[JRP] Familiar Ground (Avichayil'Cayla x Moto'Nyota)

[Epine de Rose]

Old Cert - Have yet to receive adult cert but she IS recognised as an adult!

She was home! Well home in a sense, she had literally stepped across the borders into the welcoming embrace of her mother and the pride but she still had so much to do. She had certain individuals to hunt down and say hello to, she had to recount her adventures to the young and old alike, and then she needed to go and locate her old haunts. In many respects these activities were all fairly mundane, but she had always led the simple life and to her, she wouldn't have it any other way.

It was for this reason that Avichayil (or Cayla for short) was still so close to the borders. She was exploring what she had previously been unable to and as such she was far more accessible to foreigners. Admittedly her deep green coat would camouflage her quite a bit but she had a knack for giving herself away, after all, Cayla had a notoriously loud paw step and sounded more like a rampaging rhino than a graceful dancer. She left grace and dignity to the others in her family...

Suffice to say that on a personal level, Cayla was a nutcase!

Alas, with a reasonably distracted and dazed expression upon her features, the young lioness proceeded across along the jungle's edge, picking her way through the dried soil that lay on the borders. Out here the world was exposed to the sun and she had always been fascinated by how different it looked just a few more feet into the shelter of the canopy.  

[Truth.Be.Told]

Raha-mkataa, once known as "Moto'nyota" to many, found herself near the borders once more. Orange-amber eyes were watching for something, her heart waiting for something...for what? Perhaps for Taswira and Set to come and join her after their mission in the Aikanaro'hini was finished? Perhaps. All she knew was that she was waiting for something...Contently waiting, however. In the Jini-msemi, she finally had the peace she'd been denied for so long. That peace had even become the source of her new name. She took a deep breath, an action that was interrupted by very loud pawsteps.

Startling a bit, the scarred lioness looked around rather quickly, ears back and tail twitching until her sight settled on the source. And she blinked. Hm? The young one looked rather like Mle's adopted daughter. The girl who went by Pata'chasi wenzi now. Smiling, the old lioness called out. "Hello, there! Recently arrived home?"  

[Epine de Rose]

Truth.Be.Told

Stranger danger!

Well, this is what should have happened but as Cayla had never had any genuine inclinations towards the norm she merely drew to a controlled stop. One paw remaining suspended above the ground, she turned her head towards the source of the voice and observed the female in question. A stranger no doubt and one she had never seen before, this was nothing new to the recently returned lioness but even so, it was still of interest to her. Suffice to say that all the new lions and lionesses that entered the swamplands always had something fun or interesting to talk about... Cayla could only think about the adventures they might have had!

"Yes," she replied at last, a small smile flicking onto her lips as she finally adjusted her stance and moved towards Raha. "You weren't here when I left though," she continued and shook her head. She could only surmise that this individual was recently joined, would there be many like this? She didn't think she had been away long but all the months had blended into one after a while...

"Someone new?"  

[Truth.Be.Told]

Raha chuckled, nodding. "Relatively new, yes." The girl wasn't afraid. That was both good and bad. Well...good, here. "I am Raha-mkataa. It is a pleasure to meet you young one. I hope you found your adult name without much trouble?" She didn't like the thought of little ones having too many struggles in finding their adult names. That...would worry her, to have her own face those struggles.