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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:28 pm
 Soali was currently twisted and tangled in the most complex vine she had ever seen. Sure, it had seemed and looked innocent at first, when the cub had first spotted the potential danger, but she had never imagined for it to be this troublesome.
One minute, she had been bouncing along as usual, and the next found her collapsed in a huge pile of these twisty things. Lucky for her that they didn't have any thorns, but still. It was tough to try and get out of these things!
The little cub growled, twisting this way and that, trying to get a paw free by gnawing at her small, sharp teeth. Hopefully she would be able to get out of this mess before her parents came looking for her. It was already late enough, and dinner would be soon.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:36 pm
 Magebari-gura walked along peacefully, images and memories of the kind male she had just met dancing in her head. Odijo was his name. And he was handsome, and kind, and memorable, and...
As usual, when she wasn't thinking about anything important, Bari wasn't paying attention to anything important. So when the flat ground suddenly sloped downward into a small hill that, at the bottom, revealed a nice patch of twisty-vines, she didn't see it coming until she was caught up in them. Much like the little brown cub that was tied up next to her.
Bari heard a giggle and her closed eyes opened to stare around her in shock; how did she wind up on her back, and upside down like this? The giggle sounded again, and the lioness peered around this way and that in hopes of finding whoever it was that was giggling at her.
Finally, her eyes alighted on the cub, and she grinned back.
"What a tricky situation we seem to have gotten ourselves into! I'm Bari, little one. What's your name?" The cub looked like a juve. Young, but older, too. Soon she would leave on her naming quest.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:49 pm
Soali couldn't help the giggles that were begging to be released as she watched, almost in slow motion, as the lioness was walking and then suddenly took a tumble down the hill right across from where the cub was entangled in her own mess of vines.
"Yeah, a little!" she said in return. "But you were being more silly than me!" At least Soali had been paying a little bit more attention than the lioness. Bari. "I'm Soali," she added, pleased to meet another female just as polite and mannered as she.
"So how do you think we can get out of here?" She had only managed to chew through one of the vines, the one that had been dangerously close to her neck. She supposed that they could do that, and help free each other..
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:00 pm
Bari laughed and nodded, tugging experimentally on a few vines to see how tight they were. Tight enough so that she couldn't pull away on them by herself. Perhaps the little cub had the right idea, chewing and breaking through the vines that way.
"Here, let's see." And she tried to reach over enough to grab onto one of the vines that was caught on Soali's paws with her mouth, chewing and quickly snapping the vine in half. The cub giggled and Bari easily got another, and another, and another vine chewed and snapped.
"Hold on, I need to take a break. My jaw hurts," Bari chuckled. This was tough work, chewing and biting through these thick vines. Definitely not a way she would expect, but then again, the lioness doubted that another being would come by in hopes of freeing them.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:18 pm
Oh! She was doing it!
Soali started to help where she could, deciding to lean down and try to bite and chew through which vines she could reach from her position. Soon enough, the cub was freed from her vine-prison, and she bounded away happily with a squeal, stretching her legs.
But then she did remember that there was another lioness here, and said lioness had just helped her to escape, so it was just the same as expected of the cub to help Bari become free.
"Okay, your turn!" she said, and trotted over to Bari carefully, intent on not stepping on any of the other vines so she wouldn't be caught again. Then she started to gnaw and chew on the vines, breaking them easily, albeit slowly compared to Bari.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:28 pm
Bari laughed and continued to bite through her own vines, helping out the cub as she helped some more. Soon enough, she was free as well. With a huge, bounding leap, the lioness scooped up Soali and toddled up the hill she had previously fallen down, just to be safe that neither of them would evern get caught up and entangled in those silly vines again.
"Thank you for your help, Soali," Bari said once the cub was on the ground and they were a safe distance away. "I don't think I could have gotten out with you." The lioness gave her praise lightly and truthfully.
"And it's a good thing I came along, too, to help you out," she teased the young cub. Bari sat down to shake her head, and when she did that, the signature curl of her mane sprung up.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:30 pm
"Yes, thank you for helping me!" Soali exclaimed happily, copying her new friend by sitting down across from her. It had been a shock to be picked up so unceremoniously, but the cub didn't mind. She knew that it made sense and that Bari was just looking out for her.
"Oh, wait, you still have some vines on your back," the cub said, reaching up to balance on her hind paws and pushing her front ones lightly on the shoulder of Bari to paw at the small vine wrapped around the lioness. There were a few small flowers on the vine, as well, ones that weren't noticed until now.
"Want me to take them off?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:35 pm
"Hm?" Bari turned her head to look over her shoulder and spotted the small, skinny, flowered-covered vine that the cub had mentioned. She giggled. "No, it's fine. I rather like having it on my back. It was an adventure together, and the flowers are rather pretty, don't you think?"
Bari gently stood so that she wouldn't knock the cub down off, to turn around in a little circle to try and see the little vine on her back and then, she found that there was a little piece on her head and some around her neck, as well. It made a pretty picture, that's for sure.
"I like it," she announced.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:39 pm
Soali giggled and nodded, easily sitting back down when Bari stood up and turned around again. "Oh, I didn't notice the other ones! They do look pretty," the cub agreed happily. It was easy to say that the lioness looked pretty with the small vines around her fur. Bari a very pretty lioness anyway, the cub discovered.
"Me too, me too!" she quickly agreed, bouncing around. "Can I have some too?" Some of the vines, she meant. But if that actually was needed by going back down into the vine pit where they had just escaped from, then she didn't need the vine so badly after all.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:43 pm
Bari nodded and reached around to the one hanging on her back and easily tore of a piece with her paw. Then the lioness went to double wrap it around Soali's neck, like the one around hers. "See? We match now. How pretty," she cooed to the cub.
What an adventure today had been, that was for sure.
"Well, it was nice meeting you Soali. Be careful not to get into the vines anymore! And I will too," Bari teased, giving the cub a small nuzzle. And then she was off, trotting back towards where she had been headed before the little vine-escapade. She wondered what Odijo would have to say about this...'adventure.'
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