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 Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:17 pm
 Kinang looked behind her. Her sister had found a group of meerkats to preach to; not that the meerkats were paying attention, but Pinakip would go on preaching to them, expounding on how powerful her father was and how she served him as his prophet on the land.
Pinakip really believed that their father was a god. That supposedly explained his absence their whole lives. Kinang thought her mother got duped by a wanderer who was willing to take advantage of a lonely hyena.
Her sister was imbalanced, which was why Kinang spent so much time keeping an eye on her. But as long as she was occupied preaching, Kinang could find some time for herself.
Trotting along, Kinang looked around for somewhere to take a short nap.
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:22 pm
Kuiba was lying on his back on the grass, a vulnerable position to most but he wasn't concerned. He had swiped a necklace from a cheetah earlier that day, but had dropped it along the way, unconcerned with keeping the trinket. He had just wanted to take something from the dumb girl who was fair too easily tricked. He'd probably left it in a place that she'd find it again, though it had not been his intention. If she found it again, he didn't really care.
Now he was resting. Or not really resting. Just, lying about. His aunt would call him lazy. He liked to think he was concerving energy for something far more important, though he had nothing of importance to actually do now or later. Either way, she wasn't around to complain, so he didn't have to care what she'd think.
He heaved a sigh as he flopped to the side, still sprawled in the grass.
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:03 pm
Nosing around for a soft spot, she found something she hadn't been expecting; a necklace. Obviously someone had lost it (odd that the string wasn't broken though).
Kinang looked back toward her sister. She was pretty sure there would be enough time to find the owner of the necklace and take a nap. She gathered it up in her teeth and started smelling. Another hyena? Male. Odd. She hadn't expected a male to wear a necklace like this.
Kinang followed the scent anyway, walking for several minutes until she came upon a blue and brown hyena flopped over the grass. She spat out the necklace.
"Hello, there. I think I found your necklace?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:25 pm
Kuiba tensed as he heard someone approaching and rolled onto his stomach, so he could be prepared if it was some angry soul who he had stolen from, but instead, he blinked. It was a rather pretty hyena female. He'd never seen someone with that much yellow on them before and quickly scrambled to his feet, not out of want to fight, but in an attempt to be polite...kind of. Kuiba didn't really know how to be polite, but hey, he was trying?
His eyes widened at the sight of the necklace that he'd stolen. He thought he'd ditched it pretty well. "It ain't mine," he muttered, shoulders hunched in a familiar defensive gesture. "Never seen it b'fore in my life." What a lie, he'd stolen it and ditched it, but he couldn't really tell this female that.
"Nice of yeh to try 'nd return it to it's owner, though," He added, awkwardly.
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:04 pm
"It's just what anyone would do," Kinang replied, but looked puzzled.
"That's odd. You must have walked right over it and not even noticed. Your scent's all over it."
She pawed at the necklace again. "I wonder whose it is. I haven't seen anyone around. Well, except for my sister and the meerkats she's preaching too. I guess I'll just leave it somewhere visible once she's done."
Kinang looked over her shoulder. She didn't hear any commotion, so Pinakip hadn't gotten herself into trouble yet. Good. She enjoyed talking to someone . . . sane.
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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:23 pm
Kuiba didn't believe that. If he found a stolen or lost object, he wouldn't look for it's owner. He'd just leave it there. That is what anyone would do. Not many bothered to return things, especially not tjhose like him.
"Must've," he muttered, shifting awkwardly. Well, he didnt' really want her to figure out he was the jerk who'd stolen it and then ditched it, so he changed the subject, latching onto her other comment. "Yer sister? Why's she preachin' to meerkats? They's useless things, only good fer chasing," he grumbled, the way he spoke becoming more obvious that he wasn't that educated as a pup.
"Should try preachin' to bigger folk, if she's gonna preach at all. At least they got the brains t'listen."
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:14 am
Kinang shifted uncomfortably. Her sister was not what she wanted to talk about to a sane hyena, even if he did talk like he was from the back of beyond. She talked enough about her sister when the creatures that had to endure her meandering looked to the quiet one for explanation.
"She preaches to pretty much anything that will listen. Anything. Including the clouds. And bushes. And the rain. She's a bit deranged. Okay, she's a lot deranged. She thinks our father was a god."
Kinang paused for a minute, trying to decide how much to tell him. She might as well just explain the whole thing now.
"Our mother lived alone. And one night during the storm she was . . . visited by a hyena who claimed to be a god. He said if there were pups they would be his scions on Earth. Or something like that. And, well, my mother's a bit odd too. So she raised us to think we were his prophets or something. But I've never met a hyena god, so it had to be just some wanderer looking to take advantage of a crazy female out on her own."
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:49 pm
Kuiba listened to her words, slightly surprised at the ease in telling him her story. She seemed reluctant, but still she told him. Huh. He wondered why, but still, he was curious to hear her story anyway. His face fell into a frown as she spoke. A hyena god? He didn't even believe in other types of gods, except maybe the goddess of creation, he couldn't imagine people who actually believed in that kind of junk. He was glad that he hadn't met her sister first, to be honest, he'd probably have thought she was outright crazy and left as quickly as he could.
He supposed that he understood her reasoning though, of how someone could be tricked into believing that. “Why didn'tchu think that too? Yer raised by yer parents beliefs, and you only had yer mum, so why didn't you believe her words to?” He said. She said she'd never met a hyena god, but did that mean that she had once believed it to, or had she always been the sensible one.
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:26 pm
Kinang thought for a moment. When she was very small, she had believed. But she stopped very quickly.
"When we were very little, and didn't even leave the den much, I think I believed. But as soon as we started to grow up, and occasionally saw the other creatures around and how they treated my mother, plus the fact that my father never returned for his scions kind of made me realize that my mom wasn't the ripest melon on the vine. I mean, she used to trade this ratel that came by all of the sea shells Pinakip and I collected for gourds full of honey to offer to my father. If he was a god, he would have come back, the way she worshipped him. But I learned that males wandered, and sometimes they don't care about their cubs. It happened to a cheetah that lived not far away. My mom and sister just wouldn't recognize the truth."
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:52 pm
Kuiba was not a sympathetic male normally. He didn't have much sympathy for dumb people and usually hated fools, but this female wasn't foolish or dumb, just her family. At least she wasn't foolish though. He nodded his head, knowing about males ditching pups. Then again, his mother had never told his dad about him, and he had just stumbled upon the elder male eventually, so he s'posed he knew what it was like growing up without a dad, but at least his mother was somewhat sane.
"Yer a good sister, takin' care of her even though you think she's crazy," he remarked, shoulders hunched. He sorta felt sorry for her, being stuck with that kinda burden.
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:34 pm
Kinang smiled at him. "Thank you for saying that. I try to help with what I can. And there is always that extremely, incredibly remote chance that she's right. Incredibly remote."
Kinang would like to have known her father. She feels that she missed out on what normal pups had, without him. But she didn't even know what he looked like. Neither her or her sister shared marking with their mother, and her mother could not recall clearly what her visitor had looked like. But it wasn't something to linger on.
"What about you? Any crazies you have to deal with?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:53 pm
Kuiba gave a somewhat awkward and crooked smile in return to hers. He didn't honestly smile often, but she was smiling at him, which didn't happen often either. “Very nice of ya,” he muttered, awkwardly as well. “Well, if ya ever find out yer dad's a god, put in a good word for me, yeh?” he said, with a crooked grin that was different than his smile, a little more predatory, though just as rare on his face.
“Crazies?” He repeated, with a short bark of laughter. He paused for a moment, before smirking a little. “Yeh could say that. My family's a bit...odd in our own right. S'just me 'n my dad, 'n my bitchy aunt. Ma's gone. I didn't know me dad until after Ma was gone.” He wanted her to understand that she wasn't alone in not knowing her dad, but at least he got to know him now, even if his aunt was ruining all his quality time with his dad.
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:17 pm
Kinang laughed a bit when Kuiba asked for a good word. "I'll do that, if I ever meet him. Even if he's mortal. He has to be at least clever enough to make a full grown hyena believe him. I'm sorry about your aunt though. Pinakip and I don't know any of our extended family."
Kinang wasn't sure she even wanted to know her extended family, considering half of them were probably nuts, and the other half either lying jerks or divine, depending on what you believed.
"If you don't mind me prying, why's your aunt such a . . . a b***h?"
It took her a moment to say the word. She always tried to be polite - which had been easier on the seashore then out in the wide world, but now that she was out in the wide world, she didn't want the sane hyenas to think she was putting on airs. She wanted to be normal, and not the scion of a god on earth. So she could curse occasionally.
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:24 pm
Kuiba nodded, thinking for a moment. “Or he's jus' a jerk,” he remarked dryly, before looking surprised at her sympathy over his family. Well, he was used to people just saying 'suck it up' and 'deal with it', so to hear that she was sorry about his aunt being less then pleasant. He seemed rather amused by her hesitation over swearing.
“She jus' is,” he said, struggling to explain why. “She do'sn't trust me. Thinks me dad did something dumb by takin' me in, and now she jus' 'spects the worst of me all the time.” He didn't tell her that his Aunt was actually right most of the time, but hey, he wasn't a saint, but as his aunt, he figures she should have believed in him anyway, like his dad sometimes tried to do.
“We spend most our time arguin', and dad just gets angry 'cause he always has to take her side else she'd just go 'round in a huff all the time.” A lie, he thought, but again, what this female didn't know, didn't really hurt her any.
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:44 am
Kinang looked visibly upset when Kuiba explained to her his family situation.
"Wow, that's awful that your family doesn't trust you! I mean, my sister think's I'm a heathen sometimes, but she trusts me and I know my mom would never side against her own kids. "
Kinang really didn't understand what kind of parent WOULD side against their own kids, even to placate an aunt.
"I could never treat my pups like that. I don't think much of your dad for always siding against you, or your aunt for just not liking you. She should learn to give people a chance."
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