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Cam catches a summons while he's in the middle of Atriama. He's seen it before, it's fine.
Cam and Warrior Cats
from_scratch
Probably there is cat politics about being carried, or something. Cam is not going to pet him unless asked.
rarely-meows-properly
He is not asked. Snowkit stops purring when he catches one of Brackenfur's looks and adjusts his weight uneasily, but starts up again after a few minutes.
They approach a dry ravine with a dozen or so cats inside it; contrary to what Fireheart said it looks like Cam could fit in it just fine. One of them is a pale tabby surrounded by a few other cats and crying, in the human sense of hitching with sobs rather than wailing the way Snowkit was before. "Mama mama mama mama," Snowkit repeats urgently in Cam's range of hearing once he spots her.
of-a-caliber-beyond-most-others
It turns out that these cats are more capable of producing tears in response to overwhelming emotion than the ones Cam's familiar with. She wraps her forelegs around Snowkit and licks fervently behind his ears. Both their motors are going full force. All of the other cats are watching them or Cam and murmuring amongst themselves.
from_scratch
...he will take this opportunity to find out what there is in the way of pitch-adjustment hearing aids and stick one in his ear.
of-a-caliber-beyond-most-others
" - a miracle from StarClan."
"Doesn't even matter, something else'll just get him next; what's he going to do in battle - "
"Someone should get Bluestar."
"Twolegs don't normally have wings, right?"
"It's so big. I've never seen one this close."
"Everyone seems awfully certain it's not going to kill us all or take us to the Cutter when we only have a kittypet's word for it."
"Show some respect for your deputy!"
"I'm just saying; you get one talking Twoleg and it just happens to be one who fixes broken cats and hands out prey and doesn't want anything for it? Better to scare away a mouse than welcome a badger."
"Cinderpelt's not broken. And I think it can hear you."
"Well, yeah, not anymore. And Fireheart said it couldn't unless you're mewling like a kit, which I'm not. Unless you want to believe him about everything else but not that."
mother-cares-not-for-us
Someone (Sand??storm??? There are a lot of cats; it's a pale ginger one.) presently fetches her. She sits a conversational distance away from Cam.
"You saved Snowkit?" she asks at too quiet a volume to be for the benefit of the rest of the camp, though they all hush their conversations to listen anyway.
of-a-caliber-beyond-most-others
"Yes, thank you so much," meows Snowkit's mama mama mama mama, still weeping. "If there's anything we can do to repay you - "
of-a-caliber-beyond-most-others
"Alright. Who's even heard of a hawk carrying off a kit of his age - " (Snowkit is maybe a little slimmer than the other cats, but he doesn't look overtly kittenish to Cam's eye.) " - but it doesn't matter now. Thank you again."
mother-cares-not-for-us
"You're right," mutters Bluestar, looking more contemplative then she previously has.
mother-cares-not-for-us
"Speckletail is. A hawk, diving right into the middle of camp and picking up a nearly-grown cat? No such thing has ever happened; it cannot be mere coincidence." She stands up, projecting now. "StarClan is at war with ThunderClan!"
from_scratch
...that seems slightly extreme but he doesn't super have context to challenge her on that. What does everyone else think.
of-a-caliber-beyond-most-others
They're talking over each other too much for the hearing aid to pick up much of anything specific, especially since some of them have switched to speaking in Cam's register, but they all sound pretty shocked and incredulous.
from_scratch
Okay, so it sounds weird to them too and hopefully someone will talk her down if she's wrong. Where's Fireheart.
mother-cares-not-for-us
Not present. Bluestar turns back towards an opening under a standalone rock in the middle of the ravine and disappears inside. Some of the cats lean against each other or look up worriedly at the sky. Eventually they start to quiet down a bit.
the-purest-form-of-serotonin
One statement is said a bit too loudly not to be clearly audible even though it's directed at a specific cat the speaker is sitting next to: "No, I'm not saying it makes sense, but - StarClan's just a tale for kits; it's not real - " He cuts himself off when he realizes his comparative volume.
from_scratch
Cam writes The other cats are arguing about whether the hawk grabbing you was a coincidence or something more sinister. Bluestar proposed that it might have been StarClan but that seems weird to me and most everyone else.