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 Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:10 pm
Mawu padded along with her daughter behind her, they had been walking for so long now and honestly, Mawu knew not a thing about traveling. Being that this was her first time outside the pride and she was a nervous wreck. She had even cried the first night, clutching her pale child to her chest for comfort, much to onalims discomfort.
She was getting tired and stopped walking. The two hadn't really spoken much since they left. There simply was not much to say.
Onalim had been more excited about leaving that place than her mother. She had stayed by her side through all the traveling, and even submitted to her mother frantic crying the first night. Onalim was more headstrong and adventurous as her mother, so she wasn't phased by this traveling at all... except for the being lost part. "Mother... do you have any clue where we are going?" She asked, blinking her tired green eyes.
"We've been walking for aaaages!"
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:35 pm
He hadn't been walking far too long when he spotted two lions in the distance, one large and dull and the other small and pale. Having a cub around immediately made you seem less threatening- plus they were on a pride's land. But that was reason enough to warn them. They might not be a sheltered pride but these lions might not be looking to run into anybody.
"Hello there," he called out to the lions, a smile on his face and getting within earshot just as they came to a stop- just in time to hear Onalim's whine.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:44 am
Mawu looked back at Onalim with a frown. "Onalim, don't complain. We have only been traveling a few days now... and its not so bad... It's just new to our legs and they will get used to it... I promise... until then we have to keep moving and keep our eyes open. " She said, looking back forward again, her black tail swishing. "And you said you'd follow me where ever I went... and I am going this way!" She added.
When a voice rang out, her head popped up immediately and panic set in. OH no... She stopped walking and stepped so she was standing in front of Onalim protectively as she spotted the pale lion... a male. She hadn't met any males outside the pride other than vestip, and that hadn't worked out well.. considering the mess she was in. "Hello..." She called, her voice a bit nervous.
When someone called out, Onalim popped up on her hind legs to see knowing that her mother would block her view. She spotted the stranger and smiled, her green eyes alight. A strange male! She squeaked, pointing her paw. "Look mom look!!!" She waved her paw over her mother back in a 'hello' fashion!
"Hi-hello! Can you help us! We're lost!!" Onalim called, all smiles and glee.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:15 pm
Onalim was quite the distraction and Unyezi couldn't help but look from Mawu to the small one gesturing behind her. He could see that the larger lioness, apparently the mother, was nervous and the cub was not. That was about normal, he figured.
"Lost?" he repeated, smiling at Onalim before looking to Mawu, "I think I can help you, I certainly know where you are and it was once my job to know what's around. You're just inside the Mwezi'Johari lands now, I thought you ought to know that at the least." He explained why he approached brightly, trying to be as friendly as possible. He didn't want trouble and he certainly didn't want to scare them. The more he looked, though, the more.. familiar the mother seemed. Had he seen her somewhere before?
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:09 pm
A pride? They were in another prides lands? Mawu cast an uneasy eye around for a moment. Already? She felt strange about being in a new land already and so unaware of it. Was she that unobservant to notice. "We aren't lost more than we are 'wandering'" She said simply, wrinkling her nose at her over ambitious daughter and giving her a bit of a nudge. "Onalim... calm yourself child!" She said softly, looking back to the pale male. He didn't seem to be hostile or anything but you could never tell with strangers.
"The Mwezi'johari... I haven't heard of it before... course we are from a very very exclusive pride... not much known about other prides..." She said, looking around. "It isn't our custom."
Onalim smiled brightly, her green eye shimmering emeralds on her pale face. She wrinkled her nose at her mother and gave her a shove back defiantly. She needed her mom to be a bit more loose about this stuff... they could have a new life now... how exciting. "We left the pride and are looking for a new one!" She said, a wide smile on her face as she stood and draped herself across her mothers shoulders-annoying her.
"We've been walking for aaaaages... " She whined, her eyes shutting as she stretched her paws to the ground. "But we are loners now... just me and my mother! Just the two of ussss!" She sang, lifting her head and beaming at the stranger.
Mawu watched the male and noted him gazig at her intently. She sniffed. "Something wrong?" She asked.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:27 pm
Listening attentively, he nodded along as Mawu explained how they weren't really lost and about the pride they were from. He looked back to Onalim, smiling at her antics and then looked back to Mawu, shaking his head.
"No, it's nothing," he assured her, changing the subject and decidedly addressing the mother over the more outgoing youth, knowing it wasn't really up to the child what a parent did, "We have not been here many generations yet, it's not surprising we aren't really known. We barely know the prides surrounding us here, though I could name a few I've come to know." He thought of the pride just over the mountains, the ones in the watery lands and the one some distance south that one young member had come from.
"I can't rightly invite you in myself, but if you are looking for a home you might consider this one," he suggested, "Though I don't know what drove you from your old pride so this might not be for you." He shrugged.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:50 pm
Mawu nodded slowly. So this was a new pride. Nothing wrong with that really.. but still a new pride usually was just taking its first steps at becoming normal. She looked down to Onalim and wondered if this could be a home where they wouldn't be judged. "We are from the Kunandakun..." She said simply, gazing at her daughter as she draped across her. "I am afraid that I brought to much shame to my family there and other circumstances brought it about as well... but... we are searching for a place for us to be equals... to not be judged like we were back then."
She shouldered her daughter off gently, blinking. "We may consider the offer though... can you tell me more about it?" She asked. "My family is known for members leaving the pride... because of our status... my brothers and sister... aunts and uncles... "
Onalim looked to her mother and to the stranger with the widest, happiest smile she could muster. She slid off her mother and sighed, sitting down anxiously, her green eyes looking at this male. "My father left my mom... which was the last straw I suppose... so we want to start a new life together, just me and her!" She said happily, her hind end wiggling.
"I want my mom to be happy... so if you think this pride'l do it... then I'm in!" She added.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:11 pm
Unyezi nodded as Mawu explained their situation, the name of her former pride setting off little bells in his mind but he still couldn't quite place it. He knew relatively which direction it was. A more pressing concern was the issue of equality. That put some doubt into his mind that they would accept the pride's religion and deity.
"Our pride is guarded by the Great Lion, his eye appears in the sky at night," he started explaining, taking a seat, "He watches over the pride and every individual, even rogues. However his attention is vastly divided, he doesn't have the same care for each of us and so not everybody is equal to him. How closely he watches over your birth, or your re-birth into the pride is a demonstration of how carefully he guards you. Those born on nights of the full moon are in the high class, they have the most freedom because they have the most protection and guidance from Him. Those born into lower classes, on nights of smaller moons, share in pride life and contribute differently to earn the protection of the pride and from the higher class. Everybody is cared for by the pride, even the slaves. Slaves were born with the Great Lion turned away from them, they have no protection outside of the pride and so they have to work the hardest to gain favor from the other pride members. And none are allowed to leave the safety of the pride."
He explained the ranking system as clearly as possible, trying to emphasize its importance despite the differences between lions in class. He spoke with passion, for he truly believed in what he said.
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:58 pm
Mawu listened to his words and took them in, looking to her enthusiastic child. She smiled, knowing that she should be thinking more for Onalim than anything else. She chuckled, looking over to him and nodding. "IF we are not judged by our pelts I do not care... I grew up with the lowest rank because I have barely any color... and I do not want that for my cub... my other children have all gone and left, because I birthed others dark like me... I do not want my children to be ashamed of their markings and colors... if the moon choses due to anything other than this... I am pleased." She said, nodding slowly.
She looked to her white child and placed a paw on her's. "We are in this together and I want my future to be better than what it would have been there... No male would want to mate with someone who was so black that I'd surely bring forth others of my low rank... " She looked over. "In fact, it runs in my family. My brother left because of it.. he was black and no female would want to mate with a black male... the results would have been poor."
Onalim was bored with all this adult talk and yawned, looking around boredly, her tail flumping as her mother touched her paw. She wrinkled her nose, her ears only catching snippets of words. She turned to look at her mother. "Is that uncle Pyke you are talking about mom?" She asked, looking over at her mother with her emerald eyes shining. She liked to talk about her family that had left. "Like Aunty Moray and everyone else who left... I wish I had met them!"
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:57 pm
"Fur has nothing to do with it," he responded brightly, smiling at Mawu. And suddenly he was struck with the reason she had looked familiar- just in time for her to mention her dark brother that left the Kunanda. Onalim even said his name. There was no doubting it. Grinning widely, he waited for his chance to speak up again.
"Well, I have good news for the two of you," he said, "I knew you looked familiar. Pyke lives here now, he's a guard. He was just a bit bigger than the little one here and said he came from the Kunanda'nakhun pride."
He continued, daring to guess that they would at least like to visit him.
"I'm certain you'd be welcome for a visit, at the least."
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:33 am
(fail on me... sorry about he late reply)
Mawu smiled. As long as she or Onalim were not judged by what was on the outside she was fine. She had been born into low ranking so anything was acceptable. She was sort of nervous when the smile crept across his face and she looked at him, her eyebrows furrowed. But when the words felled his mouth, her eyes just about popped out of her head. "Pyke! Pyke is here! I haven't seen him since... I don't know when. I was always curious to where he went... Oh my... I can't believe the luck..." She looked to her daughter.
"Oh I'd love to stay... I don't want to just visit now. Just to be a with another sibling and to see him occasionally is enough for me! I-I was always afraid I would never see family again..." She looked to her pale child again.
Onalim watched the adults talk idly and sighed, not really interested in what they were saying again, until her mom started getting all excited. "What? What-who?" She bubbled, interupting her mother. She caught on though. "Pyke.. uncle pyke who looks like you mom! Oh wow! Can we stay mom! I want to see him! He doesn't know about me so It'd be cool to see him!" She said, bouncing beside her mother.
She looked too the male and smiled widely. "Can we stay! Can weeee?" She pleaded.
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:31 pm
"Pyke is a guard in the upper-middle class," Unyezi informed them, smiling down to Onalim and then addressing Mawu, "We might be able to find him on duty, I can show you, if you like." He tried to remember the scheduling for the guards. He often helped out while he was king and still helped out sometimes, but he wasn't entirely sure. He knew a common route nearby that they would probably find somebody, they would be able to direct them. They would also be more rightly able to invite the strangers in and escort them to the appropriate lions to join, or take them to Pyke to do that. Slaves were supposed to be a fair bit more careful than Unyezi was.
"Shall we?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:25 pm
Mawu nodded happily, her eyes aglow. "Yes.. anything to see my long lost brother again. I thank you!" She said bowing her head to him and stepping up beside him, ready to follow him anywhere now. She looked to her daughter and grinned. "Ready sweet heart?" She looked back to Unyenzi...
Onalim beamed at the male and then her mother and bounded around them excitedly. "YAY GONNA MEEET MY UUUNCLE!" She squealed, her tail flailing and her eyes shimmering! She ran around them a few more times, up on a rock and then down it and bounded into some plants and rolled in them quickly. "YAY!" And then sprang up to her mothers side.. ready to follow mom anywhere!
((I think FIN on my part! <3)
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:04 pm
Pleased with the happy shift in the two lionesses, Unyezi nodded and turned to lead the way to the nearest guard route. Whether or not Pyke was the lion on duty there didn't matter, they would find him. It crossed his mind that this might have been a bit daring for a slave but certainly this could count as a great favor for Pyke. He was a high enough class, surely it would balance out. Everybody would be happy.
Fin.
(Mawu = low class, slave; Onalinm = high class, lady at adol)
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