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 Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:08 pm
She eventually found her way toward where the queen she had met kept her Clan. She thought she should offer her own personal thanks to the other lioness for welcoming her into the pride and for letting her look around. She had never found anywhere that welcomed her without sneering at her views.
She hoped the blue lioness wouldn't be too hard to find and that she'd be able to give her thanks and get out of the leaders hair. She was sure the lioness had things to do beside chat. Even more so since she had a cub with her. The little girl must have been training.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:27 pm
Tejasvi was actually trudging out of the jungle as the sight of the bright orange female came into view. Being that they were inside the pride and she personally recognized the other, she wasn't all that worried about the little girl that wound her way back and forth between her legs playfully, following her mother back to the copse that the royal Nihang clan had taken for their own some time ago.
"Hello there," she called calmly, nodding in the direction of the other. She suspected it was probably her she was looking for - anyone coming in this direction usually was. Her aunt did get a few visitors, but a new member wouldn't likely know her yet. She put a paw out to still her daughter's playing and came to a stop.
Ardala came to a quick halt, though a frown formed on her maw as she did so. She had been having a bit of fun winding through her mother's legs, tripping her up every few feet. Her mother had been taking it with good humor, which was rare except in the time they spent alone together. She had begun to learn when it was time to play and when it wasn't though, which made her mother proud, so she simply stopped what she had been doing and sat down next to her mother's legs to watch the fiery lioness she had recognized from before.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:32 pm
She smiled slightly when she saw the lioness and the little cub between her feet. "I had hoped that you would not be too hard to find." She had figured that someone would know where the queen was but it was easier running into her than having to hunt her down.
It was interesting to see that the cub had stopped playing when her mother told her to. Most cubs she had known would have just continued on with whatever they were doing despite being told otherwise. She wondered if that was common of all cubs here.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:40 pm
"I'm usually not, considering everyone and their mother seems to keep tabs on me around here," she said with a light smirk on her maw, shrugging as she did so. She was in a particularly good mood today. She had been teaching Ardala to hunt, while practicing on some jungle lizards, and she had done exceptionally well.
She sat down where she was as she realized that the lioness was indeed looking for her, scooting her daughter closer to her side and putting a paw on her to ruffle the small tuft of mane-like fur she had atop it. "Is there something I can help you with then?"
Ardala had learned that while those lizards were very good for practice, they were actually not very tasty at all. She could remember the bitter taste in her mouth as it were and the little grimace on her maw was a testament to her memory. However, her mother then pulled her close and flopped a paw atop her head and her grimace screwed up into an accusing mixture of pursed lips, and an attempt not to grin or giggle.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:47 pm
"I'm sure you could find a way to get out of the sight of the prying eyes if you really wanted." Someone would probably just huff if their leader started playing hide n seek to get some free time.
"I wanted to thank you ..." She wasn't sure if it was a commonly done thing but she felt she needed to. "It isn't often that i find somewhere that can accept me for what i am."
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:53 pm
"Oh, I'm sure I could," she said with a small chuckle, "but I don't think that there are very many in this pride that would appreciate me disappearing like that. Plus, it'd be a little hard to disappear with a clumsy extra appendage in tow." She glanced down at her bright little daughter, shaking her head slightly. She had done her disappearing acts as an adol, before her mother got sick, to escape a little of the responsibility that was crashing down on her. It had been childish, and she had had to pay a lot of toh in the end.
"All souls that belong here eventually find their way back," she said softly, looking up from her daughter and back to the flame-colored lioness before her. She was perfectly serious as she said it, her eyes unwavering green pools. "I'd like to believe that fate wouldn't want you anywhere else if your soul belonged with ours." Not quite the typical response to a thank you, but then, what was ever typical in the pride?
Ardala smiled brightly as her mother glanced down at her, though she didn't have any idea why her mom would ever want to 'disappear'. She supposed maybe one day she might, but for now she thought that everyone and everything in the pride was simply wonderful. Besides, it's not like they paid her very much attention when she was this young anyway.
As they began to talk of thank yous and souls, however, she stopped smiling and let her gaze wander over to the bright lioness again. She hadn't heard this topic very often.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:59 pm
"You never know. She could prove to be good at the game of hiding and be even more useful in getting away for a bit." She grinned slightly as she looked down at the cub for a moment. "Though i would think that some would be disgruntled at not being able to find you when they wished to." So long as there wasn't a crisis she didn't see any reason why everyone couldn't have a bit of time to themselves when they wanted it.
The second bit of what the blue lioness said made her pause for a moment. She had not thought of it that way. Was her soul really meant to find it's way here? Wouldn't that mean that she had been here and was just returning now that the land was welcoming to her? " .... that is an interesting way to answer."
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:05 pm
"Oh, I suspect she might be very good at hiding, but she is also very terrible at sitting still for very long and she would be a dead giveaway," she said with a smile, though it was fond, like all mothers for their daughters - or normals ones, at least.
"I suppose it's 'interesting' to those not accustomed to our way of thought, but to us it is simply truth," she nodded her head and smiled knowingly as she watched the female before her decipher what her words meant. The enormity of souls and connections was something all newcomers had to slowly ease themselves into.
Ardala pouted lightly at her mother's words, obviously disagreeing though she wouldn't speak aloud and dishonor herself or her mother with her disobedience. Still, she did think that she would be fine at hiding and sitting still!
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:11 pm
"She could always tell you the best hiding places." She laughed softly.
"It makes sense in a way ..." She had asked Kichaa about why the pride was smaller than she usually saw and had been told about the plague. Perhaps she had been one of the ones to succumb to the plague herself and so her soul had gone somewhere else until the lands were clean. "Perhaps i was lax in my duties once .... and fate found a way to strengthen my resolve outside what i knew."
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:49 pm
"It does," she said softly, nodding as she watched the lioness trying to reason it out. She was actually rather proud, though it wasn't something she would admit aloud, as it could be something that was a bit embarrassing for others and thus dishonorable. There were some that never quite grasped it, but she thought this one would. She'd grasp it and then some. "Perhaps you were, but it's not our place to decide why we are put where we are, or why we are doing what we do. We just have to be the best we can be." She nodded her head with a gentle smile on her maw at this.
Ardala was still young, and thus, the thoughts of reincarnation and who she was in her past lives were hard to understand. She knew that her current rank in life was yet undetermined - it could be the very best, or it could be the next to, depending on her mother's final decision. Either way her mother chose, she would never mind. If she chose her, she would have a chance to advance on to this.. what was it called? That afterlife place. If she chose Aladra, then, well, it was Aladra's turn! That wasn't too bad either in her opinion.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:35 pm
She would have to take time to ponder that thought some time. She had questioned why fate dealt her the cards it had for a long time but if fate had not chosen this path for her then she would not be the lioness that she was. She would have turned out completely different and she didn't know if she liked that idea.
"Doing the best one can is always something i've tried to live up to. If one can not do that ..."
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:45 pm
"Then you have always lived an honorable life, and that is more than some of our members can say for themselves," she said with a pleased smile, slowly pushing herself to her feet and dipping her head to the other lioness. "I am pleased that you have found yourself a home among us, and that your soul has found peace in returning home, Moto." She believed in the pride teachings with all of her heart, and when she could give others a reason to believe in that too, it made her job a little more pleasing.
Ardala wasn't positive, but she had the smallest inkling that her mother seemed pleased with this other lioness, though for what exactly, she couldn't say. Her mother seemed oddly happy with the strangest things sometimes. As her mother stood, though, so did she, mirroring her stance and bowing her head too - it was rather comical, in a way, but one day she hoped she might be filling her mother's figurative shoes.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:49 pm
She bowed her head to both the lioness and the little cub. "I am honored that you say that of me and i will try to live up to it from now on."
She had been pondering whether she would stay or not but she coulnd't see herself leaving. Everyone had been so kind to her and even the queen had welcomed her back as if she had always belonged here and was a sister returning from a visit elsewhere.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:57 pm
"I'm sure you will do fine," she said with a knowing tone to her voice, then put a paw on her cub's head. "It was nice speaking with you, but I'm afraid it's time for all good little cubs to go home and take their naps." She chuckled lightly and dipped her head again, this time in leave-taking, before she started of in the direction she had been heading before the pair was intercepted.
Just as Tejasvi had assumed, the slight mention of a 'nap' made Ardala scrunch up her nose and huff lightly under her breath. Naps were silly. Still, she caught up as her mother started to trot off towards their copse, knowing that her brother and sisters were already there and probably already asleep. Oh well, she could play when she woke up she supposed.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:02 pm
She watched the queen and her cub walk off before she turned back toward the grove that she had been sleeping in. She would have to talk to Kichaa more about the pride and about how she could fit herself in.
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