|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:22 pm
She couldn't do it, no matter how positive her thoughts were.
Janja was sitting in a small flower patch just downstream from the waterfall where she and her family resided, and she looked very concentrated and displeased. Held tight between her two front paws was a flower, quite similar to the one now laced around her neck by a vine. After her encounter with Nac, and his brief display of flower-weaving abilities, Janja had wanted to try to learn how to do this herself. Unfortunately, it didn't seem it was something her paws would let her do.
"Come on," she murmured, carefully wriggling her toes to hold tight to the flower while she attempted to uproot another to attach to it. Somehow she did manage to gain a flower, but with both paws full and surrounded by flowers that all looked the same it wasn't looking hopeful for putting the two together.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:38 pm
Creeping silently up on the black lioness, Ekevu watched her sister's actions with a great curiosity, wishing desperately to understand what she was doing. She had recently come into possession of a flower, now hung about her neck. Gazing upon her sister's actions, she sauntered over and sat beside Janja, smiling softly as she glanced over.
"Sister, what are you trying to do with that flower?" She crooned softly, intent on seeming more open to friendship, as well as easier to get to know.
"..And where did you get that goregous specimen laced about your neck?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:45 pm
The sound of swishing in the flowers behind her alerted Janja to the presence of her sister, no matter how silent the blue cub was intitially- running through some flowers was going to make some noise. She glanced over at Ekevu and smiled at her when she showed up, still holding the two flowers in her paws pointlessly.
She knew nothing was going to come from holding them like this.
"I'm trying to weave them together," Janja replied matter of factly, then beamed when questioned about her necklace. She even went so far as to puff out her chest a bit to show it off, "I got it from Narcissus, a leopard."
Of course, she was starting to doubt that Nac was a leopard after running into another one that looked a bit different, but that didn't matter. He said he was a leopard, so she trusted him to know his own species.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:09 pm
"A leopard?!" She cried, her eyes raised in shock, nearly jumping back. Her sister had actually met a leopard! The luck of it all! The place where her eyebrows would have been raised, Ekevu kneaded at the flowers between her toes excitedly, beaming immidiately.
"Oh, Janja, some day you shall have to tell me about it! What the leopard was like, it's build, it's personality.. everything! It must be such a fascinating tale, oh if I could have been there!" Ekevu sighed, shaking her head in jealousy. She would have LOVED to meet a leopard! Such an experience!
"But flower weaving, you say?" Changing the subject quickly, her intrests falling to the flowers in her paw. It was.. certainly an unusual idea, flower weaving. Nothing she'd thought of before, at any rate. Maybe she should learn how to do it, too! Ekevu puffed up happily, looking back up to Janja.
"Do you know the general idea of how to do it, so I could learn, too?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:27 pm
Janja was almost surprised by Ekevu's reaction, and couldn't help but beam arrogantly at her sister. She'd met a leopard and Ekevu hadn't, two in fact. Perhaps she'd spare her dear sister that fact until she was willing to listen to the tale itself, Ekevu did suggest someday and not now.
"I don't know exactly," she admitted, looking back to the flowers, "Narcissus worked quickly, and his toes seemed to work so much differently than mine do. You could help me figure it out, if you want to."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:50 pm
"Perhaps Jamala would have known more about this.." Ekevu mumbled, looking down to the flowers and furrowing her brow. It did seem to be quite the conondrum.. considering that neither girl knew how to go about making a necklace of the plantlife. Sighting softly, she shook her head.
"Perhaps it is in the anatomical structure of leopards? If they are built so differently than us lions, as to be better adapted to the jungle, then likely it is in their paws! Perhaps a change as to the joints of the fingers, or how they are able to bend. Perhaps the leopard paw is more flexible that a lion paw, and they are able to contort their fingers to grasp more within their paws at once? Quite an interesting situation to analyze.. I'll have to think more into after I've met a leopard." She purred softly, pleased she now had something to think about. Looking up to Janja once more, Ekevu laughed.
"But for another day, that shall be saved! Today, we are to conquer this predicament!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:18 pm
Janja listened to Ekevu carefully as she went over the possibilities. She had thought of the paws being different, but she did not think in so much detail about it. The cub leaned down and took one flower into her mouth and started to try to fiddle with the remaining flower, only to end up dropping it. She shook her head and dropped the other flower.
"Narcissus said it took him a lot of practice, so perhaps it'll take more than just an hour of consideration," she suggested, then looked over at her sister, "I'd be careful if you go looking for leopards, they don't seem very friendly. Narcissus was, but he mentioned another who wasn't and the other one was kind of mean and confusing.."
It was her first indication of having met more than one, but she didn't mind. She would have waited, had it not come up in the conversation. It might be unfair to make a judgement about leopards based on just one encounter, but even Narcissus himself was a little odd. That made three, so she felt better thinking that perhaps they were not all friendly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:43 pm
"How many leopards have you met exactly, Janja...?" Ekevu questioned with a raised brow, cocking her head to the side slightly. It seemed her dear sister had gone on.. several more expeditions through the jungle than she'd priorly know about, and thusly, gained a knowing of the world that she had not. Smile fading slightly, she watched Janja's flower very intently, wondering why all she cared for was the process of flower-weaving. And yet, she seemed so happy with it... the little blue one was puzzled. Perhaps knowledge wasn't all there was to life? Perhaps.. there was more?
..Couldn't be! Shoving the thought from her mind, the peaceful smile returned to Ekevu's face once more, tail wagging slightly in excitement.
"Janja, we should go exploring some time! Perhaps there is more in the jungle than either of us know about!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:57 pm
"How many? Just two," Janja replied, "At least, one thought he was a leopard but he didn't look the same as the one I saw at night." She shrugged, still unsure on that subject. For all she knew, male and female leopards were as different as male and female lions- like how their father had a mane but their mother didn't.
She was somewhat surprised to hear Ekevu say insistantly that they should go exploring sometime, and nodded enthusiastically, "We should! It's a great deal of fun, and always interesting. Maybe we could find another leopard.."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:54 pm
"How silly," Ekevu scoffed by force of habit, a very confused look on her face, "how on Earth could one not know what species they were? I mean, isn't it obvious when you look around you?" She asked disbelievingly. She knew she was a lion, after all! Shaking it from her mind, Ekevu smiled gently at her sister.
"But yes, we must! Any scientific discovery would be prodigious, really! Oh, the possibilities.." she murmured, swooning slightly at the thought of an exploration for knowlede. "It simply makes my heart race!" Glancing around, her ears twitched in the thrill of the moment, her spine in such a tingle she felt giddier than ever. Locking her gaze back onto Janja's, there was a spark of wild excitement in her eyes.
"Which way would you propose we explore?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:09 pm
"Well, I can't tell you if one was wrong or not," she shrugged, "They were both leopards, that's what they said." Janja gave a small smile to her sister, which widened when Ekevu showed an interest in going somewhere to explore. She was definetely more enthusiastic than Jedi!
"Why don't we go see about what other flowers we can find?" she suggested, looking down to the flowers they were surrounded by, "Maybe there are some flowers that would be easier to weave, and if we're lucky we'll run into something we've not seen before. For which way.. that would just be where ever we wanted to go."
The cub grinned, her eyes sparkling while she waited for Ekevu's response and choice of direction.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:21 pm
"Well, logically speaking, we'd have a better chance in the thick of the jungle." Ekevu decided, puffing up proudly at her decision. Deciding that she better explain the train of thought to Janja, Ekevu smiled and began.
"Since we're working on flower weaving, that involves vines, no? So, logically, we should head for the thicker part of the jungle, where thicker vines grow. We'll find a good supply there, and some rarer flowers, as well! By that, we'll be able to make new necklaces!" Rising from her seat, Ekevu padded slightly up the waterfall, glancing around.
"But, what would be the most logical direction to head...?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:48 pm
"True, true," Janja agreed with her sister happily, and then listened to her explanation of the logic to finding good vines to use. How clever a sister she had, it made her smile. She inhaled deeply and took a good look around where they were currently sitting.
"I think we could go in just about any direction and find good parts of the jungle," she said with a nod, "But I think you're heading in the right direction." The small black cub got to her feet, abandoning all of the flowers she'd been working with, and stepped after her sister.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:43 am
"Then in this direction we shall proceed!" She cried happily, nearly bounding off into the jungle in excitement. Yes, sure, the means were finding flowers, but it was still exploration! Plus, the time would give her time to bond with her sibling.. understand Janja better.
"So, sister.." She started, still plowing ahead into the thick of the jungle, "...Tell me about yourself. What your interests are, what you like, dislike, how you feel about everything. I wish to know."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:44 am
Janja smiled inwardly and leapt off after her sister, excited for many of the same reasons as Ekevu- though she was expecting to be asked directly about herself, especially by her sister. It almost hurt her feelings, that Ekevu could be so observant and curious, but not actually know much about her sister.
"I like to explore," she answered, "If you can't really tell.. I don't know about your other questions really, they aren't that easy to answer off the top of your head.."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
