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 Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:37 pm
Kairu, or Nitesh as he went by now, was home. It was great to be back in the wet humid swamp lands. One thing he had learned when he was out in the desert was that he was not meant for hot dry weather. The dark lion hated the sun he had decided, the clouds and the trees of the swamplands were his friends. Having checked in with his mother, letting his mother know that he was home safe. He was the first of his siblings to return back to the home land.
Nitesh made his way through the lands back to his den, he had his eyes pealed for one individual. He had seen her earlier in the day but he had left her to go and visit and his mother.
Lahna had enjoyed her time spent with her black and pink friend. As they had spent more and more time together during their pilgramage, she came to realize that he sort of put up with her attitude unlike anyone else had ever done before. It pleased her greatly. In fact, she had lost most of her hostile and meaness and it was replacing itself with other emotions. As odd as it was for her. She and he had parted ways for a bit, which was fine. She wanted to get to see her parents for a bit too... as much as they annoyed her sometimes. She was on her own now, perched upon a dry log, her muddied feet drying in the small amount of sun that shimmered down from the sky.
She was feeling rather confidant since coming home.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:03 pm
Nitesh spoted her pearched brilliantly onto of her log. He smiled seeing Lahna, it was odd she was usually so negative yet she tended to make him so happy. "Why hello" he said greating her lightly. He settled himself on a rock dear to her branch.
"How where your parents?" he asked her. They had spent morst of the pilgramage together helping each other find their true names, and growing closer the whole time. He wasn't sure what it was about her, but she was his oposite, she had all the traits that he so lacked.
She opened her eyes and gazed over towards the sound of his voice, the voice of the male who spent so much time with her. She smiled toothily, her eyebrow cocking. "Eh lively as ever they are. Didn't talk to them much, they were busy so I decided to search for my favorite perch.. this darn stump." She said, flicking her paws of the drying mud, with a teasing smile.
"How was your mom?" She asked, knowing it would be stupid to ask about his father... considering the circumstances in all. She had once told Nitesh back when they were young, that his father had nothing to do with him. It was his life and his future.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:20 pm
Nitesh settled in and looked up at the female a grin on his face. "Mom was amazing ." he said his voice clearly displaying how excited he was to find his mom in good health and spirt. The whole time that he had been away trying to find his true name that she would fall apart, she had struggled just as much as he had with the betrail of the pride made by his sire.
"She has found a mate, and her true name. She is glowing and very happy. Even happier to know that I am home and safe." Nitesh was very happy that his mother was in good shape, she meant the world to him after all. "So now that I know she is doing well I feel more comfortable taking my own den."
Nitesh shifted on his rock perch, he had a question to ask Lahna and he wasn't sure how to go about asking it really. He decided to start at he beginning and maybe it would come about naturally, "Have you decided if you are going to go back to your parentss den.... or were you thinking of taking your own?" he hadn't presented her with the third option, the one that he was actually hoping she would take.
Lahna smiled at his excitment, she knew how he felt about his mother. She had suffered such heartbreak and sorrow at the murder. She chuckled. "Oh, well that is good. I am glad she is happy now. She needed it, ya know." She flicked more mud off her paws.
She gazed over at him with a curiuos look. "Well, I know I do not want to back to live with them, yuck. I am on my own, maybe I'll claim this stump as my own. " She threw her head in the air and puffed out her chest. "Why do you ask?" she looked a bit sly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:37 pm
Nitesh couldn't help but smile he had a feeling that perhaps she knew exactly what she was asking, but it was like her to play coy. "Well I must say that I don't think this stump provides too much shealter really, nor space, I think you would like something a little more roomy." he gave a small chuckle.
"Well I was thinking well wondering, well I..." he was having trouble finding the right words it was awkwark he knew but he wasn't sure where to go with this. "Well I have found a den to call my own, and I must say that its quite large, perhaps it even has room for two." He hadn't asked the question directly but he was sure he had gotten his point across, and he had been fairly smooth about it.
Lahna stepped down off the log, walking with a large amount of attitude in her step, her eyes half lidded. "I think I can take the elements just fine. Rain doesn't bother me. " She walked closer. "Neither does the fog. Or the wind." Closer still. "Why are you so worried about me Nitesh? You didn't seem worried about me out there int he dry world with you."
She was so close she was just before him, their noses almost touching. "A large den? For two? Would it just us? You and I?" She looked super coy now. "Are you trying to ask me a certain... question?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:55 pm
"I did care for you out in the dry lands, but you are a greatly self sufficient female." he smiled. He felt his stomach do flips when she got close to him, what was it that she had to make him feel like there was butterfiles in his stomach. He let out a small breath realizing that if he moved at all he would be touching nose to nose with her. She realized that there was no way Lahna was going to get away with not directly asking her the question.
"Yes, I suppose you could say that it is big enough for two." he said answering only one of her questions. "You and I defiently would fit. I suppose I was wondering if perhaps, I mean you didn't have somewhere else to stay and well as good as this stump it." He knew he was ramboling but it was the only way he would be able to do this. "Maybe we could share the den I found. We spent so much time out in the dry lands together, it just seemed natural to me that maybe we could stay together here in the swamps as well?" He glanced at her worried that he may be rejected.
Lahna smiled wider at him, her teeth all showing now. This idea pleased her, greatly. She then took the final step forward and pressed her nose against his. "Of course I will. I would love to share a den with you. Will it be big enough for cubs too?" She asked, looking sly and hoping for a reaction out of him from that one.
"I think that would make your mom happy too... and it certainly would make me happy too..."
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:06 pm
Nitesh let out a great laugh, realizing he had been so silly for worrying. With the mention of cubs the male lion got worried for a second and then his smile grew wider. It really would be the next thing, and a great blessing for the pride. "I think it would be bight enough for a number of cubs." she said getting to his feet. "Here let me show you." He turened and looked over his shoulder to make sure that he she was following him. To his teir new home.
She smiled widely, following behind him happily. This was their new begining. Their new time together. They had always been together it seemed. She followed behind him, her tail high in the air. "Yes. Show me where we will live!" She said with a beaming smile.
Fin
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