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 Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:32 pm
Kannon nodded. "It's hard to change one's ways late in life...and that's perfectly fine. Change is for those who have not lived long yet. Like myself and your daughters. But for those who have seen more seasons...not changing is just fine." She chuckled. "You've earned the right to be set in your ways, I think."
The darker lioness was not perturbed by Kiuma's change in movement. It just seemed a natural part of the larger lioness, and what would have been a thing of worry had Kiuma been male was just...fact since she was female.
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:31 am
The red lioness laughed sharply as she glanced at her new companion, eyes bright with the irony.
"I am a product of my life." She said as she slowed her steps a little, realizing she might be pushing them both a little with her ground-eating paces. It reminded her of a time in the long ago, hazy past when she'd unconsciously shorted her steps and slowed her paces to match the weaker, more hesitant steps of a matching red body. Back then, she had slowed to not tax his sickly body, but that moment was so far in the past and so completely lost to who she was now... Shaking herself vigorously, she turned her thoughts from it. "I have been shaped by the events and the creatures that have come and gone. I am an entirely different person than I was born to be, but I can't say I'm entirely saddened by that fact."
Kiuma's voice was heavy with memories, but she refused to let them darken this moment or drag her down into reflection, it wasn't the time for that. It was time to look forward, not backward.
"I suppose you're right." She said as she calmed, her steps falling back into a companionable walk. "I do hope though, that you'll deviate from your wandering lifestyle for a bit to stay with us for a time. It would do my daughters good to meet an outsider and learn from you."
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:08 pm
Kannon nodded. "I would love to stay for a bit. I've...traveled far enough for a while, I think." She looked to one of her cloudy paws. "The shadow I was running from looms over me no longer." Yes...despite having her father's markings, he no longer had sway over her.
"I think we're all born one way...but Life seems to change us to her own whims. I can't say whether it's a sad thing or not...it's just what happens. I, personally, don't regret growing up the way I did. It gave me a chance to meet those like you."
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:41 am
Kiuma chuckled, feeling lightened by the encounter and more hopeful than she'd been in a while. Maybe she could make this thing work, if there were females like Kannon out there that felt as she did.
"Regret can only be a passing thought, Kannon. It must have no affect on the future, or there will be no future at all. That is what I think. If I had let my regrets influence my decisions, I would not have made it this far." She said as they stepped out on the banks of the Sister river. She nodded her head at the tower cliffs pocketed with holes and the pebbled beach before it.
"Welcome to Antianeira."
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