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 Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:15 am
Ajabu and Tafuta had wandered for days untill they had found this pride. Ajabu's grandmother apparently lived here or near by. He smiled and looked at his mate, she was beautiful. She was always beautiful and she was his and oh how he adored and loved her.
"Here we are Tafuta." He smiled and looked at her. He had partly never wanted to get here, he promised her before they set out that once she was older and they had a home that they would have a family and the thought scared him, well terrified him.
He let out a soft sigh and turned to face her again.
"Home at last eh?" He smiled watching as her blue eyes seemed to light up. He knew it was the lands she had been dreaming of.
Tafuta could hardly believe that this place was real. It was beautiful, it was stunning. She looked at the lands and then at Ajabu, oh this was the perfect place to start their lives together. She smiled at him and then nuzzled into his mane.
"Lets go."
She led the way across the land, the grass was so much softer here, so moist. The land, oh it was just beautiful. She couldn't have dreamed such a place it was so amazing. Oh the beauty of it. She could stare at the lands all day!
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:30 pm
 Tamba was doing a rare thing indeed - he was sleeping during the day. It was a very pleasant day though, and on his common ramblings around the pridal territory, his deeply coloured pelt and mane just continued to increase in warmth. It seeped into him, made him thirsty, made him tired.
Just sit down for a few moments is what he said to himself. But a few moments became considerably more as he dozed peacefully. The only thing to start stirring him from the land of nod was the distant-but-getting-closer sound of cheerful voices.
He eventually rolled over and pulled himself up sluggishly, then yawned and stretched, not really paying attention to just how close the pair were now.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:26 am
The pair countinued to move about, both with a huge smile on their maw. They both couldn't be happier, it was all they had ever dreamed about, a life here, it was just too perfect. Tafuta just smiled and leant slightly on Ajabu as they walked. She loved his scent and how soft his mane was. Oh she loved him completely.
"Look!" She saw the lion first, well she was the first to mention it, she knew Ajabu wouldn't have, he really wasn't the social type.
"Oh lets go and say hello!" She smiled and nudged her mate before trotting over to the strange male. She had never feared others and always been first to go and greet strangers while her mate hung back dreading that one of these days something bad was going to happen to her.
"Hello there!" She called happily dancing over to him while looking back to check Ajabu was following.
Ajabu followed and smiled as his mate called out to the stranger. He rolled his eyes and followed her as he always did and once he had caught up with her he also greeted the lion though it wasn't in the same cheery way that his mate did. He wasn't the overly cheerful type and would much rather sit about and do not a lot then meet lots of strangers. However he adored Tafuta and so followed her where ever she went.
He looked at the strange male, he looked, well he wasn't sure how to explain it. Peaceful? Content? Something like that. Ajabu had never seen such a thing in any creature before. Maybe Tafuta was right, this was just the place for them.
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:58 pm
Tamba was still coming round from his impromptu nap, and so met the lioness' gaze with a slightly dopey look. As realisation dawned on him, his eyes widened momentarily and then appeared normal once more. His posture shifted ever so slightly, in order to regain at least some credibility, and he looked over the two newcomers.
"Oh...greetings," he offered pleasantly, although still a little dazed.
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:59 am
Tafuta smiled as the male greeted them and she bowed her head to him.
"Hello there, I am Tafuta and this is my mate Ajabu!" She smiled more then happy to greet the stranger. She had always done so in a rather optimistic way, mostly because she knew it annoyed her mate and that was more then enough reason to do so! She loved the fact that she could annoy him and get away with it, no problems.
She looked to Ajabu and urged him to hurry up and say hello. Honestly he was always so slow! She smiled though, she knew that he knew she was toying with him.
Ajabu did follow his mate and after she had introduced them both he finally reached her and nodded his head in greeting.
"Hello, there!" He forced a smile onto his face and lowered his head again in greeting. Why did they have to talk to every single lion they met? Thats what he wanted to know!
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:51 pm
Tamba didn't want to seem impolite, and so he fought with himself to make an effort, greeting this lioness and lion with as much energy as she'd greeted him.
It was an effort, bless him.
"Well, greetings to you both," he said pleasantly and with a beaming smile. "I'm Tambuzi of the Bahari'mtoto."
He bowed his shaggy, matted head, the sea air and water having naturally ruckled it into odd curls here and there.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:39 am
Tafuta smiled and nodded at him before really picking up on something he said.
"Tha Bahari'mtoto?" She questioned. Was this the pride then? She smiled, had they really really made it. She had been pretty certain about it but now this male had told them where they were. Oh yes she was so happy!
"Oh I am sorry but I must ask, do you know a female by the name of Rahima?" She so wanted to meet her mates grandmother, she was sure Ajabu wanted to as well but Tafuta just got really excited about these things.
Ajabu just replied nodding his head in greeting.
"Sorry to disturb you and sorry for her." He moved his head slightly as if to point in Tafuta's direction.
"You see we have been looking for a home and well, my grandmother I know use to live around here whether part of the pride or not we don't know. Anyway we would like to meet who ever is in charge and ask permission to stay." Ajabu was obviously the clever one, he knew how to say what he wanted to say. He knew it would make Tafuta proud that he had spoken and so he didn't look in her direction to see the smug smile he knew would cover her face.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:26 am
Meeting multiple lions at once was always more challenging as one was often faced with a barrage of comments and questions from each, and so addressing them politely was always difficult and required some diplomacy. As the male had been a bit clearer and more concise in his questions, his came first and the female's questions would be answered within.
"No need for apologies, I wasn't exactly doing much," he chuckled. "This is indeed the Bahari'mtoto pridelands, about as far from the dusty plains as you can manage."
"As for someone called...Rahima was it?...the name does ring a bell, I certainly met many a lion passing through or living on the borders for a while. And you're looking at the one in charge," he said with a smile.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:50 am
Tafuta smiled, realising they were probably overwhelming the poor male.
"Sorry for all the questions. I have a habit of being a little enthusiastic sometimes. Sorry!" She smiled at the male and then leant a little on Ajabu, allowing him to carry on with the talking for once.
Ajabu nearly laughed. Tafuta stopped talking? Wow.
"Thank you, Rahima is my grandmother. I was hoping to see her here but if she has moved on then, well maybe I will see her some other time." He spoke less rushed then his mate. He was much slower and took his time.
"You are in charge? Well, it is a pleasure to meet you then. Tafuta and I would like to ask you if we may stay here. We wish to find a home to start a family and the lands where she was born, well there were lots of family there and it seemed a little suffocating." He paused to take a rather long breath.
"We had heard of this pride, it sounds beautiful and homely and so we decided to look for it." Ajabu was honest, as he always was. They came here to settle down and have a family, if that was okay with the leader.
"So we ask if we may make this place our home?" He lowered his head into a bow at the end to make it seem a little more polite.
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:07 pm
It always amused Tambuzi when he told newcomers who he was. Like he should be wearing a crown or something that identified him as different. The odd shells and bits of fish bone weaved here and there about his mane was simply a sign of his membership to the pride. Not of his position.
Oh well, it would no longer be his responsibility. Tamu could take care of those matters.
"Well, new faces are always welcome here," he began, nodding to some of their statements as there wasn't much else to be said really. "I think you'll find it spacious enough, you'd be forgiven for thinking the stretch of beach is all there is to it but we have forest and a chunk of the plains where you've just come from actually."
He gave his body a quick shiver, one last attempt to shake some sense into him, before he leapt down from the rock.
"Come, I'll show you around."
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:39 am
Tafuta smiled.
"Thank you very much. We will both be happy to help the pride in any way that you need." She smiled moving a way from Ajabu a little as the king spoke about showing them around, it sounded fun.
Ajabu nodded his thanks.
"As Tafuta said, we will be happy to help with anything that is needed." He then bowed his head in politeness.
"Thank you." Was his response to the offer of being shown around and so the couple followed the king, allowing him to lead them around. This was the most perfect place ever and without a doubt the couple would live a happy life here together.
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