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To the small, slender femme that weaved her way idly through the grasses of this new land, today was most definitely not a day for thinking. Today was a day for doing anything but. This day was one for solitude, and to remember the cub she'd been, back when the world was a wonderful, exciting place and she'd had a home.

A butterfly fluttered past her, and on a rare impulse, she swiped at it with a paw. As a young cub, she'd been obsessed with these prety floating insects, and would chase them all day. Many amusing memories brought a bit of a smile to her face.

She did not notice Taabu at this moment; she was too lost in not thinking to be paying attention. A moment to herself was too much of an opportunity to waste keeping watch on things. With Liza and Asherah with her, peace and quiet and solitude were rare things, indeed.

She paused at the voice intruding on her solitude, looking up with sparkling vermilion eyes. It wasn't with her old irritation that she looked at him. That had somehow morphed into something else, something she had no idea what to name. She couldn't describe what she felt as she looked at him right now; all she knew was that, while the butterfly she had swiped at was now gone, several more had taken up residence in her stomach, dancing a merry dance.

"Taabu!" she says, surprised, after a moment. "I, uh... didn't expect to come, at the time. And I certainly didn't expect to see you... at least, not so soon."

She altered her ambling direction to make for him, sitting when she was a reasonable distance away, trying to ignore what felt like the Riverdance in her belly.

She thought his question was a little strange to be asking, but then again, hadn't Taabu always been direct and to the point before? If he wanted to know something, he asked; it was as simple as that, as far as she could see.

"No, I came with two others, Asherah and Liza. Asherah is my sister, and Liza's... Well, he's a... friend," she says, hesitating a little over the word. She really didn't know if their relationship could be called 'friendship'. He was devoted to her, as one is to a master or mistress, and she didn't really see him as a 'friend'. He was just Liza. That may not make much sense to anyone else, but it did to her.

"I left them in the temporary den we'd made, somewhere back that way," she adds, nodding in the direction she'd wandered from.

If Nyunya had heard the tesosterone-fuelled thoughts tumbling through Taabu's mind, she probably would have cuffed him - while most likely being secretly pleased. With most males, such things did not go over well with her, but if Taabu did it within her hearing, over her... Well, one could expect it to be quite a different response.

At his words, she laughed a little. "I don't think I have the option to travel alone. Where I go, Liza goes."

She did not guess at how this would affect Taabu; she did not know he had misjudged their relationship so completely. Although, with the way she said it, it was hardly surprising.

After a moment, she adds, "You were right, Taabu. I haven't been here long, but already I can see these lands are beautiful."

She arched a brow at him at that, a smile lingering on her face. Beautiful, huh? Wasn't the first time he'd said that, if she remembered correctly. And it was even more true, this time. She'd grown since she'd last seen him, not only in height - about which she was glad - but also in physical maturity. She was fast losing cub prettiness and was growing into her adult beauty.

Deciding not to attack the comment, as she felt the slight urge to do, she instead replies, "Thank you. But it seems there's beauty to be found here in more than the landscape," all the while with that little smile lingering. Let him make of that what he will.

Nyunya allowed her body to lower itself into a laying position, sphinx-style, opposite him. If either of them moved but an inch forward, their paws would be brushing against each other.

It had seemed, to her, that he had, in fact, changed the subject, and her smile widened - but she let it pass... for now. Taabu had a way of twisting her words and tieing her tongue in knots, and she felt it best to quit while she appeared to be ahead, and he may just have been a bit off balance.

At his question, she merely rolled her shoulders in a shrug, tilting her head to the side a little and moving the salmon fur from where it had been obstructing her view. "I don't really know. For as long as I'm welcome, or I get the urge to start travelling again. Whichever comes first."

Although, in truth, now that their relationship had turned civil, she found she quite liked his company. He was interesting, intelligent, and undeniably handsome. All in all, a quite pleasing male to be around. If she was welcome to stay here, and he was happy in her company, she'd no doubt be staying. For a little while, at least.

She laughed softly, reaching out one of her delicate paws, paler than the rest of her body, as are her legs, to put it over his much larger one, playfully preventing him poking her petite little nose again. Outwardly, she seems completely casual about it, but the butterflies have multiplied in number from this alone. Wouldn't be able to tell that from the calm, happy, slightly coy smile on her face, though.

"I think I probably will stay, at least for a while. You can show me around... for as long as I can put up with your company," she teases lightly, her smile widening a touch, triple-black-ringed tail flicking behind her, beating a bit at the grasses beneath their bodies.