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 Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:44 pm
Iana stretched her long legs, her fair fur blending in relatively well with the terrain as she bounded through the desert. She'd managed to get separated from the small hunting party she'd set out with, and was now out on her own, searching for trails, eager to take something down and bring it back in within the next few days. She wanted to go back to the cooler, shady halls of the temple and visit with her nephew. She wanted to hear the older lions speak wisdom and learn of their customs.
But she was still young and enjoying her youth, so this explosive energy out on the hunt was a good thing. She had yet to meet a lioness her own age among the Dawnwalkers, but she was hoping that among the huntresses she might make a friend, keeping her ears perked. Having a friend out here right now would be great, actually, to pin down a small herd of antelope somewhere upwind of her.
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:13 pm
Hunting. Her noble job. It was her duty to the pride, the reason she got up in the morning and went out into the desert. It was... Absolutely boring. Which would be why Anu was not hunting. Taking on her fathers much lazier attributes, the young lioness had stretched herself out into the sand on her back quite contently, a purr escaping her lips as the sun warmed her after spending a night on the chilly stones of the temple. She was thought to be a bad hunter but, really.. She was just kind of a lazy one. What was why she rarely actually came back with a catch. It's not like they NEEDED her catches, anyway. There were plenty of hunters. Let them go chasing through the desert.
Gray eyes rolled in annoyance as she shifted to drop onto her side, sprawling in the sand uncaring. The only one she couldn't fool was her dear identical twin. Him and his freaky all-knowing super powers. There was no lying to him when he 'saw' exactly what she did on her hunts.
Che...
Now her mood was ruined with that creepy feeling of someone watching her! Her tail thumped against the ground slowly a few times before she rolled over, blinking in surprise at the sight of a lioness in the distance. Well, may as well give him something interesting to watch...
She knew it was mean but... It was also horribly funny. Anu let her body go limp in the sand, and played dead for the lioness to find her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:53 am
Iana continued on, her long, powerful strides unbroken as she moved across the desert, a perfect machine of muscle and endurance now that she had gotten proper nutrition and fitness living among the Dawnwalkers. However, something caught her teal eyes, and she narrowed them, spotting a smudge in the near distance in front of her, in the sand of the desert.
She quirked an eyebrow, seeing how limp the body was, and how large. Carrion? She scanned the skies. No carrion birds or vultures stooped low to pick at the flesh of the carcass, if it was one. She frowned, cocking her head, slowing down and flaring her nostrils to catch a proper scent of it. Her blood fairly froze in her veins as the unmistakable scent of a lion entered her awareness, and she sped up, bounding forward. There was not yet the scent of decay, so the animal must be recently dead.
She was almost panicking as she came upon Anu, her ears turned forward, eyes wide, looking over her form. She looked healthy, though she was on her back, her eyes closed, her body limp. What had happened to her?
"Oh s**t! She's dead," Iana gasped in an undertone, backing off slightly, her skin crawling. Then she looked closer, noticing that there was a subtle rise and fall in the chest, and that indeed the lioness was still breathing and was in fact still alive.
She put her face close to the lioness's chest to hear her heartbeat, her eyes widening. Yes! This lioness was still alive. She jerked her head up and looked down at her.
"Hey! Are you ok?" she nudged her with a paw, her brow furrowed.
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:20 pm
A chuckle escaped her throat when she felt a paw nudging at her, one pale eye sliding open slowly to peer up to the lioness that was standing above her. She had to be new, she hadn't seen her around the temple before, but there had been many new faces coming and going as of late. Slowly Ra rolled onto her stomach to sit up properly and face the lioness she had tried to trick, looking over her curiously with a wide grin. " I have to give you some credit... You found out pretty fast that I was still alive. When I played that trick on my brothers they were halfway to reading my funeral rites! "
Ah, what a fun day that had been. Until her father found out.
She laughed out, hauling herself up to her paws, and trotting around the lioness in a circle as she shook off sand from her pelt. " You're new, right? Have to be. I haven't seen you before? Another huntress? "
Tutting out sadly at the other's misfortune of landing the same boring job as her, she finally stopped in front of the other again, giving her a rather exaggerated, sweeping bow. " I am Ra'hamanut! Huntress by unfortunate luck, trickster by happy choice. It's a pleasure to meet you, green-eyes. "
She said in a happy tone, her ears perking up curiously. " My I call you green-eyes? Your eyes are horribly green. "
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:46 pm
Iana froze as the lioness's eye opened, turning over, and she jerked back, rearing, backing and flicking her tail, her ears flattened back, eyes wide. "Mkodi's grace!" she gasped, shaking her head, as she realized that the lioness was consciouss, then blinked, narrowing her eyes as she realized it was a trick. She regarded the youngster with new wisdom, and eyed her.
She shook herself, straightening and arching her neck as the other lioness sized her up, looking over her pale, swirled fur and delicate proportions. "I am a huntress, proudly, for now. But I seek to gain another career here, perhaps a Priestess, to learn more about these gods of yours..." she told her primly, and smiled at the nickname green-eyes.
"Horribly green? Is that a compliment or an insult? You may call me Iana, or green-eyes, if it suits you, Ra'hamanut. Do you have a shorter name by which I may call you?" she grinned. "Anu, perhaps?" she guessed, quirking and eyebrow.
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