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 Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:21 am
Trigger pulled her close to him, again a bold act for a hardly known male toward a pregnant female. Those sort were the worst when it came to being vicious and aggressive. He knew that one first paw. However, he was gonna brave it. Slowly, he began grooming her.
"So you are the royal one... he became royal when your sister became his mate. Pathetic really... To me, you are nothing but a rogue who needs a place in this world, as the rest of us are," he murmured as a break of grooming. Mwana was a princess, a royal to the Mistweavers. He was a slave. Out here, no one cared if you were a slave or a princess, out here, you were competition that needed to be eliminated to make their own survival rate increase. If one cared about royalty, they would use them for their own gain. Rape. Murder. Ransom... pathetic rogues. He had to make sure he had extra food now. Adia was pregnant and alone. He could take her with him, Mwana would be furious... Feeding her was the least he could do.
"I knew when I first met you... It is Mwana's first time too, I assume," there were signs.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:30 am
If anything, she was a bit tense as he pulled her towards him to be groomed. She was more worried about him injuring her, rather than the opposite. If anything, Adia wasn't aware of her flucuating moods but there was no forgetting the male's brute strength.
Soothed by his reassurance that it was she that was royal and that the male had been pathetic, she purred and relaxed slowly. The idea that she was just like any other was, strangely, just as reassuring. To be normal was the adventure she had set out for, leaving her home to see what lay beyond and to experience being just a lioness. Not a princess, just a simple female making her own way in the world. Of course, now she was back where she had started, having to have someone take care of her.
At his words, she scoffed once again, but softer, "I wish you had informed me, as well." But she smirked, making the scoff seem much more jovial as her eyes half-closed. Suddenly it dawned on her, "Your mate, Mwana? She is pregnant as well?" Now she would feel awful if the female were to become upset due to Adia's shortcomings.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:37 am
"I assumed you knew, someone as beautiful as you would have had a litter or two by now. Then again, I was wrong," he murmured, his paw over her shoulder. The best he can do was feed her and give her company, comfort was a bonus. Her fur was soft, perhaps not as well as Mwana because she was a stickler about that, but it was soft never the less.
"When you're in heat, your body grows hot. You want, need, desire a male. In fact, down to the point any would suffice. It lasts fourteen moons, and your cubs could have many fathers. Your scent changes and it lures any male around toward you, it eventually makes their thoughts irrational and feral. Breeding is what they want, what you'd both want," he explained. Giving her time to eat rather have him bother her by the grooming. He knew his actions were... often rough, but that was how he was. "When you're pregnant, you slow, you tire, you hunger. Your mood shifts a lot. You become more maternal and attack anything that might endanger your cubs. If a male were to mate with you now, your cubs will die. If they were as low as some are, it is just another way to bring you back into heat."
"Now you know."
The subject of Mwana was a sore one, he still not comfortable with it himself. However, pushed through. "Yes, she is in some ways. She desired to be cared for, desired to be needed. We acted irrationally and we mated through her heat. Heat could be brought up by any emotion of desire when females are fertile again, just thought I should add that. However, our mating doesn't mean it wasn't wanted, however, the pregnancy is sort of a .... pain, for the both of us."
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:06 am
She felt her cheeks began to burn as she hacked away at the kill, pulling strips of flesh away from the bone as she tried to listen without really listening to what the male said. She knew all about going into heat and the like. She'd experienced that much and had had a mother as well as a nanny to explain things thoroughly to her. She let him go on, however, knowing that the real point would come soon enough and besides, he'd never spoken so much in one sitting before. She'd let him have his piece.
Swallowing a mouthful of meat as he concluded that now she knew. She nodded curtly but said nothing, pink eyes not meeting his own gaze as he continued to speak about his mate, Mwana. Or his not mate, apparently. Or his reluctant mate. She was a bit confused on the details of her title, but nevertheless it appeared that the pregnant lioness and Trigger's fates had intertwined and there was nothing to be done about it.
Smiling, she offered in a casual flip of a moment, "Suppose we all act irrationally at one point or another, then?" Both litters were concieved without planning. That made her feel a bit better, like she wasn't the only one. In her pride, everything had been orchestrated by the king. Litters weren't just planned, they were coordinated and each step in the process ordained. She hadn't known some of what he said about pregnancy and so she stored it away, but she did take note that he was uncomfortable when he spoke of Mwana. But, again, at least he was talking at all.
"She is lucky, though. To have the father of her cubs at her side."
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:27 am
"Some more than others, I would assume, but that is how life goes," he replied as he continued his grooming. He remembered clearly how everything went. Arguments led to abandonment. Abandonment lead to truth. Truth led to mating. And mating led to a pregnant Mwana. He was still scratching his mind what was going to happen from then on.
She was pregnant and he had promised that he was going to take her someplace safe. She wanted a place that was stable for her to live in, such as a pride, and that was where they were going. Ahali had spoken about starting a pride with Afu, giving him directions to the lands. Now that she was pregnant with his litter of who knows how many, he had to be more protectful over her. He wasn't just walking around with a female, he was walking around with a family. If she was gonna have her cubs, at the very least have them in the pride's lands. Thinking she'd die at the birth of her litter was something he dare not think about, but it was possible...
"I have been by her side for many moons. We traveled far to find a place for her settled down again. She knows I cared about her, she wanted someone to need her, and one thing led to another..." Trigger chuckled and continued his grooming.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:07 pm
Swaying beneath the rhythmic passes of his tongue, she let herself enjoy the grooming. She hadn't had such attention in weeks and it felt good to feel relaxed once again. Like home? No, she wasn't sure about that yet. There was a sliver of something, but it felt more like comfort than home. Her pink eyes blinked a few times before she chuckled softly, "Much worse circumstances for a conception could be wrought, I'm sure. You and Mwana will take good care of cubs," She stopped suddenly, knowing she hadn't met the female yet and she was making assumptions, "At least judging by how you've taken care of me." Inclining her head slightly, she purred at her stumbled recovery.
Her eyes opened wide suddenly, knowing that she was near enough to falling asleep and that they were in the wide open. She would need to find the cover of a tree for shade and Trigger would need to get those kills back to his mate. Pink gaze looking at the surrounding area, her keen senses sighted a tree not far off. It would do well enough. Her tail flicked as she turned her eyes back to the male, "You should be getting back to her. She'll be hungry." She smiled softly, not meaning to nag but sympathetic for the female who was waiting for food.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:15 pm
Trigger nodded and nudged her up. With another stretch and a feral yawn, he shook out his fur. He had spent a little too much time with Adia, perhaps he could make up some sort of excuse to Mwana for coming back late. He did travel quite far to get these, perhaps she would believe that he was attacked and lost a kill. Would certainly explain why he wasn't bringing as many back as he usually did.
"I do hope so, this would certainly be the first litter that I will be around for..." he smirked and licked her again, not out of grooming but mutual affection. "I take care of you because at the very least, that is what a female like you deserves."
He yawned again before slinging the remaining kills over his back and leaving hers behind.
"You best eat up before you attract scavengers, the nightfall will bring out the nocturnals," he scoffed with a bit more serious expression. "If I don't find you again, I will be quite upset with you and perhaps myself."
Without another word, he headed off back to Mwana and Fuku, by this time, the two would be at each others' throats.
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