As the sun warmed her, Huong lay on her back, enjoying the sun's radiance. As she stretched, she heard a rustling, and couldn't help but smile. "Luyu, I know you're there... Silly girl!" She looked over at some grass, watching the pink hiding behind it. Or trying to hide behind it. It was rather hard to hide with a mop of pink on your head, as she'd already learned herself. When one was hunting, this could prove problematic. Her prey tended to see her, unless she hunted at night. Then only the white streaks would show up, which was at least wonderful.
The juvenile cringed, sheepishly stepping out of the grass. "Aw, was I that obvious...?" If she wanted to pounce Rajeev, she had to get better at stalking! Sitting next to her mother, the cream-colored juvenile tilted her head. "Why do you do that, Mama? And how do you not fall asleep?" She looked up at the sky, watching a puffy cloud float by. It was a rather cute cloud, in fact. She couldn't place her pa on it, but she figured it looked a bit like a... Flying bunny? Or was it some freaky lion-thing? Either way, it was a cute cloud.
Rolling onto her side, the dark lioness laughed lightly at her daughter's inquiries. "I do it because it's a good way to relax. And I'm not falling asleep, because you're talking to me." She stretched her paws out, flexing her toes. "So, tell me, why are you stalking me? I can't be THAT interesting to stalk.. Or hard." Everybody who wasn't absolutely and purely innocent in mind and heart tended to have an ulterior motive for things they did. Or they were too oblivious to have an ulterior motive. And Luyu was neither purely innocent nor oblivious.
The cream lioness looked as innocently as she could at the sky. "Oh, no reason... I just wanna get good at hunting, that's all!" And, of course... Pounce on her baby 'sister'. But she wasn't going to tell her mother THAT much. "I wanna be able to pull my weight in the pride when I get big enough, and I can't do THAT if I can't stalk!" She smiled at her mother, trying to maintain the innocent look. She let out a bit of a sound of displeasure as her puff of pink mane fell in her face. The juvenile frowned, trying to brush it back. "Back, hair, back!"
She couldn't help it, Huong laughed at the fight her daughter was having with her hair. The lioness leaned over, grooming the hair back. When she was sure it was in place and not going anywhere, she lay back, smiling at the juvenile. "I see... So, this has nothing to do with your little sister, Rajeev?" She'd watched Luyu, she enjoyed tormenting her poor sister. Then again, that cub really needed to let go of the delusion of being a boy... Her cubs were all girls! Not a boy to be found! "You know she doesn't like you doing that, Luyu, and you know we don't like you doing that, either.. What will the boys think of you when you get older?"
Her ears perked in surprise, before laying back as she smiled sheepishly at her mother, a blush rising under her cream and white face to blend with the pink streak on her nose. "Was it that obvious...?" She went over, curling up in her mother's paws. "Why can't I pounce on others? Who knows, maybe I'll use it to get a boy!" If she found one. Thanks to her mother's views, she had yet to think she met a single non-adolescent or adult male. "I can pounce on him, we'll roll a little, and I'll pin him and call him mine!"
Huong erupted into laughter, finding her daughter's plan utterly adorable. "And what if he says he doesn't want to be yours? Then what?" She poked her daughter with a paw, tickling her. "Surely you'll find a boy some other way! Maybe charm him with your girlish ways, if you can find them." She ruffled Luyu's hair tuft, smiling at her. "If you pounce them, they might run off! I almost jumped your father... Imagine how things would have come out if I had... We'd never be here, likely!" Granted, she was being driven by fear at the time...
Luyu rolled onto her back, batting her paws at her mother's paw. "Then I'll kick his tail and sit on him!" Catching her mother's paw, she hugged it, smiling at her. "Besides, first I gotta meet a boy!" One ear flicked, amusement in her blue eyes. Her father's eyes, very much. Wiggling, she grinned wide. "I don't think they'd run away, they'd feel challenged that a girl is pouncing on them! What boy wants to be beat up by a girl?" It was true, what boy DID want that? She wanted to meet a bout who would be able to put up with her!
The dark lioness pulled her paw away, before leaning down and grooming her daughter. She was just so dirty! Why did she have to play in the dirt so much? It was making a bad image of a tomboy of a girl, and it ruined her pretty fur! "But what boy will fight a girl? Boys are raised to be good boys and not lay a paw on girls. At least here..." There'd been no boys back home until the marauders came and took over. It had frightened her enough to run away. She'd left behind her sister, and the only life she knew. She didn't regret it, though.
Luyu let out a bit of a huff, laying there for her bath. When her mother finished, she was up and on her paws. "Well then if he won't fight back, he's not worth my time!" Flicking her tail, she gave her mother a bit of a hmph. "I'll find one, just you wait and see!" She heard a rustling in the distance, and turning for it, she grinned. "I got somethin' to stalk!" Bounding off into the grass, she was soon off into huntress mode.
Huong let out a laugh, watching her daughter go. "Oh. Luyu..." She sighed, then rolled back onto her back. The sun was high and warm on her belly, and she was simply into relaxing right now. With Dongo playing cubsitter for the day, she wanted this opportunity to rest.
