Duskpaw

**Duskpaw is up for adoption!**

## Description

### Appearance

Duskpaw is a short, wiry she-cat. She has coarse, dusty brown fur. Her stripes are a pine brown, and she has dark, forest green eyes.

### Personality

Duskpaw is very aloof and snappy towards all of her clanmates, and has a very short temper. But on the inside she is a bit of a softie. Though you'd only know that if she'd let you get near her, that is.

## Life

### Backstory

Duskpaw was apprenticed to Tanglefern at 6 moons old, and has been medicine cat ever since. Her father is Darksky, who left after the clan found out he had mated with a rouge. She never knew her mother. She had two siblings, Blackpaw and Stormpaw.

When she was seven moons old, just having been made an apprentice a little while ago along with her two brothers, she found them bleeding and unconcious by the river, with badger scent strewn about. She tried to carry them back, but couldn't, and they died. She has blamed herself ever since for their deaths, but keeps her emotions bottled up.

### Roleplay

Duskpaw stalks into the den, carrying some marigold. As she sets down her herbs, she notices Foggypaw in one of the nests and asks what she is doing.

Foggypaw ays that she has a cough and Tanglefern adds that she thought it would be okay to swim in the river even thought she had a cough.

Duskpaw rolls her eyes, thinking that apprentices always ended up in the medicine den one way or another, and she was just glad she didn't have to share a den with them. She tells Foggypaw to stay out of her way, then picks up the marigold and stalks over to Tanglefern.

Tanglefern sighs as she finished peeling mint leaves. She asks Duskpaw to go back to go to a moss patch by the river and gather more, saying that there’ll be lots of complaints about water, so they should be prepared.

Duskpaw askes what's wrong with the water, as this was the first time she'd heard of it.

Tanglefern looks to Wolfstar and Ravensong. She says that by the looks of muddy Poppypaw, she'd guess the water level's gone down, and that they wouldn't want warriors poisoning themselves.

Duskpaw says okay, and heads out to the river. She finds a large pine with dark green patches of moss, and starts clawing it off. Once she has gathered enough, she starts too head back, only to see two very familiar rocks jutting out of the ground. She knows this is where her brothers died, and collapsed, crying.

Duskpaw looks up, noticing that there is a new scent in the area. It is kind of like badgers, but not quite. She realizes the scent is foxes just as two young animals poke their heads up from the hill, coming from the direction of Lakeclan. She turns and runs, wishing that Tanglefern had taught her some battle moves. She quickly sees a tree and climbs up it, lodging on to a high branch. Duskpaw looks down and spots the two foxes snapping at her. They can't climb up, but that means she can't climb down either. She miserably hopes a patrol woll come by and save her.

Tanglefern flicks her ears, asking for Foggypaw to check on Duskpaw. She obeys, and soon sees Duskpaw leaping down from the tree, clawing wildly at one of the foxe's face. The other bites her leg, and she yowl in pain, crumpling to the ground.

Duskpaw curses the foxes, thinking their stupid. She hazily sees a silver cat leap onto the first fox that she had clawed, scratching furiously at its back. Duskpaw is relieved to see her at first, but then thinks that out of all the cats who could've saved her, why did it have to be Foggypaw

Foggypaw asks if she is okay, and Duskpaw replies sarcastically that she is doing just fine lying on the ground with her leg that's been bitten and now feel's like it's on fire.

Duskpaw watches as Foggypaw gets clawed at by the foxes, and a voice in her head says that she shouldn't just lay there and watch her die. Duskpaw thinks that it's right, and shakily gets up, thinking now she was having conversations with herself. She launches herself onto one of the foxes and starts scratching it. Then, in the distance, she spots Tanglefern racing towards them.

Tanglefern launched herself at the fox who was after Foxpaw, biting its muzzle.She leaped at the other fox, and felt her throat being ripped out.

Duskpaw dashed over when she saw Tanglefern bleeding in the soft grass, sitting beside her with worry. She asks Foggypaw to help her bring her back to camp, and Foggypaw picked up Tanglefern's scruff, wondering if that was even a question.

They set her down on the medicine den floor, and Duskpaw quickly races to the herb store, grabbing some marigold and cobweb. She applies the herbs, as a thought slipped into her mind, hoping that it would work.

Tanglefern narrows her eyes, oredering Duskpaw to stop wasting herbs on her. Duskpaw protests, but Tanglefern cuts her off, saying that Starclan selected her time carefully, and that she wanted her to keep being a medicine cat.

Duskpaw nods, tears forming in her eyes. It hurt her to know that there was nothing she could do.

Tanglefern looks to Foggypaw and tells her she reminds her so much of Minnowpaw. Foggypaw looks away, vowing to never forget that name.

Duskpaw watches as her mentor's breathing becoms slower and slower, then finally stops. She buries her nose in her fur, thinking that she never even got her medicine cat name from her. She looks up and sees Foggypaw closing her eyes. Duskpawfinally collapses, feeling the throbbing in her leg.

Duskpaw asks coldly for Foggypaw to go tell Wolfstar Tanglefern is dead. She hobbles back to the herb store, grabbing some more marigold and cobweb to apply to her leg.

Later, Duskpaw sees Wolfstar, Junipernose and Sootleaf return to camp, bearing some scratches. They walked over, and Duskpaw demanded why they went after the foxes, especially today. Wolfstar answers that it was better to drive them out now, rather than let them wander around the territory. Duskpaw sighs, knowing she can't argue with that, and quickly grabs some herbs for their scratches. She quickly applies it, and tells him to come back tomorrow so she can check it.

### Lineage

#### Brother(s)

Blackpaw - Status: Dead

Stormpaw - Status: Dead

#### Half-sibling(s)

Rosepaw - Status: Alive

Three Unnamed Kits - Status: Dead