Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26053883-20160919223417/@comment-27492740-20160923014021

Slowly, slowly, things began to function again. First, it was like a light slowly brightening inside her brain, slowly awakening her from the dreamless, peaceful sleep of unconsciousness. One by one, simple things began registering. A dull, throbbing pain in her head. The coldness of the snow. Someone else's teeth against her scruff. Someone else lying against her.

She stretched out her paws sightlessly, bumping the other cat, touching their fur for just a moment and trying to figure it out in her muddled brain. She knew this cat. Someone close to her. But who? Sister?

A memory, suddenly bright and clear, burst against her closed eyelids with a confusing twinge of pain. Soaking wet. Exhausted. Someone lying next to her, shivering. Someone dragging her out. Green eyes, bright with worry. Paws pushing her up, two shoulders to lean on. Kits.

And just like that, Aqua was awake.

She gasped in a huge breath of the cold, clean air of the mountainside and her eyes flew open. For a moment she was confused. In front of her was not Evergreen. Beside her was not Snowflake. No one was wet.

But she knew these cats.

Snow and Dark.

What...?

Her eyes widened as she began to remember. Hunting with Eagle and Dark, just the three of them. Bear. Him knocking Dark unconscious, Dark sagging against her. A paw shooting toward her, faster than she could comprehend. And then...

Nothing.

Nothing until now.

What was Snow doing here? And where were Eagle and Bear? Was Eagle okay?

She craned her head, noticing with surprise that she wasn't where she last remembered. Instead, she was much farther up the mountain, closer to the cave. It was just barely in sight.

A path of flattened snow as wide as the bodies of two young cats and shallow pawprints marked their trail.

Great StarClan...

She took a deep breath and looked back at Snow.