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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:28 am
 Anjafey sighed and looked around at the dense foliage. Somewhere along the way, she had wandered too far from the tribe borders, and was now is a sort of no man's land. It was a dark, dank, overgrown forest with little light shining through the brances. Perhaps that was why no tribe claimed it; no creature could possibly survive here for long.
Feeling lonely, Anjafey vaguely wondered if anyone else was out here.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:41 am
“I swear father, if I ever find you, I’ll kill you.” Ki`ona
spoke under her breath. She couldn’t possibly be telling the truth because
deep inside she knows, knows that her father and mother were her
everything, leaving her for death or not.
Everything. Everything had lost its color, at least in her eyes. There
were no longer flowers, but just the annoying buzzing of nats and
mosquitoes. The poke of thorns from repeating bushes, and hisses of
rather freighting snakes and reptiles was all she could really call home,
now. It seems with every day that goes by; her life gets darker, damper,
and lonelier.
“When was the last time someone came to this place?” she thought.
It had been along time. Her mother and father called it home, but when
they did it didn’t look like this.
Ki`ona yawned, and smacked her tongue at the top of her mouth. Thirsty.
She walked forward listening and looking for a sign of water that had the
slight resemblance of being drinkable.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:49 am
Anjafey looked up as she heard someone talking nearby. Apprehensive, yet strangely curious, she followed the voice with difficulty, as it was muffled by the forest.
Emerging from a particularly thick wall of bushes, she came across a female much younger than herself, who had the look of one that never smiled because there was no reason to.
Acting quickly, she leaped int othe branches of a nearby oak. She made no attempt to hide herself; rather she was keeping distance in case this fox felt threatened and wanted to attack.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:59 am
Ki`ona twitched. As a common instinct
she stopped, dead, listening to any rustling noises that might indicate
what was so close to her. Even though she might have lost all hope,
she still could hear perfectly.
After the noise had stopped, she turned to look. The area at first glance
didn’t look at anyway different then before. Blinking, she checked again in
case she had missed something. No noise, no movement, complete silence.
“Whose there?” she questioned. Her voice was foggy, and she stuttered.
The whole hide and attack routine didn’t work to good for her. Basically she
figured why sneak and kill, when you could just kill.
Not to be mistaken, she doesn’t intend on dying. Her goal is to make due
with this life until it is her time to go. But seeing no one had all ready come
out and attacked her.. Maybe they weren’t planning to.
She sat waiting, listening for a reply.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:04 am
Anjafey looked down at Ki'ona form the protection of the brances. Feeling no immediate threat, she leaped gracefully our of the tree, landing silently a few feet in front of the other.
"Do not worry yourself, young one. I have no intentions of hurting you, so long as you don't attack me," Anjafey replied, smiling kindly. "I am Anjafey of the Lunarie tribe, to answer your question."
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:10 am
Ki`ona was startled by the fast movements the
female made. She drew down, back hunched, when the movements
came from the tree.
The female's voice immediately drew peace through ki`ona, assuring her that
this wasn’t going to be a fight but possibly a conversation that she had been
lacking for a long time. Listening to the answer, she though about one word.
`Tribe`.
“Tribe huh. Don’t tribes stick together in packs or something?” she
stood up, thinking of something that might be better then a smart comment.
“I’m ki`ona, or Ki by my mother.” She smiled back.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:18 am
Laughing softly, Anjafey replied sheepishly, "Generally. We do wander off at times, however. Like now."
The comment did little to faze Anjafey, the reckless attitudes of youth were understandable. Besides, even she had been know to reply smartly.
"Well then, Ki, if I may call you that, it's a pleasure to meet you."
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:26 am
Ki`ona smiled. That’s really the only
expression she could give to see someone come back so smoothly. “Ah. So
tribes aren’t as together as dad said. And pleasure? That’s probably not the
best word. There really isn’t anything pleasuring about meeting me. But it’s
nice to meet you.” She smirked, looking down at her damp paws. Mud.
The one thing that can ruin your fur that you don’t want to mess with at all.
She looked up, thinking of a conversation starter. Saying anything about how
this place looks would be embarrassing so she figured to just question about
why someone would be here, here in this hell hole.
“So, Anjafey, what brings you..” coughing, she finished “here..”
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:30 am
Anjafey scoffed "Nonsense. We all have some redeeming factor, even if we ourselves don't see it."
She looked down at Ki's mud spattered paws and chuckled, beckoning for the younger one to follow her. She had passed by a stream earlier.
"Myself? I was lost in thought near the borders of my tribe. I'm afraid I wandered to far, and ended up in this inhospitable...place." pLace was the only word to describe the area; calling it a forest would be insulting to any actual wooded area. "What brings you down here?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:48 am
Ki`ona caught the hint, and walked
towards the female.
“Well, I uhm..” she studied the dead trees and smell of rotting animals.
She didn’t know what else to say then the truth but the truth to her was so
disgusting. No one would ever live her, and why did she? Why does she? This
place holds terrible memories, but also the only good memories she has left.
She shrugged, and thought up a quick lie. She didn’t want to ruin a completely
good conversation just because she is an idiot who lives in.. Dirt.
“Same here. Heh. I got lost and ended up stranded.” she
replied. And something deep inside her reminded of what her
mother always said. `One lie leads to another, and another
and you will never get out of it.`
"this is probably going to end out bad." she thought to herself. She
sighed, and walked in the direction anjafey came from alongside her.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:55 am
Anjafey turned her ehad to lift an eyebrow at Ki'ona. She had always been an excellent lie detector, something her mate absolutely despised.
"Uh huh. Right. I'm going to guess you live here, but do not want to seem foolish to me?" She grinned knowingly. "You don't, you know. If anything, I commend you for being able to sustain yourself in such an enviroment."
She realized they had reached the stream and stopped, sitting down on the banks.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:35 pm
Ki`ona's face would red over if it were
possible. Caught. But how could she tell so well? She most definitely did.
Easing towards the water she dipped her feet in it to see if she could stand
the temperature. Just right. Leaning down she sipped a few times, figuring
she should probably drink before she washed her mud soaked paws in it.
“You caught me. But this place didn’t always look like this. I’ve been by
myself for a little while and…” she thought of a way to explain. “Have you
ever gotten that feeling when something bad happens and it feels like the
color of your world has gone somewhere.. Else? If you haven’t I can
understand, but that’s what its been like the past few weeks. Heck I think
the reason I can live here is that I just don’t get hungry anymore, or expect
to do anything..” she looked down at her reflection. It was true.
She had lost a lot of weight and the once young, fat and joyful pup is now
an older, thin, and mud stained fox.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:41 pm
Anjafey smilied sympathetically. "I know what you mean. For a long time after I was born, I felt that way." She remembered her days as a thief, a rogue kit tempting the world, taunting it.
She studied the tiny frame of Ki for a moment, and shook her head disapprovingly. "Come. I will go find you food, and you will eat. You won't be starving to death under my watch."
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:17 pm
Ki`ona looked back at Anjafey when she
started talking again. It sent a comfortable feeling knowing that someone
else had, or has felt the feeling she feels. But when she mentioned getting
food, ki`ona wasn’t quite understanding.
“Why is it that you care so much and you don’t even know me? For all you
know I could be a vicious animal and I’m playing you so you lead me back to
your children and Ill eat them all or something like that.” She bent down
and clawed at the grown when she started talking about killing, just to point
out what she was saying.
Since her mother and father left she hadn’t had anyone and all at once
someone out of the blue goes to talk to her and then wants to feed her. For
one; just seeing another fox was all too much to handle.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:21 pm
"I've killed a mountain lion before," Anjafey stated dryly. "I apologize if I don't exactly feel threatened."
She knew she was being overbearing, but that was the point. Anjafey had met several foxes who were in the same predicament; she herself had been one of them. Through experience, she knew the only way to get someone through something like this was to push persistently. It could cause emotional breaks, but most were better off afterwards.
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