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 Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:48 pm
 Kainda padded along at a lesuirely pace. A steady speed that could carry you miles before fatigue forced you to stop rather than the quicker lope that ate up energy too fast. And she had indeed walked miles. Nothing she could see was familiar beyond that it was a savannah. Though in truth she wasn't looking about her very hard and was only just bothering to check the scents carried on the wind. She didn't want to end up lunch just because she hadn't smelled the danger before hand...lunch, lunch would be nice...best to keep her nose half tuned for food as well...she also needed to find someone to ask for directions, and to ask after Muroki...hmm...
But she was too lost in her daydreams, really, with a snatch of some story-song she'd heard somewhere. About a hunting dog chasing a hare up the the moon and back. Catchy little tune.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:00 am
Shaira'Lejali was making her way merrily across the lands, a smile upon her maw, a spring in her step and such. Her yellow eyes were closed as she bobbed her head back and forth to a non-existent melody what was playing though her head.
She never had a problem with walking despite her closed eyes, she never stumbled or tripped. She seemed to magically step over anything that would trip her or cause her to fall. It was an amusing sight to watch. Opening her eyes the wolf paused and looked around, seeing nothing of interest she continued to walk along closing her eyes once more. This time her tail was swinging back and forth along with her bobbing head to the melody playing through her head.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:04 pm
Well, you not never caught a hare,
That's been ta the moon, dawg,
And you aint no friend of ours!
She huffed out a breath when the ditty came to an end, blinking and looking about her at last. Before a new song sprang to mind and helped her wile away the time, she'd see if this place was a good one. Maybe she'd hang about a while if she fancied it.
Kainda stopped and scented the air, happy to detect another maned wolf somewhere upwind. Probably a female. She turned to start trotting that way. Time to ask the locals how things were around here. Maybe they too bonded with lions. Maybe they could help her.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:24 pm
Lejali randomly paused once more in mid-step only to find herself falling forward, face first, into the ground. In a last minute attempt to stop herself from falling she tried to place the paw she had lifted back on the ground firmly only to slip and tumble head first. She landed on her rear end with a rather loud 'thud'. It only received a round of giggles from the female as she fell backwards onto her back.
"It's so good to not have to worry about anything!" The wolf remarked rather thoughtfully to herself as she looked upward to the sky
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:49 pm
"You must be lucky, sister-wolf, if you have nothing in the world to worry you."
Quietly, on soft paws, she'd approached the brightly coloured female. Caution was abandoned however as the stranger fell backwards with a laugh - surely someone so jolly wouldn't turn around and attack her, so why worry overmuch? Instead Kainda sat down and offered a smile. This was a fellow, another of her kind and of her sex. Hopefully this meeting would go well.
"Hello."
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:43 pm
"Not lucky."
Lejali replied with a shake of her head. She then stuck her tongue out at the other maned wolf rather playfully. She then rolled onto her belly and looked up at the other more natural colored female. "I'm finally free to be myself. so I suppose I'm lucky." She spoke in the same thoughtful tone as when she was speaking to herself.
"May I ask you your name?" She questioned with a tilt of her head.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:52 pm
"Kainda." The hunter's daughter. A practical name - for that's what she was and always would be, regardless of where she went or who she became along the way. Even if you deny it, who you were born to never changes - unless you're a god, perhaps. The end of the journey can't be forseen but the start? You're already there.
"And what's yours?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:24 pm
"Kainda? That's pretty." She remarked in the same thoughtful tone as she continued to look up at the other. "Shaira'Lejali." The unnatural colored maned wolf stated with a rather pleased nod.
"It's Song of the Mind. Or that's what my mother told me." Lejali commented rather randomly even though the other hadn't told her the meaning of her name. She just felt like being random.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:11 am
"Means Hunter's Daughter, mine." She nodded though she was curious at the elaborate and elegant name the other wolf carried. No wolf where she had come from had such titles, only the lions and cheetahs. Everything had been simple and homely there for wolves.
"It's good to meet another wolf...could you tell me, are these lands plentiful? Many lions?" Kainda enquired hopefully. Young and strong, she didn't mind the walk, but she'd prefer to find a place to stop for a short rest from her search sooner rather than later.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:50 am
"It fits you nicely." Lejali stated with a rather please nod. With the coloring of the other it must make hunting easy, which is how she saw that the name fit. Hunting was a tad bit difficult for the brightly colored female, her colors making it rather difficult for her to hide from her prey.
"I agree with your statement, there has been very few meeting that I have experienced that were with wolves." Lejali commented rather thoughtfully before she remembered the question that followed the statement. "As far as I have seen these lands are plentiful, but alas I have not been here for very long so I cannot give you a definite answer." A light frown settle upon her features.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:19 am
"There's few wolves here?" She tilted her head thoughtfully, weighing that out. It'd mean that territories wouldn't overlap and their specialised prey would be more readily avalable...and not used to wolves tricks. But would it get lonely after a long time? No. She cared little for their company these days and was focused on her mission. And was it because it was as dangerous as it was plentiful that her kind avoided it? She'd have to see.
"Thankyou, sister-wolf. I think I'll see if if this is a good place to settle down for a few nights. I've travelled a long way." She smiled gratefully, trying to act all grown up. Which she sort of was.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:53 pm
Regretfully Lejali had to shake her head at the other wolf's question. "I fear that you are the first that I have come across in these land, I have not seen any other....." Her voice trailed slightly and she had a somewhat sad almost depressed look upon her features before they faded into a smile.
"I am sure that there must at least be one other besides ourselves!" She exclaimed rather suddenly with a nod. She then tilted her head at the other. "Where did you travel from?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:22 pm
"A place where there's many wolves. But I'm on a journey, a nice little quest..." She shrugged with one sholder and smiled.
"We're defintely not the only wolves left."
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:54 pm
"Oh, that sounds rather fun." Lejali replied with a nod. She then thought the next statement over rather deeply. "I know we aren't the only ones left." She said extremely sure of herself. "My mother's out there somewhere, and at least three others....." She paused frowning because of a rather unpleasant thought that had just popped up. "Unless something terrible happened to them....That would be horrible if something did!."
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:24 pm
"I'm sure you'd know if something had happened to close kin. Gut feeling or some such thing. My mother knew the second my grandmother passed on by an itchy paw or so she said."
She offered the superstitious titbit as a small comfort. Kainda knew she'd probably never see her family again...so she supposed that by twitchy ears or an urge to wail were all she'd ever know of their fates.
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