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 Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:57 pm
Chocolate paws dug into the ground and Paki sat down slowly on the ground as he stared blindly around himself. There was a smell in the air, it wasn't water or anything that he'd known from his life ever. Rather it was rain, but Paki of course wouldn't know what that was.
A sniff came from his tiny nose and the cub frowned his white muzzle gently, scratching at his belly and blinking faintly. What was that?
"It smells like.... nothing... but something." Paki mused to himself, silvery blue eyes quizzical as his soft vanilla forehead furrowed. ninja
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:11 pm
The young spotted juve was just returning home from a small outting, when he spotted Paki. Just sitting there... thinking?
He stopped padding forward to watch his uncle for a moment, his head tilted to one side just a bit with curiousity, a the small tuft of a growing mane falling over one eye. He had never really thought of it before but it was almost strange how both Paki and were both his uncles. Despite the fact one was much older and the other was about the same age.
"Paki? Whatcha doing?" Nakawa finished with a bit of a giggle and began to pad over to his friend, to sit beside him.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:16 pm
Paki didn't respond to his nephew at first, his thoughts on the sky above him and trying to figure out what it meant, what it was. Of course Paki wasn't going to ignore Nakawa entirely forever, but he just... needed to work out his thoughts for a moment.
Brushing his far too thick mane out of the way, even though it wasn't in the way, Paki felt it settle into its normal positition on either sides of his eyes.
"Have you ever wondered... what's outside of this place?" Paki asked suddenly, turning his eyes up to his nephew quizzically. He wanted to know, he was curious as to what would drag his older sister away from him, what would make her leave. What was beyond those boundaries that made her want to leave her family so badly?
But then again he was being really random, Nakawa probably didn't care or want to hear it.
"Sorry." He said after a moment, scratching at his white belly with a gentle claw before plastering a mischevious grin on his muzzle and grinning. "So what are YOU doing?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:13 am
Now sitting closer to him Nakawa had resumed his position of a tilted head as he waited for Paki's response. He was quite curious as to what was making him think so deeply. When he did respond Nakawa wasn't quite expecting it but quickly moved his postioning to a less cub like pose.
" Me? I've just been wandering around looking for something to do. I found you and decided you might have an idea for the day." He spoke softly and then paused for a second," Now about what you said just a few seconds ago... Did you ask me if I've ever wondered about the outside world? Heh. I guess you don't want to hear my answer anymore since you changed the subject so quickly but... I have." He paused again for another a moment and his mind began to wander like Paki's had. "When I was little that's where I came from. Out there. I wish I could remember more what it was like. When I'm older I'm going back. I want to travel and see what else is out there. After all there's gotta be something good keeping other lions from coming here right?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:21 pm
Blind eyes didn't move in their sockets, they simply stared straight ahead, though both of Paki's ears dropped slightly. The large cub was always curious to learn, always wanting to learn as much as he could. Maybe that was his downfall as a son, as a brother and as an uncle.
Paki wanted to leave.
A little drop of water hit the end of his nose and Paki didn't move, simply quirked his muzzle and blinked an eye as another and another and another hit his body, making his body wet and his mane stick to his face. Rain....
"I'm sure you'll get to go out there again, your dad's pretty cool. Besides, you could always just sneak out." The mischevious grin crossed his muzzle again. That was Paki's plan for himself.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:42 pm
The rain began to soak Nakawa as well as he sat listening to Paki. " Maybe to you because he's you're his brother. He's told me before he doesn't want me leaving until he brings me when I'm older." He scowled a bit at the thought of both of his over protective parents. Though deep down he felt the loyalty he owed to them and knew it would be hard to leave the pridelands at all even if his heart craved it. "Even if I did make it past those walls I wouldn't know where to go... All I remember from it was a hot treeless earth that spread as far as you could see and well... another part of the jungle. Where would you go if you could escape? Do ya think theres more better stuffs out there?"
It was hard to remain serious and concentrated in his conversation as the water began to run from both of their wet faces. Nakawa giggled a little and splashed his paw into the softening ground. He had never really been allowed to stay out in the rain before and it surprised him that his parents hadn't stopped them yet. "I'm sorry but... Ya know, you look different when your face gets all wet like that. Like a whole 'nother lion!" He giggled again looking back up to Paki.
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:59 pm
Turning his head so he was facing Nakawa as he spoke, blinking his stationary eyes quietly as he listened to Nakawa's explanation. He didnt' exactly know what to say to him in response, as he didn't know his older brother as well as Nakawa or his parents did.
"Well.... I know Mammi and Pappi are really overprotective when it comes to anything that I do. I know they just want us to be careful and they just want us to be safe... but how else will we learn but if we don't do stupid stuff and bumble into trees or go and find for ourselves that we can't make it?" Paki grumbled for a long moment. "Maybe we should run away? We can go and find what you want to find and what I want to find?"
Though at Nakawa's response to his hair, Paki grinned mischeviously again. "Well you don't smell like yourself either."
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:43 pm
Nakawa giggled at Paki's comment and then suddenly his eyes lit up and a very rare mischivious grin covered his face. "I think you're right. We can learn from anything but our own experiance and if we went now maybe we won't be missed. After all they havn't came looking for us yet have they." Nakawa giggled softly so proud of himself, " And... and we can make away even easier because we don't look or smell like ourselves." Nakawa lifed his muddy paw and rubbed it a little over Paki's face then over his own. "Come now and follow me I know where the walls end and the real world begins. My dad showed it to me once." Nakawa took a few steps away in the mud and then waited for Paki to follow. "Where will we go first?" Nakawa whispered as excited thoughts began to run though his head.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:11 am
Tamariku was making his regular rounds when the rain began to fall. He made sure his siblings and his son were inside when it happened, so they wouldn't get sick. Riku wandered through the trees, his soaking wet mane plastered to his face. His well tuned senses caught the sounds of talking, and he perked his ears forward as he made his way towards the two youths.
Riku couldn't believe what he was hearing. His son and his younger brother were going to run away? He wouldn't hear of such a thing! He padded slowly into view, stepping in front of them with a very father-like and stern expression.
"Just where do you think you'll go if you run away, hmm?" He asked, not beating around the bush. "I can't believe the two of you would be so irresponsible. Don't you know how badly we'd all miss you? You'd do that just to serve your own selfish needs?" He shook his soaked mane and sighed heavily.
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:01 am
At first he didn't follow Nakawa's words and then something lit up in his brain like wildfire and he grinned broadly. All of his snowy teeth flashed from his white muzzle and Paki slipped up to Nakawa's side playfully. He wanted to leave too! He wanted to be free and see the savannah like Kifijo had once told Paki about.
It was all Paki could do not to squeak with happiness and run all around Nakawa with dancing eyes annd run off for the wall. "I was beyond the wall once, I got to meet a really nice leopard, only leopard that never scared me, but she sent me back." He told Nakawa with a laugh.
Then came his brother's voice. Both of Paki's ears fell backwards and he frowned slightly before turning his blind eyes to Riku's and gazed unseeingly at him. His brother didn't understand, how could he? Paki had heard the stories of how his brother was abducted, he was smart and always kept his ears to the ground.
"We don't know. Probably everywhere, but can you blame us for wanting to go and explore? Pappi and mammi'll never let me most likely." He turned his head away for a moment and let his own sigh come from his white muzzle, puffing his mane that hung down in front of his nose up a bit. He wasn't inclined to move it from before his face, sometimes it worked better if they couldn't see his face at all. "You got your adventure..."
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:54 pm
Nakawa almost fell to the ground with the sound of his fathers voice. Guilt consumed his body and he knew he had done one of the most evil things he could have done to his father. Nakawa stayed croutched down, soaking wet, with his head hanging down, listening to Paki. His uncle was right, though it was not by his choice his father got to see what the world outside was like, he wasn't trapped within these small walls. His confidence grew enough to speak. "Tui's getting her's..." He whispered finishing Paki's sentence, "I love you but... you couldn't understand..."
(( Sorry for taking so long. Thursdays my birthday and I'm leaving for a convention on Friday so lifes had me tied down.))
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:45 am
Tamariku looked at them both sadly, shaking his head. "Paki, not all adventures are good ones. I was enslaved before I got to experience life. I didn't get to leave until I was Nakawa's age. And only by a miracle did that happen." He spoke seriously, solemnly, the rain adding to the mood his voice portrayed.
"Tui left with my permission." He said to his son, his voice growing harder and more stern. "She didn't sneak off and never return, like you two were planning. And she has a trusted friend with her." His mane was now plastered to his face, blocking one of his eyes. He shook it from view, but it swung back to it's place sadly.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:01 pm
"There might be a difference, but an adventure is an adventure. Not all of them may be good, but it's something outside of your world. Something that isn't your mother and father... something that isn't how you've been your whole life." Paki said seriously, puffing his large barrel chest up and staring blindly through his mop of hair before his silvery blue eyes. "You can't expect me to enjoy staying put in one place when there's a whole world of adventure out there and i"m stuck in this ONE place being coddled for being blind."
Paki turned and looked blindly down at his paws, huffing because he couldn't smell a thing in all this rain and not only could he not smell but he couldn't feel the presence of others around him either. He was feeling how blind he was for the first time in his life. When he could smell.. when he could sense... when he could feel... Paki knew that he wasn't really blind. Or at least he didn't really know it.
"From the sounds of it you miss her too.... even though she left with someone you trusted." He responded to Riku's comment.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:37 pm
Nakawa still stood partly crouched down, still overwhelmed by guilt. "Father..." Nakawa whispered looking down at his paws the rain running off of his growing mane. " I didn't want to hurt you or anyone else. I didn't plan on leaving and never returning. I just want to live, I want a life." He growled softly more to himself than anyone. He had never been so confused and torn-apart. He felt bad for scaring his father and in the same time he felt angry because his father didn't want to understand. " Just because you got enslaved outside those walls doesn't mean we will. Mom lived out there for a while didn't she..." Nakawa looked up his golden eyes shining through his dark mess of wet fur. "Dad... Please... Try to imagine what it was like when you were trapped without those freedoms..."
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:44 am
Tamariku sighed heavily once more. "I understand your feelings perfectly. Both of you. I wanted freedom more than anything else for most of my life. Paki, I know we all watch out for you because of your blindness, but it's not meant to make you feel like this. We're just worried about you. But I for one know you can take care of yourself better than most." He smiled softly to his brother, then looked at his son. "Nakawa... I know how you feel, too. Tui went off on her own, and you want your own adventure as well." With a deep breath, he looked at them both once more, then spoke.
"I'm coming with you."
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