OOC: Set directly after this RP, days before this RP
After her chat with Shetani, Susu was... Apprehensive? No, that wasn't the right word. Nervous was a good one. She'd put this day off for so long, and had hoped to never have to do it. But with all her dreams, and her chat... The time had come. The Priestess sighed as she walked, looking for her son. He wasn't hers by blood, but she still considered him HERS. And he'd given her grandcubs... It delighted her. There was just one catch... Some had come out with green on them, and not from their mother's side. It was the same green of the lion in her dreams.
She paused, closing her eyes a moment, then continued her search. She found her son, a big and strapping Reaver, relaxing on a rock that overlooked the water below. "Munyu... Here you are, my son."
He was taking a break from his children. So many of them... He wondered how much Gabriel hated him for that. But they'd had 9 strong, healthy cubs between them, four boys and five girls destined to become Reavers like their parents. Or so he hoped... He himself was going to aim for becoming a Captain one day, much like his uncle aimed. Who knew, maybe his children would be his Reaver band... He looked up as his mother approached, and rose to greet her with the respect she deserved. A rumble rose in his throat as he rubbed his forehead to hers. "Mother... What brings you up here on this fine day?"
The lioness smiled, a warmth swelling in her. For all her excentricities... She DID still love her children. Her smile soon vanished, though, as she took a seat in front of Munyu. When had he gotten so much larger than her...? She still remembered the round little cub she'd picked up out of the grass and brought home as her own... "I must speak to you... About something I have never told you. I've been having dreams lately, about three lions - You, a lion that may be your father... And your brother." She looked up, expecting to see confusion... And was, instead, the one confused. The look in his eyes... He knew at least part of what she was here to talk to him about.
The monochromatic lion looked away for a moment, then back to the lioness who'd raised him. "My brother, I know about... When I went out on that quest with Ru's band... I met him. I just thought he was a strange lion at first, not sure what the feeling I got around him was... But I soon enough found out that this mirror of me, this reflection of my colors... Was my brother and twin." He paused. "And that you weren't my birth mother." He then smiled at Susu. "But... I'm not mad. In fact, I've spent all my time since then wishing you had taken us both... Our birth mother... She..." He cringed. "She died, when we were juveniles. He grew up... Somewhere else."
"Oh, Munyu... My Munyu..." The lioness reached up her paws, drawing his face down to her own and rubbing her forehead to his. "My little cub in the grass... If I had been able to bring you both in... That would have been wonderful." Two strapping boys instead of one... "You make me wonder now, where he is... You should bring him home some time, so that I may meet.. Munyu, what's wrong?" The look of pain in his violet eyes... "There's something else you haven't told me, is there?" His twin didn't have some kind of deformity, did he? She'd want to put him out of his misery if he did... Or what if he was some flower-sniffing peace monger?
He visibly cringed. "There is..." He looked away, ears folding back into his dark mane a moment. "He, um... How do I put this... He's a pirate..." He glanced at Susu, expecting the worst. After all, the prides didn't get along in the least. About the only thing they could agree on was that they disliked the mermaids. What he saw, though, was... Relief? Why in the world was she relieved?! THIS was the thing that confused him. "You don't look upset."
She waved a paw. "Oh, gods, no! I was worried he had some sort of deformity others would want to put him out of his misery for, or was a flower-sniffing peace monger!" She then put her paw down. "Him being a pirate is still bad, of course. Wretched honorless cut-throats... But, it's better than what he COULD be." It said something that she'd rather see her son's twin have brew in his blood instead of flowers. "There's still another matter, though... Somewhat related. The other lion in my dreams, the one that might be your father." She'd oft wondered about who could possibly BE the boy's sire. After all... Both Munyu and his twin were seers, and she swore she could almost smell the power of the gods on them. It was quite intoxicating.
The male couldn't help but laugh, finding amusement in his mother preferring Pili being a pirate to anything... Wimpy. Of course, if he had deformities... That'd be a question, to Munyu, just what kind would warrant an end to misery or if there even was any misery. There were, after all, lions who spent chunks of their lives with the aftermath of horrific injuries from battle, and nobody to end their suffering. He was relieved by the change of topic, though, and curious. "I wonder about that, too... Especially after one of my daughters was born... She's a very... Distinct green... It's not in Gabriel's family. What did this lion in your dreams look like?"
She closed her eyes a moment, thinking on it but a brief second, if that. "Big, grouchy looking... The same green fur as your daughter... Black hair like yours, same color eyes as yours... His mane went down his back and he had long ears like a rabbit." She opened her eyes, staring at a cloud in the sky that almost looked like the head of a rabbit. "It was... Unusual... I'm pretty sure it was a god."
Sitting back, the Reaver let out a quiet hum in thought. "It DOES sound like a god... Normal lions don't have rabbit ears, for one... Or manes down their backs, for another." Which made him wonder what a lion with NO mane looked like... As odd as that was. He let out a puff of air. "Well, we may find out one day... Or we may not. All we can do is wonder." He then rose to his paws, motioning. "Would you care to go for a walk with me? A Thrall is showing off her cubs, I was curious to go see them."
After a moment of consideration, Susu gave a shrug. "Sure, why not? I have nothing going on today..." As they began to walk, she wondered... Would she run into the green lion from her dreams?
