Secret hollow

[Scorch]

Mary-jay climbed up the tree and went inside her hollow, a mouse dangling from her jaw. Once she got into it she ate the the mouse in two ravenous bites. She looked outside as the dawn light filtered into her hollow. "This is it." She meows to herself. "If I'm not careful now at this time of day I'll surely be caught."

[Fern]

Fern followed the scent untill she reached the tree that absolutely stinked, testing her claws she climbed up the tree "Hello anyone here?"

[Scorch]

Mary-jay ran back to the back of the hollow where it was dark, trying to hide herself from the cat. She didn't know whether or not it was a tribe cat or just a cat.

[Fern]

Fern smelled the air again jumping onto another branch, her eyes dilated in surprise at the hollow "Is someone in there?"

[Scorch]

Mary-jay tried to keep quiet, but her shallow breathing would give her away if sh wasn't careful.

[Fern]

Fern popped her head in and saw the faint glow of a pelt inside "Hi! I'm Fern, a to-be for the Canyon Tribe who are you?" she meowed obviously not thinking the situation all the way through

[Scorch]

Mary-jay's eyes grew wide. Now the tribe cats knew about her. "Don't tell anyone I am here tribe cat or I shall get you." She warned Fern.

[Fern]

"Why? What did I do? Hey are you the cat Raven talked about? He said kittypets were stupid? Are you a kittypet, you don't look like one, and you don't look stupid, oh! Want to be friends?"

[Raven]

"What are you doing, Fern?" Raven meows from the bottom of the tree. "This isn't the time to be practicing your climbing. Come on you still have to show me if you can catch a rabbit."

[Scorch]

"Is this a hollow in a tree?" Flame meows.
"Shh. This is a secret place." Mary-Jay meows.
"But mom, this is in one of those tribes territories." Flower meows.
"Yes, but here is where I had stayed before I had found that den and stayed there." Mary-Jay meows. "If you're a loner you don't stay in one place for long."
"I know that, but every time you have kits don't you go back to that den?" Flame meows. Mary-Jay laughed.
"No dear, I won't go back there besides I won't be having any more kits. I'm a loner, right?" She meows. Flame and Flower nod. "Come on let's get up there." May-Jay jumped and dug her claws into the bark of the tree. She started to climb up. Flame and Flower copied her as they climbed up. They soon made it into the hollow.
"Cool." Flame meows.
"Back there where the shade is is where I would hide if a tribe cat found this place. Over there where that small hole is is where I kept some food. And over there where that dried up moss is is where I would sleep except it would have clean moos not that moos." Mary-Jay meows.
"I like this place. Once I join a tribe this could be my secret place to play in." Flower meows.
"Not if I pick it as my first place to stay as a loner." Flame meows.
"Then we could play together in here." Flower meows.
"Not on my watch." Flame meows. "Loners don't play with each other, they live on their own away from others." Flower looks down. "Besides you'll have your tribe mates to play with."
"Well, I guess, but it won't be the same as playing with you." Flower meows.
"Sometimes loner siblings will play with each other once they meet up on their trails around. If you stay here you can still play with Flower." Mary-Jay meows.
"Did you play with your siblings once you met up on your trails?" Flame meows.
"I didn't have any siblings well, I might of had siblings, but I don't know them." Mary-Jay meows.
"Why don't you know your siblings?" Flower meows.
"My parents left me or us while we or I was very young. I don't even know my parents except my foster parents. They were two kittypets who lived with their housefolk. I didn't go into their house, they came out to me. I could have been split up from my siblings when I was taken to a foster family." Mary-Jay meows.
"Oh, now I see." Flower meows. "Why didn't you leave us like your parents did to you?"
"I couldn't leave you two. I knew one of you would want to be a loner like me and your dad, but I wanted both of you to grow up with parents and to grow up with the tale of the five tribes that live together." Mary-Jay meows. Flame and Flower nod. They go off to explore the hollow.

[Fern]

Wind rolled her eyes as she followed Fern over to the tree, three dead mice hanging from her mouth by their tails "Alright what is it you wanted to show me?" she asked once Wind placed her mice down. Fern looked up at the tree.
"Theres a hollow when I was a to-be there was this strange cat, and now theres more scent of that cat, should we tell Raven?"
Wind placed her two front paws on the trunk "No, not now, the scent is stale we'll check again some other time. Now come on lets get the kill back before their blood goes cold."
Fern nodded and ran off to where she put her rabbit Wind picked her own kill up and followed.