(Backdated to before Isa met V/just left the Uli)
The grey goddess was sitting perfectly still staring out into the night sky, watching as the clouds rushed past the moon in waves. She loved windy nights like this, loved the feeling of wind in her fur and across the lichen that grew atop her body. She was mostly a goddess if whimsy drifting from place to place with no real place to call home. Sometimes the sadness would come and the lioness would run from it, other times she would just feel pure joy, like now, gazing at the full moon.
There dark times inside of her head, times she didn't speak of much, that made her feel as if in her past life she wasn't the best immortal, she knew that somehow she'd done wrong, but it was never the right time to identify those things, and when they came she ran. Now was not one of those times, she felt peaceful and serene here.
Isa was just setting out on her grand adventure to the Pridelands, sure she knew the way and that she would get there without any problems at all. It was just a matter of following her instincts and remembering the markers that led the way to the pride.
She liked to travel at night, liked to marvel at the world as it was and there were always creatures out there to meet. She however was not expecting to run into a horned lioness in any of those adventures.
Walking slowly Isa approached the lioness cautiously, she knew from her experience among the shrines that this was a goddess.
"Hello," Isa said cautiously, the large grey goddess was along her path, and she felt she shouldn't stray from the path.
She tried hard not to appear startled but it was too late she visibly started when she heard the voice. Boma looked down from her star gazing to lay her eyes upon the smaller mortal that was approaching.
"Hello," she said her voice as cheerful as always, "are you out looking at the moon too? I love nights such as these, the moon looks like it is swimming." Boma did not mention her name yet wanting to see what the mortal would think of her. Boma had seen many mortals that adorned themselves with bone and horn, but hers clearly grew from her head.
Isa instantly felt bad for startling the goddess and wondered if she'd interrupted any sorts of magic around her. Moongazing, was that what the great big goddess was doing? She wasn't the god of the moon, Isa had heard tales of him, was she the god of something else in the sky?
The wind rustled around her fur and Isa shivered a little in the cool night air, "I hadn't looked up before, but now that you mention it, it does look as if he's swimming."
"My name is Isa, I am from the Ulili-Mlindaji Lands, may I ask your name, goddess?"
Ah, so the mortal, Isa, did know of the Gods. She knew some other gods hid their immortality from mortals, Boma couldn't understand why, she was proud of who she was, and what she was.
"I have not heard of the Ulili-Mlindaji, but I am sure they must be nice to have someone with such good manners among them." Boma spoke softly, "My name is Boma'madini and I am the goddess of minerals." She knew more often than not mortals did not know what minerals were, she presided over gems and stones alike. She could connect with those things at very small levels.
"Most people call me Boma though, I'd like it if you would.Are you on your way somewhere, Isa?"
Isa blushed, the goddess had paid her a compliment and she would remember that. Minerals, there were no shrines to them in the Ulili lands. She looked at the Goddess curiously..was this her grandmother? She didn't look like the Boma that Tete had described.
"Boma it is then, I am on my way to the Pridelands, my grandfather Kubwa lives there with our great big family." Isa did not show her weariness on the outside, but she was taught to be cautious when out alone. She was honest though and wasn't going to lie about where she was going, especially not to a Goddess.
"Were you out looking for something?"
Boma froze like a statute hearing the words Prideland and Kubwa, they were foreign to her but something about them made the dark spot inside of her mind hurt.
"Umm....looking for something, no." She responded very slowly as the words swam around in her brain and she tried hard to concentrate on Isa but even looking at her was making her more and more uncomfortable, something about the young lioness's ears.
"I was just here to watch the moon." She said her voice turning monotone.
Alarms were going off in Isa's mind, this goddess was acting very weird all of a sudden. Isa took a tiny step back looking at the frozen Goddess.
"Boma..are you alright?" Maybe this was the Boma she was thinking of..appearances can be changed by gods, she knew that. "Did I say something?"
Boma looked away from the mortal and tried to bring her thoughts back into focus. This mortal didn't deserve her rude behavior. She looked back up at the moon and couldn't bring herself to look down at Isa.
"Sorry, just a strange thought came into my mind. I'm sorry for my rudeness but I am going to have to go... I remembered I was supposed to meet someone." Boma was a bad liar but she was unsure what to do or say at this moment and she wanted out of the situation.
Isa now stood still frozen in shock, her first time meeting a true and real goddess and the goddess was acting so strange. It wasn't like the brown lioness was able to understand the mind of an immortal; she was fairly sure though that this was queer behavior even for a goddess. She wasn't sure what to do or say.
Speaking just as slowly but not in that strange monotone voice that Boma had used, "Well, I hope that whatever you remembered is alright, and that you have a good night Boma...take care of yourself." She wasn't sure why she added that last bit, but it felt like the correct thing to do at the time.
Now to find her away towards the Pridelands, she started on the way along the unseen path to visit her grandfather. Perhaps she'd tell them of the strange happenings of tonight and they could help her make sense of it.
Boma disappeared with a poof as if the wind had swept her away.
