall that lead into WaterfallClan camp, and Ashstripe tripped along weakly maybe ten fox-lengths behind. Secretly, Ashstripe believed it a miracle from StarClan that her massively-drained strength had gotten her even this far. "Catmint and poppy seeds and thyme."
For soothing, sleep and to dull this throbbing in my head, and thyme again to help me calm down, she explained to herself inwardly as her paws carried her along the very worn trail behind the waterfall. Two blurred shapes came racing toward her as she lurched on her paws that she finally recognized as Hawkclaw and Willowstar as her infirm legs finally gave way. As her head hit the solid stone floor and lolled limply between her paws, she enumerated the list one last time- "Catmint and poppy seeds and thyme- before her whole world spun away into a void of silent darkness.~