Cleanup time (Open)

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Shiningpaw entered the nursey with a smile, a bunch of clean moss with her. She got to work quickly, cleaning out the nests before replacing them. Being the perfectionist that she was, she had to make sure every nest was perfect. She worked as quickly as she could thoguh, not adressing any kits herself, but also not oing anything to scare them away.

[Echopaw]

Echokit was a bit uneasy at the appearance of an older cat. The only adults she had talked to were the queens, and her parents. Who was this stranger?

From the FireClan scent, an ally. And from the size, an apprentice. Or maybe a young warrior? It only took a few more minutes for Echokit to realize the nests were being cleaned by this cat. And in a very organized way.

Bouncing out of her and Sparkkit's nest, the snowy she-kit approached this stranger, oggling at her work. It looked really nice, actually....

"Miss?" she spoke politely, giving a gentle poke to the apprentice's body for her attention. "Do you think you could teach me how to do that, too?"

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Shiningpaw turned her attention down to look at the young, white kitten. She wanted to learn to clean out nests? Shiningpaw nodded after a moment. "Sure miss..." her voice trailed off as she didn't know the kit's name. "I'm Shiningpaw," she said, turning to a new nest. "Help me clear this out first," she responded and started removing the old moss.

[Echopaw]

The white she-kit brighted at being accepted. "Oh! Echokit." she provided with a small smile, head tilting curiously at the apprentice's own name. "Shiningpaw? So you are an apprentice!" Echokit mewed, looking proud of her own assumption being correct.

"Okay!" Watching Shiningpaw remove some of the moss first, Echokit memorized how to do it herself, and started to work.

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Shiningpaw nodded. "That I am," she responded. She nodded when it was empty. "Good," she responded. She went and grabbed some more freash moss and piled it over the empty space. "Then just flatten it out," she responded. She patted half down as an example for Echokit's sake.

[Echopaw]

Echokit seemed to smile wider at the praise, even as small as a simple "good" was. She blinked down curiously at the empty spot, before watching as Shiningpaw went to replace the old moss with new material. Hooking one patch, Echokit put in her own contribution to that step.

"Sure!" Echokit assured, eyes becoming determined and lips setting into a tight frown. She started to flatten the plant, like Shiningpaw had done.

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Shiningpaw smiled approvingly. "Just like that," she responded, making sure the middle was patted down a little bit more than the rest. "Excelleent job," she said. Echokit's den was the next in the line of cleaning. "Do you want to try your own nest on your own?" she offered.

[Echopaw]

Echokit beamed, giving the made nest a prideful look. 'I'm pretty good at this!'

"Why not?" the she-kit giggled, going over to the nest with a faint smile. She took the clean moss provided for the job, going through the steps in perfect order. The moss being removed, the new piles added, patting it down... it was only three steps, so it wasn't a big surprise. "How does it look, Shiningpaw?"

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Shiningpaw watched as Echokit made her nest, making sure she didn't do anything wrong. "It lookg great!" she responded, giving it a closer inspection and nodded. "I remember as a kit I used to line my nest with dove feathers," she said, fond of the memory, as she replaced another nest.

[Echopaw]

Echokit gave a curious, tight-lipped glance towards Shiningpaw as she recalled her kithood days. There was a sparkle of interest in her deep blue eyes, before Echokit have an excited bounce on her paws. "Really? Can we go and find some?" she asked rapidly, a smile blooming and tail flicking high over her head. "My sister would probably love a dove feather to sleep with! Oh, and maybe Rainlight and Fawnskip would appreciate some, too?"

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Shiningpaw shrugged and nodded. "Le me just get the last nest here, then we can go look for some." she responded, quickly making up the last nest.

[Echopaw]

Echokit nodded quickly, taking a step back so that Shiningpaw could get to work. She'd only watch this time. But her paws trembled with anticipation to find some feathers.

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"Ok, let's go look for some feathers," she said to the kit with a smile, leading the way out into the main area of thhe camp so they could look around.

[Echopaw]

Echokit bounded after Shiningpaw. "Okay! Where should we look?" she asked politely, giving the apprentice a curious tilt of her head.

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"Well," Shiningpaw said slowly, "We coul look on the ground, or for spare feathers in the freashkill pile that fell off there."