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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:43 pm

Please Note: This is before Moyo and Kiwi left for the Pridelands. We're just finishing it up now so we can have another RP credit and the bonding of two siblings.

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Kifijo and Tana were both gone, along with the other three cubs, for a round of hunting practice. They had almost begged for her to look after her blind younger brother.
Silly parents. Moyo would have begged to look after him herself!
He was her favorite.

She's said this many a time before, yes, and that was always quickly followed by a: "Moyo, that's wrong to have favorites." But it was true.
Paki and Johari were as close to her as her own cubs would/could be. Mvita and Nitesh as well, of course, but the former two just 'clicked' with her more than their brother and sister, she supposed.

So, when Moyo was asked to babysit Paki, she lept at the chance to get some one-on-one time with her youngest brother. She trotted into the cave, waving good-bye to their parents and her new baby siblings. Growing up so fast: hunting already? Geez. No wonder Mom and Dad wanted more cubs after we grew up, she thought.

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Paki made a face as he sat at the opening to the cave, not sure why he’d been left behind like he had been, but not entirely unknowing as to why either. His sightless eyes stayed stuck in the same spot, not moving unless they blinked and not caring if those around were completely freaked by how bizarre he was.

Sighing lightly he turned as footsteps came near him, flicking an ear in the direction of his older sister. “Sissi.” Paki said, turning his head in her direction with a smile, his eyes closing as it spread wider and his tail swishing back and forth across the den floor pleasantly. Sometimes body language helped to get the young cub’s point across easier, though at times he wasn’t sure if his parents got it.

It was all so annoying. “Sissi? Why are you here? What about him?” Paki asked innocently. By him of course he meant her mate, but that was only because he could smell the nice lion he’d met the other day all over his sister.

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Moyo smiled, walking over to Paki and nuzzling his head.
"Hello, Paki. How are you, today?" The simplicity of happiness in his body language told her all she wanted to know and what he could convey through his blindness.
"Today is just our day, little brother. Kiwi is out doing something with an old friend of his, and I asked Mom to spend the day with you (which is why you weren't taken along a few minutes ago). Is that okay?"

Moyo gave Paki an affectionate noogie, sitting down on the soft, padded earth. She remembered this cave well: after all, it was the one she grew up in. Memories filled it. Much more than half were filled with Riku. Her heart swelled.

But she pushed the memories back, concentrating on Paki. It was their day, after all. They could do anything they wanted to. Moyo offered a wavering smile for her brother.

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Oblivious to his sister’s feelings, Paki leaned his mocha topped head to one side before recieveing one of his sister’s tell tale noogies. Those things always put him in a good mood for some reason, though they had on occasion hurt the top of his head thanks to his puff of mane being abused. But he didn’t care.

“Our day? That means we could even go run around or anything?” He asked, a little excited about the prospect of spending all day with his big sister. He loved her so, despite not knowing what she looked like or even knowing of the loss of his older brother. It would be an innocent lack of knowledge that would one day get him into trouble when his drive to protect his family sent him looking for the brother he’d lost before his own birth.

But for now… “Of course I don’t mind Sissi. That means I can be with you.” He trotted towards her and bumped his head against her chest playfully.

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Moyo chuckled, tugging on his tail as a playful retort.
"Yes, we can run around and go wild if we want to. Anything you feel like doing. In fact, I know the perfect place to start. You remember the little streambed, right?"

The one she spoke of was not far from the den at all; in fact, they could easily trot not five feet away from the entrance to get a gulp of clear, cold water.

But the 'perfect place' was in the jungle, a new adventure for little Paki. On one hand, Moyo didn't want to overwhelm him, but on the other, she didn't want to shelter him from life's beauty either. Just because he was blind didn't mean he couldn't see what everyone else could. He'd just go about doing so in a different manner.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:06 pm

Smiling broadly, Paki bounced up next to her, making sure by the sense of where her presence was felt on his pale fur as to how far she was from him. To spend all day with his sister, that was better than waht his brother and sisters got to do. They had to learn what Paki had learned a long time ago to do without his eyes, to keep himself alive and to keep himself from running into the random rocks.

Already he'd pounced on butterflies and birds, he knew he could feed himself when he was older even if his parents didn't teach him how.

But water was too much. Cringing a little, the cream cub smiled up at his sister, not showing any of his fear for the water that had tried to swallow his life in it's earliest times.

"Of coruse I remember it. Do we get to go play near there?" Paki asked.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:51 pm

Moyo grinned back, nipping his ear affectionately before leading him out of the cave, her tail wrapped around his loosely. Just in case. Hopefully, he'd take it as a sign of affection and not what it was meant to be: a lead.

"Not there. Somewhere bigger and shallower. You won't fall in, cub," she assured him, bestowing a slobbery lick on his forehead as their mother would do. "Kiwi and I go there all the time; I know the way by heart. And, if you're as smart as me (which is a given) you will soon memorize the places you love most, memorizing the smell and feeling you get when you're there.

"So, that being said: you ready to go? Promise you'll have fun. I'll never be a paw away from you unless you want me to."

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:52 am

The feel of his older sister's tail wrapped lightly around his own made Paki beam happily. Of course he knew where he was going, he'd memorized nearly every inch of the pride's territtory in the past few weeks. He was no fool. Paki knew he was blind and that the way others got around wouldn't work the same way for him. So he tottered around the best way he knew how and made it.

"I'll go anywhere that's fun." Paki responded with a happy chirp, his mocha tipped tail fluttering behind him as he trotted ahead of Moyo hyperly, his silver eyes shimmering as the sunlight hit them.
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:30 am

Moyo chuckled, smiling. Paki was so energetic and ready to explore: he would be utter chaos if he could do all the things his siblings could. Perhaps that was a good thing, perhaps not.

But being blind never stopped him. Paki was a smart cub (and she was immensely proud of the fact) and knew his limits. He knew where to go and what was there. He had sniffed and explored every inch of their family territory to familiarize himself with it. Most of the time, he went alone, or with Moyo when she could go.

Not that Tana or Kifijo allowed to go on his own. They actually tried to tag along a couple of times and were soon utterly lost, thanks to Paki's superb skills at manuevering different areas. So, they let him go. He was learning fast and more than they could ever teach him.

Moyo trotted to keep up with her excited brother. At the small watering pool, there was an even smaller waterfall, which she remembered discovering when she was a cub. At Paki's age. She figured that, if their family was getting too rowdy or something, he could always edge away and go to his secret place under the waterfall, like she once did.

Heaven knows how many times she wished herself in the small alcove the waterfall provided when she was in the den. And now she passed on this secret to her younger, blind, brother, in the hopes that he would see what the others could not: a refuge. A place to call their own.

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:20 pm

He could hear his sister laughing behind him and it gave Paki hope taht at least he wasn't too bad. At least he had someone that could treat him like he was the same as anyone else.

Sure he was a small cub, but he wanted to learn things, wanted to se, wanted to find something to show him what life meant and why it was there.

Even though he was sure he wouldn't find it in a tiny little waterfall he would at least give it a try because Moyo had said it was a nice place.

"How far is it again?" Paki asked brightly, wagging his tail slightly and licking his chops slightly in anxiousness.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:43 pm

"It's a little farther off from here," she replied, glancing at a pretty red flower for a moment. "I picked this spot because it gave me some privacy, and that's exactly why I'm showing it to you."

They continued to trot along, and as time passed from minutes into half an hour, a small, trickling waterline appeared on their left, playing and dancing along beside them as both paths headed toward the same destination.

"There are a lot of pretty shells and rocks at this place," she continued talking to Paki, almost talking to herself as she watched him sniff around excitedly.

"Shells of every color and rocks so smooth they feel like the softest part of your belly fur. The special little part is big enough for me and you to curl up and wait out a storm, but small enough for you to feel at home in and to decorate with your own things. I think there are a few rocks and other things I left behind, too, but it's all yours, now."

The thought of having left something behind in her special place made her stomach turn over in almost-sick anticipation. She most often ran away here, in the middle of the night, to lay and cry over the loss of her brother and to drown herself in depression.

In fact, it had been on the way to this place when she had first met Kiwi on that rainy, dark night so long ago.

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:20 pm

Paki trotted off down the little path quickly, his muzzle open in a broad smirk and his paws padding across the ground quickly. The little cub wanted to see what his sister found so incredible about this place. That was part of what Paki loved about his sister, she showed him things that no one else would think him strong enough to see.

But Paki knew that he was stronger, he didn't accept his weaknesses, even the ones that were there. He puffed up his chest and shook his far too long mane from his eyes and shoved forward. There were a few nights where he'd gotten up from the den and trotted off on his own so he could find his way around, though he did have to admit that one night out of all of them had been the most horrible of them all.

Rain always got him down, so he simply let it go.

"I hope there are lots of shells!" Paki said happily, running faster.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:59 am

Moyo giggled helplessly, trotting along behind him until she came to his side, bending down her head to whisper enitcingly into his ear.

"There are so many shells and pebbles that you won't be able to stop looking for them. The water is the clearest of all the streams around home. It's the coolest and refreshing drink you have ever tasted. Always cold, but not too cold that you get sick.

"The plants are the greenest, thanks to their cool water system. The leaves are soft and blow easily in the wind. They're the deepest green, like Papa's green eye, and all around the sun shines on a particular spot and BAM: you see a gold-glinting green, and it's a beautiful sight.

"And there are shells of every color imaginable, smooth and shining and whole and broken and all around the bottom of the stream. The colors, Paki! And there is a beautiful, iridescent covering on each shell, so when the light hits it, it leaves a shiny, almost-pearl glimmer to the shell's outside color.

"So many of my shells are pure white with this covering, only because the glimmer appears better on the while color. They're all in the secret cove."

The path rounded a corner rather quickly; she recognized it almost right away. Only two more corners to go, and they were there.

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:53 pm

Letting Moyo's words fill his head happily, Paki wished even more that he was able to see all the different colors that his siblings spoke of all the time. Paki wanted to know what green and irridescent and purple where, wanted to watch light glint off of the water and use his useless eyes to pick out shells from the sands of the shore like his sister had when she was his age.

His heart swelled up slightly, but Paki didn't let it get him down, instead he let the scent of water come into his nose and lead his chocolate tipped paws, let it pick him up and guide him. In his mind's eye, Paki could see the string of smell threading out before him like a writhing rope of scent, tugging at his nostrils and pulling him along. It's voice was low but it was distinctly saying 'come and find me little cub' and Paki wouldn't be the one to deny it's call.

Picking up speed and dodging a tree by the barest of a inch, Paki half ran half trotted towards the water, grinning broadly as the scent got stronger, as he got closer.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:46 pm

"Ha, careful! Don't slip!" her half-heartedly stern warning fell on deaf ears as her brother romped into the shallow end of the pool happily. "You see? Just as I described. Though it needs a bit cleaning up, to be honest." Her gaze swept the old rocks with a critical eye.

Her place was behind the small waterfall that flowed down a group of rocks at the far, deep end of the pool. A few boulders were sprinkled on the surrounding banks, all covered with a light spongey moss. Some hung down and trailed into the water; she hadn't been here in so long.

"You can explore for a bit, since I'm sure you're dying to sniff around. Just be sure to notice when it starts getting deeper. I'm going to tidy up around the place, see what's grown and what's gone."

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