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 Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:49 pm
Cealdia... No Kurogoke now... She was going to have to get use to her name change. She had lived with being called Cealdia all her life, and now it was something new. This was a strange place, but it was perfect for her. She smiled as she was exploring all the nooks and crannies that she could get herself into. The place was amazing. She was a curious type, even if she was slightly shy.
Some would see her as cub-like at times. Then again, she didn't really know how to act like a total adult. She liked having fun. Mostly only by herself. She didn't have very many friends, after all. She smiled to herself as she started to try to climb under a fallen down log. Instead, she had gotten herself stuck. Instead of trying to back up, she was trying to dig her way threw. Though damp dirt, and leaves weren't exactly the best things to use when trying to get unstuck.
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:19 pm
 Lennox had been on his way to his favorite spot when he stumbled upon the adult lioness. He hadn't really stumbled upon her so much as he saw her from a distance and decided to creep up on her quietly to see what exactly she was doing. When he got within view he noticed she was trapped underneath a log, keeping him from being able to get to his favorite mud place. Sure he could have gone around her, but than it kept him from being able to 'enter the threshold' as it were. His favorite part of going to his favorite mud patch was because he got to crawl through the damp earth under the log, getting him ready for his activities.
Noticing her struggling to dig through under the log, he decided to approach. He had never seen her before, but he also hadn't been allowed out of the den much, at least not very far, up until the last week or so. Chances were he probably didn't know her. Pitter pattering up to Kurogoke, he tilted his head to her and blinked, "I think you're stuck."
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:42 pm
She stopped moving at once. Someone had spoken to her.... Was it the log? She looked around, but couldn't really see anyone. She was trying to find a big creature, not a cub of course. "Who... Who said that?" She was embarrassed that someone had noticed she was stuck. There was mud all over her gray and purple fur on her legs and belly. Some on her face. Her claws were out and dug into the ground, for she was about to try to get threw it again before the other had spoken.
Surely she was being silly, she had heard nothing. She started to move again. This time in more desperation then before. Why couldn't she get through? Her butt wasn't that big... Or was it? She felt herself moving just a tiny bit, but then she was just getting herself more stuck. "This..... Isn't..... working..." She said to herself, and finally stopped moving again. Trying to figure something else out... She looked to the spot where the log had caught her. Glaring at it, then looking about again.
Finally her eyes fell upon the cub.... She froze again.
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:59 pm
Lennox watched the silly woman before him who was struggling underneath the fallen tree branch and didn't seem to notice that it was him who was speaking and not the log. He simply continued to watch her and when she finally did notice his presence, he smiled.
"The mud is eating you. It must think you're tasty," Lennox commented, giving her another smile and approaching where she was stuck, pawing at the dirt the best he could to try and pry it from underneath her. "I can help keep the mud from eating you."
Lennox gave the strange lioness another smile as he dug his paws into the ground to help make more room for her to wiggle through. The little male could practically blend in to the dense foliage of the swamplands, and it didn't help that most of him was covered in mud, considering it was his favorite toy. The only thing that really made him stand out against the backdrop of his home was his light colored eyes, so strikingly brilliant in comparison to his fur and the greenery that they almost looked stark white instead of the really light silver that they truly were.
"What's your name? My mommy named me Lennox."
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:41 am
She didn't say anything. The shock of another actually being there was still slowly in effect. She watched him start to dig at the mud to get her out. It took her a few seconds before she was back to moving. More desperate attempts to get herself free. This will be the last time she goes under a log. Well, probably not, but still. Finally, with a little effort, and the cubs help. She managed to pop out of the hole. Though, she wasn't expecting it to let her loose. She fell into the mud with a splat.
She'd never heard someone say that mud was eating something. Mud couldn't eat, now that she thought of it. She looked to the cub and gave a weak smile. "Thanks." She said quietly. She wasn't as shy as she would have been if it was an adult. "I'm Cea..... No... Kurogoke." She was so use to the other name. Darn her for being use to it!
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:16 am
"Kurogoke? Kurogoke. Ku-ro-go-ke," Lennox repeated, letting the name roll on his tongue for a while, deciding whether or not it suited him to keep saying it. He was a silly little cub, to say the least. He wasn't unstable, or off in his mind, he was just a little more quirky than the normal lion or lioness tended to be.
"You should be careful of the mud. It gets hungry sometimes and tries to eat you," He said, giving a nod. It was his explanation for why some of the cubs and older lions end up dying because they get sucked into the mud and can't manage to get themselves out in time. "My brother almost got eaten by the mud, but than Daddy got him out."
"Aside from that mud is nice and fun," He said with a smile, and approached her to spatter about in the mud she had fallen into. "I haven't seen Kurogoke around before. Do you hide all the time?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:59 am
She wasn't sure to laugh, or take him seriously. So instead, she just stared at him. It was best not to laugh at someone younger then you when you didn't understand what they were saying. She was more afraid of fallen down logs for the moment. At least this one. It was small, and looked like she could get under it. She eyed it again. Then looked back at the cub. "Oh no, I'm new" She said with a smile.
She wasn't ashamed of being new. Or perhaps she should be, she wasn't sure if that was a good thing in the pride. She smiled at the cub. She didn't know if she could hide for too long. She loved to wonder around.
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:14 pm
"New?" Lennox asked, quirking his head to the side, a word that was foreign to him. He had always believed that everyone that was currently in the pride had been there since forever. The fact he was meeting someone 'new' was a little exciting. It meant they could be his friend before everyone else decided they wanted to be her friend.
He gave Kurogoke a pleasant smile, "You must not have any friends if you're new, Kurogoke. I'll be your friend if you'd like."
It was sweet and mildly charming for the little gray cub to be offering to be the friend to the adult lioness. A fanciful little proposition from a fanciful little cub.
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:21 pm
She thought about that. No, she didn't have any friends. Apart from Poa... Or whatever his new name was. He was nice and stuff. She didn't know him well enough to call him a friend though. She smiled at the cub and nodded. "Indeed you're right." She supposed it was a bad thing not having any friends. "You... want me as a friend?" She'd never had anyone want to be her friend. Hell, she never had anyone who was willing enough to stick around and try to help her out of her own messes. Like the log thing... With thinking about it, she glanced back at the long.
She wasn't sure what to say to that, as she looked back at the cub. She wanted at least one friend, but would they look down at her for having a cub as a friend? She wasn't sure. "If it's okay for me to be friends with you." She said with a nod. A friend was a friend, and she wasn't going to pass up that. Even if she was shy, she needed at least one. Plus, cubs were more fun anyways. Most adults where so serious. She wondered if once he became an adult if he would become just like them. Or end up being more like her? She hoped more like her. There needed to be more that weren't so serious.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:25 am
Lennox nodded to Kurogoke, his little tail swaying side to side pleasantly as they spoke, "Of course it's ok to be my friend. You're in our pride now!"
The cub's innocence and limited knowledge of the world made him an interesting friend, to say the least. Imaginative, he would find them loads of things to do and interesting ways of playing. He figured that adults played just like the cubs did, since he didn't know otherwise. His father played with them the way cubs did, after all.
"We'll be the best friends, ever. And everyone will be jealous because they'll want to be our friends," Lennox smiled, nodding as he spoke. He was sure everyone would want to be their friends when they saw how much fun the two would have.
"Just make sure to be careful," Lennox added as he eyed the log behind Kuogoke, "I don't want my new friend being eaten by the mud."
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:51 pm
Cealdia nodded at him. Well that was good. She didn't want to get into trouble for something like that. If the cub said it was okay, she was incline to believe him. She smiled at him. He seemed to be super happy to have her as a friend. It made her feel better about herself. Someone actually wanted to be her friends.
She tilted her head. "I'm sure the mud wouldn't like the taste of my fir..." She said with a nod. "But those logs, those logs are another story." She added. Sure they weren't alive anymore, but it had trapped her.
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:39 pm
"The logs can be very mean," Lennox nodded, eyeing the log pensively incase it decided to go on the offensive once again. You could never tell with the mud and the logs. Sometimes they wanted to be your friends, offering you shelter or a cool substance to play in, and than other times they wanted to be your enemies, falling on your head, eating your siblings, hurting people. They were tricksters.
"Do you want to go play somewhere safer, Kurogoke?" Lennox asked, a hopeful look on his face, "Or, or maybe we can go see my mom. She might have food with her!"
Lennox didn't quite understand yet that a lioness Kurogoke's size could potentially eat more than his siblings combined, but he figured that since they were friends now that he should invite her over for some din-din. It's what friends did, wasn't it?
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:30 pm
She thought about it for a second, she was hungry, but she didn't want to intrude on his families meals. She smiled at the young cub. "maybe next time, kiddo." She said with a nod. "I think I should go find something to help me get this mud off." It was starting to dry, and it was becoming uncomfortable. She had seen a water hole not far from here. Well, at least, water was present. If she could get most the mud off, she'd be able to clean the rest of her pretty easily.
"How about another time?" She asked him. Even though she wasn't sure if intruding on his family affairs was something she'd do. Maybe meet his mother, but not eat their food. She'd be able to find her own.
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