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 Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:03 pm
 Kabili found himself in the center of the 'haunted' forest that was one of the entrances into the Kusini lands. Now the white jester marked cub didn't believe the ghost stories that the adults fed him and all of the other cubs. He had been in the forest enough to know it wasn't haunted. He had never come across a ghost or a spirit while he laid many a traps in the dense forest, a perfect place to lay those traps.
Despite the 'Artist' block he was having when it came to designing elaborate schemes and traps for his sisters and others to fall into, this had appeared when he found that they were to move, he was working on another trap, a vine trap. It was one of those that was well camouflaged with a vine in the center tied into a loop that when someone would step into it, the loop would close on their feet and pull them into the air.
It wasn't very elaborate like he wanted but he hoped it would push him through his nasty block and get his mind off of all the bad going on.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:25 pm
 It could have been a ghost, the white-faced cub that watched him from the trees with crimson eyes and a silent razor smile.
He watched the other labor on his loop without blinking, without any movement save the small shudder of breath beneath the glossy black fur of his sides.
A teacher, and a test, that is what he saw. Not the great unseen teacher that had guided his small steps to these trees, but a far lesser one attempting to be just that.
The vine so carefully laid could just as easily be a noose. With a stretch and a leap to another branch, the cub decided to take this test.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:46 pm
Kabili was almost done, just a bit more tightening and his loop would be perfect. Suddenly he could have sworn he heard the rustle of leaves, someone jumping off a branch. The cub looked up and around but saw nothing, whatever it was was hidden pretty well or his jade colored eyes just skipped over them without registering that someone was there. He rolled his shoulders back in a shrug and tugged on the vine once more before taking it up in his jaws and dragging it into a pile of fallen leaves.
Quickly he scattered the leaves to make it look more natural. Then he stepped back semi-pleased with himself. Then he turned away to see if there was anything else that he could add to his trap, something to keep him busy.
Then he heard it again, that rustle and again he looked up and saw nothing. He furrowed his brow in confusion before blinking, shaking his head and busying himself again.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:59 pm
The stranger hadn't imagined the possibility he may be watched? Not promising, not promising at all.
The cub leapt to another branch, lower this time, and coiled tight and still against the rough bark, his red eyes fixed on the stranger. In any case, this was a wonderful game.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:16 pm
Kabili had gathered a few more vines together and was working on weaving them together when a shiver went down his spine. A shiver that told him someone was watching him and it wasn't the wind rustling the leaves, it was indeed a creature that had done so. Just like he thought!
It wasn't often that he got that shiver, but whenever he did and he turned around there was one of his sisters with a puzzled look on their features. There that never been a time that he had received a shiver and no one was watching. Once more his jade colored eyes scanned his surroundings seeing nothing...nothing at..No! Wait, there was something white in the mist of the shadows that littered the trees. "Whose there?" He called his eyes narrowed.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:27 pm
He switched his tail against the leaves and offered no other reply, thin red lips splitting to a sharp smile again.
Would the stranger approach him? Or would he run, fast as his legs could carry him, and abandon his own little game in the leaves? Red eyes and white fangs waited for a reply of his own.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:38 pm
They were mocking him, whoever was watching him was mocking him but not revealing their location. He had a good idea of where they were at but he was certain. Then he saw the leaves fall. A dark grin curled upon his lips as he trotted causally towards the tree that he spotted, red white and black in.
"I know you're up there, there's no point in hiding now." Kabili called out leaning against the trunk of the three, the rough bark rather comforting, surprisingly, to the white cub.
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:32 am
The cub blinked then, corners of his eyes crinkling as the smile widened, threatened to give way to a sneeze of laughter. He kept his silence, though, and did not disturb the leaves surrounding him again.
It seemed there was very much a point in remaining concealed, if not secretive. The stranger called out with all the confidence of a puffed-up toad croaking on his log, but he was pressed to his own piece of wood as though he hoped to disappear into it. That was hardly cause to relieve such clear unease.
Maker of tests, failing his own? That just wouldn't do, not at all.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:52 pm
When his 'stalker' didn't show himself Kabili shook his head, as if he was disappointed in the creature he couldn't see. "Now, now hiding won't do you any good. I can climb trees y'know." He told the other, whether he was bluffing or not it was unclear from the way he held himself, proud and confident. He wasn't about to let whomever he was talking to know that he in fact, did not know how to climb trees. Which was rather surprising since he used many vines for his fabulous pranks and tricks.
It wasn't to say that he couldn't get up the tree, he could, it would just take him a while to do, and he would often fall down. He wouldn't let the stranger know that, it'd be waaaaay to embarrassing if he did. Kabili didn't like being embarrassed, that was why he often hid his 'darker' side from the rest of the world and often played innocent cub.
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