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 Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:58 pm
A brown pup sat on her haunches and stared fixedly at the grown-up hyenas who were across they way from her. She was trying to hear what they were talking about, but because they were hyenas, too, they were aware of how sharp the ears of nearby listeners would be and had pitched their voices accordingly. It was very frustrating, because the young pup was certain they were talking about her. In fact, her ego told her that there was no one else they could possibly be talking about, and so it was only natural that she should want to know what they were saying about her.
"Nngh!" she exclaimed, a soft shriek of frustration. She refused to relocate to make eavesdropping easier. That wasn't the point of the exercise. The point was that she was supposed to be able to hear them without moving closer, which meant they could at least be accommodating and raise their voices a little bit so that she could do so. It wasn't like she was asking a whole lot.
"Bunch of iggerant fools," she muttered as she grew tired of the game and stalked off toward the den.
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:11 pm
 Kesia wasn't remotely interested in the adult's conversation. Daddy was involved and that meant she'd probably hear all about it anyway. Kesia instead watched her sister attempting to listen in with an amused look. Oh yeah Yayaya whatever was ticked (she'd be even more ticked if she knew the lengths Kesia went to in her mind to mangle her name). Kesia usually didn't bother to remember how manny flipping "yas" there were.
"Any luck?" Kesia grinned insolently. Of course Yaya hadn't heard, she'd been too far, and the adults had been too quiet.
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:18 pm
"I ain't got no idea what'choo talkin' 'bout, girl," Yaya replied to her sister's facetious comment.
She really didn't know what Kesia was talking about, but she did know that she didn't like being spoken to in that smug tone of voice, as if her sister was more important than she was. Which of them took after their father again? Oh, right. Kesia did. Yaya looked like a queen. Specifically like their aunt. Though it wasn't exactly a good idea to go around bragging about that too much. It reminded people of things they didn't seem to like to be reminded of.
"What'choo doin' 'round hurr ennaway? Ain't'choo got somewhur to be?" The implication was that perhaps Kesia had somewhere else to be that wasn't anywhere near her more attractive and intelligent sister, who was in enough of a sulk now that she was in no mood to deal with her sister being a smart-a**.
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:29 pm
Kesia smirked inwardly. Ha feeble minded Biscuit. "I meant, did you overhear anything? "And as a matter of fact, no, I don't have anywhere better to be, Kepo was irritating the snot out of me so I'm over here now."
Kesia was careful in how she irritated her female siblings, she didn't bother them enough to alienate them, but enough to occasionally gain amusement and to prove that she had wit, unlike her father. Yaya was tricky to tease since she had such a high opinion of herself. Kesia was careful to avoid teasing her about her name, out loud anyway.
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 1:47 pm
If Biska could have seen Kesia's inward smirk, she probably would have swatted her a good one across the muzzle. Ordinarily she was very much a "live and let live" kind of girl, but something was just bothering her today and making her edgy and anxious, and since she didn't like to be edgy and anxious, she was also short-tempered.
"'Snot any of yo' bizness," Yaya pointed out, still a bit itchy for a fight, which was just uncharacteristic, and if she'd been older it might have bothered her that she was seeking confrontation with her sister. Instead she unconsciously shifted the topic away from things which would make her annoyed.
"What's that fool up to?" she asked, meaning Kepo of course. Yaya wasn't the sort to refer to another female as a fool, even if she thought that the person was. It just didn't seem right to show disrespect for the superior sex, even as one of them. An example had to be set for the males, who were none too smart, she was coming to learn.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:44 pm
"Well, fine, I guess it really isn't my business, too bad Daddy will wind up blabbing it to me anyway." Kesia hated pulling the daddy card, but Yayayayayaya was just being ridiculous. "As for Kepo, blabbering about how great he is. Of course. He's a male. Not like he can possibly be greater then a female. But he makes himself out to be the best thing since wildebeest haunches."
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 7:02 am
Actually, that was probably true. It was one of the very unfair things about all this. Their father was hugely fond of Kesia, which was hardly something to be proud of, really, but it did mean that he told her anything she wanted to know, and gave her anything she asked for, if he was able to. Biska didn't think she deserved that kind of preferential treatment, being significantly less attractive, intelligent, and otherwise important than some other people, namely Biskayayayaya herself.
She yawned pointedly and shrugged to indicate her indifference to the whole affair. Sometimes there was no other way to deal with it. She certainly wouldn't want someone as stupid as their dad always hanging around her, trying to be her friend, even if it did mean that sometimes there were good things that happened, too. It really wasn't worth it for the social stigma. Males were all stupid, and it was an unfortunate fact that their father was among the stupider ones.
"Ugh. That boy gotta learn he ain't no kind of special. Someone must'a dropped him on his hee-yad as a chile." Not that any of them were really old enough to be talking about things that must have happened to each other as children, but that was the way Biska was. She tried so hard to be cool like the grown-ups.
"Betcha he had some stupid idea to get y'all in trouble, too."
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:32 pm
Typical, pretend you don't care. If it wouldn't have been the peak of rudeness to say, Kesia would call her sister a cat. "Now I care, now I don't." Oh well, irritating Biscuit was fun, but so was bashing males.
"I think you mean, picked him and then flung him at a rock. Dropping is not enough to explain away his idiocy." Kesia gave her ear a scratch. "And he was talking about pranking Kele again. Like that will prove anything."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 7:35 am
Yes. Calling Yaya a cat definitely would have been a way to start something with her. Like any hyena of the Nguva, no matter how young, she knew for a certainty that males were inferior and cats were bad. Oh, there were a few cats serving the pack, like that lion Manyara that some fool thought was their mum, but they weren't exceptions to the rule. They were just cats that knew their place in the grand scheme of things. She didn't really trust them, really. It was hard to tell what they were thinking behind their stupid, weird eyes.
But she didn't know the insult had even been thought, and so there was nothing to worry about there. In fact, she burst into peals of yipping, echoing laughter at her sister's suggestion about Kepo. She was too young for her laughter to take on the eerie, echoing quality an adult hyena's had, but it was still not the most reassuring sound in the world for someone unaccustomed to the noises hyenas made. Also, lots of teeth showed when she laughed, which might be interpreted as threatening to some people, though she didn't really intend it that way.
"Trudat," she agreed as her laughter subsided. "And it ain't like neither of them are so special. All's they got to prove over each other is that one might'a got beat less with a stick from the ugly tree. Though I guess neither one's as ugly as a lion."
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 1:35 pm
"If any female getting cubs from them I will be worrying for her sanity. They're so dumb. When I'm old enough to have pups, I'm going to search for them from the rogue lands. I want an intelligent, strong male. If they exist." Honestly, Kesia was loosing confidence in those types of males existing. And even if they did exist, Kesia had a lot of self confidence to learn (It sucked looking like her idiotic father and having the family nickname of "Heartbutt") before she'd feel like she could attract one of those fabled males.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:50 am
Yaya nodded her agreement about the questionable sanity of anyone who decided to take those particular males as mates, or even just the fathers of their cubs. She really didn't see much use for males, based on her personal experiences with them.
"Think they're smarter in the rogue lands?" she asked, genuinely curious. Maybe it was something about the clan that made its males stupid. She didn't know too much about the clan's history yet, but she got the feeling it hadn't been around forever and ever, so there couldn't have been much time for all the males to turn stupid, could there?
"Might be worth finding out," she said with a yawn and a shrug. Males really didn't hold much interest for her. They were stupid, and most of the ones she knew were ugly. Oh, she was most definitely too young to be taking any sort of interest in males anyway, but none of the specimens around the pack seemed like likely candidates for her in their later years either. She would know far too well all their idiocies.
Her attention was beginning to wander, as evinced by her yawn, and in her typically blunt manner she decided it was time to get about other, more interesting things.
"Catch 'ya later, Heartbutt," she said before scampering around her sister and into a nearby cave in search of something to eat. Suddenly she was ravenous.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:52 pm
"I really hate that nickname, Biscuit." She said to the empty space that used to be her sister. She sighed and settled down for a nap, who knows what other trying encounters there were going to be today.
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