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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:17 pm
Eurydice huffed, wondering how far from home she had traveled. Honestly, where was she? She'd lost her sense of direction as soon as the sea's sounds vanished across the horizon, and now, all she wanted was to go back home... but she had also wanted to travel, so she shouldn't be complaining. Still, though, she hoped if she ran into any lions out here, they'd be friendly. Her mother had warned her to be careful since the lions out in these new areas could be mean, and some even evil.
With a promise to return with good health and will, Eurydice had left. Now, she was wishing she had at least taken a shell with her as a reminder. She ached to see her family, and the ever present sea. "Ach, Ah ken unnerstan' why Ma was worried! These lands, they be perty rough!" she muttered to herself, finally laying to rest in front of a boulder.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:31 pm
Silver eyes stared down at the large white and pink female, they glowed in his face almost hauntingly from behind long white eyelashes. Another traveler in the lands that his family lived in. Sure they were unclaimed by a pride, but his family was close by these parts and Akiiki figured that any traveler needed to have an eye kept on them.
Gods forbid one of his daughters get caught out by themselves with a rouge walking through the lands.
This female though, she didn't seem like the usual rouge that came through. The large bard had seen quite a few lions come through his area in the time that he'd been here and never had they been as clean and well fed as this one.
Most rouges were raggedy and thin from malnourishment.
He himself had once been like that, when he was tormented by Okoth, when he was dying from the inside out. Those times seemed far away now, like most of his life was lost spending his years with that monster inside his body.
A slow smile spread over Aki's scarred face for the female that was below the bolder near him.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:46 pm
She jumped in surprise, startled at the deep voice. "Ach, mah 'pologies! Ah'm not intrudin' am Ah? You'm startled me," she replied, slightly embarrassed, eyes taking in the rather rogue-ish, if handsome older lion. He was decorated in scars, but it didn't hurt his ruggish features at all. She liked them like that, she realized, since many of the male lions from her pride had rough features and tough outwardly looks.
"...'ave you'm lived 'ere long? Ah jus' came from th' sea, an' go' a bi' los'," she continued, and then stood. As she stood to properly greet the older lion, it surprised to realize she was almost as big as the adult. Was her family truly that big? But what about Artemis, her sister? Perhaps Artemis was merely an exception to the rule. "Ah'm Eurydice, by th' by. An' you'm be...?" She knew it was about time for her stomach to growl for food, but for the time being she wasn't hungry (thank goodness she had eaten a lot for breakfast before she'd left that morning!).
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:57 pm
A thick accent, not many lions spoke in that manner and Akiiki certainly hadn't met any that had that deep of an accent before. Maybe his father... but his father wouldn't remember anymore... not after...
Normaly Aki would have shaken his head to clear it but instead he stood up slowly and slid off of the rock lazily. The female was almost as big as he was and he had god blood flowing through his strong veins. A smile spread on the corner of his scarred muzzle and Aki flicked his violet colored tail out behind him.
"I've lived here for a short time with my family but I know that we're a good distance away from the ocean. I haven't ever seen it myself." Aki responded, a flute entered into his voice, knowing now that he was speaking to a younger female, she could have only been an adolescent and not for all that long even.
But from the ocean pride? She was large for an ocean dwelling lion, most of the ones he'd seen come from there were tiny. Meant to swim. This female looked like she was meant to move mountains.
"Eurydice eh? My name's Akiiki and no you're not intruding on anything, just a lazy day of sunning."
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:09 pm
She grinned at the male lion, pleased to have learned his name. "A pleasure to meet ye, Akiiki. Sunnin'? What be that, this sunnin'?" Where she came from, the sun felt like nothing more than a gentle warm blanket, and she had never heard of sunning... unless it was that thing where the adult lions laid out across the sun to soak in the... oh. "Ach, never ye mind, Ah jus' asked a silly question. You'm needn't answer," she chuckled, letting him know she'd come to her own conclusion.
"If'n Ah'm not much o' a botha, would you'm mind tellin' me mah whereabou's? Ah'm perty lost, and Ah'd like it if'n you'm could point me in the righ'... well, Ah'm s'posed to be a'traverlen', but well, as ye ken see..." She glanced around, seeing nothing but land, land, and more land with the occasional boulder or tree. These lands were so barren; how did the lions survive here?
...She probably looked healthy and well-fed compared to the lions here! But well, if Akiiki looked as well as he did now, then perhaps there was a way to survive in this place. The lion could guide her in the right direction, and she'd be on her way back home at some point, after a bit of exploring.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:23 pm
A deep chuckle like drums came from his chest once again and Aki inclined his head at the females words. Sometimes the young didn't understand quite what adults were thinking when they thought it. He remembered asking his father why he always spread out over boulders and spread his wings to soak up the sun.
Youth never stopped moving long enough to soak up the sunlight.
After years in the darkness of his own mind, thrown to the back by a demon that overtook his own body, Aki enjoyed moving slowly and enjoying the sunlight. It made him feel like there was more to his life. Even if it was slower now.
"We're near the pridelands currently. Probably closer to the sands of the Firekin than the pridelands but near the pridelands. Just don't turn right or you'll find your way into dangerous territory. Though I don't believe they take slaves anymore." Aki mused to himself slowly, his voice taking on an oboe's deep blue notes.
Sometimes it was odd that he spoke like a bard and spoke with music in his very voice, but that was the way he'd grown up. It wasn't until he got himself back that his songs began to bubble out of his muzzle again. That he began to hum and sing.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:38 pm
Eurydice found she could probably relax all day long listening to this lion's voice. It was like laying along the shore and listening to the musical sounds of smaller creatures than herself going about their day. The sea birds calls, the scuttling of crabs, the crashing waves, and the sea breeze as it blew the many sounds to her ears. But Akiiki's voice was soothing and smooth, deep and yet not, and it had a nice, lilting sound she probably would fall asleep to if she wasn't trying to ever vigilant in the presence of new lands.
...Did he say Firekin? "Mah Ma be a former Firekin," she commented, and tilted her head slightly. "She'm be the loverliest critter ever, though she'm be 'uge! Mah Ma is like us'n seafarers now, tho'." She glanced around the area he spoke of, trying to commit to memory the directions he told her. "Pridelands? Ah've 'eard of 'em Firekiner's pride, but Ah've never 'eard of 'em Pridelands. Is they'm be kind lions?" She was quite curious to learn about the world her mother had come from, because her mother knew so much.
She knew not to cross the Firekin lands, since Khepri had often explained about the scars across her body, which brought to her attention Akiiki's scars that she finally noticed that was all over his own body. "Ach, Ah'm sorry, Ah don' mean to be rude, but do yer scars come from them Firekin? Ah'm sorry fer yer loss, Akiiki." She bowed her head respectfully, and then began to fidget. "A-hum, would ye be so kind as to show me a place o' water? Ah twitch crazy-like if'n Ah'm not near some water... Ah miss th' sea, ye kno'. An' bein' near sommat tha' water you'm 'ave 'ere in these lands 'elps a bit, see."
At this point, Eurydice was fidgeting quite obviously. She was moving about constantly, her legs and paws showing signs of her wishing to be swimming; the sun had finally gotten to her, and she couldn't just sit still in a place like this. It was driving her mad, since she hadn't found a decent amount of water in the few hours she'd been walking, aside from a stream here or there.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:10 pm
Confusion settled over his features and the scars on his muzzle pulled a little at the edges, making him look almost more ruggish than he'd looked before. The silver in his eyes glowed a little brighter whle they looked into Eurydice's darker eyes.
Her mother was an ex-firekin? But there was no red on her, however some firekin that had come from the sands were now becoming brighter like the rest of them. White and black and yellow, some random hues thrown in for good measure he supposed. It was odd but you didn't see too many ex-firekin floating around anymore. Most of them had either died or were killed off when they attacked others.
Their blood boiled just below the surface after all.
Apparently not this female's mother though. It was nice to know that there were firekin out there who didn't hold the hatred and anger that most of them harbored in their hearts. Years of having a firekin in his mind killing him had made him realize just how angry and mean they could be. Eurydice was a half firekin and she was goofy and silly and seemed as though she loved life.
"The Pridelands are the enemies of the Firekin, they're kind lions that love life and families. You should go over there to explore... I doubt your mother would want you to tramp around the Firekin sands if she doesn't live there anymore." the slight croon of strings in his voice was worry for her safety. She seemed like a nice little female.
Tilting his head to one side when she asked him, Aki almost laughed. The hoof shaped scars on his hind quarters and tail he thought were proof enough that he was taken down by a stampede of herdbeasts. Apparently not though.
"Noooo, I've never been into the Firekin lands myself, thank the gods. These came from a herd of beasts running. I knocked a little thick-skulled female out of the way of them before she got run over. I didn't get so lucky. I didn't lose anything though." Once again he was confused at her words but he let them go. "As for water, follow me."
He smiled to her and took off at a limping trot towards the rather large watering hole that his family lived near.
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:33 am
She gave him a startled look before grinning as she following his gait to wherever he planned to take her. The only reason she was eager was because of the anticipation of seeing water--ANY body of water--and she ached to swim. And eat, if she found any fish in whatever body of water Akiiki was leading her to.
"You'm make 'em sound like mortal enemies," she said, thinking about how he had described the Pridelands vs. the Firekin. She laughed as he commented about her mother. "An' you'm be righ', mah Ma woul' skin me 'ide a good 'un if'n Ah wen' somewhere danger-like." And Khepri honestly would, because Eurydice knew her mother would worry if she came home with wounds and scars when she promised to come home well and alive and safe.
"Akiiki, you'm a 'ero! Savin' that 'un lioness friend o' yorn, Ah'm glad ta know ye," she commented, running the story of his scars over in her mind. "Ah'm kinda th' talkative kind, do forgive mah awkwardness at all this..." She flicked her tail, the nervous energy and adrenaline and excitement of her first "adventure" getting to her, so that she was constantly, well, fidgeting. Akiiki was probably laughing at her, but she didn't mind; laughter meant happiness in her book!
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