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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 3:09 pm
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It wasn't easy to think back to when she was a cub herself, but Nyeusi imagined that her parents had been less sleep-deprived than she herself was when her children were that young. After all, there were two of them to her one, and three children to her four.
Things had improved though, with age. Nyeusi knew it had to be so, but still, it had seemed to take forever at some points and no time at all at others. However as her children grew older and came ever closer to adulthood, things became easier. She could reason with the kids logically instead of trying to combat chaos with chaos.
Among other things, this meant the black lioness was finally getting enough sleep again.
She laughed quietly to herself at the thought. These were a god's children, and she thought raising them would be easy? Nyeusi wasn't about to claim she'd had the toughest time, even for being a single mother, but she had to chuckle at her own naiveté. Nothing was ever easy, especially those tasks set you by the Great Lion. |
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:35 pm
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Life was slowly starting to feel normal for the ex-story keeper and he had, at last, grown accustomed once more to what it felt like to belong somewhere. He had a pride to return to every night and lions that he were both familiar and happy to see him. It was enough to convince him that this was the right decision, no matter the things and lions he had lost along the way, but it wasn't quite all that he was hoping for.
He still hoped that he would sway Nyeusi.
The conversation with her young daughter and sister had done enough to convince him that he should stay away from her den on the off chance that she was sleeping. However, that was also the only place he knew to find her without a doubt. It meant he often went days without seeing her and until now he had been given no chance to make more of the few times he caught a glimpse of her in the distance. Either she was too far away or he was on his way to his duties - it was always something that prevented him from stopping to try and get one more chance at earning her good graces.
Until tonight.
The pale lion was on his way back from the watering hole with no true intentions on his mind. For once, he seemed to have naught to do but relax and it was visible in the gait of his step and set of his shoulders. When she came in to view, he didn't even see her at first, dark as she was against the night sky. Yet the closer he got to her the more visible her pale legs were against the cold earth beneath their paws.
He paused a few paces away, suddenly hesitant, before he finally called out to her:
"Nyeusi? Are you busy tonight?" |
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:34 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:52 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:01 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:12 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:17 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:23 pm
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Well, that was something he supposed. He wasn't sure what he had been hoping for out of the stubborn lioness - a revelation that he was really the only one that would understand her? No, he didn't think she actually felt troubled over the way her pride viewed her at all and that meant he wasn't going to be anything she cared to befriend. She didn't need someone to understand her, she was confident enough in herself without him.
Inwardly, he sighed. This same, stubborn surety was not lost on him either and it let him know, immediately, that this was not the meeting he had wanted. He might as well have asked Sada to read him the stars.
"No, it's alright, Nyeusi. I don't want to be a burden to you if that's really all you think of me." His brows furrowed as he faced his mistakes and felt forced to eat them. He'd spent much too long chasing down the ways he could appease her to keep struggling. "I guess it's really not that important anyway. You can just - "
Rive's furrowed brows arched and his head whipped around at the sound of a loud, sudden crack that broke through the sky. The world about them lit up as lightning sparked overhead, crawling across the starry blanket in a split second bright enough to leave an imprint behind in his vision.
Too stunned to speak, he stood there, slack jawed and confused. Where had that come from?
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:31 pm
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Ugh, he even looked like a cub when he decided to give up and let her have her way, slumping posture and sudden expression of defeat as he began his concession speech. The lioness was thinking of cutting him short, of cutting off this entire failure of a relationship, when a loud noise shattered the quiet night, lighting up the area. Rive's expression looked as stunned as her own must.
It was obviously a sign from the Great Lion, a mighty Parent clacking His teeth at foolish cubs making life far more difficult than He had meant it to be.
Nyeusi waited a few moments longer in the renewed shocked silence, in case there was any more to the message. But no. He'd gotten their attention, and now was gone again, leaving the mortals to muddle through once more.
"I think," the lioness offered carefully and slowly, "that I may owe you an apology."
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:09 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:20 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:47 am
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Apologies didn't seem to be what Rive was looking for but despite his bubbling excitement, he forced himself very carefully to sit where he had been standing and draw his enthusiasm back into himself. Looking at her and the tense way she was holding herself, he suspected that she was taking this as a direct order and was not actually being kind to him just because she had a change of heart.
It was hint enough. He needed to try not to annoy her too, right? A conversation was created on behalf of two participants.
"No, don't apologize," he began, shaking his head so that the blue mane tossed around his shoulders, "I'm sorry for coming on too strongly. I know that you thought I was mocking you or.. maybe that I'm pompous. The truth is that I have just been looking for someone like you for a very, very long time."
He was trying his best to be heartfelt while containing his overwhelming need to spew a hundred questions at her. It had been so long since a Muse spoke to him in any form and if The Great Lion was the last one left or the only one willing to forgive him then damn it all, he would serve him as surely as he had served the Sea.
"Which sounds weird, I know, but I just want to learn about Him and you are without a question His most loyal servant. I don't think it's a laughing matter at all, I think it's really admirable but that also sounds like I'm just sucking up-"
He stopped himself mid ramble and sighed, looking at once perplexed and exhausted of talking in circles. His tail flicked as it curled around his paws, a tell-tale sign of his discomfort if the look on his face was not enough of a dead ringer.
"Can we just start over again from the beginning? I would like to try and be friends."
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:51 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:57 am
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