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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:51 pm
There were other cubs around, probably some of her siblings included. But Tala wasn’t very interested in them, at least at the time being. She was far too busy using her paws to draw little unimportant lines on the floor. Usually she’d be happy enough to rough house, but today she just wasn’t in the mood! It happened sometimes, and that was when the little red female would focus on other silly projects.
Today Tezcacoatl wasn’t with her, because there were more kids around. And she didn’t really need him, because they were in an area where there were a few adults. The nearest adult to her was a chocolate lioness named Kwasi’roho, who seemed pretty relaxed as she lied to the side, eyes closed. Her ears, however, remained perked as she listened to the children around.
Tala’s little doodles probably only made sense to her, but the intention was a scenery. There was a tree, and wildebeest! Of course, it was mostly just squiggly lines and paw prints. Actually, the red cub was quite bored.
See, this was the most problematic kind of boredom, because she knew she wasn’t really in the mood to play with the other cubs, but she also couldn’t think of much else to do. That was the real reason she scribbled in the dirt.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:10 pm
Sar was a little older now and a little bigger so the not so far was well into the too far area that he'd made before Tala had come to the rescue. Now even though he was with the cubs, he and the other older cubs were put in charge of helping watching and caring for them.
Sar would have found this task and responsibility horrible, but then he spotted Tala. And she was without Tezcacoatl. And she looked unhappy. Deciding to fix that some how he headed over.
She was drawing on the ground. As he got closer the lines and paw prints almost looked like his word for wild forest beast. Almost. "Hey Tala!" Sar greeted plopping himself beside her. "That isn't half bad you just need to add a few lines and get rid of the paw prints and you'd have the word for wild forest beast. Where'd you learn to write? Not even my Dad knew how to write until I showed him some words."
Well, he probably still doesn't remember the words, but at least he wouldn't wipe away the words from the ground when he came home ever again. He got some of those words pretty good.
He used his shoulder to nudge her as he corrected the word. "What's wrong?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:20 pm
She hadn't really been expecting to find anything distracting or fun that afternoon, so she was pretty pleasantly surprised when Sar showed up. "Hi, Sar!" She replied, the blinked at what he said. He was talking about... Oh, he was talking about her scribbles!
The cub tilted her head curiously, glancing at her drawing and trying to attach the meaning Sar said they had. "I dunno." She answered honestly, because Tala didn't even know she could write.
Then he nudged her shoulder, and she actually looked at him. Hey, Sar had more 'mane' now! It was red. She grinned, about to comment on that, but instead she answered his question. "Nothing's wrong, really. Just a little bored."
Suddenly Kwasi'roho, who had been pretty still, raised her head, and looked in confusion at the sky. "It's going to rain...?" Her voice sounded confused, and Tala knew why. The sky was a very clear blue today! The chocolate colored lioness frowned up at the sky for a few moments, apparently deciding it wasn't important, and settling back down.
After the older lioness had settled again, Tala shot a confused glance at Sar. What a weird grown-up!
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:45 pm
Sar shrugged. He didn't really get it either. The sky was too blue and there were no clouds to make the prediction even feasible, never mind likely.
"If she's right though, there'll go your boredom with it. Image trying to herd all the these cubs together and closer to pride rock? It'll be chaos."
As he spoke he'd drawn the words for clouds and rain and chaos. He was still working on chaos since he'd only just come to understand it completely. Clouds were easy, puffy circles. Rain was easy too, three drops two on top and one between underneath them. Chaos, now there was one word hard to draw. At the moment it looked like an oval with seven sticks sticking out of it's middle at different lengths. Sar wasn't sure he liked it so he tweaked it whenever he could.
"Do you want to do something?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:54 pm
Tala watched curiously as Sar's paws worked the ground, her tail twitching idly at her side. She didn't know he had this little habit before! that was pretty interesting, and even as he talked and doodled she found herself imitating him, just to see if she could. Apparently she didn't do it as often as he did, because her lines were less neat, but it was good enough for her.
"It wouldn't happen today." The lioness spoke again, because she was close enough to hear the cubs, and they were sort of talking about her, so it wasn't bad to enter their conversation. "My guess is this week."
Tala furrowed her brow at the other lioness, whose eyes were closed. She forgot about Sar's question, and sat up beside him. "How do you know?" The red cub asked loudly, because she wasn't afraid of talking to adults, or being too direct.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:07 pm
Well, there went some time with Tala. And it had been on the top of his list today for some reason he still hadn't figured out. He kind of felt ... angry with the adult for distracting her, but another part of him, a bigger part, the part that always wanted to know, was just as curious.
It was this part that drove him to stand up and nudge Tala closer to the lioness with his nose. Just because he wanted to know didn't mean he wasn't going to be spending time with Tala. And Tala should come anyway. It was her question.
"Is it on the wind?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:15 pm
Tala was pushed forward by the nudge, initially, but then willingly went along with Sar, because, indeed, it had been her question! Once they were a bit closer to Kwasi'roho, she sat down again, because this might take a while. Or maybe it would be fast!
Kwasi lazily raised her head a perked her ears at the two cubs. "On the wind? No, not really. I dreamed it." She smirked at the red cubs expression, which was, inevitably, quite confused. But Kwasi preferred answering questions that were actually asked with words, and Tala didn't seem about to do it, perhaps she was having trouble thinking of a way to challenge an adult somewhat politely. She seemed to expect the cubs not to like her answer much.
"But that..." Tala frowned, curling her tail around her paws. It didn't seem to make sense just yet!
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:31 pm
Sar sat down with Tala, but he positioned himself just a bit in front her of. He didn't know why, but it was the developing protectiveness in him. Just as he protected knowledge, words, writing that was really drawing, history, all of it was precious. Tala was his friend and was important.
Unlike Tala, Sar had no problem with questions. There were too many in his head not to spill out, whether polite or not. "How do you dream it? Do your dreams come true often? Did you dream in color? How did you dream it just now? I didn't think you were sleeping while paying attention to all of us. Do you dream of anything else? Are you crazy?"
[OOC: Yeah subtly not his best weapon ..... at all .....]
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:41 pm
His last question is what really made Kwasi chuckle, so she focused on it first. "No, I am not crazy. Yes, my dreams sometimes come true." Usually they were silly, trivial things, like rain. Only once could she remember it had actually been something important. More often than seeing the future, she saw the past, which was, in some ways, less exciting.
Tala frowned, trying to keep up with her friends' questions, and the lioness' answers. Since Sar had pretty much just let the flood go, she felt better asking a few questions herself. "Was it really even a dream?" Because Sar was sitting a little ahead of her, Tala subconsciously felt the need to level with him, and inched forwards and closer, which led their shoulders to touch. She was a bit too distracted to really notice that, though.
Curious children! But since Kwasi was a mother herself now, she was quite used to kids asking questions. Perhaps before, she might have found this more annoying. "I guess vision is more appropriate." She conceded with a shrug, and hoped that answered the male's questions about how she had been dreaming. "Some would call me a seer, and yes, I dream in color." Kwasi'roho knew very well what she was, even though she had never been a particularly strong seer. She had heard of ones who had much more prominent visions!
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:58 pm
"So does that mean you have eagle eyes? Since you have visions and are a see'er?" Sar bumped Tala unconsciously, because she was there. And he liked her near. He liked touching her. "Do you talk to birds too? If you can see like them, they must include you in their talks right? What else do you see?"
One answer just led to several hundred other questions in his mind. His need to know starting to dominate his thoughts about everything. "Did you see the war with the hyenas? Do you see the goddess that cursed my friend Wingu? She can't grow. Do you see a way to undo that curse? How about the missing monarchs? Do you see where they are? Are we going to have zebra tonight?
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:08 pm
The yellow cub's theory on what a seer was amused Kwasi, and she couldn't wipe the smirk off her face. "I suppose I can talk to birds. but that isn't special." Some birds talked, simply put. She had even dreamed of one, once. A white a blue bird, who seemed to have been speaking with a lino she thought was Mufasa. But her dreams were often cloudy, as well, and she only had the image of such a thing.
"A seer is just someone who occasionally dreams things before they happen. Or sometimes things that are happening, a long distance away, or things that have already happened, but the seer wasn't there to witness." She shrugged, that was what she understood of it, anyways. "And we don't pick what we see. At least I never have been able to. So no, I have not seen visions of the war, or the missing monarchs, but... As for Wingu..." That was interesting, this boy knew Wingu? The chocolate lioness didn't exactly have fond memories of the white one, they had been much to different growing up. But they had known each other and spent time together nonetheless. "Yes, I may have seen a glimpse of her encounter with the goddess." She nodded.
Tala ignored the bump, because instead she was more interested in gaping at the lioness, because all this didn't seem at all possible! Or, well, maybe it did. She could ask her mother, her mom probably knew a good deal about magic. "So what kind of visions did you have that came true?" The red cub asked, tail flicking behind her, and unintentionally thumping against Sar.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:18 pm
"She tried to make me eat a beetle, but she was nice and didn't make fun of me." Sar told the lioness. She was a friend too, maybe not as good as Tala, but still Sar was loyal to his friends. He had so few. "Which goddess was it and why did she curse Wingu? Is there anyway to undo the curse at all? Maybe I could talk to the goddess and ask? How do I find the goddess?"
Sar blushed when Tala thumped him with her tail. Tala was more important than Wingu, so he was torn. He wanted to help Wingu. He wanted to find a way to undo the curse if he could and offer it to her for whenever she decided she wanted to be an adult, but he didn't want to be any where disloyal to Tala. Was Tala unhappy with his line of questionings?
Like a drowning lion, Sar latched onto Tala's question, nodding and adding on to it. "Do they come true only when the moon is in a certain position? Or at noonday? Does it matter when you have the vision to make them come true? Or where? When was the last one that came true? Have you ever had a vision at an inconvenient moment?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:33 pm
Kwasi'roho shook her head, because even though she had once seen a vision of Wingu and a white lioness, who was probably a goddess, considering the horn on her head, like so many dreams there hadn't been any words, and she had never seen the goddess since, in life or in dreams. "I cannot help you with Wingu, or finding the goddess, I'm sorry." Besides, maybe Wingu had sort of deserved it. A cruel thought, perhaps, but the little white female could be so... irksome! Besides, if she was cursed, she didn't seem to mind it.
Tala was actually quite oblivious to Sar's worries, and was somewhat curious about this whole Wingu story! A cursed lioness? She wanted to ask him about it, because it seemed very interesting, but that would have to wait for later. This lioness was here right now, and had her attention. Sar had asked quite a few questions just know, so the red cub just looked at the adult expectantly.
"I've only had visions when asleep, or nearly asleep. So no." she said, starting from the last question because it was the freshest in her mind. "No, I don't believe the moon or the time of day ever made a difference." Not that she had ever cared to observe.
"The most important vision I had that came true was when I predicted a wildebeest stampede, and was able to warn a friend friend in time and save him." That had been an interesting event. Chokuto, the idiot, wandering around near the hunting grounds. He had been so lucky she had arrived in time! And though the chocolate lioness didn't care to admit it, she had been horrified at the idea of him being hurt. "That is probably the most exciting thing I can offer you. I'm afraid I'm not the strongest of seers!"
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:00 am
Still no way to help WIngu, if she even wanted help. Maybe Dad was right. He'd stop focusing on her curse. If the goddess put it on her, then the goddess would have to take it off and there was no way to find her or talk her into uncursing anyone. At least not without getting cursed in the process and Sar didn't want to stay young forever. He wanted to grow up and be bigger than Dad and Uncle Simi. He wanted to have cubs like Dad. He wanted to have a mate like Mom and the whole deal. Focusing on Wingu wasn't going to get him any of that.
So instead Sar focused on the see'er in front of him. She was interesting and knowledgeable.
"How did you know you were a see'er and not crazy? Did you have visions from when you were a small cub? Was there ever a time when you thought they'd left you? Did you feel empty without them? Would you feel empty without them?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:12 am
"Seer." Kwasi corrected lightly. Seer, not see'er. The pronunciation was very similar, but she still didn't like it being gotten wrong. See'er just sounded silly! Perhaps she was being a little fastidious, but... ah well. "Yes, I've had visions since I was young. I was younger than you when I saved my friend." She nodded.
"And no, I never really miss them when they don't occur." That was probably due to the fact that, since her visions were hardly ever important, she simply never felt dependent of them. And she didn't want to learn the future before hand, much. It could be useful, but she might as well just see things when she got to them. "As for me being sure I'm not crazy, the fact that several of the visions have come true, some strangely specific ones, should be evidence enough." It just got to the point where you had to rule out coincidences sometimes.
This was all very interesting to Tala. the idea that someone could see the future! she wondered if she might be a seer. Maybe to be a seer you had to be related to other seer. She curled her tail. "Do you know any other seers? Is anyone else in your family a seer?" She piped up, and then thought of another question.
"Oh! And, do you have normal dreams? Cause if you do, do they feel different than your visions?" That way, she could know if she ever had a vision herself! It would be neat if Tala were a seer, she thought. But this would probably be forgotten soon enough.
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