[PRP] Boredom (Pingana & Jani)

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Jani had slipped out of the den, stealthily past not only Mommy but Mother as well, and the cub was highly pleased with her accomplishment. The Goddess knew Amani had tried something similar and failed. Horribly. She didn't know if Nyesha had tried, but really, it didn't matter in the end.

What mattered was that Jani was out exploring the pride! And the first thing she found today was a big, very big black and white lion. The cub came up to him and stopped, looking up up up.

"Wow," she breathed. "You're big."  

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Jani paused to consider this. It made a lot of sense. She was about the same size as her brother and sister, yes, but they were much smaller than Mommy and Mother. So, it was reasonable that she was small, instead of him being big.

"Okay," she agreed. "But I won't always be small!" she told him. "One day I'll be big, like Mother and Mommy!"

She wasn't really sure what she wanted to do when she was big though. She knew that Mommy was a Bard. It sounded a little tame as compared to Mother being a Warrior, but she wasn't sure she wanted to do that either. But the cub didn't have to make up her mind now. She had a lot of time before she was big enough that she had to know.  

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Jani considered that too. She didn't have too much to compare how big or small she'd been before as opposed to now, but it struck her that he was probably right.

"I guess that's true. But I don't remember that much," she admitted to the big lion. Actually, she wasn't really interested in how big she'd been or how big she was now. How big she would be was fairly interesting, but not relevant at the moment.

"I'm Jani," she said, remembering that she was supposed to introduce herself to people she'd never met before. "What's your name?"  

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Pingana. It was a different sort of name. Not a bad one though, Jani decided. She wasn't sure that it fit him. But it wasn't her place to say that, she supposed. He could pick whatever name he wanted, so he probably liked that one a lot.

The cub was diverted from that line of thought by Pingana's question. She averted her eyes and looked from side to side. "Mother probably does by now," she answered, avoiding the actual question. Mother had a habit of finding them whenever they managed to sneak out of the den and she was the one who spanked them when they were brought back.

But getting out in the first place was more than worth a spanking or two.  

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Blue eyes blinked as the cub considered that. She hadn't given any thought to sneaking back into the den - getting out had been the big priority. But Jani supposed there was no reason why she shouldn't do such a thing - it might even save her a spanking!

"You know," she said, "that's really smart." The more she thought about it, the more right he seemed. "Thanks a lot Pingana!"

With that, the green and white cub snuck off, hoping to get back into the den before Mother or Mommy knew she'd been gone at all.