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 Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:10 pm
The rain had come again, sending torrents of water sluicing down the sides of the gully through which the stream ran. Below her vantage point the waters rushed and swirled, swollen from the excess run off the storm had sent into it. All around, the world was in a half-fog as the heat of the ground mingled with the pools of water and sent mist up to cling at whatever the rain was trying to wash away. Grey... dream-like...Teiracaes rather liked this cocoon of in-between, felt safe.
Despite being soaked to the bone, the little lioness didn't seem to mind the water that dripped from her chin or the mist that clung to her ears. Her visions had come back but after her encounter with Buibui, she felt as though they weren't as terrifying... these were individuals they could help, lions he would smite if they did not look to the light. Smiling to herself, she lay in the mud and watched the water surge past, imagining the demon hunters as something like it - strong, undeterred, and cleansing.
Her thoughts turned the to Buibui and she wondered where he was. If he liked the rains like this.... or preferred to keep his paws clean. Did the pale lion's coat shimmer in the half light like hers seemed to absorb it all? Teira glanced around before looking up into the sky.
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:22 pm
Bui wandered outside and looked up, letting the rain run down his face. He had seen his father today, running wild thousands of miles away. What a dream it had been... his eternally young father. He hadn't been expecting his visions to turn to the God. But it always sent an odd feeling through him... that his father should be helping them... but it wasn't the older lions job. No, he knew what Zuru had to do... he helped those who wandered. He had helped Xinavane find the pride. Yes... his father had important things to do. Bui just wished... he could meet him.
He sighed, turning on his paws and wandering about in the rain, unafraid of being dirty. He didn't mind wandering outside much. In the rain at least he knew he was unlikely to be bothered by anyone too much the wimp to be outside in the dirt.
And then... he blinked. He saw someone dark not that far away... red eyes... He stepped forward slowly, "Teiracaes?" He asked, a little loudly in case his voice was drowned out by the rain water. He wasn't sure she would hear him or not.
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:38 pm
She blinked as her name was called and tilted her head, though her face was still turned up to the rain and her mouth formed an 'o' of surprise, "Buibui? ... Bui!" She smiled broadly at him and stood, turning to face her friend properly, "Do you like the rain too? Warm rain like this is my favourite." She sounded hopeful that he shared in her delights.
She also took a moment to look him over, noting that his fur didn't quite shine like she imagined. There was a halo where the rain bounced off his back, but not seraphic glow. Ah well.... she was still glad he was here.
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:53 pm
Bui inclined his head a little to let her know he was also aware that she was there with him. "I have nothing against rain I suppose... It can be relaxing. And not many are willing to go out in it, so you get more... reflective time when it rains, I suppose." He admitted with a light shrug as he sat down beside her.
He was pleased to see her however. At least she wasn't one of those bimbo women who was afraid of getting a little wet. He liked women, and men frankly, like his sisters and mother who weren't afraid of getting their paws dirty outside.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:02 pm
"Reflection?" She murmured questioningly, thinking a moment before nodding her agreement, "Yeah. The rain is good for thinking. It's also good for being alone.... feels like everything could wash away and be carried off by the waters." Teira smiled as he sat down near her.
"I've been thinking on what you've said.... and it's true. Everything deserves to be illuminated, and burn if it denies the chance at enlightenment." Big word, these - ones she'd heard the adults murmur but it rang true with her so she thought they were important, "But... my visions strike at strange times. I can't control them." She seemed upset by that, disliking that as much as she'd been inspired to work towards a goal that the biggest tool available to her was choatic at best.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:36 am
Bui listened to what she had to say. Like her, he often listened to what the adults talked about. His mother had never hidden anything from him, or his sisters. He felt similar to how she did. About the rain... about everyone. About the demons especially.
"Yes... I'm glad you agree about that." Bui said with a nod. Yes... everything that refused to be enlightened would be burned with the same light. Of that he had no doubt... But the visions were another matter. "Then I am sorry. My visions have always been... easy to control. Perhaps with time, yours will be easier to control also? And perhaps if you cannot... then it is because they are simply meant to be that way? That perhaps your visions will come to you when it is most important, unlike those of us who can pick and chose when and what we see?"
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:14 pm
"I do not know if they will become easier or not... it seems, every time something comes to a fork, and a path chosen, the future changes. And... I am shown the results of these great decisions. I don't even know if it will come to pass...." She murmured, shaking her head, "I wish I could pick and choose, Bui. I see death and pain and darkness that makes a star burn brighter. I see what may come, I saw this storm and the chaos it causes downstream. A herd of antelope will drown today, caught in a flood because they'd been driven into a gorge by lions."
She fixed her gaze on him, "Do you feel the drowning, the pain and panic? See the bodys, bloated and cold, float along the surface? They are prey.... but they hurt too and we only take what's needed." Lowering her chin to the ground then, Teira closed her eyes. "If we leave before the storm dies down, we can claim the meat."
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:08 pm
Bui watched her, tilting his head to the side, "I see... death, pain. I see these things also, because I see what is happening right now. It isn't maybes or qustions with what I see... it has happened. Is happening right now, this instant, and I cannot change it." He couldn't look forward or backwards. He could only see what was happening then and there. He had never been able to change a thing. And he had never really wanted to, one way or the other. He had always just wanted to do what he could for the pride.
"I have felt the pain and misery... but also the joy, and the happiness. The prey animals die... we and those like us will live, fight evil, have children... make things better. Without pain and sacrifice, there is nothing." Bui admitted. Sometimes the sacrifice was worth it.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:02 am
"There is nothing," she replied quietly as she looked downstream, "when there is no joy. No day without the night, no love without hate." Teira looked to him then, a sad smile upon her face, "No right without the wrong and it is the wrong I see, Bui. Tragedy." Rising, the young female began to walk along the bank, following the stream's flow while she spoke.
"You are lucky, Bui. I know the tragedies that lurk on the horizon but not the triumphs." Falling into silence, the juvenile leaned into a smooth jog, enjoying the sound of the rushing water and the slap of raindrops in her face and on her hide. "There is a life with happiness, I am sure! I have only to live it, and find that place as my parents did. Come with me, Bui! I'm hungry."
Without waiting for her friend, the dark seer bound away, following the snapshots of images her gift had shown her. There would be a feast this way... if they got there soon enough.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 4:48 pm
Bui followed after her, seeing no reason not to go after the girl who had come to interest him. He supposed he wouldn't have liked having visions either, if he hadn't seen both the bad and the good. Though in each side, he saw the nessessity... that the end required any evil. And he was almost glad that those like his mother and sisters didn't have to think like he did. Even if his mother saw things the same way. That there could be no peace without war.
"Maybe you only see the tragedy of life... but I can see that it will bring about good, in some way. So if you see tragedy... I will help you see the good they bring about." He told her, walking shoulder to shoulder with her, "I would never wish on one of our own to not see the greatness that follows in stride with our pride. I will help you see happiness, if I can and if you'll let me."
After all, she was his ally, and she had a powerful gift. Such things could not be squandered. Not if he could help it, because the pride needed every advantage that they could get. If he helped this girl... perhaps she would help him see the future he desired. And perhaps he could give her the present she wanted.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 5:08 pm
She paused as the ground began to fall away, splitting into high and low lands. The stream was joined by others and water rushed through the opening to the growing ravine. Wisely, Teiracaes followed the upper path.
"You think you can?" She turned to him then, smiling broadly with hope plain upon her face. They'd come to the cliffs that overlooked the outwash plain for the ravine and she nodded in that direction, where a dozen or so bodies were strewn across the rushing waters. Limbs were arched at strange angles and even at this distance, the blank stares were obvious. "Even when what I see comes true? We can't go down yet, there will be more surges."
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:20 pm
Bui watched her walk, interested in what she told him, and following her every motion very curiously. She was a whole different sort of challenge... and if he could help her control her gift, then she would be a powerful and useful ally in the wars to come. He rarely saw the other members of the pride as more than tools for destroying the demons... but this girl could be an ally. A real one.
"There is very little I don't think I can do." Bui told her with a smirk. He looked out at the water beneath them. Tragic for some, perhaps, but all he saw was enough food to keep the pride strong. The warriors and future-warriors would be well fed. "Don't worry. I'm in no hurry." He looked at her and smiled, "Everything I see is already true. Regardless of what you tell me, the future doesn't frighten me."
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:26 pm
She sighed, that hopeful expression falling away some, "Then you are confident indeed." And confidence, she knew from visions, could lead to disaster. "That's good. I saw no death of lion kind here today, I would not want you to be the exception. I consider you friend, Bui." She glanced at him then, almost shy in the admission. He hadn't struck her as the sort to welcome sentiments, really, but that was the truth and she had so few friends as it was. Family could only support her so far.
At his last words, she drew nearer, a bright smile upon her face as she leaned in to nose his shoulder, "That both comforts and frightens me. The present is too soon to change where the future... is a warning by which to act." Settling on to her stomach, the little lioness looked out over the plains and watched the curtains of rain fall, greying out the view.
Then, without warning, a thunderclap arched down from the sky and struck a nearby tree. A shower of sparks and the smell of singed wood immediately filled the air and sent Teiracaes cowering behind a rock. Thunder terrified the lioness, its sudden strikes full of power and unpredictable. There was no rhyme nor rhythm to the lightning, unlike the glimpses of the future her gift afforded her.
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Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:58 pm
"Believe me, I won't be." Bui said, and he honestly believed it. He was the son of a God, and he expected nothing less of himself then to behave accordingly. He wouldn't fall to the demons, even when others did. He would rise above, and destroy them once and for all if he had he way. He was certain of that. He did smile though, when she called him a friend. He did, at the very least, consider her an ally... but he didn't really have any friends outside of his sisters. "I'm glad... and I'll make sure you aren't an exception to the rule either."
He tilted his head curiously as he watched her. Yes, he could see all of what happened in the present, things that were already happening. The events that would lead to a glorious future. "Yes... well, then we will mold the present to get the future we desire." He decided.
He didn't jump at the thunder, though her sudden run behind a rock startled him a little. Weather had never really bothered him. He didn't fear anything. And if he did, then he never showed it. "Tieracaes? What are you doing?" He asked, turning and looking down the rock at her.
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:32 am
"I don't like the thunder... I like rain. Not the thunder." She murmured, embarassed, "It... sets off visions. Lots of them... dark ones." Even in the den, she'd been triggered by the loud frightening noise and had come to dislike the sudden sound.
Her expression was apologetic as she hovered under cover, watching the skies, "It strikes high places too... Buibui. We're high." There was concern in Teira's voice as she spoke, knowing a lion could not withstand being struck by lightning.
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