We’re On An Adventure (Stormwind)

“They look small,” The she-cat Mewed to her partner, who glanced at them thoughtfully, deciding between taking them to Stoneteller and clawing their pelts off.

Lady pinned her ears back, shrinking back slightly.

The She-cat beside him narrowed her eyes. “That’s what they always say.” Clearly, whoever these cats were had had some trouble with strangers recently. The tom growled softly, his claws unsheathed as he stalked up to the pair and scented the air around them.

"We're just passing through!" Lady squeaked, eyeing him warily. "We'll be gone soon, I swear."

The larger of the two strange cats, a tom, let out a low growl. “Why are you here?”

Newton pinned his ears and backed away, intimidated into a stupor by the Tom’s size and sharp claws.

Lady jumped back in alarm, eyes wide. Since the start of their travels, the only other cats she and Newton had seen had been from a distance and these didn’t exactly look friendly.

Newton jumped when two cats swung around the corner, fierce looks on their faces as they stalked towards the young pair of travelers.

Lady padded alongside him.

Eventually, the tom saw a corner up ahead and got ready to go around it, hoping for shelter on the other side of the vertical rock face.

Lady kept looking around as they walked, looking for sufficient shelter so that Newton would rest.

Newton followed close behind, dragging his paws a little bit as he walked. The tom again became aware of movement up the slope from them, but this time he could hardly tell if it was real or imagined.

Lady whirled around and stormed off.

Newton pinned his ears back. Even while tired, The tom recognized that that was behavior that was quite unlike her, and that she likely meant every word as well.

Lady actually glared at him. “If we don’t find shelter very soon, we are sitting down wherever we are and you are going to sleep,” she growled.

“No,” growled Newton. “We just need to find real shelter. I won’t be able to sleep otherwise. “ Theron grumbled softly, growing a little irritated by Lady’s insistence. Did she think he hadn’t tried to sleep while he was like this? He just couldn’t do it.

“You lay back down right now,” she snapped.

Newton shook his head. “We can’t stay, you know that.” The tom murmured, getting to his paws and glancing across the land with half-closed eyes.

Lady scowled at him. “We’re not moving until you get some rest. Now go to sleep.”

Newton, too tired to form a proper response, nodded simply and mumbled something incoherent.

Lady stared at him with a worried, disapproving frown. “Newton, did you not sleep again?”

Newton let out a sort of muffled mix between a murmur and a groan, his head resting on his paws. The Tom’s eyes watered on account of his lack of sleep.

Lady woke with the sun, as usual, stretching and yawning.

Newton’s vision was bleary by the time the sun began to rise. The tom still managing to look around them through half-closed eyes.

Lady drifted off into sleep.

Newton sighed, knowing full well he wouldn’t be getting any sleep that night. The Tom’s instincts as he’d previously described to Lady were screaming at him to stay awake and keep an eye out for danger, seeing as they had next to no protection from anything. But he pretended to be asleep, closing his eyes, so that Lady could actually get some rest and not stay up with him.