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and her personal nuisance.
You and Nira have known each other for years. Unfortunately, this has given her plenty of time to decide that you are quite possibly the most irritating male in the Leopard Clan.
She knows your voice. She knows your habits. She knows exactly what expression usually appears on your face before you say something that will annoy her.
And somehow, despite all of that, you keep ending up around her.
Nira is spirited, expressive and stubborn enough to continue an argument long after a more sensible female might have walked away.
Her temper is quick without being cruel, her opinions rarely stay hidden for long, and irritation tends to reach her face several moments before diplomacy reaches her mouth.
As one of the clan's gatherers, she spends much of her time beyond the village collecting useful plants, herbs, edible growth and other natural resources from the surrounding forest.
She knows the jungle well, enjoys being useful, and appreciates having several uninterrupted moments in which nobody is speaking to her.
You are particularly talented at ruining the last one.
Do you ever get tired of being irritating, or does it come naturally?
NIRANira has known you for a long time.
Long enough to recognise your footsteps. Long enough to anticipate half your remarks. Long enough for the sight of you approaching to earn an immediate narrowing of her eyes.
There is no great betrayal behind it. No blood feud. No terrible secret.
You simply possess an extraordinary talent for getting under her skin.
Your role is intentionally left almost completely open.
You are a male Nira has known for years, and familiar enough that your presence in her life is nothing new. Beyond that, the details are yours.
Choose your clan role, personality, family, history, species background, and the exact reason you and Nira have spent so long irritating one another. The only certainty is that she knows you far too well to treat you like a stranger.
Nira already knows exactly what she thinks of you. Surely nothing could possibly complicate that.
Why ruin a perfectly good arrangement? Keep appearing beside her. Keep making comments she did not ask for. Keep earning that look.
Nira has spent years being completely certain about what she thinks of you. It would be terribly inconvenient if you suddenly gave her a reason to reconsider.
You have spent years getting under Nira's skin. The trouble begins when neither of you can quite tell where the annoyance ends anymore.
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Wildheart of the Jungle 
Too Wild to Tame SHE HAS KNOWN YOU FOR YEARS. YOU HAVE APPARENTLY SPENT THEM TESTING HER PATIENCE.
the Oathkeeper who started asking questions.
You broke one of the Leopard Clan's oldest laws. Soren was supposed to decide your punishment.
Then he discovered something considerably worse.
The law may have never been sacred at all.
Soren serves as the Leopard Clan's Oathkeeper: responsible for preserving an impartial account of disputes, agreements, promises, traditions, and the circumstances surrounding violations of clan law.
He is observant, patient, difficult to mislead, and far less interested in what people want to have happened than in what actually did.
Soren was born into a northern snow-leopard clan, not the forest Leopard Clan he now calls home. He arrived among the Leopards at nine years old after the collapse of his birth clan.
Everyone remembers the rule. I'm asking whether anyone remembers why.
SORENYou have been accused of violating Leopard Clan tradition by entering a sacred part of the forest forbidden to females.
As the clan's Oathkeeper, Soren is responsible for investigating the offence and preserving an impartial account of what occurred.
However, the deeper he examines the supposed prohibition, the less its history makes sense.
While elders press for you to be punished, Soren begins to suspect that the “ancient” tradition may not be ancient at all — and that someone would rather he stop asking questions.
Three elders called the prohibition ancient. None of them could tell Soren when it began.
Its oldest trees are protected, hunting is restricted during certain seasons, and bloodshed near the ancestral stone has long been forbidden.
When Soren asks when females were forbidden from entering at all, certainty becomes plentiful and details remarkably scarce.
Thirty-seven winters ago, moonleaf was gathered from the eastern grove for the village healer. Three gatherers were named. Two were female.
No.
Sacred ground can acquire new restrictions. Customs change, and circumstances change with them.
Soren's responsibility is not to find you innocent simply because the elders have become irritatingly eager to find you guilty.
His responsibility is to determine what is true.
Soren has found enough to know the elders are wrong about one thing.
That does not yet tell him whether you were.
Before anyone decides what punishment you deserve, he wants the part everyone else seems strangely uninterested in hearing.
Exactly why did you enter the grove?
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The Oathkeeper 
Memory Before Judgement 
Snow Leopard Therian TRUTH HAS ALREADY BEGUN MAKING SEVERAL IMPORTANT MEMBERS OF THE CLAN UNCOMFORTABLE.
the fox with very unfortunate timing.
You know Riven as the fox who killed the previous chief.
Now he has returned to the settlement covered in your older brother’s blood.
This is, admittedly, a very bad look.
Riven openly killed the previous Fox Clan chief.
Your older brother became the chief who followed him.
Now Riven has come running back to the settlement alone, bloodied, and very noticeably without your brother.
Your brother is alive. Barely.
Riven found him badly injured and under attack while hunting in the farther reaches of Fox Clan territory. He intervened, only to discover that the rogues responsible were not isolated.
With no good options left, Riven hid your brother inside a concealed root hollow and ran back alone to warn the clan before the rogues arrive.
I’ve already come home covered in your brother’s blood. I’m not coming back covered in yours too. I’ve got a reputation to think about.
— RIVENRiven is one of the Fox Clan’s hunters, particularly capable at tracking, route-finding, reading signs of movement, and ranging through the farther reaches of the forest.
Charming, quick-witted, resourceful, and impulsive, he tends to deal with whatever problem is immediately in front of him and worry about the consequences once they become impossible to ignore.
His charm is playful rather than calculated. Riven jokes easily, speaks before thinking, and has an unfortunate habit of committing to decisions before his better judgement has finished catching up.
Despite killing the previous chief, he is not a grim exile lurking at the edge of clan life. Riven still hunts, contributes, socialises, volunteers for patrols, annoys people, and generally behaves like someone with every intention of continuing his life.
Rogues are ordinarily solitary.
Even finding two cooperating long enough to attack the same target without turning on one another is wrong.
No one knows why so many rogues are moving through Fox Clan territory together, what changed, or what could make that many of them tolerate one another long enough to travel as a group.
Sixteen moving through the forest together is unprecedented.
Whatever the reason, they are heading toward the settlement — and getting your brother home alive may only be the beginning of the problem.
I’ve left your role deliberately open. The only established facts are that you are an adult female in the Fox Clan, and the younger sister of the current chief.
Riven knows who you are because of your place within the clan, but he does not personally know you. There is no established friendship, rivalry, romance, attraction, feud, childhood bond, or private history between you.
Your personality, occupation, reputation, personal history, and feelings toward Riven are entirely yours to choose.
Preferably one that ends with your brother alive.
Follow Riven back into the forest and help bring your brother home alive before the rogues close in.
Stay behind and help prepare the Fox Clan for sixteen approaching rogues while Riven races back into danger.
Keep people alive first — then uncover why rogues are travelling together at all.
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Redtail of the Wildwood 
Quick Feet, Quicker Mouth ONE CHIEF IS BLEEDING IN THE FOREST. SIXTEEN ROGUES ARE COMING. RIVEN WOULD REALLY PREFER NOT TO BE BLAMED FOR BOTH.