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 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:50 am
Iana was gnawing on a kill in the waning light of day. The sun was touching the African horizon, merging with the savannah and throwing shadows into sharp relief, darkening everything. She'd managed to fell the zebra on her own after running its herd down for a few days, but the kill was sickly and old and had tough meat. Still, it was better than nothing, and for a lioness out on her own, Iana thought she'd done quite well for herself by felling it.
She wasn't being entirely alert, though dusk was the worst time for her eyesight, preferring to keep her head to the kill and eat as much as she could before hyenas or another lion came to steal her hard-earned meal. Iana was ravenous, not having eaten in over a week. She needed to find a pride or a less permanent band of rogues to bind herself to if she hoped to survive, but since parting with her half-sister Akinyi she had been mostly focused on being on her own and living her own life.
Akinyi still occupied her thoughts sometimes. The lioness had departed off to the jungle land, where Iana assumed she had found a life of plenty among the trees, though Iana didn't know about the Kunanda'Nakhun. No, Iana was more concerned with immediate matters, like how full her stomach was. She was making sure 'totally' would be the reading by the time she was chased off of the zebra.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:55 am
Unzu was hungry too. Not for meat, per se. But companionship was always awesome to a guy like him, even if it meant fighting someone to share a kill. The dark lion blended in well with his surroundings in the failing light, creeping up towards Iana as she cleaned the zebra carcass. He sneaked right up to the other side of it and started tearing into the flesh, waiting to see how long it would take her to notice, wondering if he could sneak into her corner of the bush tonight.
What he hadn't noticed was Iana's remarkably similar build and coloration to Akinyi's. It'd been a day since Unzu went out to find something to eat and now that he'd come across this female, he was already thinking licentious thoughts. Perhaps he wouldn't really go through with it, but he was just a player, and it was all a game.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:08 am
Iana didn't see the dark lion at first, didn't notice him tugging on the carcass, and thus did not react as he crept forward to steal part of her kill, still eating all the pleasant parts that he could not reach from his side, lashing her tail as she bent to eat ravenously, maw stained red. She painted a fearsome picture, and indeed if Unzu pushed his luck, she'd tear his head off faster than Akinyi could lunge at him.
She perked her ears up suddenly, hearing something else chewing at the carcass, and stood up to glare at Unzu, furious. "Hey! Get out of here! This is MY kill!" she snarled, climbing onto the kill to lunge at him, claws extended, fangs bared. No way in hell was some wimpy little rogue lion without a pride going to take away the food that was saving her life.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:17 am
Unzu jerked back instinctively, licking his chops and grinning at her, totally suave, his bright green eyes popping out in the darkness. "Sorry, sorry! I just wanted a taste... you really caught a big one, eh?" he teased, taking generous steps back. "I'm pretty hungry myself, sorry. It looked too good to pass up."
He assumed a solemn demeanor as he looked over her, though inwardly he was pleased. Yes, she was a fine specimen, and Akinyi didn't need to know if he was going to have a romp with her. He already had a companion for the season, but for tonight, that he did not...
Clearly, his former statement that it looked too good to pass up applied to Iana as well.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:15 pm
Iana stared at the dark lion, semi-enraged at his gall. Not only was he acting as if it were okay to steal from her kill, but he was sizing her up as well? Who did this guy think he was?! She snarled, lunging at him to give him a piece of her mind, sinking her claws into him and biting the back of his neck in a way remarkably similar to Akinyi.
"Get out of here, you a**! There's nothing for you here besides my fangs in your throat if you don't move off as soon as possible!" she leapt away, not without a final swipe, and glared at Unzu fiercely, standing by her kill. Honestly, what was the world coming to when a lion, even one so much larger than herself, thought he could eat her meat and then try and get something else?!
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:19 pm
As the night fully settled around Unzu and Iana, the dark lion, bleeding and shocked, stood staring at Iana several feet from the kill where she'd chased him off, green eyes focused on her. He wasn't shocked that she'd come after him, but the way she'd attacked him had been so strikingly familiar that he couldn't shake the sense that she was somehow related to Akinyi.
"Hey.. you don't know any lionesses by the name of Akinyi, do you?" he chanced, ignoring her warnings to be off or she'd send him packing. Just like Akinyi, he had weight on her, and she was perhaps more slender of bone than Akinyi even. If she was related to Akinyi, they could not be full relatives. He had a sinking feeling in his breast now, for it was clear that she'd seen through his intentions to seduce her.
Oh man, if Akinyi found out and they were sisters or something... he would be dead, wouldn't he?
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:23 pm
Iana stared back at him, her lips pulled back in a snarl, hackles raised, claws extended. She'd rip a piece of of his hide if he didn't start moving soon. As he spoke, she almost went after him right then, but then she paused to listen to his words, flicking her ears back. Her eyes widened as he mentioned Akinyi, blinking at him disbelievingly, and her facade dropped, fur smoothing out, assuming a surprised expression.
"Who are you?" she demanded. "How do you know Akinyi? Is she around here?" Iana glared at him, coming towards him. She and her half-sister had not parted on the best of terms but admittedly Iana missed her, and it rather bugged her that this annoyance of a male might know her or somehow be involved with her. She doubted it, Akinyi didn't put up with this sort of crap, if her leaving in a huff had been any indication.
"You'd better spit it out or I'll chase you down and MAKE you tell me," Iana threatened, but as Unzu had observed, her bark was bigger than her bite.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:25 pm
Unzu pinned back his ears, taking a few hurried steps back as Iana made it pretty clear that she knew Akinyi, and definitely wanted to know about her. Perhaps this was not a friend or relative at all, but a dire enemy? There was no way that Unzu would give information about her to someone that wanted to hurt her.
"You'll have to fight me for it, I'm afraid. I won't let you hurt her," he stared her down defiantly, throwing his shoulders back in the proper lion-gonna-eatchu pose.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:29 pm
The peach-colored lioness couldn't believe her ears. This male wanted to protect Akinyi? True, he was larger than her, but with his demeanor she couldn't see Akinyi putting up with her for terribly long, and she set her jaw, wondering if he was lying or something. Oh, she'd get that information out of him, whether or not he posed and preened like that, there was no way she'd pass up an opportunity to find out if her sister was all right, as much as she'd come to miss her in these past several months.
"You idiot!! She's my half-sister, I don't want to hurt her!" she snarled, lashing her tail. "I am sure that I care more about her than you ever could, so you'd best tell me where she is now. I don't know if you managed to capture or seduce her or what, but the Akinyi I know would never spend time with someone like you." Iana used cutting words, furious with him, and a bit jealous if it were true that Akinyi had fallen in with him.
Now that the light was gone she could see better, and all in all he was a fine specimen, but that unbearable personality completely negated any interest she might have had. Might Akinyi have weakened on her lonesome travels, to have fallen in with a creature like him? She had to know.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:33 pm
Man, there was that sinking feeling again. So it was true, they were related. Akinyi must never know that he'd hit on her half-sister. He had to get away now. Unzu almost turned to run but her words called his mind back to the present and he stared at her, infuriated by her implication that he was not good enough for her half-sister, and stood his ground, growling in his chest, the sound deep and gravelly, narrowing his eyes. Even if she was a woman, that sort of talk was inexcusable.
"Akinyi is my mate, and I have been taking awesome care of her. I don't think you know what you are talking about and I would kindly ask you to keep your ignorant opinions to yourself. Akinyi has not once mentioned you to me in the time I have known her, so perhaps it is you that could not care less about her," he sniffed, turning his back on her, intending to head back even if it was empty-handed so he could go baww at Akinyi's side without telling her that he'd met her sister.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:01 pm
Iana felt a blade of ice slip into her chest at the way that the male dared to speak to her, assuming that she, a blood relative, was on poorer terms with Akinyi than he, a stranger of deplorable personality and manners. She glared at him, drawing in a few slow breaths, unable to believe that he would say such things to her, and lunged forward to walk with him, furious.
"I'm going with you and taking her back, then," Iana growled, giving him a defiant look, daring him to defy her. She'd sooner bite him than look at him and would be a difficult travel partner, and as soon as she found Akinyi she'd tell her just how this brute male had hit on her and had the audacity to tell her she knew her sister less well than he did. It was all a despicable situation and she would put it to rights.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:04 pm
Unzu jerked, stunned as she joined him, shaking his head. "There's no way you're coming back with me. Akinyi is mine," he informed her, annoyed at her forwardness, and bared his teeth at her. He'd made a terrible mistake in approaching her at all and hoped he'd be able to rectify it soon, it was killing him. He couldn't have Iana come back and tell her how he'd hit on her, why, Akinyi would be furious!! He'd just gotten her trust and now, with this, it could all be ruined.
He stopped walking. "...don't. Please. I... I really love her," he lowered his head, shamed. "I don't want to lose her, so, if I take you back.. please don't... tell her." He was prostrating himself before this wretch, it was killing him, but he had to protect his interests. Specifically Akinyi. He fully intended on keeping her and this female couldn't mess that up, blood relative or not.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:07 pm
He really wasn't garnering her sympathy here. HIs attitude was so infuriating, she'd almost promise him not to say anything and then betray him just to get Akinyi out of here. Clearly he was an a*****e and not worthy, not worthy at all. Iana growled, thinking as they stood there, and finally seemed to relent. She eyed Unzu, annoyed, then sat down. There were plenty of ways to skin the cat.
"Fine. I won't say anything to her," she looked away sullenly. "I just really want to see her. I won't go ******** up your attempts to ruin her life." Iana sighed, pinning back her ears. It wasn't so difficult to lie, now was it? At that, she got up and started off, as if she could do without him if he wouldn't take her back and find Iana on her own, and knew that he would hasten to be in control.
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