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 Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:06 pm
She didn't want to lose them or leave them. That was just how she was. Khepri knew that she'd met those along her way that she could call friend, but she figured that for real she'd make friends with those she met in the Ela before anyone along her long road.
But this place... she wouldn't find the end to her road by standing here.
Turning away from the ocean and cracking her white knuckled paws, Khepri took off over the sand, back towards the edge of the ocean pride who's name she still didn't know and back towards her path. If she could go from there she was sure she would find the Ela in time. It might have been a long trek, but she'd find them. ninja
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:22 pm
He would have continued the way he'd been waking, but a scent crossed his nose. It stood out compared to the scents of the other lions of the area. It smelled of the hardships of a desert, of a desert in general. It smelled... But out here? No, it couldn't have been... But it was. It was the scent of another Firekin, another member of the Blood. Scanning the dunes, Bodaway soon spotted a red smudge moving across the mildly wet sand. Red... The color of a Firekin. Feeling his heart swell at the sight of another of his pride, he let forth a massive roar. Not one to frighten(Though more than a few beach creatures scattered), but one meant to call, meant to greet.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:42 am
White paws froze and Khepri stopped in her tracks, golden eyes flashing. She had long sight, it was a bonus from living out on the savannah for so long alone; but her eyes took in the large firekin male in there out in the distance and she almost froze.
Had they really found her again? What'd they want with her?
Returning the roar, though it was only a gentle return. The last thing Khepri needed was to be drug back to where she'd started. They'd kill her for living, they'd make her regret everything and every way she'd ever been.
So what're you afraid of?
You live on your own and regret everything all the time.
"This bettah not be as bad as Ah thin' it'll beh." Khepri said slowly, her white paws cracking gently as she tried to ignore the voices in her head.
ninja
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:30 pm
Perhaps she was a sign from Finar-si. The male headed towards the female, tail curling lightly. With the grace only a Firekin could posess, he climbed up the dune to the lioness. She was only an adolescent and she was already so large. But it bothered him not, it was in the blood. "Greetings... It has been a while since I last saw another of the Blood... Tell me, do you have news of Makadari? Or has his son, Kiu, taken the throne now..?" It was clear he'd not been home in quite a long time, for he knew not how the sands had shifted beneath the paws of the pride since he'd left, barely more than a juvenile with big ambitions but little sense of direction. Yes, he admitted it, he did a stupid, stupid thing.
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:15 pm
Just like a male to get immediatly to the point, but Khepri faltered a little when she was asked about the firekin right off the bat. Her mind immediatly answered his question but she still faltered.
"Ah... When Ah left it was Kiu in charge, Ah dun know who Makadari is tho'." She responded after a moment, her golden eyes blinking as she tried to figure out what he meant by it. Though she could only assume since he said that Kiu was his son that it was the old King of the Firekin.
It was a stretch for her to remember since she'd been nothing but a cub when she left the in the first place, but then again she also had been the only cub that had laid ears to the ground and learned. Therefore it was all simply stuck in her head, waiting ot pop back out when someone mentioned it.
"Wha' makes yo' ask abou' th' Firekin 'ere so far from 'em?" Khepri asked slowly, her eyes burning with the telltale firekin burn.
ninja
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:05 pm
The male tilted his head, "Is he, now...?" He sihed just a bit, looking into the distance. Why was asking about the Firekin? Why was he so far from the pride? "I'm afraid I was foolish in my youth. I stupidly went slave hunting as a juvenile, and I've yet to find my way back. And thus I am here at the ocean..." He smiled tiredly, looking the lioness in the eyes. "I don't suppose you could show me the way? You don't have to take me, just... Point me in the right direction. Or perhaps... If you need some help... You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, as they say." A bargain, a proposition. She would get something if he got something. Or vice versa. She didn't seem to want to be with the pride, and that was fine with him. As he'd traveled, he'd started to see some prides were tiny. Further questions had led to one answer universally - Plague. Had it struck the Firekin? He'd have to find out when he got back.
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:59 pm
"Well... Ah can' take ya inside, Ah can' go back. Ah'm searchin' for somethin myself. But Ah can take ya to the boundries and point ya in the right direction." Khepri was attempting not to let her frown show on her muzzle. She really did have no problem taking him back, but that would mean going back where she started.
Though at this point that wouldn't really be that big of a problem seeing as she hadn't found them as of yet. Maybe starting over would be the wisest of all choices since she couldn't even find her way in the dark. She'd been everywhere so far and not managed to get anywhere at all.
"So yeah, Ah can take ya as far as the bordah if ya wanna go? Ah do remember where it is aftah all."
ninja
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:09 pm
A delighted look filled the male's golden orbs. "You can? Thank you!" He paused, considering her words. After a moment, he sighed. "But I should help you with something in return. It's only right, after all. Is there someplace you need to go from here? Anywhere at all?" From where they were, he could probably remember maybe... One place, and that was only because he'd poked in the direction and left it. He had gotten a sense of foreboding, and only knew the general area. But perhaps... Perhaps it was enough?
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:23 pm
"Yo're welcome." Khepri said, a smile gracing her gruff features. The large female was far too nice for her own good, the word sweet often could be used to describe her. However, at the sight of delight and relief that passed over this other's face, Khepri covered her white muzzle with a white toed paw to mask the laugh.
"Well..." Golden eyes sharpened to stones. "Ah'm lookin' for the Ela'. Ah don' know wha' they are or even where they are. Ah've been lookin' evah since Ah was a cub... still 'aven' foun' 'em." Khepri slumped slightly, her scars pulling tight on her shoulder as she put all of her weight on them. "Ah know i's rude... bu' yo' wouldn' know where they are would yo'?"
Hope filled her golden eyes for a moment as the large female gazed at him.
Stupid thing, he doesn't know.
You'll never find them.
We've made certain of that!
ninja
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:44 pm
The male eyed the other warily, considering what she asked. "The Ela...?" He'd heard of them... From somewhere... Then he remembered. As he'd traveled and headed eastward, he'd found prides he'd seen before in his youth that had been huge and successful to be thinned and dwindling. As he'd set paws on ground he'd never seen before, he found more and more thinned prides. Word from the older lions told him that a plague had come through and whiped the prides out near to utterly completely. When he'd gone as far east as he had been able to, he had heard of a strange pride of lions covered in mysterious markings called the Ela... Soemthing. All he remembered of the name was Ela. An old river crocodile had told him that the plague that had swept across the land had, incidentally, come around the same time as the strange lions. He hadn't thought much of that(And had avoided losing his toes or head from further conversation with the reptile), but now that he thought about it... "That might not be such a grand place to go. All I've heard of them is how reclusive they are - Which could mean they're very bad lions - and how they showed up about the same time as a plague. Perhaps there's somewhere else you could go? Or... If you don't find it to your liking, we could just continue on together. There may be some pride along the way back to the desert that you'll find to your liking."
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:59 pm
Might not be that great? NO! There was no way! They had to be good, she's just spent so much of her life searching for them... how could they be bad?
Clearing her throat and swishing her tail against her hind legs slightly in thought, Khepri glanced silently to the side, trying her hardest to think. Did she want to accept this stranger's advice and stop? Or did she want to follow her heart to an even stranger pride that barely anyone knew to see if they could help her?
Of course she wasn't sure if they would even help her... and there was always Kota.
The thought was stopped instantly in her had and Khepri visibly winced, a sigh pulling from her gentle muzzle as she nodded her head to Bodaway.
"Ah don' mean any disrespect... but when yo' spend most o' yo'r life searchin' for somethin'... yo' jus' can' stop like tha'." Khepri said in a low voice, trying to make it so that she wasn't insulting the other too much. She didn't want to make it seem like she was just bashing his advice, in a way she'd taken it to heart, considering he'd made her realize that she was in fact looking for a pride full of strangers. Who was to say they were any better than the Firekin?
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:41 pm
Bodaway sighed a bit. "You're right, it might not be so easy. After all, I've been looking for home for years. Sometimes I swear a part of my life feels like it's missing, too. But as I said, if we came across a pride that was to your liking... We could stop and mingle." He didn't fully intend to take her back to the Firekin. If she didn't want to go, she didn't have to. And her reasons for leaving were just that - HER reasons. He was honost with his own, but that didn't mean others had to tell why they would leave. It wasn't his place to make such a demand.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:39 pm
"Ah'm afraid ta make friends an' then hafta leave 'em yo' know?" Khepri told him sheepishly, hanging her head slightly. "Cuz once Ah join the Ela', Ah got no real intentions o' leavin' 'em for a while. An' it would 'urt ta hafta leave a buncha friends behind."
She watched the other for a bit, watching thoughts go behind his eyes and keeping track of what he was doing. Of course she couldn't understand his thoughts, but at the same time she knew body language, understood looks and expressions. He was letting her decide.
ninja
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:47 am
The male chuckled lightly, closing one eye in thought. "Very true, but sometimes one has to leave those they love. The reason might not be emediately clear, but it's there." He sat down, tail flicking lightly. "You know, even in my travels, one thing was very clear. The stories of the Blood reached far and wide. Lions were hesitant to let me set paw in their prides because of what I am. Who's to say the Ela won't do the same?"
A gentle breeze tugged at the male's dark mane. Even with the movements, the streaks of red almost looked like ribbons. Turning to face into the wind, Bodaway closed his eyes, inhaling deeply. "Perhaps, though... We could travel there together and see. Then if it's not to your liking... As I said, we could find another pride that'll be more accepting to you. There ARE prides like that... They didn't care if a lion was Firekin or otherwise, if they were escaping the plague..." He left the sentance hanging. Anybody could get the meaning from that.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:41 pm
"Ah don' know if they will or won'. Ah jus' know Ah gotta find out. Gotta get the answers Ah want.." Khepri answered. She didn't want there to be a reason for them not to accept her. She wanted to believe that they were as incredible as she'd been told.
"Well.. Ah certainly 'ope there are those kinda prides out there. It would be a sad world if there weren' any." the large female answered, lifting her head to gaze off at the ocean where she'd just been. Back on those sandy shores she'd left the onlyh lion she'd ever admitted to loving, the only male she ever felt anything for.
"So yo' want ta go and find the Firekin once more an' Ah wanna go to the Ela, both of us know the other place... if Ah lead yo' to the Firekin, would yo' lead me to the Ela?"
ninja
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