A TalonClan patrol crept noiselessly along the undergrowth, their heads held low to stay hidden. They stifled wheezes as dust that had risen from the cracking of the dry patches of earth intermingled with the humid air, stinging their nostrils. VesperShine, the rotund little birchen Japanese bantam, fell tumbling forward when her dainty toes tripped over one of the jagged folds in the ground.
Her sister, Barleytail, was quick to cast a grinning, sidelong glance at her and make a satirical remark at her miscue. "Vesper, you dunderhead, watch where you-- Woooah!" she was quickly interrupted by a sharp pain in her foot, and her face colliding with the ground, filling her beak with dirt and blades of grass. She spat and coughed frantically, hurrying as fast as her stout legs could take her to the river, where she dunked her face to clean it.
After stifling laughter, the others helped Vespershine to her feet and beckoned for Barleytail to follow them into the darkness of the forest.
Her sister, Barleytail, was quick to cast a grinning, sidelong glance at her and make a satirical remark at her miscue. "Vesper, you dunderhead, watch where you-- Woooah!" she was quickly interrupted by a sharp pain in her foot, and her face colliding with the ground, filling her beak with dirt and blades of grass. She spat and coughed frantically, hurrying as fast as her stout legs could take her to the river, where she dunked her face to clean it.
After stifling laughter, the others helped Vespershine to her feet and beckoned for Barleytail to follow them into the darkness of the forest.
