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 Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:52 pm
Izulu ate his words, staring at him intently as he spoke. Here was a true traveler, someone that had seen so much of the world, like his aunt, and he couldn't help but feel inferior next to him. Not so much in the sense of the physical, but more in the sense that his mind was limited to a place like this. As beautiful as the Kusini was (at least during the dry season) he couldn't help but feel as if he were shut up here, being deprived of everything the world had to offer him.
"It must be nice," he said softly, "to be able to travel at will and see everything there is out there."
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:09 pm
"It gets a bit lonely at times but i enjoy it." He'd met some wonderful people, including someone he'd never thought he'd meet. Getting to go where ever his paws took him had always been something he'd looked forward to and he enjoyed the freedom to do so.
"It isn't all that hard to do. You've just got to have the drive to get out there and see things ... and the ability to find yourself food"
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:56 pm
"The loneliness is the problem, I guess," he muttered under his breath, staring down at his mud-covered paws for a moment. He didn't want to leave his mother behind, what with his father already gone, and he wasn't sure the company of his brothers would be enough. He was used to being so close to her, and for months he had been battling the urge to go see the world with the knowledge that he wouldn't see his mother for the entire time that he was gone.
"I think I could probably travel, find my food, but I don't know if I'm really ready to leave," he shrugged, not really intending to spill his guts out like this to a complete stranger, and he immediately let his face school back to a calmness before he looked back at him. "I guess maybe traveling isn't for everyone, eh?" It was light-hearted, but in a manner that seemed quite fake, and he was inwardly cursing himself for getting so emotional. He was never emotional.
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:07 pm
His head tipped to the side and he watched the lion for a minuet. "You want to travel, to see the great wide world ... but something here you're still attached to? Or someone."
He wasn't some new cub. He'd been around the block enough to know a fake smile when he saw one. "Have you talked to them about it? Some times it's easier to leave if you get all that stuff off your chest."
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:24 pm
The knowledge the other showed in being able to read him was undeniable, and had the circumstances been any different, Izulu decided that it was very likely he would have liked to befriend him. It wasn't often he found others he felt were, well, worthy of friendship. He was such a terribly judgmental lion.
"It's not as simple as that, really," he said finally, stirring himself from his thoughts as he realized he was simply procrastinating. He never thought he would spill his heart out to a random rogue, but it was easier than spilling it out to a pride member and having it come back to haunt him he had decided. "I'd be afraid of leaving them behind because I'm not sure they'd be able to tough it out here without me, or anywhere for that matter. If it were just a matter of being attached emotionally, I think I could do it - it's the responsibility I can't.. run away from." He frowned, furrowing his brows and looking up from his paws and back into the face of the cheetah as if he held answers. Even though he was sure he didn't, it felt nice to actually voice what was frustrating him.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:31 am
He'd never really run into anything like that thankfully. He was never in one place long enough for him to get attached to things and since he'd never bothered with girls he didn't have a family to be responsible for either. It was just him and Kas and they both preferred not being stuck in one place.
"Have you thought about maybe pushing them a bit to be more independent? I mean, depending on someone is all well and good but if it becomes so that you can't live without them?." His head cocked back straight up as he grinned at the lion. "Maybe they just need a bit of a push. I'm sure it can't be healthy for you to spend time wishing you could leave and feeling like you're chained here."
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:31 pm
His eyes swept up to the cheetah, staring at him, digesting the words of wisdom that issued from his jaw. He could push his mother, sure, but a part of him really didn't want to. Had it just been his friends, he would have long since left. They were friends, sure, but only that. His mother was so simple-minded, so.. easily harmed.
"It's not that just that she doesn't want me to leave," he said, slowly, hesitantly, "it's also that I wonder if she could make it here without me." He glanced around him, slowly out at the horizon. He supposed the pride was here, and as the mate to their last king, they would help her. That was what pride's were for, weren't they? She had to have been alone before, too. Before he was born, before she met his father - he was younger than her, after all. He had never thought of that, and it had taken this talk to make him realize that maybe she really was capable of taking care of herself - if barely.
His eyes flashed back towards the cheetah, a weak, but appreciative smile lingering just barely on his maw. "Though you did make me think of things I haven't realized before, and I thank you for that, at least."
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:29 pm
"You never know what's going to happen until it does." He grinned. He'd learned that well enough. You could sit and think about things for eternity but until it happened you could never really predict what would. There was always the chance that you would be wrong.
"If she just needs ... care taking she's got a pride right? I mean that's what they're for aren't they?" Strength in numbers, taking care of your fellows, or something like that.
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:06 pm
A small smirk swept his mug as he digested the small, swift bit of wisdom that was yet again brought to his ears by the cheetah before him. He really wouldn't know what would happen until he tried, which he supposed he had known all along, but to hear someone else say it really put things into perspective. He simply nodded appreciatively and glanced off towards the distance, towards the direction he knew his mother's den to be.
"I suppose, yes, that's what a pride is for. It's just hard to leave her behind," like so many other have - he added the last bit in his head, though it was obvious on his face that there was something more to be said. He let out a soft sigh, quickly coming to the conclusion that perhaps he should have realized before that this was what the pride was for. He shouldn't miss out on his life just because others had left her before for less.. adventurous reasons. He flashed an appreciative smile, a rare thing indeed, towards the cheetah and dipped his head. "I know you must not council a lot of random lions along your travels, but you really helped.. with this.
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:13 pm
His ears flicked as he stood up and stretched. "You'd be surprised." His grin was wide as he straightened back up and shook his fur out. "When you wander around as much as i have you run across quite a few people."
He wasn't always sure that he counciled a lot of others but at least he generally talked to them. Some times he figured he learned more from them than they learned from him. Give and take he supposed.
"Should think about it though. And you never know. you might end up crossing paths with me again if you do decide to travel." So long as the lion decided to travel away from this wet mess of a pride land at least. He was checking this place off the list of areas to wander until it was dryer.
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:29 pm
Izulu somehow doubted that the other stumbled upon lions ready to pour out their troubles to him, at least in situations like these, or at least lions like himself. Izulu wasn't exactly the most friendly, but the cheetah's easy-going attitude and the fact that he himself was nearly on the brink of some sort of mental break down.. well, it made him desperate for the company. Not that it was so bad, really. "I imagine so," he commented quietly, pushing himself up quickly, stretching out the muscles of his hind legs as he did so.
"I'll definitely think about it, though. Comes a time when every bird has to fly out of the nest, right?" He wasn't sure that all lions left home, of course, but he knew he was itching to spread his figurative wings. "It was a nice chat," he said with a soft smirk and a dip of his head, "I really wouldn't mind crossing paths again." Then he simply chuckled under his breath and turned, stalking back in the direction he had come. He didn't even bother to turn around and look back to see if the cheetah began to slip again - he'd let him have that little bit of dignity for his help.
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