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 Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:07 am
Dotted paws drug over the ground as he walked, not making any real efforts to even pick them up as he dragged across the ground slowly. He was broken, he was in pain.
Okay so it wasn't physical pain but it was mental and psychological. For almost a year he'd loved the same female, given her cubs and loved her with everything he had. His entire world had revolved around Chopi... and she'd walked away.
He'd given her cubs and she'd walked away because she got sick of it all.
Korou didn't even know WHAT it was that she was sick of. Probably him and how he was. However there was no way for Korou to even fix that, so the small male was left limping across the savannah with no mate, no cubs, no family and completely blind. His life was broken and his heart was shattered to the winds.
What else was there to do but for him to just... walk?
With every limping step however, he let out a whimper of pain that was soft enough to not belay the true reason but loud enough to make it evident that he was hurt in SOME way. His eyes were open and staring straight ahead, unseeing but seeing at the same time. Yet he didn't even use his other senses as he walked.
Truely broken.
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:47 am
Zakiya stretched out her long limbs with a yawn, then turned her gaze up to the sky, allowing a nostalgic moment to take her. Not a minute went past that she did not think of her two oldest sons, and wondered if they were both all right - especially Korou, for his health had never been too great. She wondered where they were now, what they were doing. Did they have cubs of their own now? The thought made her smile, though she wished, if they did, that they would bring those cubs to visit her. She would love to play with her grandcubs.
Letting out a soft exhale, she took a few strides forward wth almost liquid grace, then froze, her head snapping up, lavender eyes alert. Was her sentimentally tricking her nose? She thought she scented Korou, but his scent had not been in this place for so long. It seemed to good to be true that he might have returned home to her, especially after just thinking of him. But nonetheless, she turned her body and headed quickly in the direction his scent floated from.
There. He was here. She spotted him at the bottom of the hill she was currently on top of, on the other side to which she had been walking. She started down as fast as her feet would allow on sloped and uneven ground, joy swelling up in her at finally seeing her son again. But as she got to the bottom of the hill and on level ground once more, she got a better look at her son, and that joy died in her chest.
What was wrong with her Korou? She could see, so easily see, that something was drastically wrong with him. Her eyes went wide and she trotted forward, alarm now coursing through her frame. "Kor? Sweetheart, what's wrong?" She was desperate to know, desperate to try and fix whatever had made her son look so... defeated.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:09 am
He heard her voice, smelled her scent, but he couldn't tell where she was just yet. That was his mother, Zakiya, his mother that he loved and as he thought of her tears welled up in his eyes and fell down his cheeks. He had left her and now she'd found him once more when he was in the most broken state he could possibly be in.
Korou had wanted to meet her agian on better terms, but he supposed that this wouldn't be the case now. Turning his blind eyes to gaze in the direction that his mother sounded like she was coming from, Korou dropped his ears even further to the sides of his head, long tail dropping to the ground once more as he thought of how he must look.
"Mother...." Korou trailed off for a moment, sniffing desperately as he tried to find her. He needed her, he had to explain to her. Anything... anything. "Mom..."
Dropping his head and bumping it against what he assumed was her shoulder, Korou froze there and a sob pulled from his muzzle, making his body shudder for a moment. He couldn't cry the whole way, he couldn't let her see just how bad he hurt inwardly, though he figured that she could at least take a wild guess.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:46 am
Korou was correct in assuming that it was Zakiya's shoulder that he laid his head against. That became obvious when her head slowly leaned onto his neck to nuzzle against him in what she hoped was a comforting way. He looked so weak and hurt; she didn't want to cause him any further discomfort with an overzealous gesture of affection. She was as careful with him as she had been in the past. Too many times had she seen Korou weak and upset. It had choked her up before she had even known his name; now it was like claws tearing her heart.
"I'm here, Korou," she murmured softly into his ear. "I'm here." In her eyes, he needed, desperately, to rest. As his mother, she would allow nothing else. "Sweetheart, sit down. Please." Her voice was still gentle and warm, soothing, but it held the faintest trace of motherly sternness to let him know that she was going to have him sitting whether he wanted to walk or not.
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:20 am
He wasn't one to argue with his mother, not back when he'd been a cub and certainly not now when he was on the brink of shattering to the winds with how much pain he was in. No. There was no argument in his actions. When Zakiya told him to sit his body curled up almost instantly, keeping his face pressed to her shoulder but curling his whip-like spine so he could sit at the same time.
His tail just laid flat and motionless against the ground, his striped mane hanging over to one side, plastered to his neck because he hadn't bothered to ruffle his fur after the last rain.
Had it been raining recently?
His brain didn't remember that it had been raining the day she had walked away, but chalk it up to that he hadn't paid attention anymore.
"She left..." Korou trailed off for a moment. He'd tried to tell her, he just couldn't force himself to say the words yet, his muzzle would open and nothing would come out, instead he'd just sit there working it as if a miracle would happen and it would come out of his muzzle itself. It never did, instead it was replaced by another sob as tears started to come again.
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:32 am
Zakiya paused a moment in silence. She? There was a she in Korou's life? Well, apparently not any more, but it showed Kiya just how much she had missed in her sons' lives. Could she expect any different, though? Could she honestly expect them to trek back and inform her every time something new happened in their life? No, she couldn't. She could only be grateful, happy and relieved when they came home, whenever they did, and be thankful that Akia still remained in the general area where she now lived, though what kept him she could not guess. Attachment to her, and a reluctance to leave her on her own? Or was there something more?
Kiya slowly curled one of her forelegs around her son's back in a feline hug, pulling him a little bit closer into her warmth as she sat with him. "Tell me what happened, son, please," Zakiya murmured softly into Korou's ear.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:44 am
Shivering into her hug and finally letting the tears slide down his black and orange face, Korou buried as much into his larger mother as he could, his shoulders shaking and his body seeming to glide further towards the brink of breaking to pieces. It was only his mother that was holding him together with that leg curled over his back as gently as the first day she'd met him, as kind as the first day she'd met him.
Memories swirled through Korou's tired mind for a moment, pictures that he would never again be able to see, images that were gone forever from his blind eyes.
"H-her name was Chopi..." Korou wiped his nose with a paw as his voice cracked and shook, "I loved her so much... I'm not sure why now. But... but we had two daughters who're gone now. One to wherever I'm not sure, the other with her mother..."
His voice seemed to break entirely at that point and a sob hitched his voice, catching him as much by suprise as anything else that had happened. It was almost too much for him to even keep speaking but when his voice seemed level again he went on.
"With both of them gone... she got more and more distant. I'd already gone blind... so it wasn't like I could see to help. And then as she got angrier and angrier.... all of a sudden one day she just said that she'd had enough. That she was sick of me and walked... walked away." Korou's ears plastered back to his skull and his whole body stilled for a moment of it's shaking. The scene flashed through his memory but he could only remember hearing her words and knowing that he must have done something really wrong to deserve them. Maybe he was the lowest of the low? It had to be true for Chopi to leave him...
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