A Backdated RP before Baako joined the A'M.
The grey lioness padded across the plains, her heart and thoughts heavy, and her stomach light. The childless mother was ghosting across the lands, cries for long-since dead cubs still coming from her weakened frame. She had no destination set in her mind, and she even considered the release of death above her, though she did wish for it. Her world was an empty one. Her travels were such that she hardly noticed where her path was taking her, or who she would find on it.
Another lioness, tan and gold, also sauntered across the plains. She too, was a mother, but more similar still. This other lioness bore the same weight of a lost cub, but her hunger was of altruistic sacrifice for her two remaining daughters. And the third that the father took from her? Well, she didn't much cross her mind. Presumably, it was another sort of punishment from karma, and she had enough to deal with. Hyun had purpose to her roaming. Her daughters were weaned and now would cry only for fresh meat, and with that, Hyun was on her way.
It took her a few moments to recognize the grey and green as something other than flora, and even longer still to realize it was another lioness. She skidded to a halt, her pale toes digging into the dirt and automatically assuming a crouched position, shoulders rolling through the grasses, paws grasping at the soil, and red eyes gleaming and glinting between weaving blades.
Automatically, Baako's subconscious realized the potential threat before the rest of her did, her white and pink ears turning like sentinels warning her of company and slowly, almost drowsily, the rest of her head followed, her crimson eyes dulled and her face unkempt and grizzled. She stopped in her tracks and assumed no other posture. Her tail hung slack and her legs held her upright like stiff pillars. Weakly, she called out, "Hello?"
