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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:11 pm
AIM Log -- Felyn & Remove
Izulu & Umbia Izulu sighed to himself as he stretched out upon the old rock, his tail brushing against the tips of the long grass reeds that surrounded it, and his front paws draped casually over the edge. He was growing into a healthy young lion, his mane thicker and longer and starting to fill in. He paid little mind to the changes, but knew they were coming.
Soon it would be time for him to start his own life, leave the comfort of his parents, and be on his own. He wasn't sure yet if he wanted to leave the Kusini and travel, or if he wanted to stay close to home. The thought of leaving his mother behind, especially, filled him with dread, but his curiosity always did get the best of him.
He sighed, rather boredly, and lay his head down upon his paws, glancing around him at the empty clearing with little interest as to what was actually there. Thoughts plagued his mind, and he had a feeling they wouldn't stop any time soon.Umbia was an adult now, a beautiful one at that. Her black coat with her dazzling red markings. She was a beautiful sight there was no doubt about that and she had already decided what she wanted. She wanted Izulu. He had been her friend for so long and she had grown a soft spot for the grumpy male.
She moved a little through the lands not really expecting to do much other then maybe go hunting. Something else she had grown well in. She loved to hunt and she was so good at it. However the blue of someone she knew very well stood out on a rock.
"Izulu!" She gasped a little as she saw him, a smile crossed her maw.
She turned the direction she was walking in and headed towards him. He looked so much bigger and his mane was longer. Maybe it was time to see if she could get him interested in her.The younger male's ear twitched at the sound of his own name, and he rolled his eyes in the direction he assumed it to come from. He wasn't surprised to see Umbia coming towards him in the slightest - she was probably the only female aside from his own cousin that seemed so determined to be close to him. In the end, he actually didn't mind her so much. She wasn't as terribly annoying as he first imagined.
"Umbia," he said with a half smile, not bothering to cover up his unrest for her. He was grumpy, she was used to it, and he had a feeling she wouldn't care one way or another. Taking the effort to hide his feelings just wasn't of his concern. He did lift his head and push himself up into a sitting position, at least, so that they could converse in a more normal fashion. If he knew her at all, she'd want to talk.
"Out hunting?" he said, once she was a bit closer, his head cocked slightly at the question. She had really grown up to be quite the beautiful female, now that he saw her, but something about Umbia just rang more to him as a friend. He didn't think that his grumpy attitude was particularly suiting to find a mate in anyone, so friends were probably the safest best for all females when he was concerned.She nodded in reply to his question.
"Hunting is an easy way to cure boredom. I don't know whether it would be worth it really, I'm not hungry in the slightest but it's better then wandering around aimlessly." She smiled a little, her tail flicking behind her.
"You been upto much or just a lazy day for you?" She was being nice, as she always was but she couldn't help it. She liked Izulu more then she should and she wanted to push it and see how much he liked her. She had to start slow though, she knew what he was like."Shouldn't kill anything you aren't planning to eat," he said with a bit of a shrug, "but I guess if you really were all that bored, there's probably a lioness somewhere that has a few hungry mouths to feed." He didn't like hunting all that much himself, except for turtles, but that was always a fond sport he connected to his mother.
"Just a lazy day. I've been sitting here thinking, that's all really," he seemed entirely oblivious to what Umbia was planning. Being that he thought of her as a friend, he had no idea that she saw him as anything else. It would have surprised him to learn of it.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:13 pm
"My sister has a few hungry mouths to feed!" She chuckled a little. She hadn't seen her sister to actually know if she had the cubs yet but Umbia assumed she had. She was rather plump last time they had seen each other.
"Thinking? Anything you care to share?" She wasn't going to push him though, there were other things she could push him about.
"Care to go down to the river?" She didn't want to try anything while he was sitting on a rock and she was in a strange mood, she just wanted to move. Sitting still was not what she wished to do right now.
"Your sister?" he said slowly, furrowing his brows as he tried to think over the pregnant females he had heard about having birth. "Ihlosenka?" he asked, tilting his head as he stared at her. She did seem similar to the other female in some aspects, namely the red that marked both of their bodies.
"I.." he started, then frowned, glancing down at his paws. "I just don't know if I want to stay here. I mean, I like it here, but I don't know if I want to see the world for a while or if I want to just pass that all up entirely." He wasn't sure why he was telling her, other than the fact that friends confided in one another, right? It did feel a bit better to say it aloud to someone.
"I guess," he muttered with a shrug, pushing himself up from the rock lazily and giving his fur a good shake before climbing down. He didn't know why she wanted to go to the river, but he figured he'd indulge her.
Umbia looked at him suddenly as he spoke her sisters name. He knew her? Well it wasn't really unexpected but she just wasn't expecting him to talk about her sister.
"Yes that's her." Weird.
She then listened to his thoughts and it suddenly felt as if someone was tieing her stomach in knots. She didn't want him to go. Should she tell him? She wasn't sure and so she just nodded and as he got off the rock she just started walking, waiting for him to follow and then going on a little more.
"I would miss you if you left. Do you think you would come back at all?" She had to wonder, she cared for the grumpy boy.
"She's mated to my cousin," he said with a bit of a shrug, as if it truly didn't matter all that much. He had never actually seen the female before, but he had heard his family talking about her. It was odd, though, that they lived in such a small world.
"I think so, yeah," he said, glancing over at her, unsure of what to really think about her missing him. They were friends, true, but maybe he didn't feel as strongly about it as she did. He would miss his family, and maybe her at times as well, but he didn't think he'd be losing sleep over it. "I love my family, a lot, and I wouldn't want to leave them forever." He had caught up to her, strolling along at her side, his eyes drifting over the lands he knew so well as he passed them.
She found it just a little odd that her sister and his cousin was mates but she didn't say anything more about it.
She was a little upset that he didn't seem as if he would miss her at all and so she wasn't sure whether to push what she felt or not. Part of her at that point had already given up, part of her still hoped.
"I am glad that you would come back, it would be strangely happy around here without you being so grumpy!" That would do for now.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:14 pm
He couldn't help but let out a small laugh at her statement, shaking his head in his amusement. She did have an odd way of wording things. "Well, I'm sure you'd probably be one of the few that did actually miss me. I'm really not the sociable sort." Although, he didn't realize how much it did please him that at least someone would miss him should he leave.
"Who knows, maybe I won't even be gone that long if I decide to leave. I might decide it's boring out there without you to pester me all the time." Well, she was being nice, and he figured he should at least.. try.
Was he? No. Don't be silly. She was just trying to read things into it that weren't there though just in case she was going to try and push it.
"Like you would get bored out there. I mean there are 100s of girls like me out there who would bug you and probably prettier too." She was looking for reactions to know whether or not to give up on him. No point getting too attached for no reason.
He blinked slightly at her words and turned his head away, finding the conversation slightly uncomfortable. Was she fishing for compliments? He really wasn't good at this sort of thing, which always made him glad he didn't have any sisters.
"I don't know, I don't think there are many girls prettier than you," he said weakly, obviously a bit uncomfortable, but it could have simply been read as shy. "Besides, if I went out there to travel, it wouldn't be to find a bunch of silly girls. It'd be so I could see all these places I hear my aunt talking about, that I hear everyone talking about."
She listened and inside she smiled a lot.
"I'm sorry, I hope I'm not unsettling you or anything." She didn't know him to be exactly shy and so it worried her a little that he was acting like that. Well the only thing she could do was to be honest.
"I am sorry, the thing is, your my best friend and in a way my only friend outside my family and ya mean a lot to me thats all." There that could be taken either way and well Umbia didn't mind at the moment. She wasn't sure whether to push him or not. It was weird seeing him in well this way.
"Father says there are bad lions out there. He rescued my mother from one. Though my sister went wandering, she went to find her prince or something. It sounds dangerous out there." She was rambling now but her parents view from out there was quite different to others views on the place.
"A little," he said with a shrug, seeing no reason to hide it. "I'm just not used to talking about this kind of stuff with girls. I mean, besides my cousin, you're really the only one I bother to talk to." And Sithela was certainly not the sort of girl that went about talking about how pretty she was.
He paused at her words, considering them, and lettin ga silence fall over them as they walked. "I guess, in a way, you're really the only friend outside my family too. I just happen to have.. a really big family." He smirked at the thought, but she really was the only friend he had that wasn't related to him through blood.
"Yeah, my aunt was attacked once, but she says.. that there aren't as many bad ones as good ones." He had considered it over and over, and the more he thought, the more he felt like taking the risk.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:16 pm
She was glad that she must mean something to him but she wasn't sure it was going to be enough. She didn't know now what she could say or do that wouldn't freak him out. She just listened to him talk as she saw the river come into view.
"Race ya down there!" She smiled and started running, mostly because she felt like running away, her emotions weren't the happiest of things right now and this way she could feel as if she was without actually doing so. After all she loved to spend time with him and wasn't about to let that go.
He was glad that the awkward conversation of talking about prettiness and girls was over, because that was certainly not an area that Izulu had put any thought into. He wasn't really one for companionship, so a mate had never really seemed like so much of an ideal thing to him. Any talk of it made him extremely uncomfortable.
He was caught off guard at her exclamation, even more so as she started running. With a smirk, he took off after her, a lopsided smile in place. Well, they could at least have fun, and that was always a good thing for friends to do. "I'll catch you," he called back with a soft chuckle, following her where she led him.
She wanted him to catch her so much just because she had seen her parents play sometimes and there was always a really cute bit when ever her father caught her mother and something inside her hoped that there would be something between her and Izulu. That was probably the reason she wasn't running as fast as she could though she tried to make it look as if she was.
"No you won't!" She called back. This was it for now. The last chance for something to happen today, if it didn't she would give it maybe one or two more goes and then leave him alone. She just had to be sure there wouldn't be anything before giving up the chance of there being something.
He chuckled at her words, his more competitive side shining through as he picked up speed. He hadn't been seriously thinking about catching her, but now that she had told him he couldn't, well, that was a different matter.
With a little huff, he caught up to her, reaching out to bat at her tail as he loped along. However, just as he was about to, one of his paws tripped over a rather badly placed rock, and went tumbling down. As fast as he was going, it was likely that tumble would be right into her, as well.
It was into her and so she ended up tripping up over her own feet and his rolling body which left them in something of a tangled rolling mess. Which of course Umbia didn't mind in the slightest, she was just waiting for them to stop moving. Which of course they did eventually. Well that wasn't exactly what she had hoped for but they were pretty close to each other and that was something.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:17 pm
Izulu groaned once they had stopped rolling, the pair of them ending up in a heap of tangled limbs. It had been a rough tumble, and now he had ended up on top of her. If he had been paler, he was sure the flush of his cheeks would have been obvious.
Coughing, he tried to scramble to get himself up, slipping and wriggling to get up from her. "I'm sorry, I," he huffed lightly to himself, growing more and more uncomfortable and grumpy with each passing moment.
Could she really just let this go? He was on top of her which she hadn't expected but as he tried to move she did too, which was deliberate but it meant she nuzzled him, it looked like it was an accident though it wasn't, not at all.
They managed to seperate and she sat herself down as her legs felt a little weak and so she wouldn't risk standing on them.
"It's ok.... I told you that you wouldn't catch me." She chuckled half hoping there wasn't going to be an awkward moment.
He shifted awkwardly at the nuzzle, almost falling over all over again. He wasn't sure if that had been an accident or on purpose, and his mind was tied into so many knots that it was hard for him to think straight. Finally untangled from her, he caughed, glancing uncomfortably down at his feet - which again just made him look bashful.
"I, no, it's ok, I should have been more.. careful.. or something," he said slowly, wishing he could leave now without appearing rude. He felt embaressed, and he was confused, and all he wanted to do was go find his mother and maybe play with her. That always calmed him down.
Umbia saw it falling apart right then. She wasn't about to give up but right now she had to let it go and she was starting to feel far too emotional.
"It's fine. I'm sorry."
She stood up and turned away from him. She didn't want it to be awkward between them, it was just weird.
"I erm... better get going. Erm... I might catch you around." She wasn't sure what else to say, she didn't look at him as she spoke, she made sure that the whole time she was facing the opposite direction.
"Yeah, I'll.. see you later Umbia," he said slowly, unsure of what he could say to make the situation any less awkward between them. He coughed, glancing at his paws, and then finally decided to just turn his back and leave. Man, he really hoped his mother had some sort of advice for him. She usually didn't, not with her more child-like mind, which is what made it all the harder. He just kept walking, towards his home, and didn't look back. Why did things have to be so weird when they seemed to be going so well?
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:18 pm
She sighed and walked off, she wanted to find her sister or mother, one of them would explain all this to her because that was too awkward and she didn't want it to always be like that awkward between them. Oh maybe it was just a big mistake. She let out a soft sigh before running off she wanted her mummy.
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