"...Jayspirit...?" Sleetstorm called out to his littermate as his paws touched down on the island ground.
His brother had asked him to come hunting, but now he was nowhere to be seen... Sleetstorm had tracked his brother's scent the entire way here, but as he put his paws onto the island, the trail ended abruptly. Sleetstorm's ears flicked in frustration as he padded inland further, seeing no indicators of Jayspirit's presence. Hmph... fine...
Suppose Jayspirit didn't want to spend time with him after all. Turning tail, he started heading back toward the coast. As he broke from the trees and onto the more sandy ground, he spotted Frostflower stepping off the tree-bridge. It was then that he saw the log beginning to slip, and he broke out into a run.
As much as he hated Frostflower, he couldn't watch her be swept away by the moving log.
He sunk his teeth into her scruff, hauling her clear just in time as the log splintered a little and cracked as it broke away, instead lodging itself too far away from their side of the land to be functional. It would take a cat actively pushing it back over from the other side to work again...
He narrowed his eyes as he looked at Frostflower, letting go of her scruff.
"...Looks like we're stuck here." He muttered, lashing his tail. "Great." His voice dripped with sarcasm.
Sleetstorm blinked, seeming to take a moment to actually return to the land of the living. He coughed, before leaning away quickly and turning his head away almost bashfully. Eugh, that was embarrassing as anything.
"I'm not looking at you like anything in particular. And you're the one who looks like a fish!" He stood up and wandered away a few paces- before conveniently, a branch broke further downstream and lodged itself in the same position the first log-bridge had been. "Look, we can get back!" Glad to have an excuse to change the topic, the tom grabbed his prey he had caught, and made a beeline for the bridge.
He ran his way across, ignoring the way his heart fluttered and thrummed in his chest. He wasn't in love! Hell no!