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 Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:17 am
 Red felt as though he was suffocating. Surrounded on all sides by idiots and fools, idiots and fools, he felt as though he was drowning in a sea of happy-go-lucky lunacy. He couldn't handle sitting back, looking out from behind Na's eyes as his alter ego cavorted and messed around in his little dreamworld, his world where all seasons existed at once and the stars spun dances in the sky. Only Na could look on all those things and not care, only Na was stupid and innocent enough not to be driven mad by the insanity and futility of it all.
Red was not so lucky. When he looked into the world the way Na saw it, he felt ill, sick to the stomach. He could see the dangers that lay everywhere, the irrelevance of a mortal life. What to Na was nothing more than pretty and funny was sheer madness to his darker ego.
So Red has seized control, marching out of the Pridelands and onto the borders where he could clear his head and just ignore the idiot for a time. It was here he sat, grooming a paw casually, all the while wondering why he bothered, Na would just mess it up again anyway.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:37 am
 "The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might: he did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright -- and this was odd, because it was the middle of the night," the dark blue lioness sang softly beneath her breath as she padded about the land just wandering back from the Misties realm. Monifa swung her black tipped tail to the beat of the poem that was running through her head, bouncing her head slightly with a carefree smile.
Her feet were scuffing over the land, rocks being kicked, grass crunching noisely, the whole while she made an unearthly amount of noise and not once picking up that someone else was about. "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things: of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax -- of cabbages -- and kings -- and why the sea is boiling hot -- and whether pigs have wings.'"
She stopped her sing-song as a scent finally caught her attention. Her black nose twitched slightly, trying to keep a hold of the faint scent and she started walking to where it slowly became stronger. It seemed... familiar, but different all the same. She moved with more grace and silence as she drew closer. "Out on your own, pridelander?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:52 am
The idiot's voice interrupted red's thoughts, Na saying simply
Blue, like the pretty sky.
into his head. Red snarled to himself and was about to mentally berate Na-Be for disobeying his "shut the ******** up" order from earlier when he caught the sound of movement nearby. His frown deepened as he realised once again Na had seen coming what he could not have done, his resentment for the other side of himself only deepened as a result.
He watched hungrily as the female approached, yellow eyes, normally sparkling with innocence, as cold as prehistoric amber. He snorted loudly and derisively at her identification of him as a pridelander.
"Pridelander? Hah. That pride is nothing but a collective of fools and clowns, I reside her for my own reasons and I am far from a fool." Well, half of him was, he thought bitterly. He grinned again however. "But yes. I am alone, though I'd wager a beautiful lady like yourself would have more to fear out here alone than I ever would have to." he got to his feet and drew a little nearer to her, delighting at the sensation of Na ceasing to watch through his eyes. Na couldn't bear to watch him behave like this and that was one of the reasons why he did.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:10 am
Monifa couldn't help but smirk slightly, her light teal eyes looking straight on ahead with their glazed look. "You have the smell of them. And something else that I can't put my paw on." She turned her head towards him and sniffed again. That ungodly sickly sweet smell was on this one as well and it caused her to sneeze again, in the opposite direction of Red.
So that's what all "Gods" smelled like. A sickly sweet scent that seemed like they had all rolled in a batch of flowers. But this one was fainter. More mortal. He smelled of sweetness, male, his own personal scent, and the pridelands. She snorted again to clear her senses. "Feeling the need to help a innocent lady then, sir," She asked coyly, her eyes half-lidded in an acted form of meekness, the dark circles around her eyes seeming larger now.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:21 am
Red bristled slightly at the mention of his scent. It was that which could betray his unpleasant heritage. However, he comforted himself, it was very unlikely that this female had ever met a god let alone recognised their scent, he'd smell just like any other lion to her, maybe she could smell his meal off of him or something. He needed to stop being so paranoid. He tried to catch her gaze only to notice that there was little point. His grin spread even further, that predatory, sick edge tainting his expression, an expression not neccisarily seen by Monifa but quite possibly in some way heard in his tone.
"Oh yess. I love to help passing ladies. I'm quite the gentleman others have commented." he laughed derisively, slowly circling Monifa in casual steps, his tail dancing behind him. As he passed by, a little closer than before, he said in a low growl
"I'm rather handsome too I think you'd find if you could see me." he drew perhaps a little too close for comfort as he said this before once again stalking off quickly and resumed his walking around anew. "But you can't, can you?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:29 am
She sat there, letting him move about her in a very intimidating manner. She didn't flinch, didn't cower, just sat there like nothing was happening and he was still just sitting near her like earlier. She could hear him moving across the grass, brushing it slightly, but enough for her sensitive ears. "You are more observant than most I have run across. I can't say I really know my way from here though. Would you mind helping me?"
Her voice was almost too sweet, too innocent for her taste, but she used whatever she could. She felt this same familiar feeling about this one as she had when she first met the God of War. But she would keep playing like she knew nothing. Keep playing the game of the idiot for now to stroke the ego of this lion. She was simply a helpless sightless lioness to him.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:39 am
He grinned to himself as he nodded "Yes I can help you." he said in his usual low tone "Where are you going?" He shook his head slightly though as Na made one of his valiant attempts to seize back control, frowning and in his anger sinking his talons hard into one of his forelegs. The shock of the pain lancing up the limb combined with the scent of blood sent Na packing.
"Ahahaha." he snickered at the effectiveness of that. Na didn't like pain at all.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:48 am
She remained seated on the ground. He definitely seemed an odd one, with mood swings as changing as her own. Uma seemed to be formulating a plan from this, the table had turned and she would have to think on her feet. "I'm trying to return to the Mistie realm. I've been gone for many moons and I'm certain they will have missed me greatly," she lied.
She was thinking on her toes with this one. It was a completely different game and she didn't know if he was going to attempt to cause harm or do good. He was definitely more mentally ill than she was, perhaps? Well, she had to go with what she had spoken, though she really did not want to go back to some place she had left again. "Something funny?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:55 am
Red shook his head "Oh it's nothing, just silencing a little bug. It's gone now." he tilted his head "The mistweavers? I can direct you to the jungles where they live but no further than that." he laughed "I was one of them once, one of that stupid, pacifist pride. But my mother didn't think one of my blood was right for the lands."
He took a preoccupied swipe at a nearby piece of greenery, slicing it to ribbons. "Ditzy b***h left me out there to die but I didn't. She did though. I made sure of it." he pranced in a sort of dance-walk over to Uma, again bypassing what would really be considered acceptable personal space.
"So, do you want to go there?" he whispered "Because I can't guarantee your safety on the way."
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:05 pm
Now she was getting some information about this fellow. So he was once a mistie too. But what was that dribble about blood? "He talks to much," Uma retorted in her head. "Let me take some control for now." "You don't know how to keep your mouth shut either. Patience."
She tilted her head to the side, seeming like she was oblivious to what she was asking, "What's wrong with your blood?" She was stalling, not yet wanting to make her way to where she had lied to still living at contently.
She still couldn't get out of her head that his scent and similar draw was connecting him to Mrost. She would use that weapon at a later point if he kept up this violent and threatening behavior. Or, at least, Uma would make sure to use it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:19 pm
Red curled his tail around his back leg and grinned "My father seduced my mother and was not a lion that the pride would want in it's ranks. Not in a land so ravaged by fighting with the firekin. As soon as she found out who he was I was kicked to one side." he didn't back off though " It turned out well for me anyway." he shrugged. "I survived and got rid of her, now there's only my father to deal with and then I am free from always hiding in these irritating lands"
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:34 pm
Monifa fairly purred as she stood up, sliding very close to him as she started walked a few steps to stretch her lanky body in the warming sun. "So that explains why you trade one batch of idiots for another. Hiding. But hiding from what? A firekin? You certainly have the temper and behavior of them," she said with a twisted sneer. Her face smoothed once again rather quickly after Uma had managed to break through for a moment.
Hopefully all wasn't lost from that slip up. "Then it is probably wise I have decided not to ask you again to lead me back home. Wouldn't want you to risk blowing your cover now, would we?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:40 pm
Red made an amused noise at her sharp comment about the Firekin. "No, I would never hide from a Firekin, they have throats to tear out like the rest of us. Though you are right, I could match any Firekin in my passions." he growled in a mockingly flirtatious manner, seeming to be always preoccupied with thoughts of a deviant nature.
He did note the odd shift in her attitude however but didn't know exactly what it implied, he'd never observed himself shift from Na.
"Oh I /am/ upset, just think of all the fun we could have had along the way." he laughed "As for blowing my cover, that would be hard. I see the lion I seek coming more often than not. I see a lot of things in the wrong order."
"Past after present. Future before present. Jumbled up, all over the damn place. "
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:08 pm
She was ticking off what he wasn't as she went on. So he wasn't a firekin. Since she couldn't see, she couldn't notice the most obvious which was the lion's pelt. And neither had she learned of his name, but she never was one for such pleasantries. "I'm sure your heartbreak at not accompanying me will be quickly forgotten, sir."
He could see things in the wrong order? Now this was indeed very strange. She had never run into a seer before, so it made little sense to her. Or at least, not one that didn't inform her before hand, if they found it necessary and important to themselves. She sounded completely disbelieving when she spoke, "he would have to be God for you to see him before he came."
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:18 pm
"Oh I don't know, missing out on someone as attractive as you could sting for quite some time." he cooed almost sarcastically.
But it was the seer abilities that seemed to have piqued her interest a little. He wouldn't admit that he could see nothing of the future, only Na ever could and Na missed out on the most important things a lot of the time. "Not really. I sometimes see mortals. Sometimes it doesn't happen, most times it does." he grinned.
"But if you must know, yes, he is a god. But he will die just like everyone else will."
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