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 Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:15 pm
Light blue eyes squinted as he peered out at more rogue lands. He huffed a bit more and just shook his head. It was a very dry, dry savanna. Night was slowly creeping in, causing a chill in the air that didn't quite reach him yet. Shaking out his blond mane, Kahah put one paw in front of the other and carried on walking. He was heading home in hopes this pilgarmage would end when he got closer, that he'd find his true name. So far it was a dud, and he missed home, and all he wanted to do was curl up at his mom's side and whine at her. He missed his siblings, missed the smell and bustle of the pride, missed everything about his home. He hated the rogue lands. It might make him sound prissy, but maybe he was. "Gods, I just want to go home," he whispered up to the sky that had a couple of stars in it already.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:20 pm
 The white lion was attempting to make up for lost sleep, but the bright sunshine simply wasn't helping. At all. Pas glared up at the offendingly bright sky and gave up. Again. As he sighed in resignation, his eye fell on something moving nearby. Great. Why was it that whenever Susu'mimiteh left him, for any reason, he always managed to attract someone else? It was like some sort of weird magic or something. Not that he wasn't insanely curious about the "surprise" she'd promised on her return. But that was who-knew-how-many hours away and this was right now. Then the black shape resolved itself into a lion. A lion that looked surprisingly familiar... "Kahah?" Pas gasped out. "Is that you?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:29 pm
At the sound of his name, Kahah blinked and froze, one paw extended to take a step, fur raising before he realized that if this other wanted to attack him they wouldn't have said his name. Relaxing a bit, Kahah huffed and peered out at a white lion in the distance. "...Pas?" Was it really? There was no mistaking that main and those markings. With a shout of joy, the dark male bounded over and tackled his white sibling, teeth going to tug an ear in greeting.
A deep, rumbling purr came from him as he just rolled him and Pas around on the dusty floor, not caring if his brother tried to protest. "Good to see a familiar face!"
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:36 pm
"Ack!" was all the time Pas had to protest before he was bowled over by his sibling. Of course, he had to give as good as he got, worrying at the other lion's shoulder even as his ear was chewed.
"It's good to see you too," he puffed out, attempting to push the darker male off of him. It was amazing how grown up Kahah loooked, though it wasn't too surprising given that they'd been adolescents the last time they'd seen each other.
"Where have you been?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:39 pm
Kahah got the idea and eased off of Pas, giving his nose a n** before he settled on his haunches and dusted himself off. "I've been everywhere." Actually, he'd been walking around in one giant circle, but Pas didn't know that. No one had to know that. Kahah hadn't wanted to go far from the pride, but he somehow managed to do that and sort of lost his way until he heard other lions talking about it. His tail thumped against the dusted earth, sending up a giant plum of fine sand before huffing.
"What about you? You were always lost as a cub. You still lost? Huh?" The grin on the darker male's face couldn't have been any wider.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:44 pm
"As a matter of fact, I am not lost," Pas replied, somewhat primly, as he sat up himself. Of course, that was largely due to Susu'mimiteh's doing, as he still couldn't manage to find a rock he'd slept under when it was two lengths away. But Kahah didn't need to know that.
"I was over by the Pridelands not too long ago," he continued, gesturing off in what may or may not have been the right direction. Given what his brother had said, Pas was reasonably sure that the black lion wouldn't know any better.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:48 pm
"Actually, they're that way," he said, gesturing the opposite direction before grinning. His tail thumped again and he laughed hard. Kahah had been there recently! That's the only reason he knew. Otherwise, the black male would have let Pas get away with that. Humming to himself, Kahah rolled his shoulders and then snorted.
"I'm ready to go home. I hate how vague they are about 'finding your true name' or whatever it was they phrased it. I mean... Specs! Do I drink cactus water? Something?" His ears pinned back and he let out a whine. "I want to see everyone."
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:53 pm
Pas made a face as his brother caught him. Well, so he had a terrible sense of direction. It happened! And he'd never been lost on the mountain...so there! But that didn't make it any less true that he'd been there! He was tempted to ask Kahah if the other lion had met Adokh, but decided that it was probably very unlikely. From what the brown lion had said, the Pridelands was many times larger than the Jini-msemi, which would make such an occurrance...
...even more unlikely than Pas and Kahah meeting up today.
"I wish I could go home," he sighed. "But you're right, they were pretty vague. It seemed easy enough for Susu'mimiteh...but she left even before we did." Which was...pretty depressing. Pas missed his siblings too. Well, he didn't miss being tackled and treated as a chewtoy, but he had missed their presence.
"But there's no guarantee that if we do find our names and get home that they'll be there. Remember, only Uncle Songvari came back before we left." And Mom had had quite a passel of brothers too. Which, frankly, didn't bode well for either of them.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:56 pm
"Wow, way to kill my hopeful mood," he huffed, rolling his blue eyes at his brother, shaking his head lightly. Killjoy. Buzz kill. "You should be named killjoy instead of Pas. You dampen things. Stooop." With a childish move, he rolled onto his back and put himself basically right under Pas' nose and batted at it with a giant paw. Who cared he was now filthy? Not him. It wasn't like Kahah was trying to impress anyone. It was just Pas.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:02 pm
Pas made a face as his brother complained, insulted him, and started fooling around again. Stupid Kahah. Trust the one brother he ran into out in the rogue lands to be the one who had to act as if they were still cubs on the moutain.
"You stop, dummy," he retorted, trying to pin down the other male's paws so that he couldn't do anything annoying with them. "Acting like a cub, you'll never find your name that way!"
To his surprise, the white lion realized that he did actually believe what he was saying. He couldn't find his true name if he insisted on thinking and acting like the kid he'd been when he'd gotten his first name. If he wanted to find out who he was, he had to act like that person first.
Huh. Wow. He wondered if that had been a part of Teh's revelation.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:08 pm
"Oh, you're a spoiled sport! See? There you go, being a killjoy again. I swear to the gods, you're going to go grey before you get old." He didn't let Pas pin him. Instead, Kahah sat up again and just rolled his eyes, pushing his paws into the ground harder, letting his claws come out and play. "What's wrong with wanting to play, anyway?" He looked up at Pas again, huffing since he'd been chided. "I've been looking seriously for a new name, and I thought if anyone would appreciate a bit of fun it would be you."
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:13 pm
At this very moment, the white lion found it very difficult to believe his erstwhile brother took anything seriously, but he wasn't going to argue the point. It wasn't that important in the end.
"I'm not saying a bit of fun is a bad thing," Pas tried to explain, "but acting like a cub just seems silly." And really, it was. Watching a grown lion roll around like a cub in the dirt was a bit off-putting, no matter who the lion was.
"I don't know...maybe I've grown up." And maybe Kahah hadn't. Not completely, at least. Pas liked to think that he still had a sense of humor - Teh certainly seemed to enjoy his jokes - but he wouldn't act the way his brother was. At least, he didn't think so. Maybe for Teh. Or, dare he even think it, for his future cubs?
Whatever. It still looked totally ridiculous to him, watching Kahah act like an oversized cub.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:20 pm
"Whatever," he murmured, just looking to the side now, visably put off from his brother's tone. There was nothing wrong with acting like a cub. Some of the adults back home still did it, even without cubs. Just because he was big, didn't mean he wasn't a cub at heart. That much was definitely true.
He chalked it up to different experiences while out here. Seems Kahah had the better deal and kept his child like personality while Pas became a bitter old lion who sucked the fun out of life. Like some kind of fun sucking leech. Pas probably didn't have a fun bone in his body anymore. "So where are you staying for sleep?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:23 pm
The white lion felt bad for raining on his brother's parade...but he also didn't. It was weird, and not a sensation he'd ever experienced before. Still, he respected Kahah's unspoken desire to move beyond the conflict and attempt to restart the conversation with something more...neutral.
Unfortunately, it wasn't a great starter from Pas' perspective and the white male shrugged in answer before elaborating.
"I have no idea." Really, he didn't. Teh didn't always know either, though she was usually the one to pick out wherever they'd spend the night. Just because she knew where they were going didn't actually mean she knew what was in the area.
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:25 pm
"Oh.."
Well this reunion was just taking a nose dive, wasn't it? No one said family reunions were always fun. Sighing a bit, the dark male got up to all four paws, shook himself off and then jerked his head. "Follow me and I'll show you where I've been staying, yeah? It's not a bad little cave. There's enough room for the two of us.. Unless you'd not want to share a den with a cub." Yes, Kahah felt insulted by his brother, but that's the way it went, he supposed.
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