[PRP] Waiting for Her {Harith & Imarogbe} ~ [Complete]

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Imarogbe sat at the mouth of the den. Moments before, he had been relaxing with his mother, but she had left to go hunt for them, leaving him to himself. The sun high in a afternoon sky, his brothers were out playing just beyond the den, and he had opted to lay inside in the shade by his mother’s side. The little cub respected and looked up to his father, but he favored his mother. Her fiery energy and witty personality kept him at her side. He sat nonchalantly, trying not to look like he was waiting for his mother to return. Ima didn’t want his brothers catching him unaware and teasing him for being so attached to Afsar. Spotting one of his brothers playing not to far away, he trotted over to Harith. “How long do you think they’ll be gone?” Ima casually asked, barely resisting the urge to pounce on his brother’s twitching tail.  

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Imarogbe huffed to himself, his brother wasn’t much help. Harith had always seemed rather absent-minded to him. He stared briefly up at the glaring sun, but quickly looked away least it burn his eyes. Eyeing around him, he tried to find what Harith had been up to without success. Staring off into the distance one last time, he gave up pining for his mother and turned his attention fully to his brother. “What are you doing anyway?”, he inquired curiously.

Ima was still amused at having startled his brother, he had noticed the fur on him slowly settling back down against his skin, and he fleetingly considered teasing him about it. Suddenly spotting the bright yellow feather, he wondered aloud, “Where did you get that from?” He batted at it as the wind carried it over his head.  

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His eyes widening slightly, and he immediately hid his reaction from his brother. Ima’s tail flicked back and forth in excitement. As strongly as felt against giving any of his brothers credit for actually having a good idea...it was a good idea and it sounded like a lot of fun. Even though he hadn’t actually been asking after their mother because he was hungry, it was a good way to pass the time, and besides, Harith didn’t need to know that.

Glancing around the area around, attempting to look uninterested, he wondered where one would go about finding small creatures to hunt. Although, he was a bit edgy about venturing away from the den, even if he was close by. He had to admit to himself, he had no idea how one would go about hunting, and doubted that his brother cared enough to know.

Regardless, he tried anyway, “Alright,” he nudged his brother, “come with me, we won’t go far.” If he could convince Harith to come with him, then he wouldn’t be as apprehensive about going alone. The sun was still high in the sky, so the night would not be coming too quickly. His other brothers seemed as though they were caught up in their own games and weren't likely to want to go with him.  

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Grinning triumphantly to himself, he trotted after his brother. He hadn’t thought that Harith would actually consent to accompanying him, but he was secretly grateful that he did. Glancing to his mildly distant brother, he grinned inwardly to himself. While he would never admit to needing them, having four brothers did come in handy. There was always someone to harass into going on odd adventures with.

Cubbish excitement bubbled in his chest. He knew that, upon adulthood, he would not be the one to hunt, it would be his females, so, in the moment, he decided that he wanted to try it out now. Besides, he knew that he would have to hunt for himself while in the Rogue Lands anyway once he reached adolescence.

"Alright," he replied to Harith. Walking alongside his brother behind their den, his eyes darted this way and that, attempting to find any little misfortunate creature to practice hunting on. He wasn’t entirely sure what exactly it was that they were looking for. Thus far, he had simply planning to ‘hunt’ whatever they found, but being that he hadn’t the slightest idea of what that entailed, he was quickly realizing that he did not know what to do once they found something.

Pondering the topic at hand, Ima walked close to his brother’s side, but far away enough so that he wouldn’t notice. The thought that he was searching for something that he hadn't the slightest as to what to do with made him a bit anxious.  

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Ima had been silently walking beside his brother, looking off into the distance and wondering if they would even see anything, when he felt his brother’s sudden halt. Quickly jerking his head around, he looked to see what made his brother stop, when he saw a thin little tail disappear into a small hole in the ground. Surprised, he looked to Harith to see his reaction. Seeing his brother’s eyes trained on the small hole, he assumed that Harith had gotten a better look at whatever it had been.

Staring into the hole, he answered the enquiry, “Yeah, what was that?” he asked back, pawing slightly at the hole. Gazing curiously at it, he wondered how anything could live in such a tiny place. Remembering that they were there for hunting purposes, he backed up slightly and considered what to do. He saw Harith lower himself to the ground near the small opening in the dirt. It looked like the right thing to do, so he placed himself on the opposite side of the hole, and stared into it.

He craned his head forward and sniffed lightly. He could smell something down there, and, flicking his ears forward, he could hear very slight, tiny sounds coming from deep in the hole. Thinking hard, he tried to come up with a way to get to it. Contemplating the situation, and finally said lowly to Harith, “Do you think we can dig it up?”  

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Imarogbe had ultimately decided that this was pointless. He and Harith had been sitting here staring into the hole that the little mouse had ran into without any signs of progress. The small creature seemed content to stay exactly where it was. Huffing, he thought to himself of what they should do.

Beforehand, he had imagined that hunting would be much more exciting that sitting around and waiting. Ima had always imagined his mother and Elsa on dramatic high speed chases to bring down their prey. Looking around, he tried to think of something that would make things interesting. His clear blue eyes fell upon a long and thick stick laying innocently on the ground nearby. Tilting his head to the side in thought, he immediately leapt up with, what he believed, was a brilliant idea.

Trotting over to the stick, he picked it up and held it between his little teeth. Returning to the hole, he peered into it once more before turning the stick so the he could hold the end of it. Hovering over the hole, he let the stick go and watched at it proceeded to fall straight down into the hole. Hearing it thumping at the bottom, he instantly heard an offended high pitched squeak. Excited that something had happened, he moved to look into the hole but jumped back as a small form shot up out of the ground.  

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Shaking the dust from himself, Ima looked up to see what was happening.

Still in a shock over the reappearance of the mouse, Ima briefly watched his brother scramble for it. His excitement rose as Harith’s paws wrapped around the mouse. It quickly deflated as the mouse wriggled away and escaped.

Determined, Ima sprang up an chased after the mouse. Honing in on the small creature, he ran after it as fast as he could and pounced. In the second that it took him to land on the ground, he watched the mouse disappear beneath his little paws.

Momentarily feeling successful, he cautiously lifted up a paw to look, only to find a deep hole in the ground that was roughly the size of a mouse. Ima stared at the hole. Realization dawned on him that he had lost this battle with the mouse.

Then he looked up at his brother and said,“It got away.”  

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Ima sat up away from the escape hole. After a moment, he began to laugh. It was pretty silly of them to be chasing a little mouse around like they were. He wondered what dad would say. At his brother’s defeat, Ima decided that maybe he would try hunting again some other time.

A much later time. “I have no idea,” he replied to his brother. How the lionesses of the pride managed to feed everyone all the time, he would never know. Maybe he would ask their mother once she returned. Ima wondered if she was back yet.

As Ima sat there, he turned back to his brother and said, “Let’s go home.” There was no use staying there now that their attempted prey had successfully escaped. Besides, the sky was beginning to turn the orange and purple colors of evening. He knew that they weren’t supposed to be out too late.

With that, he stood and started moving toward the direction of their home.