[prp] Oh..... (Mtima and Roko)

[Kimaria]

This was really confusing.

Even Rokopelli, Goddess of Confusion, had never been this confused in her whole entire life! Life confused her. People confused her. Strange occurances confused her. But...this was just...just HORRIBLE!!

She and Silos could really not figure out what was wrong with her. She still had her appetite. In fact...she was getting rather fat now and despite that, she couldn't help but want more food. Roko had always been petite and slender but now she was most certainly bulging at the middle. She wasn't sure why it bothered her so much to lose her figure but...well...what if Silos didn't like podge? Would he decide he wanted to get another girlfriend? Or would he make her do more exerciseeeee?

Nooooo....

She couldn't think of anything worse than walking or flying or doing anything but lying down in the shade right now.

Most would probably call her a baby and just to get on with it. But the truth was that Rokopelli had not really ever been ill. She'd occasionally eaten something that disagreed with her or fallen on her head during a bad landing attempt. But that had passed quickly enough and she bounced back unscathed. But...this was so different. It had started of with light-headedness and nausea, and though that had passed, she couldn't seem to control her mood swings, or her eating, or stop herself from feeling so tired.

And yes, despite Rokopelli's split personality, the mood swings had been rather more...poignant recently.

And she felt bad for Silos and she felt bad for her, both of hers that was.

"Ohhhhh...we don't feel goooood." She whimpered quietly to herself. "Where's Silos with our dinnerrrrr?"  

[Kimaria]

It would not be long before the other young adolescent would come across Rokopelli. She'd either see or hear her, by the way the other young Goddess was carrying on.

Her rainbow wings flailed as she tried to right herself, and, with a grown she pulled herself up into a sitting position. It wasn't exactly comfortable to lie on her stomach any more, which was very sad, because she liked to lie sphinx-like on the sand with her head raised to the sun so that the warmth could kiss her face. Now she had to sit awkwardly lop-sided or lie sprawled out like a dead thing on her side.

And as she settled, her wings flared briefly before coming to rest more carefully at her pale, sandy sides.

"Ouch!" Her stomach suddenly seemed to spark with pain.

"Look what you've done now, Roko!! Why'd you not lie still? Now we're hurting again!"

She sniffled. "Not my fault. We can't stay sat here all day you know..."

"Why not?"

"Because..."

"Because why?"

"Just because..."

The goddess fell silent, seeming to have ended the argument with herself, and then she slumped a little, ears drooping. She looked utterly miserable and she wasn't finding herself very good company at all.

Where was Siloooooos?!!?!  

[Kimaria]

Rokopelli grumbled to herself, almost as if finding comfort in some sort of sound. "If Silos doesn't get back with foodses for us soon...we're not going to last!" A little exaggeration but something the rather childish Goddess most certainly believed. After all, she wouldn't be the first lioness to die from starvation! Ughhh what a terrible way to go!

"Pelli!" The other half said. "We've got company! Shh a minute!"

"Don't tell me to 'shh', Roko! Wait, company? Who is it? Have they got food?" Her ears picked up, bi-coloured eyes brightening suddenly with interest. Her nose worked curiously at the air but...it didn't appear like the other had any food. What a shame...

"Ummmm..." She said, personalities merging for a moment. "Okay...? Are we okay? Yes...no..."

"Yes!"

"No!"

...

"Guess not..." She finished finally. "We're very hungry. Dying of starvation! Silos has gone away to get foodses. Not back yet. Been agesssss!" She whimpered. "Don't feel good...not going to last much longer, we don't think."  

[Kimaria]

She may have mastered her powers. Her personalities were no longer warring with each other - well, not as badly as they had been - and yet she was still the same childlike creature she had always been.

The world an adventure, a game, and she taking it in with wide-eyed innocence, much like her boyfriend.

Could it be blamed on their elements? Youth and Confusion certainly weren't easy things to deal with in life, that was for certain. But there was nothing that said Confusion had to be childish. Had to be so...innocent. She should have known, but...there had been no one to teach her about the birds and the bees or what it was like...being...pregnant.

"Are you the Goddess of Food?" Rokopelli chirped, somewhat randomly. "You could make a nice zebra just 'pop' out of nowhere!!" How awesome would that be?! Really, REALLY awesome!!  

[Kimaria]

"Ahh..." She sounded a little sad at that. It would have been brilliant if she could have made food appear. She supposed she could maybe seek out nearby prey by locating their minds and luring them closer...but she didn't even have the energy to do that, now-a-days. All she liked to do was laze around in the shade and eat when food was brought.

No flying. No walking. No hunting. No doing anything!! Although, for a Goddess who had been moving from place to place since breaking free from her imprisonment, waking up to the same old landscape was becoming a little bit of a frustration...

An ear tipped. God of Predators? Now that would be cool! What a useful domain to have! She purred agreeably, clearly interested in meeting this other God.

But, what was wrong? What did she stop mid-sentence like that, for?

She jumped at the other's excited squeak, ears bolt upright now. What, babies? Really? Where?

She glanced over both shoulders, a look of utter confusion on her face. "Babies? Where? We don't eat babies!! That'd be mean and we're not mean!" Her ears drooped again.  

[Kimaria]

The first emotion to register was surprise. Absolute surprise! But then the surprise faded, to be replaced by an expression Rokopelli often wore. Confusion. The confused look slowly became blank and then, after another long moment, the blank look became confused again. A few blinks following, the confusion still remained and didn't seem ready to shift just yet.

"Did we hear correctly?" She whispered. "We thinkses so. But...but..."

Another long pause and then she laughed, looking slightly embarrassed. "Nooo, we're just greedy." She thumped her tail gently against the ground. Clearly she was not getting this whole pregnant thing. "Not been feeling well lately...not at all."
 

[Kimaria]

Rokopelli wasn't sure how to take this news. Not at all. Part of her thought that this couldn't be true! After all, how did they get there in the first place? She touched a paw to her swelling stomach, tipping her head to one side; curious. She had not known her birth mother long enough to know about these things and then her adoptive mother also had not had the opportunity in which to tell her. And most of her life so far had been spent amongst mortals, interfering and helping with their lives. And mortals weren't about to explain how cubs were made to a deity, were they?

Besides that, she'd never actually thought to ask! And...why had this happened now? Oh...was it something to do with Silos? After all, it hadn't been that long ago that they had proclaimed their love for one another.

And then she snapped out of her reverie, blinking and smiling like an idiot. "Two? But...but how do you know? How do you know they're there?"

She couldn't see them. She couldn't tell... "We can't see them..." Well, if the fat wasn't far but cubs, then she guessed she could see them. But how did one know that's what it was?  

[Kimaria]

Goddess of Souls? What an interesting and magical thing? Such concepts were far beyond Rokopelli's reach of understanding, but she knew enough to know that this female certainly wasn't lying. Mtima-safi knew.

And now tears were filling her eyes. Tears of joy. Tears of disbelief. She had watched others raising a family, watched cubs play and grow and learn but she never thought - never in a million years - that she would get a chance to raise new lives. New souls. If she thought on this more - which she would later - perhaps she would be freaked out. The responsibility. The fear that she might turn out as bad a mother as her own mother had been. The fear about childbirth and what to do...

But right now, she was overwhelmed. It had come as such a shock. Such a surprise and right now her heart felt fit to burst.

"Another? Oh, oh, you mean Silos? Yep!" She fluttered her wings with delight at thinking of him. "He's our boyfriend!"

In all the excitement she had forgotten to introduce herself, but she would remember before this meeting was over.