excuses, excuses (med kitties)

[Floatingpaw]

Poor little confused kitten. Floatingkit was one of the crankiness, most stubborn, laziest kits in the nursery. And the one time she decides to have fun, she falls into a thorn bush and now she was feeling needles all over her body. Falling into a thorn bush was not a heroic story, so on her walk to the medicine cat's den, the kit practiced a story. She would tell Snakefang that she saw an adder come into camp. She had growled, hissed and clawed at it and chased it away, right through a thorn bush as she chased it far from the nursery. Yes, that would be her story. And it would be even more heroic since he didn't have any bites. "Snakefang?" Floatingkit asked out into the den, "I had an....umm...incident. A little help?"

[Snakefang]

I lifted my head from sorting -That's all I did these days- and faced the kit. Floatingkit. As being a medicine cat, I usually had to know every single member of the Clan. I shook my pelt, facing Floatingkit. Her pelt was filled with needles. "What in CloudClan happened to you?" I asked, running over to her. I leaned forward and gently began pulling out the needles.

[Floatingpaw]

Floatingkit winced every time he pulled a sharp needle from her gnarled fur. "I...umm...I chased an adder away from the nursery and fell into a thorn bush once I scared it away. It went through the bush, and I followed it to make sure it was home. I didn't want anyone to hurt. But I ended up getting hurt instead. Funny, huh?" Floatingkit smiled sheepishly, looking down at her paws to hide her embarrassed face.

[Snakefang]

I paused in the middle of picking out the needles. "An adder?" I sniffed Floatingkit's pelt, and no scent of adder came. But I didn't want to hurt the kit's feelings or anything, so I didn't say anything. But the story didn't make sense, Floatingkit must've known that. An adder would've snatched this poor thing up and ate her in one gulp. "Ya must've been pretty brave," I went back to picking out the needles.