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Helping Toffee — Description

Happy April Fool's Day!
But this is no joke, it's another part of Thrushstar's story already. I want to try to get these out a little bit more frequently.
A couple moons later, Caramel comes to Thrushpaw and Sorrelheart, requesting medicine for her sister, Toffee, who has fallen very ill. Sorrelheart denied giving Caramel anything, but, Thrushpaw, thinking about Hollykit, doesn't stand for that, and sneaks the medicine to Caramel and Toffee in the middle of the night.
WRITTEN SCENE
Thrushpaw and Sorrelheart were out in the forest, as usual, on a hunting mission, it was leaffall, and prey was starting to hide, so, their task was simple, catch some prey and bring it home to stockpile. Everything was normal, until suddenly, they ran into Caramel, the young she cat from Twolegplace that had stolen Thrushpaw's hunt a couple moons ago during his first assessment. She taught him how to hunt rabbits. Even the other night, he ran into her on the dusk patrol and she helped him slip off undetected and even showed him the place she lived, an alleyway in Twolegplace. It's much nicer in the forest. But right now, she seemed in some kind of distress. Sorrelheart blinked at her and rolled her eyes with a sigh, "not you again, I thought I'd seen the last of you, kit. What do you want now? Why do you keep coming into our territory?" "My sister–my sister is sick–please, can I have some herbs to give her?" Caramel asked, her eyes pleading. "Eh–what? Excuse me?" Sorrelheart blinked in surprise at her. "Please–she's all I have..."
Caramel begged, teary eyed. Sorrelheart shook her head, "I'm sorry, kit. It's leaffall. Herbs are dying off.. we need what we have for our own clanmates. We can't spare any for a rouge. Come on, Thrushpaw. Let's go. We have hunting to do." "I-I can help! Th-then you can help me... a-as thanks.... right?" Caramel ran up, looking hopeful. Sorrelheart growled and shook her head again, "not a chance. Go home." The hope faded out of Caramel's eyes in an instant, replaced by grief and rage, "my sister will die without medicine!" She wailed."She'll die.. and I'll be on my own...." Thrushpaw blinked at her. Like mama said Hollykit died? Sorrelheart didn't reply, she just turned and walked off with a final look at Thrushpaw, "Thrushpaw–come on. We're going." Caramel stared helplessly at him as he ran after his mentor, a desperate look in her eyes. In those.. sad eyes..
That night, Thrushpaw made a decision, he'd take the herbs to Caramel's and her sister himself. He just needed to be sneaky. Which, lucky for them, he was an expert at stealth. He's heard Sorrelheart telling mama he was. This would be easy for him, but, he couldn't lead a cat onto his trail. He crept over to Snowpaw's nest, and, feeling a golden opportunity to get his own back against Snowpaw, he pulled out loose clumps of fur. He stirred, but didn't seem to pay it much, if any notice. Who's gonna be the loser now, Snowpaw? You. He hadn't forgotten the way that Snowpaw and his brother, Cloudpaw, had bullied Thrushpaw relentlessly as a kit. Slipping away into the medicine cat den, he was quiet and was being careful not to wake Halfshadow. Quickly, he dropped the clumps of Snowpaw's fur in the place of the herbs he was taking, and slipped out silently. He watched as the cat on guard, quickly slipped away from to grab a late night snack from the freshkill pile, something he knew the guards did often, but are normally only a few seconds, before returning to their post. He only had those few seconds to react and get out of here, or his mission would suddenly get a lot harder. As quietly as he could, he ran for the entrance, keeping a fair distance between him and the guard, and slipped out.
I may be young, but I know my tricks. Ha- It took him quite some time to remember where Caramel's Twolegplace was, and, even longer to get there. When he did, he sniffed out Caramel's alleyway and followed his nose to where she was curled up around a brown she cat in a fitful sleep, her nose buried into her cheek. Caramel woke with a startled mrrp, and blinked up at him. Her eyes lit up, noticing the herbs in his mouth. Thrushpaw smiled, feeling a soft purr rising in his throat. "You... got the medicine? And.. brought it.. all the way out here, to me?" She asked. Thrushpaw nodded, dropping the herbs at Caramel's paws. "My sister died before I opened my eyes.." He muttered. "I don't remember anything about her.. just that mama said she was weak, and died."
The weird yellow lighting on the final panel, is supposed to be, like from a streetlight XD
CARAMEL AND TOFFEE'S DESIGN POST