[ti]Private[/ti]Tiny Choices

[Fireflake]

Mantiskit of MothClan

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Mantiskit skipped through the nursery with shining yellow eyes, scouring for the next victim of her bet. It didn't seem like fair play to trick the two-moon-olds into it. It didn't seem like a good idea to ask those that already had a paw outside of the nursery. After all, Mantiskit was looking for cats that would be apprenticed on the same day as her. Her bright, wide eyes looked almost blindly ahead as she mentally plotted the big day.

It was only once she was a whisker's length from ramming into a wall that the she-kit stopped to look around. Her ears pricked. "Tinykit!" she called. "I almost missed you. You look younger than me, you know?"
The young tabby puffed her chest out and crouched slightly to stand eye-to-eye with him. "Want to make a bet with me?"
Mantiskit held onto an energetic pause, nodding as if to answer her own question, then burst out, "I bet I'll be apprenticed before you!"

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[KingHarry]

Tinykit had been quietly playing with a small ball of moss when Mantiskit decided to "grace" him with her presence. He side eyed her for a moment - not particularly wanting to talk to her after she pointed out his size - before she continued to talk and, with a sigh, he turned to face her.

"We'll be made apprentices at the same time, you mouse-brain," he grumbled, though his small voice sounded more like a squeak. "Just because I'm smaller than you doesn't mean that I'm not going to be a great warrior." And, as if to demonstrate his point, he stepped closer and batted at her with a paw - more playfully than aggressively, mind you.

She wasn't correct... Right? Brackenstar wouldn't make him wait just because he was on the smaller side? Tinykit certainly hoped not. He was more than his height! And- And some fully grown warriors were small too! Littledash, for example, was shorter than most of MothClan, yet he wasn't held back, was he?

[Fireflake]

Mantiskit of MothClan

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Mantiskit wrinkled her nose. "Well, you should take the bet if you think you're going to win, then."
The she-kit raised her chin with twitching whiskers. "But I'm not the mousebrain. Brackenstar can't name two cats apprentices at the exact same time. He won't say me first because I'm bigger than you, but he will because I'm faster and I'll get there first and I'll be right there for him to apprentice."
Nodding as if that settled it, she started to prance around the other kit.

The young tabby dug her paws into the ground and halted with pricked ears as she realized she hadn't responded fully. "Aaaand I didn't say you weren't gonna be a great warrior! I'm sure you'll be Tinybattle or Tinyblaze or something."
She returned his bat and jumped away with a 'no takesy-backsies' look. "But you're not yet."
Mantiskit purred loudly.

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