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Sarani thought she probably wasn't supposed to be at the river by herself. Actually, she knew she definitely wasn't supposed to be. However, she'd just had dinner, and that meant that there was blood around her muzzle and on her paws, despite her best efforts to keep both of them clean while eating. At least she'd managed to keep her whiskers mostly out of it this time, though the concentration required to do so meant that the rest of her face had suffered.
So now, despite being a little over-full and slower than usual, she was sneaking away from her family and making her way to the river so that she could give herself a thorough washing. She'd already performed a cursory grooming with her tongue, but the little lioness would not be satisfied until she had also washed with water. It was an oddity that her family teased her about, but she didn't care. Cleanliness was important.
She paused and crouched low, her rounded tum brushing the ground. There had been a noise!
AstoriaFallen I just realized I don't know your cub's name.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:53 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 2:03 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 2:50 pm
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Rani tilted her head from one side to another, a little too quickly, so it was not really clear what she was trying to convey. In fact, she wasn't really trying to convey anything, so that was fine. It was just one of the things she did unconsciously when she was considering.
"I guess it is kind of interesting," she agreed. "Maybe we're related. I have a lot of family on my mum's side. A lot."
She was a little more cagey about sharing where she was going with a stranger though. While it was true she had decided he did not present a threat to her, there was always the chance he was a tattling sort, who might run to find a family member or a gang and get her into trouble.
"I'm going to have a wash," she said cautiously. "You can come if you tell me your name. I'm Sarani."
Her family mostly called her Rani, or sometimes Sara, which could be confusing, but Rani wasn't going to offer that familiarity to someone she'd just met. Even if they did have the same color nose. Noses weren't everything, after all.
AstoriaFallen Sorry Rani's being kind of a brat. I'm still trying to find her voice, I guess.
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 3:07 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:57 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:07 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:37 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:03 am
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"That's pretty impressive," Rani said, and meant it.
Rani huffed as she tried to come up with a satisfactory answer to Raizen's question. She wasn't huffing at him. Mostly at her family, which she absolutely loved, but also found exasperating. Especially when they teased her about her need to be clean.
"Some of them are really good at it," she admitted grudgingly. "But that's mostly the grown-ups. Everyone else just kind of gets by either because the grown-ups don't mind as much as they say they do, or they were distracted by someone being dumb. There's a lot of dumb in the world."
Sarani knew she wasn't making her family sound very good, and that she should backtrack and explain better, or at least say something really great about her family, to balance out her criticism of their sneaking, but nothing stand-out came to mind. They were good lions and good Stormborn, but that was hardly interesting enough to mention.
Finally, she lamely added, "I do like my family. But they make fun of me because I like to be clean."
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:40 am
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Rani answered with a shrug. It didn't much matter to her, most of the time, but it did sometimes impede her ability to do as she liked, when she wasn't allowed to go wash by herself, for instance.
"That would be good," she agreed. "Thanks."
As she spoke, Rani slowly shifted her weight backward until she could raise both her forepaws off the ground and cautiously sit up and back on her hindquarters to peer around, too, like a spectral meerkat. She didn't see anything, but she would leave it to Raizen's expert opinion to decide whether or not it was safe to make a break for it.
She plopped back onto all fours and looked toward Raizen expectantly.
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