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 Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:38 pm
Wind had been yet again pulled to a place that she did not frequent. At least it was not the Pridelands. Though she thought the lands were pretty, it was a bit too populated for her tastes, and she knew that there were a number of them that did not favour gods, or even believe in them. She respected their wishes and left them alone, but it was Zeki who had summoned her there. Fair enough. She was done with that task, and wondering where her next one was waiting for her.
The Goddess gave her wings a stretched as she landed, merely flying this time instead of letting the winds carry her in an invisible flurry. She needed to give them a good stretch every once in a while, and today seemed like a fine day. A bit dry, maybe, but that was when the wind was at it's warmest.
"More brown savannah grasses," she commented as she let her wings drag along the ground as she walked. They felt soft, really, and far from dead; it was just very different from the green lush grass of the Pridelands.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:44 pm
 He'd made a note to stay well away from most lions knowing they weren't all that fond of him but the latest word from his little avian friend was odd. She spoke of a lion flying. He was quite sure he'd never seen or heard of anything like that before and despite his better judgment it warranted an investigation. It wasn't every day that you got to see something like a flying lion.
With Kas keeping watch, hopefully ready to alert him to danger, he crept closer to where she had said the lion was. His coat blended in with the brown grasses well enough and it wasn't long before he saw something far brighter in the way.
It was indeed a winged lion. Kas hadn't been lying and now he was stuck starring at it. How in the world did that work?
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:03 pm
The golden goddess drew her wing up, giving it a good stare. "Oh dear, it's been a while since I've had them cleaned, hasn't it?" she asked to no one in particular. Pity that Kokia wasn't here, at least then she would have someone to speak with. For now, though, she could talk to the wind itself.
"Hm?" With a cocked eyebrown, Mana's green eyes scanned the horizon. They narrowed as they went over areas that were a bit closer to her, the goddess nearly chewing on her lower lip in thought. She didn't notice anything in particular, though, and drew her eyes back to the ground below her.
"I wonder why I ended up here," she thought out loud, drawing her wings back close to her body. Troublesome that the tips of her wings were looking less then perfect, but it was hard to carry them up when they were so long. "I'm rarely pulled somewhere by the Winds for no reason. Maybe I was too slow and the reason has passed." What a pity. She didn't feel like leaving yet, though, and would continue her hawk-like circulation of the area she had landed in. Maybe what she was supposed to find would find her.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:18 pm
He listened to the thing, her, talk to herself for a bit as he hunched down in the grass. Slightly put off by her words and still far too curious he straightened up.
"Perhaps the question should not be why you ended up here but what you are going to do now that you are." He knew that startling a lion wasn't the smartest thing to do but he also figured he had enough space between them to get enough of a head start to get away should she attack him.
She didn't look like she would do anything of the sort but you never could be too sure with something that could eat you for a snack if it wanted.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:34 pm
Mana couldn't help but crack a smile. She thought that she had heard someone, but if it was someone that didn't want to be find, she was going to ignore it. Oooh, so they were just waiting for that moment to take the initiative and be first to speak. Well, she couldn't say anything against it, but not for that either.
"Well, isn't it obvious that I'm waiting? Though..." she took a moment to pause. A cheetah. "I think that if I don't know what I'm waiting for, should I really wait for something that might never come?" Her tail swayed behind her as she turned to face the cheetah. Indeed there was room between the two of them, and out of respect she would not shorten it unless the other chose to. She could understand if one wanted an invisible wall between the two of them.
"Or are you exactly what I am waiting for?" She cocked a bow, trying to not crack another smile.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:08 pm
"If you are not sure what you are waiting on then you should not wait for the unknown. Unless you are just apt to waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen." His head cocked to the side slightly as he spoke. He thought far too much about things for his own good some times and hoped that she at least understood what he was getting at.
"I would not know if i am what you are waiting on." His tail wrapped around his feet instead of swaying behind him. "I was not told to expect anything out of the ordinary."
His grin was wide as his ears flickered to get rid of a pesky insect.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:24 am
Hmm. Mana let her ear twitch as she thought on his words. Interesting. It seemed that cheetahs had their own way of thinking, at least now-a-days. Maybe she'd have to give them an ounce more of respect then some other species she had come across lately. At least they were smart in one way.
"True," she replied, letting a bit of silence fall on the air. She shifted her weight on her forepaws for a moment. "But I never know who I am to help, for the wind pulls me in different directions, where ever it deems necessary."
She let a grin form across her face. "Though as long as you do not demand me to return your wind, as another cheetah has, well, then I believe this meeting will go well, wouldn't you think?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:29 am
"So you always let the wind pull you where ever it wishes instead of going where you wish?" His head tilted a bit further as he thought on that. It didn't make much sense to let something as fickle as the wind control where you were going. He would much rather rely on his own four paws to know where to take him.
"I have never been much for the wind." He nodded slightly. "More for the earth and grass under my paws. Sturdier more reliable stuff if you ask me. Isn't really like there's a huge chance that the earth is just going to up and decide that it wants to change direction or disappear, hm?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:45 am
She nodded. "I do. The wind can hear everything that leaves the mouth, and sometimes it can take a life of it's own, leading me where to go." She used to do what she wanted, but with a timeless age, that resistance had been brought down to nothing, and she simply went were the wind wanted her to. It would be much different when she would ground herself for a life time to a mortal, but it would be worth it.
Mana's tail flopped around to land just short of her forepaws as she settled herself down to sit. It was a bit more comfortable for her than standing. "Interesting," she began. "I met a cheetah, not too long ago, that claimed I stole the wind from him, and all cheetahs. Merely because he would tire quickly after picking up his speed for a run. Not much I can say about that, but interesting that not all cheetahs might feel the same way."
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:52 am
"He must have been a fool." His nose scrunched slightly. He had always been like that. You ran for a bit and you tired so you learned to be careful how you hunted and where. It was nothing to blame on someone much less a lion. Even if it was a strange one with wings.
"How could you steal the wind from someone anyway. I did not think it belonged to any for it to be stolen. Wouldn't you have to own something for it to be stolen from you?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:21 am
Mana couldn't help but laugh at his comment. Well, a fool indeed! Certainly interesting. Everything was turning into quite a pleseant turn of events.
"I believe you could use that term of stolen," she remarked, wiggling a bit as she felt a sudden itch on her back. "But even if I am Wind, it doesn't mean I own it. It just means that it's where I get my powers from, you could say." That, and belief in the wind is what fueled her life as well as her powers.
"I guess, though," she added on, thinking about her last comment, "that you can say the wind and I are the same entitiy. I am just the part that manifests itself in the mortal realm as anything other but a brush along the body."
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:27 am
"How can one be the wind and yet be ... well what you are?" His mother had never told him anything about winged lions or 'mortal manifestations' of things. She had taught him about the elements but nothing beyond respecting them.
"I am, i believe, missing some piece of information that would make all this make sense. Would you be kind enough to enlighten me so that i don't have to feel foolish about opening my mouth?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:54 am
"Well, part if it should be simple enough to understand," she replied with a nod. "Most gods get their powers through the belief of mortals. So the only reason that I could consider my powers strong, is because many believe in the wind for many things. Good fortune, their weather, sometimes even the start of a new life, letting the wind guide them where to go."
She swished her tail behind her in thought. Sometimes it could get distracting if it tapped her forepaws. "Though, in my own personal thoughts, because mortals can fuel our strengths, why are there gods that look down upon the mortals? That is something I cannot understand. Unless they live off the negative energies of fear, terror, and hatred."
Well, he was smart, and on his toes. Maybe he had an opinion to that. She looked at him expectantly, her green eyes not wavering.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:21 pm
Gods? His mother had left out any sort of teachings about those sorts of things. She had mentioned one creator of them all but he couldn't think of any mention of gods. That was certainly something new. So this was what a God looked like? A lion with wings. He would have to remember to tell Kas that if she wasn't listening somewhere near by.
"Perhaps they fear the power mortals have over them? If all it takes is for mortals to cease believing in something then depending on what sort of things the Gods ruled over it could be a very tenuous hold on their lives?" He was not sure how much believe they needed to live but if it was something as simple as that?
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:26 pm
"Hmm. Just....if they do fear mortals, why treat them so harshly?" The goddess couldn't help but give a shiver, her wings snapping as close as they could to her body. "The stories I have heard of what some atrocious gods have done, and it almost makes me ashamed to even appear in the mortal realm at times. Sometimes I fear for my own saftey." Her tail lashed behind her for a moment, just the thoughts bothering her enough without ever actually seeing it with her own eyes.
"The only problem, I do see, is that there are many that believe in us. Perhaps in different forms, but sometimes I feel strength from places I have never been. There is probably only one that knows, the mother Mkodi, but alas, no one has seen her, in my memory. She is creation, you see, and probably holds the answer to all."
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