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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:32 pm
Barazahi picked her way carefully across the savannah, her blue pelt brightly clashing with her surroundings. She was certainly a sight to behold on this morning, the light hit her grey bangs just right to bring out all of the different colors in them. Raza knew it, too. She sat down and fiddled with her tail-tuft, however. She was fairly displeased with the way it looked. She wished that they could get to their homelands already... she was tired of wandering like this, (It did horrors for her paws.) She yawned and nearly dozed off sitting up, unaware of anything and everything around her.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:42 pm
The rogue lion slunk across the yellow grasses as they crunched softly beneath his paws. He wasn't particularly downcast. There was a nice soft breeze that he wasn't used to that ruffled his mane a bit and relieved him slightly from the pressures of the sun, not to mention the fact he had recently feasted, a rare feat for him. He was proud of himself at the moment but it felt odd to carry his head high.
But after his unfortunate run-in with a territorial leopardess, he didn't allow himself to be completely unaware of his surroundings and soon picked up the scent of a lion, a fairly fresh one too.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:49 pm
Barazahi almost fell over face-first from her sleep. This, fortuantely for her, woke her up. After her scary run-in with Sukari, Raza didn't want to meet another rogue as long as she lived. She was utterly convinced now, that her religion was right, and she kicked herself for ever doubting it.
She focused, again, on her tail and other fur, being sure that every strand of fur was in the proper place. She was snapped out of her cleaning routine at the sound of grass moving. She looked up and saw in the distance another rogue.
Ignore him, Raza. Maybe he won't notice you, She thought to herself, turning absent-mindedly back to fixing her tail. She was sure he'd be a regular individual, and wouldn't want to hurt his feelings, but he could also be violent like Sukari had been, and she didn't want another incidence like that.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:56 pm
He had hoped the smell would fade as he walked, that it was in a completely different direction. Testing the air, he found it wasn't so. He flicked his tail anxiously and hunched his shoulders.Soon, looking around, he saw the bright blue figure lying in the grass. He advanced slowly, studying the figure all the way. It was not as large as he feared and did not seem to notice him yet. The lion didn't seem harmful or aggressive.
He slunk closer. It was a lioness, an adolescent if he wasn't mistaken, who seemed quite intent on grooming her tail. "You alright?" he asked, curious to why she was doing such a thing in practically the middle of nowhere.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:19 pm
Barazahi fake-jumped and quickly turned her head to face him. She acted surprised, but had known that he was there, and knew he probably would want to come see her.
"Oh, yes. I'm ok," Barazahi said truthfully. She'd come out here to avoid harassment from her brother when she groomed, but that was none of the stranger's business. "How about yourself?" Raza couldn't help but ask.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:25 am
He tilted his head to the side slightly. She said she was alright and she looked fine and didn't look upset. Maybe it was just him, not used to seeing lions who aren't adults wandering outside of their prides.
The propriety with which she answered the question would have - truth be told - chased him off if she hadn't asked him about his feelings as her conversation was very formal and not all that inviting. "I'm doing quite alright, thank you," he replied with a nod. She had allowed the conversation to open up and now it was his job to continue it. Moyenda, however, simply stood there, trying to think of something to say. He considered asking her if she was out here with her family but thought she might be insulted, that she might think he was accusing her of not being able to take care of herself.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:16 pm
Barazahi now found herself in a predicament she knew she would run into. She had just decided to herself that no matter how friendly a rogue seemed, it was truly filled with darkness. But how could that be? This male seemed perfectly nice, not a bad trait about him... She would be criticized greatly back at home for even talking to him! She couldn't be rude, either. Her mother had raised her properly... Oh the confusion!
"My name's Barazahi, Raza for short, if you please," Raza introduced, shifting her bangs to the other side of her face with one quick head move. "And you are...?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:23 pm
So far so good. He hadn't been attacked or so much as yelled at. Then again, it could be quite possible that the only creatures nice to lions were other lions since his only bad runin had been with a leopard.
"My name is Moyenda," he said, taking care of the formalities, "and my friends call me Mo - if I had any... Barazahi? That's a nice name. What does it mean?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:32 pm
She'd deal with the consequences later, and gave up on not talking to Moyenda. He seemed sweet enough, even though he was a bit timid. Heck, her brother was meaner than him, and they were from Mteo'Nyungu.
"Nice to meet you Mo," Raza said. "I'm sure you've got lots of friends," She continued, getting up. "You just don't know it. Barazahi means 'Paradise,'" She said with a smile. She found it to be a fitting name, considering all those in her presence had to be in paradise. Raza, vain? Of course.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:40 pm
He could tell she was very proud of her name and smiled back, half-amused. Moyenda closed his eyes and reveled in the soft short breeze for a moment and then turned back to the matter at hand. She might find him a bit odd being an adult and all so the issue at hand was should he ask the question he'd been puzzled over a while or not. Since he was always on the move and didn't belong to any certain pride in the area, he doubted he'd see her again so if she thought him weird, he wouldn't have to worry about it later. So he gave it a shot
"I don't mean to sound so forward - or odd, for that matter - but what do you guys do around here for fun?" he asked.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:58 pm
Well that's a bit of a loaded question... Raza thought to herself. She allowed a look of clear contemplation to cross her face as she tried to word what she did to have fun. She would have to think hard to come up with a way to explain.
"Well... It does depend on what you've got around you. I've found water-holes to be particularly amusing. You can catch fish there, you can see your reflection there, you can swim... all that sort of stuff," Raza said, taking a quick break for a breath, then continuing. "But if there's not much of a water hole around you can hunt stuff, the smaller animals are more amusing, and the bigger ones make better meals," She was sure he knew this last bit, but decided to elaborate on it anyway. "Even better is if you can find someone else. They're usually quite fun. You can gossip, play tag, play chase, or, ooo!" A big thought popped into her head.
"You could take a bone or something and hide it, and the other person has to hide it and then they can go hide it on you, and you have to go find it!" Raza was fond of this game, for some reason or another, even though she was nearly an adult.
"Does that help?" She asked.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:04 pm
Moyenda soaked it all up, not even having to try to be interested. He nodded at some of the things she said. He not only knew one but now several games. Now Pona could no longer tell him he didn't know how to have fun. Pulling it off was another thing but he didn't think he'd have an issue with that quite frankly.
He smiled and nodded briskly. "Actually, it helped quite well, thank you."
((sorry for the short reply))
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:14 pm
((No sweat XD))
"I'm glad I could help," Raza said. "I do other stuff to keep myself amused, but I doubt you would enjoy them." She was referring to cleaning her tail and watching random males go mad over her, the few that would happen to be at the same water hole as their family. She found it rather amusing, and it was actually her favorite "game."
She wondered why he was all alone; Mo seemed like a socialable lion. Certainly he could find a travel buddy, or even a mate simple enough. Raza decided to leave that topic untouched.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:22 pm
Moyenda was a tad dumbfounded and didn't get what she meant when she said he wouldn't enjoy them. The world of females was completely foreign to Mo although he assumed it was exactly the same ...only females gave birth and raised cubs. But she refrained from devulging on her own so he didn't press the matter.
"Now this game of bones," Mo asked, sitting down, "so how exactly does this work? I mean, for instance, if you bury the bone how would you disguise it so it doesn't look like the ground had been dug up there at all?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:33 pm
"Well, you'd have to be careful with how you hide it. If you're going to bury the bone, you'd have to keep the grass and cover it up with the grass again when you're done. I usually hide it in the knot of a tree, or in a particularly tall patch of grass... I haven't ever thought of burying it," Raza said, contemplating the possibility. "That's very clever!" She declared finally. When buried, it'd be out of sight and hard to smell... Why hadn't she thought of that? Maybe that's how her dad won those rounds... she continued to ponder, but then broke her thought.
"How it works is at the beginning you designate a hider and a seeker. The Seeker will turn around and wait for the hider to return and tell the seeker to seek. The hider hides the bone or rock or whatever it is you're hiding. Then the seeker looks for it, and when it's found the roles swap. If the seeker can't find it, then you win," Barazahi said, hoping it all made sense.
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