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 Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:31 pm
 It was funny how growing up could change you. Some inviduals grew really big, others grew more confident in themselves or even the opposite. But with Hidaya'Ua it wasn't that complicated. Just a little while back she had begun to regain her speech. She had practiced and enjoyed her newfound ability. She was still the same Ua; the only difference was she could talk and she didn't bother wasting time making up for those lost words.
But for now there was no one for her words to fall to. She loped along, her stride energetic and confident. A few idle words escaped her maw as she went. She couldn't get over the pleasure of hearing her own voice. For so long such a simple thing had been denied her. "I swear, those were the biggest buzzards I have ever seen! You'd think they wouldn't need to scavenge if the got so fat..."
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:47 pm
 Barazahi padded across the savannah in the Mteo lands, her mind in motion. Her parents had split up. She wasn't as distraught over it anymore, she just... Couldn't really fathom it entirely. Her parents... hers had split up? Though, she'd been reassured that she and Angu would be alright. With that knowledge, she was fine.
Her cubs had gone through a growth spurt to add onto the stress. She missed them being cubs. Though, she knew it was inevitable.
A voice on the wind perked up the lioness, and then a familiar sight. Her only daughter. "Ua!" She called as she padded out to the girl. "Ua, so good to hear you," Barazahi said cheerfully with a wide smile.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:07 pm
"Mom!" Ua grinned widely showing a flash of bright teeth. Her ears perked and her dark eyes grew attentive and warm. She bumped her nose against her parent, also giving the older lioness an affectionate paw swipe. Ah the bad habits you pick up from a pack of brothers.
"You wouldn't believe the zebra I chased the other day!" she chatted enthusiastically, getting a glint in her eye, "I was chasing it, right, and boy was it fast! I probably should have picked a slower one, but he was all grizzled looking and that usually means they're old and lame, but not this bad boy! Oh noo he outrun me real fast. But that's not the amazing part, see, I got a glimse at his neck! There was a big hole in it, Mom, like you wouldn't believe! Not like the bleeding kind of hole, but like...healed over and you could see right through it!" As she told her story her expressions shifted like water. She had been so used to expressing herself with her facial and body features as a child that she never grew out of it. When she said she was running she bent her body down low with claws out and when she said she lost him she swayed her head in a light hearted dismissal. She might be able to use words now, but that didn't mean she acted any differently. Her body would always tell at least half of the story.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:24 pm
Barazahi was accustomed to the greeting, though, she wasn't sure if it had been her siblings that had taught it to her, or Ata. She giggled. While she knew her daughter had always wished to have her voice, she found it unique that she still used her posture to tell half the story. "Sounds amazing, Ua! You'll get some intricate tattoos for that," Barazahi said. Such was tradition- amazing hunts got amazing tattoos.
"Ua, I need to tell you something, it might not affect you as much as it did me, but you still need to know..." She sat down in the grass. "You'd find out eventually if I didn't tell you. Grandma and Grandpa have split up," she said, finding the words come out more easily than they had come out of Embamba's mouth. Such things got easier as they went down generations, she supposed. "Just thought you ought to know..."
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:08 pm
She turned her attention from her own experience, perking her ears and looking attentively at her mother. For the first time in a while she didn't voice her curiosity. Instead she just listened for a moment, ready to hear the news her mother wished to expression. When she did hear it, however, she was astounded. And it showed.
"They split up?" she cried, splaying out her limbs slightly in surprise as she blanched. Her mouth fell open and her eyes were wide and indignant, "Why would they do that? I thought they loved each other! They've been together so long! 'Sides, who else are they going to go with? And there's our family to think about and it just doesn't make sense it's not like they can get away from each other and-" she kept rambling off all the reasons why she didn't get her grandparent's choice. Sure, it might not affect her a ton, but it didn't mean she didn't have an opinion on the matter.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:45 am
There, it was out. Raza nodded at all of the girl's questions, they'd run through her own head too at first. She waited for a gap in her daughter's stream of questions to answer many of them.
"Well, you know your grandpa, he's kinda been losing his mind, in my opinion. Grandma said that he just didn't know her like she'd thought. She said he seemed to think she was a different lioness than who she was, and he loved who she wasn't, I guess. I'm a lot closer to grandma than I am to grandpa, you know. I'd be a lot more broken if I was closer to both of them..." She turned her eyes to the ground. While she'd gotten mostly over it, the fact that they were no longer together still seemed like a distant story, fiction. "I'm not sure what Grandpa's to do, but grandma says she's got a male friend. Whether they love each other, I'm not sure, but she seems comfortable around him He wasn't the cause, though..." Barazahi said. "It was a distance, a gap between the pair of them. At any rate, I thought you ought to know." She didn't want to dwell on it. If her daughter had more questions, she'd answer them, but she preferred happier conversations.
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:11 pm
"I just don't get it Momma," Ua stated, flicking her ears and twisting her head animatedly. "How could he not know who Grandma was? I mean, isn't that something you make sure you know before you become mates? Don't you know dad, at least enough to not think he's someone else?" She shook her head vigeriously, her tail whipping about as well. "I just don't get it, I don't," she confided. Not that she knew anything about love. She had just reached that sort of age, after all, and as of right now there weren't a whole of of choices for non-relatives. It wasn't something she had really thought about until know.
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