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 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:56 pm
 She sighed. Time had passed, and once more, she'd had cubs. This time, three, two beutiful girls and a good-looking boy. It wasn't that long ago since they'd come into the world, and she was glad. The boy was the last-born, but they were all healthy, so he probably wouldn't be small, unless he took after his father.
They were in their den by the waterfall, wich she'd taken to ever since her first litter-- oh.. She couldn't stop thinking about her first son, as much as she loved her three cubs. Once or twice, she'd accidentally called Ixa, her son, Usiku. But fortunately, whenver she did that, she'd say it rushed, as if she'd remembered how wrong that was as soon as she began the 'u'.
She felt slightly bad for it, however. She didn't want to look like she was comparing him to his brother-- she loved them both! But she hadn't quite been able to get used to his leaving, he'd been torn away so abruptly, and though that'd been quite some time ago, it just felt wrong. She knew that, if he was alive, he'd be grown by now; but she still pictured him as the way he was whenshe last saw him. It was so easy to imagine Ixa as still being him.
Today, however, it'd be just Ixa. Well, now, anyway. She'd lready gotten them al fed, and she'd promised she'd take him out to play, without having to share his parent. But they were cubs, fso after eating, they'd taken a nap. She smiled down at the sleeping, or at least apperently, shape of her son, and licked his forehead. She hoped to escape without the girls waking up, just so they wouldn't try following.
"Ixa, wake up. "
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:10 pm
 Ixa'Taka's icey-green eye was cracked open, his ear cocked as far back as he could get it without looking too suspiscious. He was curled in a tight ball, grey tail up against his nose. Today was the big day! He could hardly wait to see what his mother had in store for him. He was always excited for an outing.
He heard- just barely- someone approaching and snapped his open eye shut, trying his best to pretend he was asleep. He curled tighter at the last minute, burying his nose more into his tail so that if he smiled, mom wouldn't be able to see it.
He was surprisingly quick to "wake" though, after his mother came to get him. He bounced up, hoping his ruse was enough to have fooled her, and quietly snuck outside the cave with her, an incontrollable bounce in his step. His tail flicked wildly behind him, though, he was careful not to wake his sisters.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:18 pm
She twitched her whiskers in amusement, and slid easly out of the den, nudging her son once, then moving swiftly towards the pool the waterfall formed. It was nice to live next to water. She lapped the water a bit, and smiled at Ixa, signaling him over. If they got near the falling water, it wa sunlikely hissiblings would hear.
She just wanted to get him to drink a bit first, too. Just so he wouldn't complain about it later, like Usiku had done. But Ixa wasn't nearly as 'spoiled' as Usiku had been, and for this, Karama was kind of glad.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:27 pm
Ixa bounced over to his mother. Once he was out of earshot of those in the den, he asked. "So where are we going? Are there going to be snakes and bugs? Maybe even a bird?" He was too excited to take a drink, and simply danced around his mother for a little bit. He got her hint after a moment and took a drink, but only a small one. He made sure to keep his paws out of the water. Ixa'Taka firmly believed that if his spots on his legs got wet, they'd wash off.
"Nobody else is coming, right?" He asked, looking into his mother's eyes. He rather liked alone-time with his parents, but he wasn't clingy. If one or both of his sisters were with him, he willingly took the backseat. Such was the position of the male, he supposed.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:40 pm
"Oh, I dunno. " She teased, crouching down so she was in eye level. "Wan't me to call your sisters? " She grinned, and thwaped his ear a bit. " Of course not, just us, tpday! " She nodded, and got up again, beginning to move back into the tees, since they vanished into a sort of 'clearing' near the waters edge.
"Snakes.. maybe. Birds? Definately. What you can expect, when you're gonna be going up trees. " The cubs were still young, they couldn't -really- climb much yet, but she had guessed he'd appreciate her teaching him.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:09 pm
"We're going to go up trees!?" Ixa said excitedly, taking at least three steps for each one she took. He had not yet managed to master the leopard's stride. Especially since he tripped over his own feet more often than not.
He'd never been up a tree before. Well, not really. There was this once that there was a tree that had fallen onto another tree, and he could climb up the first and get in the second, but that, he considered, was cheating.
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