Улыбнуло, что "мелкий" Ежевичка размером почти догнал Огнезвезда. Папины гены, однако! :D

Подозреваю, что таким же великаном вырастет :D

be a great warrior and leader doesn't mean you are going to be a great mentor

Totally agree with you!

As I have said before, I love that Firestar is not this perfect mentor as it helps to flesh out the flaws in character. Aside from things that happen beyond his control, he does have his own issues whether it is a thin patience or rather a patience that can only take so much before it breaks, as show in his mentoring of Cloudtail, or that he allows his own trauma to pass premature judgment onto a innocent, as with Bramblepaw (though it is understandable that Firestar would be like this, considering all that Bramble's father put him through. While its not said as such I do think Firestar suffers from a bit of PTSD thanks to Tigerstar). Heck even apprenticing Cinderplet was not smooth, given it was his first and that he often had to a pull double duty mentoring her brother as well since Graystripe kept running off to Silverstream.

I think what's the most interesting part of all this is that Cinderpaw's training was actually the smoothest of all his apprentices. He's immediately a great mentor in book 2, she's eager to learn and we get some really good scenes of Fire showing her everything he knows, while taking on Bracken as well. He tells her not to leave camp as he goes to get herbs for a sick Bluestar but she sneaks off anyway, and then after she sneaks out and has her accident, he does nothing but blame himself. As if he could have stopped her. It's easy to read the books as if her accident made him an uptight, short-tempered mentor later on, which I think is really cool

Wow, I did not think of it like that but that does make sense! Initial youthful excitement at teaching turning to guilt ridden over caution and seeking some atonement. Certainly makes me think that for Fireheart, after going through all that, Cloudpaw was not the best person for him to take on as a second apprentice. I imagine that by the time Brambleclaws training was over, Firestar was pretty much done with the whole mentoring business, at least for a long while.

firestar: "i like how you killed all the mice. next you'll be hunting and killing me. WON'T YOU ...... WON'T YOU!!!!"

XD