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 Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:11 am
...It turned out that they weren't terribly receptive to males with any form of premonition.
He'd heard varying opinions on how a particular female would deal with such an 'affliction', regardless, the outcome was somewhat the same. The children were generally thrown out on their rear ends and left to die, or on some occasions the females would deliberately kill them themselves.
Charming.
It was just as well that his particular 'gifts' weren't as strong as his sister's, for all intents and purposes he was reasonably normal and he sincerely doubted he would be having any dramatic epiphanies any time soon. For him this place was still safe, so long as they didn't figure out he could 'see' anyway, though he probably wouldn't have said the same for his elder brother... or for Solomon's father.
From an anthropological standpoint this culture was probably fascinating; but beyond the fact they hated male seers (and killed them), and they had a real obsession with his paler coat, he hadn't really picked up on much more.
...Least they had something in common with his quarry, they saw a pale coat and went 'ooooh shiny!'
In a less deadly way, of course.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:08 am
White.
Male.
Injured badly.
These were the notes she had made mentally while preparing herself for whatever lay ahead. She'd been warned by Sabia, when she approached the offensive commander on the subject, to stay away from the male, pay him no mind. Yet she found, as a healer, a need to determine the status of his health for herself - plus, an all white male? Especially one that didn't appear to present with symptoms of the insanity? It wasn't as though she'd throw herself at him, but of course the curiosity only grew.
The trip didn't take her long, but that was questionable. It seemed she missed out on one vital detail, where was he? In their vast territories she knew the direction, but not entirely how far to go. So she simply kept walking, green eyes seeking out a pale male.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:20 am
He was being lazy, one of the outcroppings he had found was such a lovely temperature that he had chosen to lie there and allow his leg to soak in the coolness. He should really have stuck out like a sore thumb on the grey slate, but it seemed that on this occasion he might have blended in to other aspects of the landscape that he might not have accounted for. For example, some of the outcroppings had small amounts of snow on them and given his blue mane, the could potentially have looked...outcropping-ish.
Thus it seemed that he had seen her before she had seem him.
Huh, and who might this one be? Suffice to say he was getting used to some of the visitors both wary and curious. He had eventually worked out from some of them that it was down to how he looked. He really would have been flattered had it not been for the rest of the potentially dangerous beliefs - suffice it to say that he was sincerely hoping that if he ever did have an epiphany, it wouldn't be now!
"If you're looking for someone, I haven't seen anyone come passed me in the last hour or two," he called out to alert her to his presence. "Though if you have a description I might be able to help with the ones from the last few hours previously."
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:30 am
Green eyes widened when a voice spoke out from the surrounding area and she couldn't find the source right away. When she did she found out why - the male was able to perfectly blend in with the landscape the Intaba chose to reside in.
Her heart was fluttering in her chest a mile a minute so when she spoke it was a pitch higher at first then evened out to her normal speaking voice. "White, about yay high and has a blue mane." To describe his height she raised a paw and adjusted as she saw fit. ""He had just recently succumbed to some injuries and was seen by a resident healer?" Had the male appeared injured she'd have thought it might be him that she just described, but he was far to alert to have been the lion. She wasn't sure the time line, but no lion could heal the way this one was on the mend.
"All of the injuries were attained recently and I worry for him."
Her brows furrowed slightly as she wondered about the lion she was even speaking with.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:38 am
Tethys raised a brow at the tone of her voice and despite himself, he found that he was laughing. He hadn't heard someone squeak like that before, it was decidedly entertaining. Still, to put her out of her misery he slid down from the rock and limped towards her - as he drew closer she would be able to see that he had sustained several injuries, he was just able to carry them well. Practice made for perfection and all that jazz...
"I think you're referring to me," he said as he came to a halt beside her and tilted his head to the side. He was still favouring his leg, though less so than before, and he still smelt a touch like sulfur. He was in good humour though, and on the road to recovery at least. "To settle your nerves I won't protest if you would prefer to give me another check up," he offered helpfully.
"But I am maybe an inch or two taller," he whispered and raised his paw slightly higher than her own. "And my name is Tethys, though I assume 'white lion' tends to suffice as a descriptor," he added as an after thought.
"That being said if it isn't me then I haven't seen my twin wander passed lately, and last time I checked my twin was female anyway," he teased.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:33 pm
Closer.
Closer.
Closer.
Hiccup. She had survived his laughter, survived a majority of his approach and then lost. The ever going battle of nerves were battering at her as the hiccups began - fortunately not to the degree she was used to, but still embarrassing as ever. "Y-..Yes." She responded, a touch more quietly then before while she tried to contain a hiccup. The white pelt, dark mane and of course the height all matchedish.
"S-Sorry about the height." A blush grew over her cheeks. It was clear that typically she was likely a little shy, but he had given her an out. "Yes please. I'd like to take a quick look, if you don't mind?" Her words began to form a more distinguished sentence as she found her footing within her work. It was in her duties to the pride that she found the ability to speak with others, to have one on one conversations was usually out of the question though.
"You have a twin?"
The hiccups, though still there, had begun to fade a touch as she moved towards him and began to look over the already healing wounds. "Incredible." Of course they still looked painful, and any gashes would take some time, but it was as though he had sustained such injuries before if he wasn't bed ridden at this point.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:42 pm
He controlled himself this time, though it was incredibly hard to do so as she continued to hiccup. Instead, he took to staring at the sky for a period of time until he was satisfied he wasn't about to laugh in the painfully shy females face. Well, it actually made a change for him to be around someone quite so bashful, it was like a breath of fresh air.
"Hold you breath," he instructed as she hiccuped again. Even in her ministrations she was hiccuping, they might not have been loud, but they were there. "And then swallow three times," he added. It was a cure for hiccups that he'd been given once and it had worked, he hadn't thought it would, but it was now his go-to, especially after he'd been drinking for a while.
...Good way to pretend you were sober.
"Wouldn't worry about the height, there are worse things you can get wrong," he added as she inspected him, though she seemed to find nothing of major concern (a relief to him if he was honest).
He lifted his paws one at a time to show he was mobile, even if his hind leg was still stiff.
"Her name is Dione," he clarified. "Identical twin, for the most part."
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:54 pm
As she finished up she listened to him, he was so calm and relaxed - she envied him. All the while she began to hold her breath, as he instructed, then began to swallow.
One.
Two.
Three.
Then like magic she was free, in the excitement she almost inhaled to quickly, but righted herself to avoid the fiasco of repeating that moment. "What a pretty name." Laini remarked as he described his twin. "So you're identical save the.." The blush that had since faded had returned now.e. "So you're identical save the fact that you're a boy and she is a girl?" There was no need to be more specific than that, but she happened to be a healer and so normally that wouldn't be an issue, but he wasn't her patient.
"I couldn't imagine having an identical sibling."
Laini was still blushing furiously.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:01 pm
"You would be absolutely correct," Tethys had developed an unusual gleam in his eye. This really was a refreshing change from the usual headstrong and very confident women in his life. It was an opportunity he couldn't miss and as a result, Laini was soon to be the subject of a little fun for him.
"We're the same, save for the fact that I'm always on top," he pointed out and grinned impishly. Though when she did cease in her hissing he gave a wink. "And I have a little more magic in my paws than she does," he added as she successfully cured her ills.
"As for what it's like..."
He paused.
"It's like having a sibling that looks exactly like you do, they just act differently and very drunk males in your pride assume that you're the same lion," he raised a brow thoughtfully. "I like to assume that they're claiming she looks like a male rather than the other way round, rather hurts the ego -"
Again he paused and struck a pose.
"You wouldn't mistake this for female would you?" he enquired curiously
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:48 pm
Laini shrunk, shrunk as much as she could away and into herself. A seated position and smaller frame allowed for such an ability as that, but she couldn't make herself disappear. The blush that had simply been burning on her cheeks and across her nose now seemed to creep up to her ears and spread a warmth through her that burned even brighter as he spoke, definitely picking up on her teeny, tiny mistake.
"On top!" She squeaked. "Magic?"
Then he paused in saying 'what it's like' to which point she was prepared to faint at the whole experience which seemed to light a fire under her skin wildly. "A drunk male thought you were your sister?" She almost laughed and even began to relax a small amount as the conversation seemed to get away from such a personal thing when he ignited the flame once more.
"N-No." Her green eyes widening immensely at him and she tried to dig deep, even sending a quick prayer to the goddesses that she'd be able to come out of this without bursting to flame before him. "You're very much a male. Very very much."
Then she closed her eyes tightly, if she couldn't vanish perhaps she could make him disappear.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:56 pm
His smirk deepened, if there was anyone who wanted themselves to burst in to flames and disappear at this very second, it was probably Laini. The poor lioness was well out of her comfort zone and while he really should be more considerate, he just couldn't bring himself to do so... Not yet at least. No, for now he'd make her squirm just a little bit more as she admired his physique... for purely medical purposes of all.
"Yes, magic," he stressed. "If you're curious I can show you exactly what else these magical paws can do," he whispered teasingly, drawing closer and widening his eyes as she shrank further in to herself. Secretly, he was really quite curious as to how tiny she could make herself, really it was quite a useful trait to have if she could get small enough. "They don't just help with chasing away the hiccups," he continued.
It was then that he withdrew again, allowing her a moment to breathe.
"But yes, he was drunk and I'm pretty sure he had a bit of an eye for my sister, you won't believe how relieved he was to find out I was not her," he tilted his head to the side. "So I imagine that he was rather enjoying the idea of being on top himself."
Discussing his sister's potential sex life aside, he just couldn't miss the opportunity to screw with this lioness further.
"Unless of course your pride prefer it a different way in which case I'm frightfully curious as to how it's done, perhaps you might educate me, for science!" he teased with great enthusiasm.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:18 pm
Making him disappear wasn't going to work either, especially considering she could now feel his breath against her pelt. Against her will a desire burned that she couldn't quite fight and so she opened her eyes to allow the lights and landscape to distract her from her internal war. Instead she was greeted with his face, which she should have known would have been right there.
"Your paws do look nice."
Lost for words, breath and simply lost the war. She was still shied away as much as she possibly could be, but his advances were taking their toll on her - it was either faint at the suggestions or perhaps accept them. Since she was nervous about a stranger she chose the latter.
Finally he backed up and she inhaled, then exhaled almost dramatically. Laini didn't even realize that she had been holding a breath and found herself falling forward - she caught herself, though awkwardly at a height that allowed for a proper and close view of his legs - they seemed strong, prepped to wrap... she froze at the thoughts rumbling about in her brain and closed her eyes once more. What was happening.
"Some drunk lion.. wants your sister and you're okay with that?" Laini purposely avoided saying 'sex' out loud.
"No, no!" She pressed her eyes closed - had she more strength in her legs she'd have likely chosen now to run away. "We don't have any special anything, not even for science." She blurted as quickly as she could.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:36 pm
Do. Not. Laugh.
Tethys, don't you dare, behave.
Tethys cast a sidelong glance at the lioness who was clearly struggling to maintain her composure. She was perhaps one of the most prudish lionesses he had ever met. Then again he had come from a region where the women didn't really seem to place quite as much importance in the sanctity of their sex life as she did. Well, perhaps he was getting that wrong, as there had been several lionesses who had expressed quite an interest in him.
...Evidently she was the exception to the rule.
"Who my sister decides to shag is entirely up to her," he stated flatly and shook his head. "So long as he's not an absolute moron, she can take her pleasure wherever she sees fit," he raised both eyebrows thoughtfully. "But I don't really envy any male who tries as I'm pretty sure she's like one of those spiders who will probably kill the poor sod after she's done with him."
He eyed the lioness curiously and then finally allowed himself to chuckle, she was looking just a touch faint, especially after that rather dramatic breath.
"Sweetheart you can relax, I'm just screwing with you." He tilted his head to the side. "You're an easy target," he pointed out and motioned to himself.
"So doctor, do I get a clean bill of health, or would you suggest I take further treatments?" he enquired with a grin.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:50 pm
Attentive ears were forward as she listened to him, eyes still squeezed shut or at least they were until he said those magic words and she was suddenly able to pull herself up, knees still a touch weak, but she found herself feeling a little less light headed.
She remained silent at first, eyes stay away from his and on his body instead. Laini was doing a once over of all the wounds and silently thinking about which ones would hurt more - screw with her? She'd screw with him given the chance, but she remained quiet.. though she thought these things she wasn't near brave enough to act on them.
"So long as those further treatments are handled by me?"
She offered, feeling a touch more confident, but only because she could pretend he was her patient. "But if you have places to go you could probably make it there and be fine."
Her breath was coming less rapidly now and finally she met his eyes.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:02 pm
Well that prognosis was good, but it seemed she had finally found her footing and he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
"Well," he murmured as he strode passed her. His tone was thoughtful, maybe just a touch amused as he began to wander away. "Far be it for me to dissuade a healer from further ministrations if it expedites my recovery."
"I'm sure you will be more than capable of passing on any pertinent information to those who ask for an update, you seem more than capable," he finished with a half smile, and with that he turned his gaze and continued walking...
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