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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:12 pm
He stood silently, still for a quite a while in the middle of the clearing. His ears swiveled about listening for any clues of cub or other creature coming his way. He heard nothing. Kivuli was not disappointed however, there were plenty of other places a cub could hide in the forest. "Do not be afraid." He stated as he began to walk across the clearing, heading back to the thick forest. Though he kept his steps slow just in case there was one lurking about somewhere.
As he set out into the forest again he ducked his head under plants here and there. Eventually they would come across either clues or cubs themselves. Patience was the key and Kivuli had them to spare.
"It is a pleasure to meet you." He said as they walked along, though he would pause to look about every now and then. They could not allow themselves to get distracted while holding a conversation. But perhaps hearing friendly chatter would help any hidden cubs feel safe and comfortable enough to come out of hiding. "With new lions coming in it may be hard to know everyone's faces right away. I myself am still meeting many of the nobles."
Her suggestion made perfect sense to him. "Yes that sounds like a good place to look. Perhaps if they are thirsty they will go to the stream." And the moist soil may hold clues to whether of not the cubs had been in th area. "Do you know what way it is?" He unfortunately did not, he was walking blind through the unknown forest and just hoping to be able to find his way out, especially if he found a cub and even more so now that he had some company.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:23 pm
To say Sian was surprised was solid fact, but his shock at a new voice faded to relief upon realizing it was coming from something small, something fuzzy, and something hiding under his legs. A rare smile graced his lips as he eyed the boy. "Speaking of...It seems this one at least wanted to be found."
He nodded seriously to Hine. "That would be for the best. Stay near to someone. I'll wait for you outside the forest, once this little one has been properly seen to." He had no personal interest in the lady, but he'd offered his protection, and he would give what he could.
The cub though would need to be seen to. They hadn't been out here long, and he looked more scared than anything, but who could say. Certainly he'd be cold and hungry. With luck there's be a nurse on aw to give him a one over before he decided...well frankly what to do with the boy. He had wanted to help find the missing cubs, but no one had said what happened now. He scooped the golden boy up with a firm but gentle hold with his mouth and began slipping through the brush back towards the waiting watchers.
The first had been found...And of all the luck he'd been the one to do it.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:27 pm
"If what I saw is right, it's that way." She nodded in the appropriate direction and turned towards it, leaving Kamau to follow up. Kamau seemed polite, and upfront. He had offered her information where she hadn't asked for it, and that spoke of either friendliness or a desire to bond with his fellow nobles. Gali hoped it was the first more than the second. The thought of another noble like... any typical nobles made her thoughts shy away from him and that was unfortunate.
"Have you had cubs before?" She asked, realizing she didn't know anything about this male. Maybe he was trying to find cubs because his own had grown and were left in another pride. Surely she would have heard if a full family of nobles had arrived in the pride? The old war councilor, Miloslav, had made a big enough deal about the two nobles he'd brought with him and the female had less purple than even Gali. Gali blinked slowly to brush the thought away. Less concerns with council business while she was out here; she wasn't one of the king's advisers yet. Her study of the new arrivals could wait until she was alone.
The glint of sunlight on water caught Gali's attention and she slowed her steps as they approached the stream, her eyes casting about for cubs as her ears perked forward. She smiled at Kamau before she lowered her head for a drink, her eyes skimming the opposite side of the small flow of water.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:32 pm
"Well have you found anything?" Maua demanded as a colorful bit of feathers burst out of the tree's above her.
"Not entirely Mistress..but Kivuli is not far off and there is a clearing nearby that a cub might find enticing" Aurora reported dutifully while Maua mulled over the birds words - he wondered if Kivuli was having any better luck then she was - but surely if her mate had had a cub in tow aurora would have mentioned it...the bird was vain enough to be fond of its feathers afterall.
"Very well then" She informed her helper "We shall investigate the clearing and if we find nothing there then we will see if Kivuli has had any luck" She decided, turning about to head into the brush towards this clearing. She did her best to seem...motherly..or less frightening..or kind as she did so, calling out in a sweet voice "Come along little cubs, all will be well once you are under Maua's care"
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:33 pm
Hinekiri watched Sian walk away with the cub in his mouth, a large smile on her face. There was hope after all one cub out of who knew how many had been found it was only a matter of time before more appeared she was sure. The bright blue lioness stood looking around. She had promised to find another partner but she couldn't see anyone at the moment.
As she stood silently Hinekiri heard the voice of another pride member calling out to the lost cubs, she followed the voice until she found what seemed to be one of the newer pride members stuck in the bush. "Hello" she said gently, "My name is HInekiri.... did you need some help?" she asked tipping her head to the side, trying to see how the lioness had managed to get herself stuck. "Your name is Belatrix right?" she asked as she took a step forward to help lift the bush so the lioness could back out.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:50 pm
Kivuli paused, sniffing the air, he knew what cubs smelled like and while each had their own distinctive smell to them it was another place to start. He could catch the scent of many lions, some of them groundlings, some were of the fellow searches. He also picked up the scent of Maua, she was not far off and he decided to pause to see if she wished to join him in searching. He had meant for them to go together with this, but she had been so set on finding a cub and doing so right away that he dared not interrupt her. But he also knew if the search lasted for too long she would possibly become frustrated so best to keep her happy if he could.
While he waited to see if she would catch up to him he searched the area immediately around him thoroughly. Even going so far as to look up into the trees. While lions weren't the best of climbers cub were small and agile enough to climb them and there was the chance that one had sought out the higher place as a safe spot. "If there is anyone out here, I am here to help. Do not be afraid little ones."
He gave a nod and followed along beside her. While they walked he continued to search the ground for clues, his ears swiveled about for any sounds around them as well but also to listen to Gali. She seemed like a very nice lioness and he would make a point to speaking with her again when they were both less distracted by searching out for lost cubs. Her question made him smile. "No, I have none of my own. Never found the right lioness I suppose, hard to find those with the right qualities in the rogue lands." It might have been possible, who knows, but in all his years out there he never found one. Sure he had made a few friends with various lionesses but nothing had gone past simple friendship. "Perhaps one day though. Family is something to cherish." That is why he searched for the cubs, to give them hope and a family to love them. It would be hard for him to raise one yes but he would do so willingly, happily. "What about yourself?" Did she have cubs?
As they parted through the trees and came to the stream Kamau searched with his eyes but saw no small bundle of fur indicating a cub nearby. As Gali took a drink he padded a short distance away, following the waters edge looking for clues, mainly pawprints, of cubs. "I do not see anything over this way." He called out to Gali as he turned around and began to walk towards her again. Of course the stream did go on for quite a ways. "Perhaps we should follow it for a while. It would be a good place to see clearly for a distance and the soft ground will show paw prints better than in the forest."
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:03 pm
Beatrix heard movement and a voice above her as she looked through the brush for any hiding cubs. Looking up, Beatrix noticed how much of a hard time she was having attempting to try and move and gave off a small internal whine. She was stuck. She was stuck and someone was attempting to address her and she was unable to properly respond to them accordingly.
"Greetings, Hinekiri," Beatrix said, trying to muster up a smile, although whether or not Hinekiri could see it from her constricted place in the brush was questionable, "I am indeed Beatrix. This is a little humiliating for me at the moment, but I seem to be, well, stuck."
Beatrix backed up a bit in the brush trying it wiggle her way free, but only further served to get herself stuck more. She felt the limbs of the branches scrape against her skin and jerked, trying to look back to Hinekiri, "Miss Hinekiri, would you be willing to help me?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:11 pm
She lifted her head from the stream as Kamau walked away from her, watching his progress briefly before she looked in the opposite direction. "I was thinking something similar. I wouldn't mind following it for a time; it may offer us a way out of the forest if we drift too far from the others as well."
He was a lesser noble, a mane-and-tail-tuft noble like her father, and that alone made her more comfortable than she would have been with another lion from her class. Sometimes you got a noble who had little purple and considered themselves higher than they deserved, but more often than not the lesser nobles were more down to earth than the others. Gali found that she enjoyed spending more time with them, where they were unassuming and lied less often, than with the higher ranking nobles. That wouldn't affect her goal of becoming the King's Adviser, because whether she liked spending time with them or not Gali knew how to spend time with them and read the situations they presented. There was a reason to her name, after all. Gali wondered if Maua knew how accurately she had named her daughter when she named her. Gali considered the trouble she had caused her mother as a cub and juvenile and decided she sincerely doubted it.
"No, I have no cubs." His comment about the 'right qualities' did make her a bit wary, but it didn't show in her face or her voice. Gali was a good noble. She opted to avoid whether or not she had a mate, though. Better to be safe for now. "But you're right, family is something to cherish."
She didn't even notice she'd begun giving him the soul piercing look that so unnerved her peers.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:13 pm
"Of course" Hinekiri said steping forward right away pulling at the buses and lifting it where she could so that the other lioness would no long be tangled in the mess of brachs and leaves. "There is no need to be humiliated my friend, I probably would get stuck as well." She pulled a little more on the branches a little more, "I think if you backed out now you shoudl be okay." she said eyeing around to make sure there was no branches in the way.
"I was hoping that we might be able to search together for the missing youngsters. I lost my searching partner when he found a cub, we thought it best that he brought the cub back to the pride." Hinekiri said it all with a smile, but it only occured to her now that she should have asked the cub if he had seen any of the other missing ones. It didn't matter now though she was willing to keep searching. Hi and low if she had to.
"I take it that there were no cubs in that bush?" she asked a small giggle in her voice. "Perhaps we should move further into the center of the forest, it would easy to get lost back in there I think, specially if they didn't know where the pride lands were." Hinekiri looked around marking her path before she went to continue further into the forest lands.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:21 pm
He glanced down the stream in each direction before setting his gaze back to Gali. "That way," he motioned with his muzzle, "will lead us deeper into the forest." He only knew that because that was the way he had been traveling since entering the forest. And while he didn't exactly like it here, there was no telling how deep within the forest the cubs had gotten. "We should go this way. They may be much deeper in the forest than we currently are." Eventually if there were no signs of the cubs along the forest they would need to venture back into the trees and search there, but he made a mental note to keep track of what direction the river was just in case they got too deep in and couldn't find their way.
Using his claw he marked the ground by the stream indicating which way they had gone, it was the exact same mark he had used each time he stopped so far and he hoped if differed enough from the others so they did not get paths confused. His eyes came up to meet her's again. So she had no cubs either. Then after a few moments he realized that she was staring at him again, not the same stare as earlier, no this one was deeper, as if staring into the very depths to him. It wasn't exactly unnerving, but he eventually smiled a bit. "What? Do I have some mud on me?" He asked with a bit of a chuckle, wanting to make light of the situation and not embarrass her in case she hadn't realized she had been staring.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:24 pm
She-Ra of Etheria Kivuli paused, sniffing the air, he knew what cubs smelled like and while each had their own distinctive smell to them it was another place to start. He could catch the scent of many lions, some of them groundlings, some were of the fellow searches. He also picked up the scent of Maua, she was not far off and he decided to pause to see if she wished to join him in searching. He had meant for them to go together with this, but she had been so set on finding a cub and doing so right away that he dared not interrupt her. But he also knew if the search lasted for too long she would possibly become frustrated so best to keep her happy if he could.
While he waited to see if she would catch up to him he searched the area immediately around him thoroughly. Even going so far as to look up into the trees. While lions weren't the best of climbers cub were small and agile enough to climb them and there was the chance that one had sought out the higher place as a safe spot. "If there is anyone out here, I am here to help. Do not be afraid little ones."  Somewhere above Kivuli, a whimper came. "Get me down! Get me down!" wailed a soft female voice, trembling with fear. One of the small cubs, thinking she'd be safe, had climbed up a tree and gotten herself stuck. Getting down was so much harder.
((This cub belongs to She-Ra of Etheria! She can give it to someone, or keep it. ^^ ))
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:41 pm
((Congrats, She-Ra!))
Gali's gaze shifted, became more focused on Kamau's face, but that was the only indication that she had broken the spell she'd been under.
"Oh, no of course not. Well..." She looked down at her paws, then gave him an amused smile that crinkled her gold dots in around her eyes. "No more than me. You were saying something about going into the forest. Do you think the cubs could have made it that far, when they're so small? Cubs usually stick to the first safe place they find; unless all of the places were taken, they couldn't have gone too far in, could they?"
Really, her forte was in analyzing the older lions. Perhaps this trip would help her more than she had guessed it would when she signed on for the rescue operation.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:46 pm
Parisette moved quietly, careful not to trip any more. She was moving further and further away form the main group, which was a little worrying, but the forest was large, and cubs might have gotten terrified and hidden further in the creepy area. She could still hear people, but she was struggling to see them now. Well. She was bigger then any cubs, so she'd be able to take care of herself at least, she thought, though she was careful not to loose vocal contact with others. If she ran into trouble, she planned to scream and get someone to help, so she needed to be within yelling distance.
Calling out to the cubs didn't seem to be doing much, she realised, wondering if there was even any near where she was. Perhaps a different tactic? She thought to herself, with a warm smile. What was that song Aureliana loved?
"Hush little baby, don't you cry," she sung softly as she shuffled along, her voice gentle but not really musical. She wasn't a song-bird, but lullabies were different. They weren't meant to be perfect, it was just a show of love, right? She didn't know for sure, but her youngest had always liked them. "Mama's gonna shelter you tonight." She hummed, where the music should be. "Through rain or shine, we'll stand together. A Mama's love is forever." Even if she didn't find a cub, it was bringing back some fond memories of her cubs. Perhaps she'd take her cubs out to a play when she got back, she thought, missing mommy cub time with them, now they were getting that bit older.
She opened her mouth to continue the rest of the lullaby, before an amused expression crossed her face. "I don't remember the rest of the song, so I'll make it up, as I go along," she sang, with a small laugh as she continued to peer into the bushes as she walked
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:49 pm
Well what do you know. It took a moment to spot the cub perched on the branch above but there she was. "Don't worry I will get you down." He paused to study the situation. He could likely reach her if he stood on his back legs. So rising up on his back paws he stretched to his full bi-pedal height. She was, unfortunately, just out of reach and appeared too scared to move. "I will come up to you." He assured her and then, dug his claws deep into the bark. It was certainly not the most graceful thing to do, and certainly anyone who would come across him doing this may get a good laugh out of it or shake them head, but he slowly managed to pull his large weight up into the tree.
Luckily for him she was on one of the lower branches. And after some shifting, making sure the branch would support the weight of his paw pressing against it, he reached out and took hold of her scruff. "Hold on." He mumbled around the mouthful of fur and then jumped down from the tree. Kivuli was sure to land carefully, not to injure her at all. Once they were both on solid ground again he set her down giving her a reassuring nudge. "You are safe now, I will take care of you." He knew that he needed to take the cub to safety but Maua was on her way over and he would talk to her a moment before doing so. "We will wait here a moment and leave go someplace safe." He heaved a deep breath, lions were certainly not made for climbing trees and his large frame had made the task difficult and tiring.
He couldn't help but chuckle again as she stumbled over her words. He was not laughing at her of course, just amused at the situation and it certainly put a light amid the dread of the situation of the cubs and the forest they were in. But then he turned more serious at her question. "Well, yes it would make sense for them to stay someplace safe, but we do not know where within the forest they were left, it could be closer to the edge or well within it. As for how far they could have gotten I cannot say for sure, some lions run when scared, others stay in one spot." He glanced down the stream again, the way towards the deep section of the forest. "It can't hurt to look at least." Plus the longer they stood here standing talking the less likely they were to find the cubs.
He turned and began to walk along the stream, following the path it cut through the forest. "If you were a cub lost in a forest you were not familiar with where would you hide?" He asked though the question was directed as much at Gali as it was towards himself. Thinking out loud sometimes led to quicker and more precise answers than when thinking quietly to oneself.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:55 pm
"Many thanks, Miss Hinekiri," Beatrix said with a smile as she wormed her way out of the brush through the hole that Hinekiri had kindly created for her. Hinekiri looked like she was of the lower classes, though it didn't bother Beatrix as much as she knew outwardly it should. She was a Noble in this pride now, and was supposed to act accordingly, but truth be told she was no noble. When she was found she was as common as anyone outside the pride. She was a giant lie.
"No, there were no cubs within the brush. I thought that perhaps they would hide there. It is cozy and secure for the tiny cubs and best resembles a den," Beatrix explained as she looked back to the brush, "Adaloise used to hide in spaces like this..."
Beatrix caught what she said too late after she said it and shook her head quietly to dismiss her wandering thoughts. She smiled back to Hinekiri pleasantly and nodded her head, "I think it would be a quite genius to partner up and search for the little ones deeper in the woods. They may have become turned about and I can only imagine how scared they must be..."
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