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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:07 am
 Moray was baby sitting the naughty Lulu today while Nadra kept an eye on quiet Shai. She walked quietly through one of the thicker parts of their homeland, keen on keeping her babies safe and herself. She padded slowly, as to let Lulu get a good sniff of this plant or a good tromp through the squishy moss. She wanted Lulu to return ready for a nap, so she could get some peace and quiet.
She slowed to a stop and gazed over her pale shoulder to see Lulu walking quietly and slowly behind her. She sighed, smirking slightly. "Lulu-come darling..." She said, giving her head a bit of a toss.
Lulu followed after her second mother, her paws stepping high as she grinned and gleed at being away from the cramped hiding place. She hated it there, having to be quiet with her white brother, snuggling against her Mommy. She lifted herself up on her hind legs to swat at a dangling leaf, her smile wide and happy. She almost toppled over at this attempt, giving a small giggle. She heard her name being called and scambled up on pudgy legs.
"Yes Mommy!" She said, waddling up to be under Moray. "Where we goin' todays?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:29 am
Everyone said the males and the yeenas had to eat first, but Calpyso disliked how they were so greedy they left little for anyone else. She was hungry practically all the time, but part of that might have been from the way she kept disappearing from the ones who tired to care for her. Still, it made her dislike males a lot, so she preferred to be off on her own with her friends, who everyone said were just imaginary. Just because they lived in her head didn't mean they weren't real...
Plopped down in a patch of grass that rose of her head, Calypso pushed some stones around with her paws, pretending they were lionesses on the hunt. One of them was her Mommy, the one who led everyone else and caught the biggest antelope to feed everyone with, enough that no one was ever hungry. She gave them voices with her own, talking to her friends and her toys from the safety of her hiding place. She felt secure here with the grass like cave walls around her. It was brighter here, and warmer, than the caves though, part of the reason why she preferred it.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:17 am
Moray watched as young Lulu toddled along on strong pudgey legs. She was the more headstrong one of the litter, her brother was more meek and quiet. Lulu was full of adventure and new things. She was fond of the piebald girl and felt that they were related by blood and not by just love. She chuckled as the little cubs antics shown through without limitation, without fear of being found. Little did she know that soon, very soon, into the future, Lulu would be stolen away from her-and kept hostage by the cruel Soro.
She fell back a ways to let the young one show her true colors. "No where sweety. Just walking around."
Lulu padded onward, her little head held high. She was exploring with the safe eyes of her Mothers mate behind her. She toddled this way and that way, slipping into the grass and out of it, over rocks. Under trees. This was the type of adventure she needed. This was fun-way more fun than sitting in their private glen where Shai and her real mommy where.
She spotted a particularly fun looking bit of grass and pushed her way through with a giggle, only to find on the other side-a lion cub her age. She stood, her black paw lifted. She sat back, so that her rump pressed grass down around her. She sat in silence, watching the little cubs antics with her stones. She looked over her shoulder to see what her Mommy was doing-then back to Calypso. "What'ya doin?" She asked
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:29 am
Calypso started when someone suddenly burst into her hiding place, rocking back as she blinked in fear. She might have squeaked, but she couldn't be sure. When she realized it was another cub, and a girl at that, she relaxed a bit, a frown on her face as she folded her hears back against her head.
She half-hearted went back to pushing her rocks around, eyeing Lulu from the corner of her eyes.
"My mommy is going on a hunt with the other lionesses. She's big and strong and she's gonna catch the biggest antelope ever!" She said proudly as she lifted her head, picking up the largest of the rocks and dragging it possessively closer. She'd found that particular rock by the edge of the cliff, a deep black color with a bright sheen along its flat surfaces. Obsidian, if she'd known what to call it. It had reminded her of her own color, and the color she assumed her mommy had to be. She couldn't remember her, of course, being too young when she'd left, but everyone else had a mommy, so she must have had one too.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:57 am
Moray padded over to where her little child was talking to someone through the grass. She could not help but feel frightened at the aspect that it could be someone she didn't want contact with. Her relief was great when she gazed over her darlings shoulder to see a little black cub, one that Moray did not recognize. She sat back, her purple eyes gazing at the cub as she played.
She didn't want to interrupt the two girls but she wanted to know where this cubs mother was. Shouldn't she be here with her instead of hunting-leaving her cub alone while off doing things while the males were about being-dangerous.
She'd simply sit back and wait for the right moment.
Lulu looked down at the rocks and cocked her head-studying them. She was curious about the way in which she was playing with them, all strategic. She lowered her head to sniff at a few rocks. "Is my Mommy in here?" She asked, looking over at moray with a smile. "And my Mommy Moray too?"
She stood and looked around on the ground to find two whiteish stones. She found two, one with a bit of swirly marks in pale pale yellow and set them down. "The white one is my Mommy and the swirly one is Moray... My other Mommy. Can they help?" She asked, her red eyes soft and questioning and begging to play too.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:43 pm
Calypso frowned at Lulu as she went and just brought in two new lionesses. She wasn't entirely sure she wanted to let someone else in on her game, but... Mommy could use more lionesses to help her hunt. Everyone was hungry and needed lots of food. And those were kinda interesting looking stones...
The black cub carefully put down her Mommy stone and pushed it to the head of the group. "I guess... as long as they're good! The lionesses are fast, so no slow ones! They have to catch gazelles today, and they're super fast." She pushed her stones about like she thought a hunt would go, her mommy calling to the others to tell them what to do, while the others responded. Everyone seemed to have their own opinion, but her Mommy was strong and always got her way.
When it came time to catch the gazelles Mommy was fast and strong and took down three of them in short order. A couple of the lionesses ran into each other and fell over, making Calypso laugh, while a few others caught a few of their own gazelles. She let Lulu play her own lionesses, forgetting about her mistrust in the childish game of pretend.
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:35 pm
Moray watched the two girls as they played their game and could not help but frown, looking around with her head uplifted. Why was the little princess all alone out here, where the males could easily take a hold of her. She looked down, her purple eyes studying little Calypso for a moment, licking her lips for a moment.
"Calypso darling... who's den are you staying with baby?" She asked softly and sweetly, looking concerned. If no one was watching over her, Moray would be taking her under her wing for a while. "Are you all by yourself out here?" She asked, eyeing the two stones that represented her and Nadra. A small smile grew across her muzzle as she blinked.
Lulu shook her little rump eagerly to be allowed to play with the dark girl. She pushed her two pale rocks to the back, behind the 'prey'. "My mommies will stay back here and attack as they jump... cause Gazelle jump all over..." She said, pushing them close to one another, imagining they were side to side, gazing forward to help the others get food so they could eat.
"Mommy Nadra is fat still cause of me and my Brother so-she will be slowerly... but she can keep things organized and stuff." She said with a grin.
Moray looked down to Lulu with a small frown. 'Lulu...!"
Lulu looked up at her Mommy with a wide grin. "Just kidding!"
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:22 am
Calypso giggled softly as she played, but the childish smile on her face faded fast when Moray reminded her she was there, the adult presence shattering the childish kinship she had formed with Lulu.
The questions made her lay back her ears and look guilty, knowing she'd been doing what she was always told she wasn't supposed to. She lowered her eyes as she half-heartedly posed at her mommy stone, as though pretending to play would make the adult go away and leave her to herself again. Why couldn't she just be alone all the time? No one bothered her then, or made her do what she didn't want to...
"I dunno." She said petulantly, very close to a full-on pout. "Wherever. Sometimes I sleep in the main den, and sometimes with Kannon and the Girls." Calypso got along okay with those two, but... she still prefered herself to them as companions.
"I like being by myself!" She finally said, lifting her head to look up at Moray in rebellion and guilt.
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:38 am
Lulu was enjoying this game. It didn't involve fighting and growling or anything tough, it was simple and sweet. She clunked the two white stones together. "Mommy gives hugs." She cooed. She lifted her purple eyes to smile at the dark cub but saw her expression at her Mommy Moray, and guessed with the mind of a child.
"Mommah. Asking questions makes game not as fun!" She said matter of factly' gazing up at Moray with a rather disgrunted look. She looked back down and scooted her rocks back and forth. "Kannon... I met Kannon. She's nice." She said softly.
Moray looked down at Lulu and had to make a face at her in order to not get mad. She certainly was her mothers child. She simply nodded, deciding that letting the little girls play without the questions and comments of a grown woman would perhaps, be more fun. She took a few steps back and decided to lay down, watching the little girls play quietly.
She wondered how it was like for little Calypso... but if she was staying with Kannon and her cubs, she must be doing pretty well at least. As long as she wasn't sleeping alone in the dark and where the males could easily find her. Moray wouldn't complain.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:20 pm
Calypso nodded slowly, though she did keep an eye on Moray. Yes, Kannon was nice. She wan't Mommy, of course, but that couldn't be helped. Mommy was out there, being strong and smart and fighting the evil lions. She'd come back some day and then everything would be good all the time, not just some of the time like it was now.
For a while, she pushed around her Mommy stone with the other lioness stones, quietly talking between them as they went about some sort of a life that involved lots of drama and fighting, but a good deal of kiss-and-make-up as well. The dark cub played out a life she could only imagine, with the good things and bad things she saw all around her now, but out of proportion to real life.
Finally, Calypso set the rocks to the side in a comfortable heap, putting the Mommy stone on top.
"The lionesses are sleeping now. They have to get their rest so they can go hunting again tomorrow." She said softly.
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