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 Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:40 pm
White paws tapped over the ground, her slanted shoulders rolling as her hind legs rolled to keep up with her front legs. It wasn't as if she were going anywhere far, she was taking a little break and giving Kota a nap. He'd never come this far before, so she was going back towards the pridelands. For the gods only knew why.
But there was something about this walk that made the ex-firekin smile, her thin red fur rolling over her shoulders as they rolled gently and she picked up speed. Khepri wanted to find the Ela' so badly, yet she also acknowledged that along the way there were going to have to be times where she just took a break so she didn't go insane. This was one of those times, one of those times that she spent to herself and FOR herself. ninja
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:48 pm
Nzinga was having one of those days. She just wasn't in the cheeriest of moods, and she couldn't quite explain why. She was feeling a little blue - no pun intended.
It was one of those lazy days. Nzinga just hadn't been in the mood to wander or sightsee like she normally did, and had spent most of the afternoon lounging in the sun, watching the clouds pass by.
She was spending a lot of time thinking, lost in the beauty of the sky. Being so wrapped up in her thoughts, she did not hear the coming approach of another being.
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:18 pm
It didn't take long for Khepri to notice that there was another lioness near her. A bright blue and white and black one that caught her golden eyes and kept them. To her there was something about the color blue that made her happy. She couldn't exactly describe why or even how she loved them, but the colors and tones of blue gave her butterflies inside, male or not.
Pricking an ear up slightly and smiling faintly to dispel any ideas the female might have had that she was wicked or something from the color of her fur. Her tail swished back and forth lightly as she curled her toes in the dust and stopped her walking so as not to suprise the other.
"Hello. Wha're yo' doin' walkin' ou' 'ere on such a nice day all by yo'rself?" Khepri asked, smiling softly at the other.
ninja
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:34 pm
At the sound of the stranger's voice, Nzinga flipped over to her feet in surprise. She was easily startled, always assuming the worst when strangers happened upon her - that they were there to hurt her.
Seeing not an enemy, but instead a red lioness, made her calm but no less wary. She wore a smile on her face and had a lilt to her voice that indicated a certain amount of kindness. These traits allowed Nzinga to consider not running away. Not out of fear, of course not. Just so she wouldn't have to talk to someone she didn't like.
"Who else would I be with, other than myself?" she answered. "Not like I really need anyone else. Besides, do you see anyone else here?"
Nothing like a stranger to bring up the fact that she was all alone in the world, in her first sentence.
"What about yourself?" Nzinga asked. "Aren't you a long way from your pride?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:15 pm
A laugh drifted from Khepri's white muzzle and she nodded to the blue female before her brightly. This one was as nice as the firekin from the place she'd just come from and inwardly Khepri recoiled though outwardly she showed no emotion other than friendliness.
"No, Ah guess Ah don' see anyone 'ere otha than yo'." Khepri admitted softly, another laugh escaping from her. Her brain swirled for a moment and her golden eyes blinked faintly.
Oh great, another one.
Khepri sighed inwardly about her voices in her head, though usually it was only one now but it was still rather annoying. A grunt passed from her muzzle as she thought about why she was so far from home.
"Ah'm lookin' fer somethin' ovah these lands. Ah'll find it, ah know it." Khepri said, "But Ah'll nevah go back ta the Firekin, they're different. Or.. mahbe Ah'm different."
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:28 pm
Nzinga nodded. She understood being different, feeling isolated because of it. She admired this lioness for being strong enough to leave her home and her people. Nzinga wasn't sure, if she had a home and a family, that she would be able to leave them. The red lioness was gaining respect in Nzinga's eyes.
"Well, I guess now neither of us are alone out here. What's your name?" she asked, looking at the other female. She was curious about how the deep red lionness had come to be so far from the Firekin lands she was obviously from, but knew as well as some how some things need to be kept to oneself.
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:53 pm
"There's alone and then there's alone." Khepri said in her gruff voice. "Yo' can call meh Khepri. It's a pleasha to meet yo'..."
She let the last part of her words slide off because she hadn't caught the other female's name. It was obvious that she wasn't from any nearby pride or clan or coalition, the blue marked lioness didn't seem the type for it. But that wasn't really Khepri's problem or business.
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:30 pm
"Nzinga." Weird name for a weird girl. One reason her mother had told her to stay from others, when she was little. They'll just make fun of you. But she had grown up callous and telling herself she didn't care if no one wanted to be her friend. So she didn't care to tell her name now.
((I can't think of anything else to write, but I thought I'd go ahead and post this - if you want to reply thats fine, if not I'll sleep on it and try to finish in the morning. <3))
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:57 pm
A smile spread over Khepri's muzzle and she nodded her red and white head smartly. "Nzinga? Tha's a pretty name, wha' does it mean?"
Golden eyes blinked at the blue female before her, she seemed so cold, so the opposite of what Khepri was. Deep down inside of herself the red female was loving and kind, was sweet and sincere and on the outside she was gruff, a reflex built from when she lived with the Firekin in a cruel desert.
Reflex my a**.
Look at her calling it that, isn't she cute?
Stupid voices. It never ended, she had to find the Ela' soon, but right now she was in need of this break from searching and to meet a new friend was nice as well.
ninja
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:40 am
"It..it means I'm from the river," she blurted. She didn't know if she could explain to this fire-lioness about her love of the water. She was feeling that way she did sometimes whenever she encountered a friendly face, the wanting to spill her guts and let down her guard and be that cub again - that cub who was so carefree and happy until the shunning of her peers and the reproofs of her mother made her build a wall around her heart. She didn't like being short, being mean. But she didn't like being hurt, either.
Part of her wanted to strike up conversation, but the other part of her was too afraid to.
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:24 am
The river? Normally Khepri liked the river, she liked to be able to find water and such. That was the hardest thing to do in the desert, the hardest possible thing.
"Ah like th' rivah. Nevah been able ta stay in the watah tha' long tho'." Khepri told her with a genuine smile and a shrug of her slanted shoulders. "Mah fur's to thin ta keep meh warm. Yo'rs is probably much thickah so yo' be able ta stay in there longa righ'?"
Sitting down slowly on the ground, Khepri's spine straightened out sharply and she was sitting taller than she had before, showing off her size to anyone around her. There was a small bit of irony in how large Khepri was when all of her siblings were smaller than normal.
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:22 pm
The other lioness' interest in the water caused a spark of friendly warmth to twinkle in Nzinga's eyes. Nzinga cocked an eyebrow in surprise, and was encouraged to speak more about her "home." The river was her everything. It was her livelihood, her home, her hiding place, her highway. The riverbank was her bed at night. The melody of rushing water was the soundtrack to her life. But how could she tell that to this stranger?
"I love the water," she said simply. "I..I spend most of my time there." There it goes. Now this Khepri would think she was a weirdo. "The cold does get to me after a while, but I'm used to it. When I get too cold, I just get out and sun myself for a while..like a gator, I suppose." Come to think of it, she was a lot like a gator. A blue gator. With fur.
Nzinga noticed Khepri's effort to "sit tall." What was that about? Well, she could do it too. Zing raised her head up with pride. She was proud of being "weird."
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:36 pm
A soft grin crossed Khepri's muzzle as she saw the older blue lioness sit up and raise her head a bit. That had been the ploy at least, to see if the lioness that seemed clammed up and quiet with others could be proud or at least be outwardly so. The other part of it was that Khepri's back was always so slanted that she didn't really want anyone to know that she was such a slacker with posture.
"In the watah?" Both of Khepri's ears swivvled forward and she smiled a genuine smile at her. "Ah like the watah too. It makes ya a whole lot coolah on hot days an' such, ya'know?"
A giggle cracked from her when she heard the other compare herself to a gator. It was a strange thought, a lioness becoming a blue gator. If anything Khepri was built and moved like rhinocerous. Large and stocky with the ability to be unstoppable when she wanted to be.
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:05 am
Nzinga thought haughtily that this thick-headed lionness just didn't understand her affinity for the water. But it was no matter. Khepri wouldn't be the first to misunderstand. Her way of speaking made Nzinga think she was slow. She wasn't mean or nasty, but really wasn't Nzinga's type. Like fire and water. However, Nzinga let herself be civil. "Indeed - the water is good for such things on a hot day."
Her desire for conversation was begining to wane. Her attention was drifting off.
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:24 pm
Watching the female start to look down on her, Khepri shook her head outwardly and sighed again. Once more there was another looking down on her for her gruff accent.
"Ah don't know where yo' come from cousin... but Ah do undahstand tha' yo' gotta affinity fo' somethin'. Ah can respect tha'." Khepri said suddenly, her sharp golden eyes flashing angrily as she stood up entirely and towered over the smaller blue lioness. If she was going to be looked down upon simply for something as stupid as her voice or her accent then she didn't want to be around for it. It was pointless to waste her time on those that belittled others like that. "But aside from tha' Ah don' see anythin in common between us. An Ah don' like bein' looked down upon fo' mah accent."
Turning her head and looking out over the plains, Khepri sighed softly, letting her large chest rise and fall slowly. "Ah wish yo' luck in wha' yer lookin' for, cousin."
ninja
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