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 Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:00 am
It was seeing Laana that had prompted her to return to the lands where she had left the three beautiful girls she had given birth to. She had spent every day wondering how they were, wondering if they were alive and happy. She seemed to spend most of her time never knowing exactly what it was she was missing until she realised it was those three children she had left to live a better life.
She returned now, her scars healed but still she was far from healthy something that may take a very long time to heal. She was also once again very much pregnant. Her round body making her waddle a little as she walked but she minded not. She had come to see her four daughters and ask Ny how three of them were.
Her turquoise eyes looked around and saw nothing. She let out a sigh and walked towards where she knew Ny's den was. She hoped to see Ny before walking into any of her daughters, she even wondered whether she would recognise any of them if she saw them. Well she would find out once she found Ny.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:02 am
There had always been something intriguing about her tail that Sura had never really been able to lay a paw on. At that moment, she lay outside the den watching the duel colored tip flicking lightly in the dust. The fact that her mother was having more cubs - that soon there would be little siblings running about the place - was delightful. She had always been an independant creature, and the news had not hit her quite as hard as one might have expected. Quite on the contrary, she was all too eager to see the cubs, and she couldn't quite help but wonder what they would look like.
Watching her own tail flick, Sura couldn't help but be reminded of the strange marking across her left eye, the same hue as that of her tail and the four black stripes that banded it. Why was it there? She had never really been able to make her peace with it. Somehow, she didn't know why, she kept thinking that it had something to do with who she was. It wasn't just a coincidence that it was there. She growled under her breath. It was frustrating, every time she looked into the water for a drink, she would see it and she would wonder what it truly signified.
She refused to believe that it was simply there, that it was just a part of her like the gray stripe that ran down her back, or the brilliant shade of turquoise that were her eyes. She had made up her mind long ago that she would find out what it meant, no matter what she had to do, she would find out.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:16 am
Ithi reached the den and stopped. Her eyes staring at a youngster who looked so much like her. If she had seen the other two she may have mistaken them for being Ny's but it was the one she had wanted to keep with her and it hit her heart hard.
She took a deep breath and walked towards the adolescent who was laid across the front of the den, she had to see Ny.
"Excuse me, is Nyunya about?"
She needed to know what story Ny made up to tell the cubs who were far from cubs now. Oh she was so beautiful but Ithi kept the thought to herself, even if she did look nearly identical to the youngster in front of her.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:37 am
Sura rose to her feet at the sound of the unfamiliar voice. A strange gray lioness was walking toward her, somehow looking familiar, although Sura was sure she had never seen her before in her life. She tilted her head curiously, wondering what it was that made this lioness so familiar.
She shook her head. "No, she isn't about right at the moment," She said with a small, polite smile. "I'm not quite sure where she is right now." She added apologetically. She wasn't quite sure where her mother wandered off to sometimes, she had never learned to keep track really. It had always been the other way round, Ny keeping track of her, although she had never quite understood the motive for it. It wasn't like she enjoyed doing anything dangerous.
"I'm sure she won't be gone too long..." Sura searched for something to say. She had never been good with strangers, this she knew. Had this lioness been a male, the young adolescent would have put on her haughty face, snapped that she had no idea, and stomped off to avoid any uncomfortable conversations.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:12 am
Not all that far away, behind Ithi actually, Nyunya stood temporarily rooted to the spot. Ithi was back? Nyunya was undeniably relieved to see her well, looking better than she had when she'd come here half-starved and about ready to collapse. And as pregnant as she was now. Though she was in the early stages of pregnancy herself, shown by the rounding of her tummy (she already expected a large load, considering how short a time had passed and how big she was getting already), she had hardly expected her mother to have cubs again. She just hoped... these cubs were not related to her by blood, that their circumstances weren't the same as the last. Unknowing of her father's fate, it was a possibility to her.
She overheard enough of the conversation to know Ithi was wanting to speak to her. While that didn't seem to be the best thing, as such conversations quite often brought bad news, she was hardly going to run away from it. She forced her feet into motion, tail flicking behind her, and trotted forward. She was taking advantage of being able to trot and run while movement was still available to her. If she was going to get truly huge, the time would come soon when running was completely beyond her capabilities. One of the many downsides of pregnancy; she remembered well.
As she drew up beside Ithi, she lightly rubbed her side against her mother's, ending the little display of affection with a quick nuzzle into the fur of Ithi's throat. "I'm here, mother. Is everything all right?" She could only assume things weren't - a recent batch of troubles had made her pessimistic about ever having good news brought to her - but she didn't want to worry Sura. And she would definitely like to separate Sura and Ithi until things could be sorted out. But for now, appearances must be kept up, and so she kept moving forward until she could lean down and nuzzle her cheek against Sura's in greeting.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:26 am
Ithi nearly jumped when Ny came out of no where but calmed and smiled returning the affection a mother would give their daughter. She was happy to see Ny though she still felt a little awkward about being around her own blood, her daughter. Oh her baby and she couldn't even say such a thing.
"All is well Ny, as you see." She smiled and looked at her round belly. "One day I will stop taking comfort in males that don't stick around." She let out a small laugh. She then looked into her other daughter eyes. They were exactly the same colour as Ithi's.
"Are you going to introduce me sweetie?"
Acting like strangers to one you gave birth to was very difficult and very awkward. She wanted to go over and lick and nuzzle her daughter but she knew she couldn't and it pained her. She just had to keep the act up.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:27 am
Sura could not have been more relieved at Nyuna's arrival. Awkward situations did not tend to sit well with the young lioness, and at least now she wouldn't have to struggle to find something to talk about. She returned her mother's greeting with a similar nuzzle, although her eyes soon wandered over to the gray lioness. Mother? So that made her... Sura's grandmother? The connection made the white lioness blink as she tried to wrap her mind around it.
So that was what looked familiar. For a moment, Sura had thought she had started to imagine things. But it made enough sense that this gray lioness looked so familiar. Their eyes were the same, she realized, although it was strange that the gene had managed to skip a generation down to her. It was all starting to muddle the young lioness, and she was content enough to sit back and simply be a presence and let her mother take the reins on this little meeting. She had no idea if her calculations of her family tree were correct in any way.
It seemed to Sura as though in the future not all that far off, there would be plenty of new cubs running around the place. Pregnancy and cubs... It was everywhere, she noted as she looked from the gray to white lioness before her.
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:50 am
Nyunya really was glad to see Ithi looking so fit and healthy. It was one small worry taken off her shoulders. Last time Nyunya had seen her, she had had to wonder if it would be the last time. It had made her want to stop Ithi leaving so she could take care of her, but her mother had left anyway. She couldn't deny that she was most assuredly relieved. And it made her even happier to hear Ithi laugh again; not so long ago, it had seemed impossible.
She let out a little laugh of her own, shaking her head to clear it. "Of course; sorry, mother. This is Sura. Sura'athari." She glanced down at the young lioness in question, trying to keep how uncomfortable she felt out of her eyes. "Sura, this is my mother, Ithibati." Nyunya didn't dare name Ithibati as Sura's grandmother outloud. She didn't know if Ithi wanted to finally reveal the truth or not, and perpetuating the lie with the real mother standing right here could only make it worse for Sura, were the female to find out the truth today. Nyunya could only hope that Sura didn't handle it too badly.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:31 am
Ithi smiled softly and nodded as Ny introduced them.
"How are the other two?" She knew that Ny would understand that Ithi wanted to know about her three daughters. Oh how she missed them so much. Though of course she said nothing of the sort, at least this way she knew how her girls were doing.
"Sura, how is life for you in these lands? I hope Ny looks after you all well!" She smiled softly again and looked from daughter to daughter. Oh how she wished she could tell all but she didn't think it would be possible to do such a thing.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:35 pm
Sura smiled widely, as was customary with her innate cheerfulness. "Hi," She greet the older lioness warmly. If she realized how uncomfortable Ny felt, she didn't show it.
'The other two?' Sura blinked slightly, curious. What other two? She could only assume it meant her siblings, but that didn't exactly make sense. She didn't have just two siblings. She tilted her head slightly, then shrugged. Perhaps it was best she didn't get herself overly involved with her mother's business.
"'Course she does," Sura said with a grin. "I like living here," She continued. "Of course, that might just be because I've never lived anywhere else... but still. This place is home, so I guess I could find something good about it even if it were the worst place in the world to live!"
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:03 pm
"They're fine, of course, mother," Ny replied in as cheerful and comfortable a voice as she could manage in this situation. "Everyone is." Just to include the other cubs, so it didn't seem so suspicious, she added this last bit. She knew Sura was a very smart girl, and that not tiptoeing carefully around the young lioness would lead to the truth coming out before anyone was ready for it, if Ithi planned to reveal all today.
Nyunya sat next to Sura, arranging herself comfortably, which took a few moments of shifting, thanks to her swollen belly, smiling as she looked between the two lionesses - and my, didn't they look so much alike? "The Kusini lands are a wonderful place to live, mother. If you're thinking you might like to settle down anywhere, here would be a good place for it."
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