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 Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:37 pm
Lemaa'sheshe limped towards her favorite shade-tree at her own steady pace, one that had been hers for as long as she'd walked at all. Growing had changed it a little, made it into something just a little smoother than the bumbling of youthful steps, but it would always be stilted, always somehow wrong, just as she would always be small for whatever age she was.
The young lioness had long since accepted her deformity, but it didn't keep her from wishing she'd been born normal. Useful. It had been driving her to distraction lately, leaving her to pine for some sort of purpose, an existence beyond life as a burden.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:59 pm
Matsai wandered listlessly, green eyes on his toes rather than just where he was going. The small blue cub was as cold and unreadable as ever, yet there seemed to be an almost down-cast slope to his shoulders and a slight drag in his steps. Inside, he sobbed in terror at the dreams that had come to him in the night past. They were horrible things, full of fear and the flash of fangs and claws. He hated these dreams. They always left him feeling strangely empty and weak, both things he also hated. He didn't understand why they plagued him like this. What had he done to deserve them?
The sense of foreboding the dreams had left in him was the cause of his mood now. He didn't feel much like being around his twin at the moment either. Ahai would probably scoff at his dream fears, and Matsai didnt much feel like trying to let that just slide off his back.
A smell slipped by the cubs nose, barely registered as he plodded slowly on.
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:10 pm
Sheshe's eyes quickly picked out the spot of blue in the grass, and for a fleeting moment she thought of her friend, Kizamaji. But this was a cub, and not quite the right color blue. Still, for her, blue was inextricably linked to the family she'd been adopted into, a dull spot of grey amidst the blues and yellows.
Curious, and ever friendly, she spoke, "Hello."
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:52 pm
The small head jerked up as the greeting meet dark ears. Matsai cast his eyes around in search of the hidden speaker, a slow flick of his tail his only show of his curiosity. Drawing in a breath to make his white chest expand, he called out, voice carrying, though devoide of emotion. "Who's there? Show yourself!" White paws moved against the dirt as he took a careful step back, all the while scanning the grass before him for movement. She... yes it had sounded like a 'she', must blend in pretty well, if he couldn't pick her out from the dusty golden grass.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:20 pm
"Who's there?" she echoed, and then answered, "I'm here. Right here." She drew herself up as tall as she got, bringing her tail up behind her to wave it in an effort to be more conspicuous.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:17 am
Matsai blinked as he heard a voice call out, frowning to better focus on the source. Ah there... A grey-ish figure in the tall grass. Settling back on his haunches with a huff, the blue cub watched the female carefully.
She might have only been repeating what he said, but he answered her anyway. "I'm Mastailema, who are you? You shouldn't sneek up on people like that, you know..." His voice held little inflection, little emotion, but his eyes never left her, taking in every detail.
"You live here too?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:54 pm
"I'm Sheshe," she answered, "Lemaa'sheshe." She frowned then, ears falling back a little at the cub's reprimand. "I didn't sneak up on you. I wasn't sneaking at all."
"Yes, I live here," Sheshe confirmed. "With Mama Miamba and her family. My friend Kiza's blue like you. Well, not the same blue, but still blue. I didn't know there was anyone else blue here."
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:41 pm
A shadow of a frown moved over the cub's face, darkening his eyes to leaf-shadow. "Maybe not sneaking, but you didn't say anything... and you saw me first." It was useless to argue with her, and he gave up on it.
Mama Miamba? And a blug lion like him and his twin? That was news, and it sent a thrill through the cub, enough that any other lion would have darted to their feet and jumped around, or made some other silly display of emotion. Matsai's paws meerly twitched, his eyes widdening. "I havn't seen anyone blue like me either, just my twin. But... I don't know a lot of people here, I suppose its possible to have really any color of lion living here..."
What a thought... purple and green pelts floated before his eyes, and for a moment panic seized him. They almost seemed real... the way his dreams did, and he feared they had come on him while away. A slight catch of breath, and then the small body relaxed, giving the barest of a shiver. No, it was just his imagination, not the dreams.
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